Tourists injured as tour boat hits yacht off Phuket

[snoop1130]

Tourists injured as tour boat hits yacht off Phuket

By Eakkapop Thongtub

 

The heavily damaged tour boat. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub
 

PHUKET:-- At least six tourists were injured as a tour boat collided with a yacht off near Koh Khai Nok, off Phuket’s east coast this afternoon (Dec 18).
 

The injured were brought back to shore at AA Marina on Koh Siray.

 

A medical team from Phuket Provincial Hospital and Kusoldharm rescue workers provided first aid at the scene, before those needing more serious medical treatment were taken to hospital.

Full Story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/tourists-injured-as-tour-boat-hits-yacht-off-phuket-74045.php#6cuyX6Y2Fo3V503C.97

 

-- © Copyright Phuket News 2019-12-18

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[NCC1701A]

must have been heavy fog...

[legend49]

7 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

must have been heavy fog...

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

[ChipButty]

Not even safe out in the Ocean

[Colabamumbai]

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Raging seas.

 

[Thian]

Ohhh again? Yawnnn...oh Phuket again? Same same....

[worgeordie]

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

regards worgeordie

[Deli]

Brakes failed downhill

[zyphodb]

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...

[sweatalot]

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

Edited December 19, 2019 by sweatalot

[Searat7]

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. 

[Burma Bill]

1 hour ago, worgeordie said:

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

regards worgeordie

Yes indeed - the micro type??

[hotchilli]

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!

[Magenta408]

All to routine now. It's making a mockery of tourist safety.

[RichardColeman]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The injured were brought back to shore at AA Marina on Koh Siray.

And charged for second trip on a second boat most likely

[Matzzon]

Carnage on open water!? What´s next? 

[Foghorn]

And that’s why Thailand wants first time visitors. Walk in carried out

[actonion]

That should scare even more Chinese Tourists

 

 

[losername]

1 hour ago, sweatalot said:

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

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.

[nausea]

Yeah, no mention of nationality and a long distance image, not deliberate I'm sure.

[webfact]

Boat collision kills one and injures ten in Phang-nga

 

 

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/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2019-12-19

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[Old Croc]

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.

 

 

[trainman34014]

You name it....they can't drive it !

[Scot123]

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!" 

[Mango Bob]

Now you wonder why tourist numbers are down.  People getting killed, and being ripped off daily here.  These tourist do read the newspapers.

[steven100]

his brakes failed

[Yinn]

4 hours ago, worgeordie said:

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

regards worgeordie

 

[IraqRon]

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.

[sketcher]

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. 

[sammieuk1]

Even though 2/3 of the planet is water its still not enough here????