Tourists safe: Four crew taken to hospital after Similan tourist speedboat explodes in port

[webfact]

Tourists safe: Four crew taken to hospital after Similan tourist speedboat explodes in port

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Four Thai crew members were treated for injuries and taken to Khao Lak medical center after a tourist speedboat used for trips to the Similan National Park exploded and caught fire yesterday morning.

 

Sanook reported that the captain of the boat had tried to start the engine ahead of taking tourists out to sea at the Thap Lamu pier in Phangnga province in the south of Thailand. 

 

When the engine didn't start he instructed his four crew to give the engine a bit of a bang. 

 

Picture: Sanook

 

This resulted in an explosion and fire that soon engulfed the boat after starting in the rear. 

 

Other boats were moved away to avoid the fire spreading and the speedboat was towed away. 

 

The information came from Bunchu Phaeyai of the Phangnga fisheries department. 

 

No tourists were injured.

 

Source: Sanook

 

 

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[Surelynot]

Good god....imagine the carnage if the boat had been loaded to the gunwales with (Chinese) tourists.

[Crossy]

What on earth do these things use as fuel, nitroglycerine?

 

They do seem to blow up with monotonous regularity.

 

[transam]

4 minutes ago, Crossy said:

What on earth do these things use as fuel, nitroglycerine?

 

They do seem to blow up with monotonous regularity.

 

Think its having a fag in one's mouth whilst looking for a fuel leak.....????

[Daffy D]

46 minutes ago, webfact said:

When the engine didn't start he instructed his four crew to give the engine a bit of a bang

    

 

Can't even imagine what that would be

 

Well it didn't work anyway so probably won't try that again  

[nikmar]

19 minutes ago, transam said:

Think its having a fag in one's mouth whilst looking for a fuel leak.....????

actually saw similar. Sat on a regular Thai bus from Rayong to Bangkok, it stopped for fuel whereby the driver got out, put the hose in the tank and lit up!!!! ????

[Rimmer]

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[billd766]

43 minutes ago, Daffy D said:

    

 

Can't even imagine what that would be

 

Well it didn't work anyway so probably won't try that again  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g_GeQR8fJo&ab_channel=hbsauce11

 

[klauskunkel]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Similan tourist speedboat explodes in port

the boat just couldn't take it any more....

 

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[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

When the engine didn't start he instructed his four crew to give the engine a bit of a bang.

I think the bang stick worked...

[Grumpy one]

No tourists, lets scuttle the old boat and claim insurance

[Natai Beach]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

 

 

 

Edited November 9, 2020 by Natai Beach

[Almer]

Start investigation with a fuel leak

[tallfarang]

A bit of a bang?? I guess mission accomplished then.