Final moments of young Aussie who drowned in Thailand as his younger sister reveals the reason he was overseas with his mates

The sister of a young Aussie tourer who drowned successful Thailand has revealed her older sibling had been celebrating with mates aft finishing an aggravated grooming camp.

Corey Walsh, 22, died past Tuesday aft diving disconnected a sportfishing charter vessel portion intoxicated adjacent the tourer land of Koh Racha Yai, southbound of Phuket.

A week aft Mr Walsh drowned, his younger sister Charleigh told news.com.au he was with six of his champion friends aft completing a Muay Thai grooming campy they had been preparing for since January 1.

'We shared our full puerility together. He was precise caring and protective, arsenic large brothers are,' Charleigh said.

'Corey would airy up immoderate country helium walked into. He had a beardown mindset and saw mistakes arsenic growth. He volition ever beryllium my champion friend, his passing has near a void that cannot beryllium filled.

'There was an unspoken loyalty that survived each argument, it was stronger than anything. Nothing was stronger than the emotion we had for each other.'

Mr Walsh's aggravated grooming meant helium had been sober for much than 5 months and helium had conscionable completed the archetypal 2 weeks of his travel earlier his death.

His 5 friends had arrived 3 days earlier and planned to observe his grooming campy with a chartered sportfishing trip.

It is believed Mr Walsh, from Frankston successful south-east Melbourne, was dragged underwater by beardown currents earlier helium drowned.

Mr Walsh, who was owed to instrumentality location this weekend, was pulled from the h2o unconscious and unresponsive, with circuit conductors issuing a distress telephone for exigency services.

Charleigh described her member arsenic 'very outgoing'.

'He was a spot of a s*** stirrer,' she said.

'He had his ain idiosyncratic slang. He'd travel location and inquire however your time was and if you said you'd had a atrocious time he'd inquire you "are you loving it" implicit and implicit until you caved.

'He'd spell to enactment connected a Monday greeting erstwhile the boys were each bushed and he'd spell astir and accidental "are you loving it" to get nether their skin.'

A fig of Mr Walsh's friends got 'forever loving it' tattooed connected them successful his memory.

Charleigh said she was astatine enactment past week erstwhile she received the devastating quality that her lone sibling had died.

'I was astatine enactment connected Tuesday and it was astir 7pm. My parents had received a telephone from 1 of his friends that was with him,' she said.

'We're inactive waiting for his friends to get location to larn much astir it. It doesn't consciousness real. I'm inactive successful shock.

'The enactment we are receiving from family, friends and dozens of radical we person ne'er met has been helping america cope. We are truthful grateful for everyone.' 

A GoFundMe was acceptable up to assistance Mr Walsh's household with ceremonial costs and different further expenses.

As of Tuesday greeting it had raised conscionable implicit $14,000 with the people acceptable astatine $20,000.

'This is for a Corey, a young antheral who struck a batch of people's hearts for being a kind, caring and conscionable a beauteous soul,' the GoFundMe leafage read.