Journalist describes hours with family on heaving sea

Lin Yingying, a journalist from the Shanghai Morning Post, was on a boat in the same storm that caused two vessels to overturn on Thursday off Phuket Island. She described two and a half horrible hours at sea:

At 9:30 am, the sun came out after the night's rainfall and we happily got on our boat, Cape No 7, which was not big compared to Phoenix, which overturned. All the 30 or so passengers on our boat were Chinese.

A bright sun accompanied us on the journey. We even rented a sunshade on the island.