At least 37 people are dead after a boat full of Chinese tourists capsized near Phuket, Thailand — a toll that could continue to rise with more than a dozen still missing. 

Authorities plucked the lifeless bodies — many of which were face down and wearing life jackets — from the Andaman Sea several miles from where the boat sank Thursday night off the coast of Koh He.

“The death toll today is 37, with 18 still unaccounted for,” a Thai navy official told Agence France-Press late Friday.

Divers reported seeing “over 10 bodies” floating inside the hull of the submerged Phoenix boat, according to Thai navy Rear Adm. Charoenphon Khumrasee.

The three-decker boat was carrying 105 passengers, mostly Chinese, when it went down after being walloped by 15-foot waves during a storm.

Some 48 passengers and crew members were rescued before the boat sank.

The search and rescue operation was called off overnight.

“The skies were clear when we went out, we had no idea the weather could change so fast,” said Wu Jun, 28, who was at his wife Long Hai Ning’s side at the hospital.

The couple was on their honeymoon and managed to escape the sinking boat.

“I grabbed onto a railing and pulled myself overboard,” he said. He told AFP that he feared women and children were among those who were trapped on the bottom deck as the boat went down.

With Post wires