An Australian tourist in Thailand was shocked to find her luggage being swept out to sea due to “incompetent crew members”.

Alice Zamparelli shared footage online that showed several suitcases floating away as the ferry moved through large waves.

She captioned the video “lost all our luggage (because) of incompetent crew members”.

It is understood that the crew did not properly secure the luggage, and the rough seas between the islands of Koh Tao and Koh Samui caused the bags to fall overboard, the Daily Mail reported.

Zamparelli wrote in the comment section that she received 50,000 baht ($2727) in compensation from the ferry company.

She had to be very persistent to get the payment, she said.

“Some people didn’t get any compensation, and others also missed their flights home.

“The ferry staff were fully convinced that a suitcase could not be worth more than 20,000 baht when in reality all our belongings would definitely have been around the 100,000 baht range for each of our suitcases,” she wrote in the video’s comment section, according to the Daily Mail.

She said no one else got paid as much as she did, and the only reason she gained compensation is because “we stayed there until the very end, wearing them down”, the outlet reported.