Phuket Surf Lifesaving carnival to begin next week

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Phuket Surf Lifesaving carnival to begin next week 

Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

 

PHUKET: A four-day long Phuket Surf Lifesaving carnival will kick-off next Wednesday (Dec 6) with a huge line-up of educational, training and sporting activities to promote the importance of water safety and strengthen the skills of the lifeguards tasked with keeping the island’s beaches and swimming areas safe.

 

Phuket Lifeguard Chief Prathaiyuth confirmed to The Phuket News today (Dec 2) that, “Beginning next week, there will be several water safety training activities for local the community to take part in. It is an important part of creating awareness around water safety in the Phuket community, which is so important because we live on an island surrounded by ocean and beaches.”

The Phuket Lifeguard Club has organised a free two-day lifeguard training course on Dec 6-7, at the Life Saving Education Centre at Patong Beach for any and all tour operators and hotel staff who are interested in refreshing their water safety skills.
 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-surf-lifesaving-carnival-to-begin-next-week-64953.php#yIu2H6Ae4OR23KXH.97

 

 

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[pattayadgw]

How can you have a surf lifesaving carnival when there are no surf lifesavers on the beaches?  blows my mind!!

[cornishcarlos]

Carnival !! Is that similar to a Clown Show ??

[quadperfect]

13 hours ago, cornishcarlos said:

Carnival !! Is that similar to a Clown Show ??

I think more like a circus

[Maestro]

Panem et cicenses (bread and circuses). If you don't know how to govern well, appease the masses with gifts and games, refunds on shopping and carnivals. It is a tradition that goes back to imperial Roman times.

[stevenl]

On 12/3/2017 at 5:42 AM, pattayadgw said:

How can you have a surf lifesaving carnival when there are no surf lifesavers on the beaches?  blows my mind!!

All the more reason to increase awareness.

[faraday]

Why don't you serial moaners just shut up!

The constant moaning about Thailand is childish.

 

[cornishcarlos]

1 minute ago, faraday said:

Why don't you serial moaners just shut up!

The constant moaning about Thailand is childish.

 

 

Who's moaning ?? Merely observations with a smile :)

When a rescue volunteer needs to be rescued, because they don't have adequate trained lifesavers, it's a clown show !!!

[Valentine]

All the people in the lifesaving carnivals I participated in were volunteer lifesavers who gave up their time to learn how to save people from drowning but who also enjoyed the sport & camaraderie that went with it. There is a lifesaving club here & they deserve all the support they can get not the derision I see so far. For youngsters it gives them another outlet other than cruising the mall or riding around with gangs on motorbikes plus they can  learn valuable life lessons.

[Felt 35]

A much easier solution than carnival and was the usual information source 15-30 years ago is to make tourist understand that they have travelled to a foreign country and are not sitting in their sofa back home watching TV from beaches in Phuket and with that are responsible to be informed about different activities and the weather conditions in different seasons. Regarding swimming the locals especially they who work on or near the sea is as good (likely better) as any meteorologist. Plus it would of course help, if TAT inform tourist that swimming mid April - to mid November is not to recommend and even if they (TAT) don't like to hear low season doesn't mean mother nature change its way.

Edited December 4, 2017 by Felt 35