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Must have hit the yacht hard to cause that damage, good luck to the yacht owner trying to get them to pay for the, what must be extensive damage to their yacht...

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13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The heavily damaged tour boat

I think it is the heavily damaged yacht in the picture. The other boat in the background does not look like a yacht

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Interesting point of impact.....the yacht shown in the picture is a fast one...my guess is that the speedboat cut across the bow of the yacht. 

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2 hours ago, legend49 said:

They steer boats the same way they steer cars on the roads!

They don't have steerage, they point them and go flat-out!

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Boat collision kills one and injures ten in Phang-nga

 

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One foreign tourist died and ten others were injured in a collision between a speed boat and a yacht in the Andaman Sea off Thailand’s southern province of Phang-nga on Wednesday.

 

One speed boat crew member, identified only as “Boy”, went missing and a search is under way by the Navy as well as marine and tourist police and volunteers from the Kusolatham foundation.

 

Police have not disclosed the identity of the deceased victim, who was pronounced dead at the provincial hospital, but they said that the boat passengers were from India, Iran and Israel, and that the relevant embassies have been notified.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/boat-collision-kills-one-and-injures-ten-in-phang-nga/

 

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1 hour ago, zyphodb said:

Must have hit the yacht hard to cause that damage, good luck to the yacht owner trying to get them to pay for the, what must be extensive damage to their yacht...

Nothing a bit of polish wouldn't fix. It's built a little more solidly than one of those plywood speed boats.

 

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4 hours ago, worgeordie said:

Captain asleep a the wheel....speedy recovery to those injured.

regards worgeordie

 

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23 minutes ago, Scot123 said:

Now this could be where the unpaid hospital bills accumulate from. Tourist injured through no fault of their own and the responsible parties refusing to pay. "I no rich, you farang rich, you pay!" 

For sure, the speed boat co. won't pay, the victims won't have travel ins. or equivelant most likely, so the med. cost to be added to the amount that retired expats are said to owe.

a hundred baht charge added to the tansportation tix for tourist should be in effect to cover these accidents.

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1 hour ago, losername said:

None of the boats in the picture look like yachts.  My view is that the damaged one is the offending motor vessel.  The larger boat with many people on board wearing lifejackets seems to be rescuing passengers and the yacht is not shown.  Possibly the crew on the yacht have taken the picture.

Not all yachts have sails. The speedboat hit the motor yacht which in that picture is picking up the passengers from the damaged speedboat. 

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