Brit Pensioner, 75, Swept Out to Sea & Dies in Hua Hin

RIP 🙏🙏🙏😢

One has to recognise limitations that come with age. I can no longer swim 25 yards underwater as I used to and that is for sure.

Sad for the guy and his girlfriend.

I’m surprised they couldn’t have alerted a lifeguard that had a jet ski or a little boat that could’ve went out there and saved his life TIT

RIP..very sad to read

28 minutes ago, TheFishman1 said:

I’m surprised they couldn’t have alerted a lifeguard that had a jet ski or a little boat that could’ve went out there and saved his life TIT

Who...did anyone see him???

13 minutes ago, baansgr said:

Who...did anyone see him???

Yeah it says his girlfriend watched the whole thing happen.

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

One has to recognise limitations that come with age. I can no longer swim 25 yards underwater as I used to and that is for sure.

Sad for the guy and his girlfriend.

oh that's too bad , I used to do 50 underwater in one breath hold

One would think that on populated beaches like Hua Hin they could certainly afford to have a couple of lifeguards on duty.

Drowning has to be a very terrifying way to die.

i gave up swimming in the sea around Thailand many years ago

Stick to the swimming pool safer

RIP to the guy

Relax, float faceup, begin to swim whats referred to as elemental backstroke, when you can, roll to freestyle, parallel to the beach til out of the rip then in.

54 minutes ago, PhilipHabib said:

oh that's too bad , I used to do 50 underwater in one breath hold

In the sea?, in a rip current?

1 hour ago, Farage said:

RIP..very sad to read

Happens every week. You don't hear about all of them.

28 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

One would think that on populated beaches like Hua Hin they could certainly afford to have a couple of lifeguards on duty.

Drowning has to be a very terrifying way to die.

According to a friend of mine who drown and was resuscitated, it is incredibly peaceful.

1 minute ago, connda said:

According to a friend of mine who drown and was resuscitated, it is incredibly peaceful.

I think if you're okay with death, if you're terminally ill, if you are depressed, or if you are suicidal, it's likely a peaceful way to go if you just give into it, but I think if you have a strong desire to live it has to be terrifying, regardless of what some people say.

Considering the cause of his death, 'rip' is maybe not appropriate...

39 minutes ago, shackleton said:

i gave up swimming in the sea around Thailand many years ago

Stick to the swimming pool safer

RIP to the guy

Does anyone not rest in peace?

Let's pray that he had sold up at home and everything was in the GF's name.

2 hours ago, TheFishman1 said:

I’m surprised they couldn’t have alerted a lifeguard that had a jet ski or a little boat that could’ve went out there and saved his life TIT

Not a realistic scenario given the circumstances. He was pulled out to sea faster than anyone could react. Look up rip tide currents.

32 minutes ago, connda said:

According to a friend of mine who drown and was resuscitated, it is incredibly peaceful.

Is that why governments use simulated drowning as torture? Waterboarding?

1 hour ago, deesquared said:

Yeah it says his girlfriend watched the whole thing happen.

What makes you think she just stood there and did nothing? Were you there? Do you think she didn't do so much as call police? Where was she supposed to go if there were no lifeguards? It was a ferry channel used by vessels, not a swimming area.

2 minutes ago, Jonathan Swift said:

What makes you think she just stood there and did nothing? Were you there?

She Wouldn't have surely, But NO I Wasn't there.....

Rip to the guy and sadly, the shock his kids will get when they hear he has drowned.

Unless he had secretly married the girlfriend or written a will, everything will go to his children. Whatever is in his hotel room may miraculously disappear however.

1 hour ago, connda said:

According to a friend of mine who drown and was resuscitated, it is incredibly peaceful.

no, the person must panic, but it probably doesn't take very long to drown.

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

One would think that on populated beaches like Hua Hin they could certainly afford to have a couple of lifeguards on duty.

Drowning has to be a very terrifying way to die.

Many years ago when I lived there I think I read a story where funds were available for lifeguards, but they had been 'misappropriated'/lifeguards weren't being paid.

2 hours ago, Rockyroad said:

Happens every week. You don't hear about all of them.

Actually about 2 or 3 times a day on average over the year.

Not sure if drowning is peaceful, though probably quick, once panic is over. Didn't panic myself, or don't remember. Only remember I couldn't reach my little sailboat, and next thing I know, was laying on my back poolside. Too young to remember much.

He might not have drowned at all, and simply had a coronary, or stroke. He was 75.

2 hours ago, shackleton said:

i gave up swimming in the sea around Thailand many years ago

Stick to the swimming pool safer

RIP to the guy

I surfed in California and Hawaii and have been in some incredibly strong rips. They are fine as long as you don't lose your head.
However, now at 74? Swimming pools. Surfing days ended when I moved to Thailand. For every time there is a season.

8 minutes ago, connda said:

I surfed in California and Hawaii and have been in some incredibly strong rips. They are fine as long as you don't lose your head.
However, now at 74? Swimming pools. Surfing days ended when I moved to Thailand. For every time there is a season.

I’m of that age and swim a few hundred metres out to sea. Essential difference is I’m an ex diver and will have proper divers fins and face mask / snorkel . Huge difference.

7 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

he may have been caught in a rip current and pulled under by strong waves.

Rip currents do not pull you under the water.

Strong waves if high like 3 meters can push one under water if continuous but otherwise carry one along the water surface, ie., like body surfing.

Likely the victim simply didn't have the strength to encounter the rip current and wave action.

5 hours ago, Farage said:

RIP..very sad to read

My thoughts entirely- very sad

RIP

5 hours ago, jacko45k said:

One has to recognise limitations that come with age.

Something I am definitely finding one of the hardest tasks of an active and varied life.

In my mind's eye I'm still 30 or 40. But I'm constantly being confronted with the reality of my noticeable physical decline at 70 - and that is not yet even particularly pronounced.

But like it or not some things have to be gradually surrendered with grace. Otherwise I suspect life becomes a hellhole of anger and resentment that's not really worth living.

Focus has to be on gratitude for what's left and all the experiences had.

But I guess there comes a time when as Dante said (paraquote): Not even the greatest successes in life can ease for a second the dire pain of the death bed.

That's the stage at which I definitely want to have the support of assisted suicide legislation. I've also had enough mental and physical pain in life. I don't want it to end on that extreme note.

And the busybody 'believers' and moral do-'good'ers should get stuffed. If they don't wanna do it, then don't. But get your mucky, sticky, cloying paws out of my life - and my death.

(And if by some unlikely chance I do get accosted at the Pearly Gates by Peter, my first words will be, ''What the bloody hell do you lot think you're playing at?!'')