Bangkok
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It was exactly what he had feared, but the strike still came without warning.
“I just heard the loud bang,” said Samut, who was among 23 crew members aboard the Mayuree Naree, a Thai cargo ship that had sailed into the Strait of Hormuz just over a week ago, despite the risk of Iranian strikes.
“There were two loud bangs, back to back, maybe two seconds apart,” he told CNN, speaking under a pseudonym for fears about his security.
Alarms blared and smoke filled every corridor. The whole ship plunged briefly into darkness, before the emergency power system kicked in.
“Once we were hit, we had no idea where the…