Tourist police in the region said that the tourists and crew were able to escape.
According to the agency, the pleasure boat Martini went down on January 9 near the coastline of Phuket Island. At the time of the shipwreck there were six Russians and three Thais on board.
People were rescued from the water by the boat Panwa princess, which was the first to arrive at the scene of the accident. Currently, the tourists are in a hotel, their life and health is no longer threatened, police said.
The initial version says that the cause of the accident was the ingress of water into the engine room (another version - a burst pipe) and the lack of a full-time motorist on the vessel.
Earlier it became known that in Tokyo burned to the ground residence of former Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka.