Thailand retrieves final body in boating disaster
The Thai navy on Monday recovered the last body of the deceased in boat disaster occurred earlier this month in Phuket island.
The tourist boat called the Phoenix PC diving boat, carrying over a hundred tourists -- mostly Chinese -- capsized on July 5. 
Divers and the navy spent more than a week retrieving bodies, some from inside the boat, as outraged relatives waited for news.
Phuket's public relations department said in a statement late Sunday that the "last body of the dead from the Phoenix boat accident" was recovered that night. 
"All missing found," the statement added, putting the final death toll at 47.
A minute's silence was held for the victims at a ceremony attended by the Chinese ambassador.
The Phoenix was among three vessels which ignored a bad weather warning against day trips to the islands around Phuket.
Another two boats, including a yacht carrying 39 people were also capsized on the same but its passengers were brought to safety.
The Royal Thai Marine Corps said in a statement that the Phoenix sank about 7-kms (5 miles) from the shore and the boat had sunk to a depth of about 38-40 metres (yards).
The disaster was one of the worst boating accidents in recent history in Thailand, which has a poor safety record despite being heavily reliant on tourism.
The country last year received 35 million tourists of whom nearly 10 million were from China, government statistics show.
(With inputs from news agencies)