A 36-year-old man who graduated from Chicopee Comprehensive High School in 1997 is reportedly missing off the coast of Thailand.
According to the tourism news website Phuketwan.com, Joshua Michael Devine was aboard a ship on a diving trip with his wife Tassana ''Goi'' Devine and two male friends this weekend when he apparently vanished.
The news website reports that the ship left Phuket around midnight and prior to his disappearance, the Holyoke native was with his two friends in an equipment storage room sharing some drinks.
"At one stage my husband appeared agitated and asked to be alone so the two friends left him in the storeroom by himself for about 10 minutes," Tassana Devine is quoted as telling the reporter. "By the time they went to the storeroom again, Joshua had disappeared."
This 2004 Republican file photo shows Josh Devine of Holyoke.
The captain was reportedly alerted and a search of the vessel turned up no clues. The website reports that a storm in the Andaman Sea halted the search, but it was to resume on Sunday morning.
According to The Republican's archives, Josh Devine spent the first four years after high school serving active duty in the Army, mostly in Germany and Kosovo, before transferring to the National Guard in 2001. That year, he won Connecticut's Soldier of the Year Award and took top honors at the First Army North's northeastern regional-level competition in Portsmouth, N.H.
He was described by the Thai news site as an "American IT operative who works with the US military in Kuwait."
Posted Dive Tribe - Thailand.
We want to put an alert out to all boat captains in the Phuket Area.
A good friend and accomplished diver went missing on the Phuket side Andaman sea and was on liveaboard vessel Chontara I.
If there are any boats in the area please be extra watchful and keep a look out for Josh. We want his safe return !
At this stage it appears this is NOT a diving incident, rather someone lost at sea?
According to the tourism news website Phuketwan.com, Joshua Michael Devine was aboard a ship on a diving trip with his wife Tassana ''Goi'' Devine and two male friends this weekend when he apparently vanished.
The news website reports that the ship left Phuket around midnight and prior to his disappearance, the Holyoke native was with his two friends in an equipment storage room sharing some drinks.
"At one stage my husband appeared agitated and asked to be alone so the two friends left him in the storeroom by himself for about 10 minutes," Tassana Devine is quoted as telling the reporter. "By the time they went to the storeroom again, Joshua had disappeared."
This 2004 Republican file photo shows Josh Devine of Holyoke.
The captain was reportedly alerted and a search of the vessel turned up no clues. The website reports that a storm in the Andaman Sea halted the search, but it was to resume on Sunday morning.
According to The Republican's archives, Josh Devine spent the first four years after high school serving active duty in the Army, mostly in Germany and Kosovo, before transferring to the National Guard in 2001. That year, he won Connecticut's Soldier of the Year Award and took top honors at the First Army North's northeastern regional-level competition in Portsmouth, N.H.
He was described by the Thai news site as an "American IT operative who works with the US military in Kuwait."
Posted Dive Tribe - Thailand.
We want to put an alert out to all boat captains in the Phuket Area.
A good friend and accomplished diver went missing on the Phuket side Andaman sea and was on liveaboard vessel Chontara I.
If there are any boats in the area please be extra watchful and keep a look out for Josh. We want his safe return !
At this stage it appears this is NOT a diving incident, rather someone lost at sea?
