INBRIEF
Diving mishap
Navy rescues family of six off Sattahip after 11-hour ordeal at sea Six divers were rescued by the Royal Thai Navy yesterday after drifting for 11 hours in the sea off Sattahip, where strong currents had separated them from a diving ship.
The Navy had been searching for the six divers, a family from Bangkok, who had gone missing during their diving trip around Rong Khon Rong Nung Island on Monday evening - when they finally found them yesterday morning.
The six, Narong Hirunrattanaporn, 56, Surakit Hirunrattanaporn, 30, Kongkitti Kanchanavadee, 30, Namfon Suksantisawat, 29, Pornpen Promthong, 29, and Watcharee Santipatm, 51, were picked up eight kilometres from Koh Chuang Island by a coastal patrol craft.
The divers, who were exhausted, dehydrated and in shock, were transferred to hospital and later allowed to go home. - The Nation.
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School tragedy: Three die in welding accident
Three students at a military vocational school died of gas poisoning and another was seriously injured while performing an underwater welding drill yesterday.
Army Major Chinnakorn Nopphakhun, a lecturer at Bangkok's Military Technological Training School, said the three male students, all 17, were already dead when he pulled them out of a water tank. He found a fourth student, Theeradej Intharasak, unconscious nearby. Three hoses linked the students with an oxygen-generating pump.
However, Phaholyothin police had earlier given a different account of the tragedy. Lieutenant Nat Sa-ard-iam, case investigator, said the surviving student told him he had dived into the tank to save his friends and retrieved them from the water.
Theeradej said the three vomited heavily and later lost consciousness before they succumbed to gas poisoning. Nat said it was possible that an acetylene supply unit could have been wrongly connected to the oxygen-generating pump. - The Nation.
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Brass band glory: All four Thai teams win in Korea
All four Thai school teams competing at the International Brass Band Competition in Cheju, South Korea won awards yesterday.
The Sacred Heart Convent School band from Bangkok won the world brass-band championships in the category for contestants younger than 16 years old, and also in the category for contestants who had never competed in an international contest before. The Chonkallayanukoon School band won the drum-major championship. Bodin Decha (Sing Singhaseni) School band was given the outstanding drum-major award, parade silver, and a special gold medal. Finally, Sarasitphithayalai School team won a gold medal for their special technique. - The Nation.
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