is sea really so dirty?

[parafareno]

girls tell me they dont swim in pattaya cause it is dirty

[Isaanbiker]

That really depends on how you see the sea.

 

The last thing a grown man would do in Pattaya would be to swim in excrementally diseased water with the chance of a jetski taking your scalp off.

 

   If you want to go for a swim in this area go over the hill to Jomtien.

 

   

   

 

 

[Number 6]

Yes. Pattaya bay is filthy. I think hotels may still have raw sewage lines running into the water.

 

Then, all the jetski, boats and benzene. Plastics, debris.

 

Also a bay with no current.

Edited November 26, 2019 by Number 6

[Thian]

Once i went in it untill kneedeep and my legs were itchy after that. 

[ExpatOilWorker]

https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/environment/pattaya-officials-react-to-the-video-of-gushing-sewage-and-wastewater-video

[sammieuk1]

Is a turd really smelly may answer your question ????

[bkk6060]

I do not think it is that bad.  It did however, make my testicles and penis itchy..

[phantomfiddler]

Yes the seawater off Pattaya AND Jomtien Beaches is filthy. Best to splurge 30 Bht and go to the far side of Koh Lan, where you can actually see your feet while chest deep in the water ????

[bluejets]

Filthy....I was there last week.

A good kilometre out to sea was the colour of sh*t.

 

Packed everyone up and went to Sai Kaew beach down towards Sattahip.

Beautiful and clean, great food.

Baht bus does a run down to near the naval area, was around 30 baht/person.

 

 

Edited November 27, 2019 by bluejets

[tifino]

18 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Is a turd really smelly may answer your question ????

 

may have to ask that, of Cheech and Chong... 

[sikishrory]

About 5 years ago it was reasonable and lots of people swimming. 

Now I notice lots of small peices of litter and if you look at the complete beach theres barely any people swimming.

[PatOngo]

Do you have any idea what fish do underwater!

[ukbiker]

12 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

I do not think it is that bad.  It did however, make my testicles and penis itchy..

No that was from the night before.

[Vacuum]

12 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

I do not think it is that bad.  It did however, make my testicles and penis itchy..

Surely not from the seawater...

[Guderian]

Three or four years ago the swimming pool I was using for my daily exercise was closed for maintenance. I decided to try swimming in the sea at Jomtien instead, in the 'safe' buoyed-off area by the Night Market. Great, plenty of waves and swell made it more fun than the swimming pool, and I enjoyed it, but after five days of that I developed infections in one ear and a nostril that could only really have come from the dirty sea water. Never again will I swim in the sea in Pattaya or Jomtien.

[Harveyboy]

12 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

I do not think it is that bad.  It did however, make my testicles and penis itchy..

You sure that wasn't from soi 6 ha ha 

[johng]

3 minutes ago, Guderian said:

but after five days of that I developed infections in one ear and a nostril that could only really have come from the dirty sea water.

Strangely they put a lot of those  " safe' buoyed-off areas"   near to the smelly "black water" outflows so no real surprise you got sick.

[bbbbooboo]

Hmmmm... is the pope a catholic?

[1FinickyOne]

I might be dated but the word used to be dont go in the waters there if you have an open cut...

 

and i might add ... or skin with pores

[tandor]

20 hours ago, Thian said:

Once i went in it untill kneedeep and my legs were itchy after that. 

..so your knob went under?

[GordonP]

My local (Jomtien Soi Welcome) doesn't let his young relations swim in the sea! ???? 

[leggo]

21 hours ago, Isaanbiker said:

That really depends on how you see the sea.

 

The last thing a grown man would do in Pattaya would be to swim in excrementally diseased water with the chance of a jetski taking your scalp off.

 

   If you want to go for a swim in this area go over the hill to Jomtien.

 

   

   

 

 

Go over the hill to Jomtien ! Ha you must be kidding - the water there was filthy 30 years ago -there has always been raw sewage pumped into that area. When i went there last was over five years ago and a chemist friend of mine from Bangkok analysed the water and his results would frighten <deleted>(pun!!!) out of the WHO!

[ToddinChonburi]

Walk along the beach you can smell the poop water running from the condo buildings into the sea.

[malibukid]

is the beach water here tested like in the States?

[DUNROAMIN]

I'd rather swim in the Meekong.

[Max69xl]

Haven't you heard about Jomtien Beach?? You just take the baht-bus.

[mickylongtime]

Hello 

I never swim in pattaya beach or jomtiem its filthy absolute filth you better off koh larn but even there you come away ichy scratchy, I belive you better in a salt water swimming pool if there any  around ours is not but we have a Danish guy sorting out our condo pool and he has the chemical balance down to a fine art ????

[sunnyboy2018]

All oceans are sewers to the world. Some seas are just worse than others.

[Titan1962]

So if the water is so bad,what else is there to do.

[Leaver]

21 minutes ago, Titan1962 said:

So if the water is so bad,what else is there to do.

Swimming pool, or go elsewhere.