AMLO seizes ‘Phoenix’, plans to sell by auction

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

 

The Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) has seized the ‘Phoenix’ which will now be sold by auction.

 

The Thai Immigration Bureau Chief, Lt Gen Surachate Hakparn, has already confirmed that many aspects of the ‘Phoenix’ design and operation were substandard.

 

The issues which made Phoenix illegal and substandard are mostly fixable, including proper marine-grade glass, marine-grade propulsion, proper bulkhead doors, ballasting and approved safety equipment.

 

Full story: https://thethaiger.com/news/phuket/amlo-seizes-phoenix-plans-to-sell-by-auction

 

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5 minutes ago, webfact said:

The issues which made Phoenix illegal and substandard are mostly fixable, including proper marine-grade glass, marine-grade propulsion, proper bulkhead doors, ballasting and approved safety equipment.

Fixable .! Are they having a laugh .. Look at the state of it .. And if it were " fixed " up who would really want to go aboard that again knowing its history .. 

There's only one place the dead Phoenix should be sent, never to rise again.

     

                                

 

 

Ran and drove when parked.

Scrap metal value, it will cost more to haul it to the wreckers yard than what they will get for it sold as scrap metal at 1 baht a kg...

Sounds like a popular auction... if moved to another country, change the name of the vessel, camouflage or change the appearance....etc.  Not many superstitious Thai, Chinese (or otherwise) will touch it with a 10ft pole....jinx anyone?

30 minutes ago, webfact said:

The Thai Immigration Bureau Chief, Lt Gen Surachate Hakparn, has already confirmed that many aspects of the ‘Phoenix’ design and operation were substandard.

 

He's involved because the Phoenix is to Thai immigration what the Mayflower was to the Pilgrims, yes.

 

12 minutes ago, CanuckThai said:

Sounds like a popular auction... if moved to another country, change the name of the vessel, camouflage or change the appearance....etc.  Not many superstitious Thai, Chinese (or otherwise) will touch it with a 10ft pole....jinx anyone?

 

Wanna bet it doesn't end up back in service in Thailand somewhere down the road...  Knowing this place, nothing would surprise me anymore....  

19 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Scrap metal value, it will cost more to haul it to the wreckers yard than what they will get for it sold as scrap metal at 1 baht a kg...

How much metal is in it, it is constructed with fibre glass I believe.

Now i know beyond doudt this country is sick.

For Sale- Death Ship. One not so careful Owner. ????

No Thai's would touch it due to the deaths aboard,waiting for TAT to come up with death ship tours that should boost tourist numbers,or marriages on the death ship, nothing would surprise me with that hair brained mob.

55 minutes ago, Oziex1 said:

How much metal is in it, it is constructed with fibre glass I believe.

No, it is a steel boat.

Boat for sale. Bit of rust. Only sank once. Not many deaths.

 

Serious offers only please

 

 

Be very aware of the next greedy tour operator who ask to buy a truck load of duct tape.

For sale A luxury boat, only 1 useless owner, not done much work.

Been parked up for a few months protected from wind and rain, few minor scratches easily sorted, just needs a bit of T-cut.

Get your offer in quickly many Chinese business people interested.

Will work wonders for getting the Chinese tourists back to Phuket if the vessel get back in tourist charters again. 

who did they seize this vessel from?

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) has seized the ‘Phoenix’ which will now be sold by auction.

..............for the Chinese or police benevolent fund ?

If they want to appease the not surprising wrath of the Chinese tourists here, the families who lost loved ones when the preventable tragedy happened and potential tourists and the Chinese government, seems to me the right thing to do is ensure it can never sail again - break it up / scrap it, blow it up or whatever.

23 minutes ago, scorecard said:

If they want to appease the not surprising wrath of the Chinese tourists here, the families who lost loved ones when the preventable tragedy happened and potential tourists and the Chinese government, seems to me the right thing to do is ensure it can never sail again - break it up / scrap it, blow it up or whatever.

I really think the Chinese tourists or authorities don't care, and the families of those perished won't know. Future tourists will be herded on the boat they were sold their trip on, and nobody will know which boat or what happened to it.

 

Does anybody know what happened to the real owner of the tour company involved? When this was starting to unfold he fled to China, leaving his wife hang out to dry here, gave a newspaper interview and afaik he is still a free man in China.

Can't wait to get a ride when it has been fixed up! Bet the new owners change the name though.

Tow and sink and use as target practice for the new submarines.

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) has seized the ‘Phoenix’ which will now be sold by auction.

The Laundry Office should not forget to have some monks get rid of the ghosts before selling.

How can ANY Government honestly sell a as they call it a illegally modified sub-standard boat by auction.

They will be complicit IF that boat is remodified to fix any of the faults. 

They should at the very least sell it for scrap or just destroy it themselves. 

Just goes to show here the Thai Govt are almost as stupid as the boat owners themselves. 

Who better to oversee a bit of money laundering than the AMLO? Expect this to go for a high price.

It would cost more to fix than building a new one...

 

Scrap the crap....

So who is going to pay for the recovery operation(s)? I suspect the insurers (if there are any) would have a legal claim to the scrap value of the hulk.

5 hours ago, CanuckThai said:

Sounds like a popular auction... if moved to another country, change the name of the vessel, camouflage or change the appearance....etc.  Not many superstitious Thai, Chinese (or otherwise) will touch it with a 10ft pole....jinx anyone?

Yes indeed - a real "Ghost Ship".  Probably be recycled in a Bangladeshi ship yard and "rise" as an Indonesian Ferry!