Navy Recon Trainee Killed By Fish

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

A portrait of Kriangsak Pengpanich is shown at his funeral Thursday.

 

BANGKOK — A naval Special Forces cadet died in a freak accident while training off the coast of Trat province, the navy said Thursday.

 

Kriangsak Pengpanich, 22, was swimming Wednesday in the open sea when a carnivorous, shallow-water fish struck him in the neck at high speed, the navy said in a statement. Kriangsak, who served in the marine corps, was pronounced dead at the hospital.

 

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RIP young man. Good Lord, of all the ways... I need to keep an eye out for low flying birds.

Really ! A fast fish killed him!

 

Nuttin else involved here, no? Lax safety procedures for the recruits, no? Maybe a hazing exercise gone wrong, no? No other excuse, no?

 

OK, so we're goin with the very fast fish to the press.

 

OK. ????‍♀️

12 minutes ago, thequietman said:

Really ! A fast fish killed him!

 

Nuttin else involved here, no? Lax safety procedures for the recruits, no? Maybe a hazing exercise gone wrong, no? No other excuse, no?

 

OK, so we're goin with the very fast fish to the press.

 

OK. ????‍♀️

...Barracuda?

A fish killed him, by swimming fast into him!

As happens so very very often and you hear about, almost every day!

Sure!

That happened!

Let's move on!

 

2 minutes ago, DM07 said:

A fish killed him, by swimming fast into him!

As happens so very very often and you hear about, almost every day!

Sure!

That happened!

Let's move on!

 

...could be something lost in translation, as is often the case in such reports.

 

"struck him in the neck at high speed"

When you want to keep something from a wider audience and you know that nobody can audit or review the findings in your final report, the incentive to come up with a convincing story is diminished.

33 minutes ago, Andrew65 said:

...Barracuda?

Can do 40 kph + with a mouthful of very sharp teeth.

Attracted to shiny objects in the water ( chrome bits etc ) can be up to one metre long.

Every possibility that's what hit the poor guy.

Poor fellow!

I am no scuba expert but reckon a Trigger fish could have done it

 

From what I saw on TV it was a Needle Fish the Anderman is full of them and they do look very menacing
They have a very sharp snout big Teeth and they move fast like a Barracuda,

Edited December 13, 20187 yr by monkfish

1 hour ago, thequietman said:

Really ! A fast fish killed him!

 

Nuttin else involved here, no? Lax safety procedures for the recruits, no? Maybe a hazing exercise gone wrong, no? No other excuse, no?

 

OK, so we're goin with the very fast fish to the press.

 

OK. ????‍♀️

You missed quite a few imaginary possibilities.

2 hours ago, monkfish said:

From what I saw on TV it was a Needle Fish the Anderman is full of them and they do look very menacing
They have a very sharp snout big Teeth and they move fast like a Barracuda,

 

Can this small fish kill a navy seal?? 

Edited December 13, 20187 yr by fruitman

Not so hard to believe.

There are some very dangerous fish knocking about. I almost lost my knee last year kayaking on Samui. A big pointy fish skimmed the surface of the sea, and smacked in to the side of my kayak (above the water line) with extreme force. We have seen these big pointy fish break water and go 10's of meters above the sea because they are so powerful.

Edited December 13, 20187 yr by Amusements

51 minutes ago, fruitman said:

 

Can this small fish kill a navy seal?? 

Sure if your in the water and it runs into your throat at 40kmph but it's unusual for them to attack people.

If it was a USA Navy Seal, he would have eaten it.

Ok a bit off topic but related.

I'm one of these people who never did and never will see the point of going swimming in the sea.

It's full of things that don't take kindly to you, they want to sting you, bite you or eat you.

Always amazed at contestants on quiz shows, eg, if I win xxxx I will buy a holiday to xxxx and go swimming with the sharks, WHAT???

If 'I' win xxx I'll book a holiday in a place where they produce good wine and try to drink as much of it as I can.

Sorry for the navy guy by the way.

2 minutes ago, roo860 said:

If it was a USA Navy Seal, he would have eaten it.

Nah, they can swim faster than anything in the sea.

5 hours ago, Andrew65 said:

...Barracuda?

...In 'shallow waters'?

1 hour ago, Amusements said:

Not so hard to believe.

There are some very dangerous fish knocking about. I almost lost my knee last year kayaking on Samui. A big pointy fish skimmed the surface of the sea, and smacked in to the side of my kayak (above the water line) with extreme force. We have seen these big pointy fish break water and go 10's of meters above the sea because they are so powerful.

As you were very much a victim of such an attack, no doubt you have done all you could to identify the fish that attacked your kayak, so could you please tell us which species it was ('swordfish', ...?). Thank you!

 
Can this small fish kill a navy seal?? 

The fish doesn't actually know if your a navy seal.

4 hours ago, JoePai said:

This illustration is easily identifiable as a 'narval', because of its twisted screw-like defence 'tooth', hunted down for it, still some surviving,... in the cold upper northern Atlantic. As in this sad example, when it goes about 'shallow water' it seems unlikely it could have been a sword fish. Pure conjecture from me, but i'd say, maybe(!), hit by the 'harpoon-esk' tail of a 'ray', quite to very poisonous 'sting', or even a heavy electrical discharge from a 'torpedo' ray, possibly deadly when hitting the poor seal's spine... And, anyway, as mostly from the military, the lack of a decent explanation is quite telling about the value of a soldier's life.

1 hour ago, madmen said:

3 hours ago, fruitman said:

 
Can this small fish kill a navy seal?? 

The fish doesn't actually know if your a navy seal.

My cousins are navy seals and a fish like that small needle fish can't even get it's beak around their neck.....neither on mine...but maybe the thai navy seal is a few sizes smaller and has a very thin neck...

 

I don't believe it at all by the way...even if this fish bit him he would have some scratches maybe even drawing blood but nothing serious that would kill him...it's not a crocodile or a shark.

 

Maybe it was another fish or animal...or just a stupid excuse to not loose face...

I'm what you could call the opposite of "overly sensitive", but seeing people here post cartoons in this thread about a fatal accident that killed an innocent who did nothing wrong feels unsettling.

Edited December 13, 20187 yr by manarak

40 minutes ago, fruitman said:

My cousins are navy seals and a fish like that small needle fish can't even get it's beak around their neck.....neither on mine...but maybe the thai navy seal is a few sizes smaller and has a very thin neck...

 

I don't believe it at all by the way...even if this fish bit him he would have some scratches maybe even drawing blood but nothing serious that would kill him...it's not a crocodile or a shark.

 

Maybe it was another fish or animal...or just a stupid excuse to not loose face...

jeez, it didn't get him in a vice like death grip followed by an epic struggle to the death.... you do know that if an object hits you hard enough in the neck it can kill you, right? Add to that an object that might be pointed and sharp, and you get the picture

Inappropriate video reported and removed.

 

2 hours ago, roo860 said:

If it was a USA Navy Seal, he would have eaten it.

Rambo isnt documentary.

8 hours ago, Andrew65 said:

...Barracuda?

7 hours ago, JoePai said:

7 hours ago, overherebc said:

 

Why make supposition on the kind of fish when the article clearly says it was a needlefish and even shows a picture of the (rather bug) one that killed the cadet ?

 

 

Although needlefish are not naturally aggressive toward humans, there have been rare cases of fatal encounters, usually involving children.

jeez, it didn't get him in a vice like death grip followed by an epic struggle to the death.... you do know that if an object hits you hard enough in the neck it can kill you, right? Add to that an object that might be pointed and sharp, and you get the picture

People not quite getting it. This wasn't some attack but possibly getting in the way of a big tuna chasing a smaller fish at 50 mph. And BAM! game over.

About the same odds as Steve Irwin getting stabbed in the heart... But it happens

8 hours ago, monkfish said:

From what I saw on TV it was a Needle Fish the Anderman is full of them and they do look very menacing
They have a very sharp snout big Teeth and they move fast like a Barracuda,

I had a very bizarre encounter with one years ago which only ended when I punched it on the nose but I very much doubt if it could have killed me.