The sinking of a tourist boat in Vietnam which killed 12 people last week has been blamed on human error, according to Vietnamese police.
Stuart McCormick, 30, from Irvine, Ayrshire, died with 11 holidaymakers and a Vietnamese guide in Halong Bay.
A valve that allowed water to come into the boat to cool the engine had been left open overnight.
The vessel’s captain and a crew member have been arrested.
The wooden boat was touring the Unesco World Heritage Site in Quang Ninh province when it went down.
The other holidaymakers who did not survive were from the US, Australia, Japan, Russia, France, Sweden and Switzerland.
Another nine foreigners and six locals were rescued from the boat.
Quang Ninh police spokesman Le Thanh Binh told the Associated Press news agency: “The initial police investigation showed that the man in charge of the boat engine forgot to close the valve that allowed water in to cool the engine before he, the captain and other crew went to bed.”
The engine was turned off, preventing a pump from running to push the water out.
By the time the captain and crew woke to find the boat filled with water, it was too late and the vessel sank quickly, he said.