VIDEOS: Phi Phi ferry lashed by severe storm

[Jonathan Fairfield]

VIDEOS: Phi Phi ferry lashed by severe storm

 

 

Videos shared to Facebook showed a passenger ferry travelling to Koh Phi Phi during stormy seas.

 

The clips were taken as passengers travelled on the ferry between Ao Nang and Koh Phi Phi on Monday.

 

The footage was shared by Facebook user Yim Yim Cruiser who said that despite the severe weather, many passengers did not put on life jackets. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[wirat69]

In the day, we travelled from Krabi to Koh Phi Phi in worse seas and on wooden boats, not the big steel ferries that now serve the route..... On one occasion, the wooden sides opened one inch gaps at the timber joints..... Don't know about the hull or the bilge pumps, but it sure was a rejoicing time when we eventually arrived physically unharmed....

[Get Real]

Life jackets??? You can clearly see that mobilephones are the thing to be used today.

[Bayrat]

Ha!  You call that a storm, mate?  Try getting on a flat-bottom boat in the North Atlantic!  What a bunch of <deleted>! 

 

[Juan B Tong]

Any sailor knows it's impossible to photograph high waves and those waves must be at least a meter or meter and a half!

 

How did they live through that hell?

 

[shaurene]

No L/J's. Because they were not instructed or made to do.

Store, ha ha. I was a deck hand in the Merchand Navy when I was 22 sailing on a cruise ship 26,000 tons, Empress of Canada on the way to Canada, we hit a hurricane 40+ ft seas, that was a storm.

Later at 38 yrs old took a 58ft cruiser from Liverpool to Mallorca, Spain and hit a force 9 hurricane off Cadiz, Trafalgar that was a storm.

 

[300sd]

Looks like a normal day at sea, to me.

[Rimmer]

A derogatory/slur has been removed

[Belzybob]

The Thames Estuary gets rougher than that in Summer.

[rumbo1]

8 hours ago, shaurene said:

No L/J's. Because they were not instructed or made to do.

Store, ha ha. I was a deck hand in the Merchand Navy when I was 22 sailing on a cruise ship 26,000 tons, Empress of Canada on the way to Canada, we hit a hurricane 40+ ft seas, that was a storm.

Later at 38 yrs old took a 58ft cruiser from Liverpool to Mallorca, Spain and hit a force 9 hurricane off Cadiz, Trafalgar that was a storm.

 

Force 9 is only a severe gale not a hurricane 

[KiChakayan]

On 6/20/2018 at 9:25 AM, shaurene said:

No L/J's. Because they were not instructed or made to do.

Store, ha ha. I was a deck hand in the Merchand Navy when I was 22 sailing on a cruise ship 26,000 tons, Empress of Canada on the way to Canada, we hit a hurricane 40+ ft seas, that was a storm.

Later at 38 yrs old took a 58ft cruiser from Liverpool to Mallorca, Spain and hit a force 9 hurricane off Cadiz, Trafalgar that was a storm.

 

When I was 21 I went to Antarctica; blah, blah, blah...