Help for Michael Henke's family

As many of you know, we recently lost Michael Henke to a tragic drowning accident in Thailand. He leaves behind his mum, dad, two brothers, wife, and young daughter. His wife and daughter live in Thailand and could use some support in this difficult time.

The below is from his father, David:

"It's all just so sad, never ever expected to lose a son. You know, he just went for a swim on friday the 26th Aug, stopped at one of the cafe/restaurants on the beach, had a meal and, no doubt a drink, went back in the sea at 10pm, to swim more. His body was found by a fisherman, about 4 klms off shore on sunday. The fisherman called the emergency services, who brought him back. Nongsee heard about it, they lived about 150 metres from the beach, she went down there, to find it was Michael. She didn't express to me how she felt at the time, her english isn't at all good, but I can imagine how she would have felt.

Mick had a Buddhist cremation at Kohn San, where he built a house for Nongsee on her parents property. Most of his ashes were buried at the temple and I've brought some home for our families. His mum, Pamela lives in Adelaide, as does Ben, his youngest brother. Aaron, middle son, lives in Mt. Gambier, in the south east of SA, where I grew up. My wife and I had planned to go to SA from Brisbane, at the end of this month before this happened anyway, but we'll take Mick's ashes and have a ceremony at Cape Douglas, near Mt. Gambier, with all the family. It is one of the boys favourite places to relax.

Mick has been a fly in fly out worker for most of the time he was with Nong, travelling to Kohn San. He had moved his family to Ban Chang a couple of years ago for Alisa to go to a good english speaking school. Now though, Nongsee is moving back home and will take her to a school at Chum Phae, which teaches english."

Please feel free to pass on this link to anyone you think might appreciate it. I know he worked on several different scopes within the company, so I’m sure I’ve missed some people.

Rest in Peace, Mick.