A Vietnamese man who had not seen his wife for a long time set out for India by sea. This man says that his wife works in India and due to the pandemic could not come to meet her for two years, he decided to meet her himself. It feels like a Bollywood movie. The man was identified as Ho Hoang Hung. A 37-year-old man tried to cover a distance of 2,000 km on a rafting boat from Thailand.
Ho was planning to cross the Bay of Bengal near the start of the cyclone season to meet his wife who works in Mumbai.
A fishing boat found an inflated boat paddling near the Similan Islands, about 80 kilometers from the Thai mainland, and alerted the Navy’s Maritime Security Unit which rescued it. A suitcase, a nearly empty water bottle and about 10 packets of instant noodles were found near Ho. However, he had no map, compass, GPS or clothes. He took a flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Bangkok on March 2 and learned that he would not be able to fly to India without a visa.
So, he changed his plan and took a bus from Bangkok to Phuket. He bought an inflatable boat and on March 5 took the boat out to sea to go to India. India is about 2,000 kilometers away from there. Thai fishermen found him after spending 18 nights alone at sea. Thai officials said Ho would be returned to Phuket for further questioning. “We have contacted the Vietnamese embassy as well as the Indian embassy, but no response has been received so far,” said Captain Pichet Songtan of the Thai Maritime Enforcement Command Center.