Fisherman escapes drowning by floating in his FRIDGE for six hours when his boat sank off Thailand 

A fisherman has miraculously survived his fishing boat becoming capsized off the coast of Thailand by using his fridge as a lifeboat.

Anat Massoyot was rescued by a passing ship after paying out six hours floating adrift in the Andaman sea off Thailand’s west coast on Sunday. 

His lengthy-tail boat was strike by a large wave in close proximity to Koh Lao Cling island in the country’s Krabi province miles from shore, and with no other vessels in the spot, Anat was going through the prospect of around specified dying.

But his fridge, usually used to continue to keep his catch fresh till returning to shore, proved to be an not likely lifeline and held him alive and afloat for hrs ahead of he was plucked from the abyss and pulled aboard yet another boat.

This grainy impression demonstrates Anat Massoyot times right before he was rescued by passing fishermen right after his boat capsized off the coastline of Thailand. Anat saved himself from selected loss of life by clambering into his fridge and employing it as a lifeboat

Anat demonstrates how he managed to wedge himself into his fridge to keep away from drowning at sea

Setting off on Sunday morning, Anat mentioned the weather experienced at first been serene.

But disorders swiftly worsened and the sea grew a lot more violent.

Catastrophe struck when just one notably substantial wave smashed into Anat’s boat, flooding it with h2o and detrimental the hull.

With the vessel promptly getting on drinking water, the fast-contemplating 33-12 months-old made a decision his most effective opportunity of survival would be to use the fridge where by he kept his capture of the working day as a lifeboat.

Hurling the fridge into the drinking water, Anat clambered into the makeshift raft together with the fish, and commenced to pray.

6 several hours afterwards his prayers were being answered when a passing fishing boat pulled the fridge out of the sea and found him huddled inside.

Arriving safely ashore, Anat recognised he had been really blessed not to perish out at sea. 

But though his fridge had saved his daily life, it could not change his fishing boat, which was his only suggests of earning a living.

‘I did not know what to do,’ Anat explained when he bought back to shore.

‘I just waited and prayed. I’m content to be alive.

‘But now my old boat is absent and so is my livelihood.’

Hurling the fridge into the water, Anat (pictured seated) clambered into the fridge alongside the fish, and started to pray

The subsequent day neighborhood leader Somsak Debbut mobilised a group to look for for the remnants of Anat’s boat in the hope they could recover the vessel and repair it.

But the search crew identified no sign of the boat, even right after canvassing the place of the sea wherever Anat was observed.

Debbut has now contacted the neighborhood federal government to see if he can support raise resources for a new boat – Anat’s only way to crank out revenue.

Area philanthropists, good friends and household users have also presented to enable get Anat back again to sea and are making donations.