Team Geared Up

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Thanks to Ciaran Rooney (via Twitter) for the heads up. AQA offer a service where you can text any question to 63336 (UK) or 57275 (Ireland) and they will find an answer and SMS you back for £1 or €2.

This great story (read the lead-in here about how they got lost on a remote Thai Island). I’m off to near this Island in 3 weeks!

At this point we were scared by the potential of spending the whole night in the jungle as we didn’t know what it would hold, snakes, monkeys, spiders, bandits etc! I first texted 63336 and asked for the number of the police in Koh Phanyang, they promptly sent me back the number for the police in Koh Phanyang but also the number for the tourist police on the neighboring Island (Koh Samui). The Koh Phanyang police didn’t speak any English so I was unable to communicate with them, we tried the number for the tourist police constantly but there was no answer.

I texted 63336 again and asked for the number of my hotel as I hoped they would be able to call the police and talk to them in Thai. But again, nobody at the hotel could speak English very well so that plan didn’t work. Fast running out of ideas I texted 63336 a more general message saying “We are lost in the Thai jungle do you have any idea as to what we could do?

Then after an answer, and to our great relief, we got a call from Bill at AQA to see how AQA could help further. He talked to us to get some details about roughly where we were and said to leave it with him.

-Robin.