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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Funds sought for salvage op - What They Never Told You

Divers scour the wreckage of the corvette HMTS ‘Sukhothai’ which sank on Dec 18 with 105 people on board as it was patrolling the rough seas off Prachuap Khiri Khan’s Bang Saphan district. (Photo: navy)

The Royal Thai Navy will reallocate its budget to find a way to pay the cost of salvaging HTMS Sukhothai, after the Budget Bureau said it could only put up 70 million baht towards the 130-million-baht cost, a source in the navy said.

Navy chief Adm Choengchai Chomchoengpaet has asked the navy's comptroller to review its budget to see if it could find the money to pay the difference, the source added.

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