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More stealth money printing given to the travelling elite.

How does anyone know what the anchor is lying on?

Apparently scuba diving raises the sea temperature then...who knew?

Dr. Thon is using any excuse he can to protect the corals, and he has leverage, so finally something is being done.

Of course scuba diving has nothing to do with the sea temperature, but that is a side issue, he is doing his best to protect nature.

For those interested, the sea temperature is around 29 centigrade at the moment, with quite a few colder thermoclines, which is about average for this time of year.

I recently spent 4 days diving Ko Ha and the corals certainly appeared to be very healthy there. Lots of cold pea green thermoclines below 18m though...

Apparently scuba diving raises the sea temperature then...who knew?

Lol. Even the Army?

Morgue cleanup.

What does a water test kit cost? If reasonable I'd buy one.

Phuket's dirty little secret. Relying on public officials for test results is ridiculous. If they found pollution they would be immediately sacked.

AFAIK it has always been their policy to not reveal test results to the public, merely a summary, which we all know will be as already posted.

Interesting! Well, I also had a hard time choosing an ideal dental location for this procedure late last year and ended up having it done in Bangkok. I had their Safe Amalgam Removal Procedure at Thantakit Dental last November and everything worked out great. The dentist who specializes in this procedure did it in a special treatment room for amalgam/mercury removal. Indeed, you really have to choose a qualified person who specializes in amalgam removal, as well as opt for a dental clinic with the right facilities where safety precautions are being practised. I was very wary and felt like one should choose a credible dental clinic, especially for this kind of sensitive procedure.

Glad you pulled through.

Close the site to take a temperature? Maybe they are worriedt that all the peeing divers will affect their measurements. Or just getting run over by a prop...

An empty big fridge can consume a bit of power as the motor needs to run more to maintain the cool temp. However if you have a reasonably full fridge then once everything has been has cooled down then that temperature is better maintained by what is in the fridge.

It really comes down to what you will normally store in your fridge and if you need a bigger fridge. Do you cook at home or do you go out to eat most of the time?

There are perhaps too many variables to answer your question correctly.

If you have a small fridge and it is overloaded with food and drinks, this too can cause the motor to work harder/too hard which increases your power usage but not always cooling your food and drink down to the desired temp.

Only you can tell/decide if you need a bigger fridge. Technology has also changed over the years, modern fridges are more energy efficient.

Hope this is a starter of more info for you to digest....

Good summary. If kept reasonably full a bigger fridge should be more efficient than a smaller one, but the electricity use will be somewhat higher.

Getting right on it as usual.

That place has been filthy and decaying since the day it was built.

Hooray higher prices for all to pay! That is the inevitable result of government subsidies.

Officially in Thailand you have to employ a Thai captain.....

No, officially you don't.

I predict that their efforts will be successful.

Sounds like an LNG leak in an enclosed space.

All boats running gasoline or LNG need a well ventilated engine room. Otherwise they tend to go BOOM!

Does LNG sink (heavier than air) or rise (lighter than air)?

I would have thought that the engine room would have a ventilator pump exhausting to outside the hull.

LNG is methane cooled to a liquid and is used to transport in bulk. Methane gas used in vehicles as CNG is lighter than air. If the story is wrong and it is LPG that is mostly butane in the tropics and heavier than air.

More public moorings are the answer to anchoring damage.

^^^ My apologies. I've never heard of an airline being allowed to make scheduled flights under visual flight rules (VFR).

So at a minimum he was flying with visibility below what was legal for VFR, and didn't have or ignored the GPWS built into the plane.

I must learn to expect such "surprises" from Thailand. A scheduled airline flying VFR???

Cheers.[/quoste]

Many small airports have instrument approaches that do not use ILS. Approaches using VOR or NDB (and nowadays GPS) just have higher minimum altitudes to visually contact the runway. I suspect the pilot took this approach a bit lower than allowed...

I hope one will stay and open a restaurant.

If they only knew how deep in debt households really are....

So no chance of a Thai style "Spitting image" then.

For a few years after coming to Thailand just before the millennium I do remember seeing a show on Thai TV exactly like that.

Visibility is the first thing to deteriorate when the burning starts. Typically where I am in the mountains the worst viz (sometimes 100m) will be early morning after the cool winds carrying the smoke down the mountainside has pooled in the valley. The least bad viz is usually in the afternoons when thermal updrafts have broken through the inversion layer and the resulting surface winds mix and dilute the smoke back into the higher altitudes. Unless it rains there is always some level of easily visible air pollution during the period.

Hmmm think I'll brew up an Irish coffee.

so a score of 0-100. 100 being a easy number. perfect score is 100%. am i right?

Thailand's score is 38. 38% of 100 is 38.

so that means they are 62% down from the top of the list.

or just 4.67% above the lower third.

but what percentage of the people inside the different countries are corrupt?

thinkin' Thailand would be near the top of that list.

Except that their score doesn't directly relate to their position on the list of over 200 countries.Very few countries score anywhere near 100, many are clustered around the 50 mark.

yes you are correct.

but still each country is scored independently and then compared? yes? what i am saying they are at 38% all by themselves. not good even before comparison. all the same in the end.

it is ok, just so long as things are still corrupt in Thailand and i only have to pay 200 baht for forgetting my helmet, or $9,500 USD for vehicular manslaughter. this last part was a joke.

A look at the table shows that their score is 38 (below 50 meaning being perceived as more corrupt than less) but their rank when compared to everyone else's score they are in a 7 way tie for 76th place with Bosnia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, India, Tunisia and Zambia. So just into the top half of the rankings. Only 63 of 168 countries earned a score above 50.

Hello Land Office guys check out what Google Earth and a GPS into a laptop can do for your map interpretation.

Of course this entire story is bullshit and the real story is about protecting the corrupt buyers and land officials.