Geoffggi

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

More than 200,000 people are expected to visit in 2022 with the resumption of direct flights and mutual tourism promotions. Saudi Arabian Airlines will start operating direct flights between the two countries next Monday.

And the good news is ???????????

11 minutes ago, scorecard said:

But there's still the open question of how many people will even be aware of this incident?

 

- Thai people don't read newspapers (some used to) and printed newspapers are now not that readily available.

- Most Thai people don't watch mainstream TV news services.

- Thai people who listen to the radio get very little news content.

- News on facebook etc., is very sparse and most Thais skim past it.

 

In other words there's an enormous gap in knowledge and understanding of laws and of such incidents.

 

Surely there's an answer; perhaps it should be compulsory for kids to attend 30 minute talks (at school, every 30 or 60 days) by experienced cops who are good at getting kids to pay attention. Or similar.

 

Recently I was in Australia. An old friend who is now in a snr federal education ministry position shared that there's discussion about including the above into compulsory education for all of primary, secondary education and in bachelor degree studies.

 

It would include knowledge of law and how the judicial system works at basic and then later at an advanced level.

 

Plus elementary then advanced knowledge of building and maintaining a civil society.

 

Plus (partly because of recent events/failures by federal and state governments) the rights of women, the laws about sexual consent, and more...  

What you are advocating is quite correct but as you have pointed out, Thai's need to learn to walk before running. Maybe children in Australia listen to the teacher but here plus listening to some expert would more likely frighten them rather than make them learn. 

1 hour ago, Katipo said:

They will make an example of this guy. An attractive police Dr. from a well-off family killed by what appears to be a poorer police officer breaking multiple laws in broad daylight. He is going away.

I agree in principle with what you are saying but to say they will maybe stretching things, however I do agree it is the perfect moment to send out a very strong message to all motorists that crossings should be respected and if they are not the consequences will be severe .......... 

10 minutes ago, webfact said:

Chalermchai said that the area had lots of snakes that were usually after cats to eat.

Send them to our area heaps of possible food for them .......................LOL

Someone somewhere has been telling porky pies .................LOL - Nothing new in this part of the world

It is simple really, ban them & arrest anyone riding or hiring them out - problem solved.

But realistically this is one of the last countries given their safety record & would want to jostle with traffic on something that provides not scrap of protection.

Meanwhile, the Royal Thai Navy will place a vessel on standby to observe the repair and support operations, with 24 drivers available to provide support.

Don't know why they need so many drivers ???????????? This sounds like they are putting a band-aid to stem an arterial wound, I would suggest this is a temporary measure, by the sound of things the pipeline is corroding from the inside and probably needs replacing.

1 minute ago, robblok said:

Maybe i have been watching different videos but currently there are quite a few scuba communication sets that allow communication with the surface. (i watch a lot of nature shows). So the communication issue sounds strange to me. 

 

Also the backup air supply can't you just have some tanks in the water anchored to a line ?. You probably have professional experience that I don't. But I am a divemaster and have made quite a few dives. 

Check out IMCA rules and regulations, and yes I am an ex-commercial diver / Dive supervisor. scuba is totally banned as a form of diving in the commercial world. 

13 minutes ago, robblok said:

Does that not depend on how deep the pipeline is ? The gulf of Thailand is not that deep and with some mixtures and professional equipment they can stay under some time. Maybe bad reporting.

No, for professional diving activities scuba is banned unless special dispensation has been granted, it does not matter on depth and as this is a pipeline connected to an offloading buoy the I would imagine the water depth will be 20-30m minimum, with scuba you do not have any safety backup air supply or communications with the surface.

16 minutes ago, webfact said:

The company’s plan involves the use of scuba divers, an unmanned submersible and a drone, among other equipment.

 

I do not believe a professional diving company would be using scuba, maybe a scuba replacement system at a minimum, although it does depend if they are able to position a dive vessel directly over the site then they would use surface demand from the vessel.

34 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Safety now days is much better than 20 or so years ago when building sites death was a daily occurrence i remember...

I agree, but there is still much room for improvement 

If there was a creditable safety standard in place finding where the true fault lay would be much easier, scaffolding is a trade and one that people need to respect, just because they are using metal scaffolding in opposed to bamboo does not necessarily make things safer. You need to have qualified inspectors that sign off on scaffolding as safe to use, this scaffolding also should require re-testing should any modifications be necessary - There are NO safe shortcuts period.

15 hours ago, webfact said:

both former MPs of the ruling Palang Pracharath Party and among 20 MPs loyal to Thammanat Prompao who were sacked from the party last month, joined his Bhumjaithai party voluntarily.

Do you mean to say normally people are forced or coerced into joining your party ?? .........................LOL