Chinese Visitor Drowns After Late-Night Swim at Karon Beach

[snoop1130]

 

A Chinese visitor, who vanished after a late-night swim at Karon Beach last Thursday, was discovered dead on rocks near Freedom Beach in Mueang district. A fisherman found the body on Friday morning, July 29.

 

Local police received an alert about the discovery around 9.30am, as told by Khundet Na Nong Khai, the head of Karon police. Upon arriving at the scene, emergency personnel found Qin Yuan lying face-down on rocks. They transported his body to Vachira Phuket Hospital for an autopsy.

 

Thai officials reported that they had informed the Chinese consular office in Phuket about the tragedy.

 

27-year-old Qin was last spotted around 7.30pm on Thursday. According to Karon mayor, Jadet Wicharasor, a Chinese couple rented a surfboard on Thursday evening, returned it about an hour later, and proceeded to swim at Karon Beach even though it had become dark and no lifeguards were present.

 

 

After being notified about her missing husband by the distressed woman, Karon local officials launched a search mission. Teams from local authorities, police, and the 3rd Naval Fleet all participated in the search, according to local representatives.

 

"Despite our best efforts to ensure safety, people need to respect the warnings," a local official stated.

 

Despite safety measures that include signage prohibiting swimming in four languages (Chinese, English, Russian, and Thai) as well as red flags used to mark high-risk areas, many people often ignore these warnings.

 

The provincial Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation reported that, including Qin's case, nine drownings have occurred in Phuket this year, five of which involved foreigners. This is despite the presence of 115 lifeguards across the island's beaches.

 

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-- 2024-07-30

 

 

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[BangkokReady]

59 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Despite safety measures that include signage prohibiting swimming in four languages (Chinese, English, Russian, and Thai) as well as red flags used to mark high-risk areas, many people often ignore these warnings.

 

It's tricky, because in both Thailand and China, rules, laws and warnings aren't really considered binding.  They need some sort of caveat like "No, we mean it this time, this isn't one of those signs that we put up then everyone ignores and we never enforce, you will die."

[nakhonandy]

I've rescued two people struggling on that beach and I've only been there twice on holiday.

It has serious rip currents and signs/flags everywhere. 

Why are people so stupid?

[metisdead]

A troll post has been removed.

[GammaGlobulin]

6 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Despite safety measures that include signage prohibiting swimming in four languages (Chinese, English, Russian, and Thai)

 

Is it possible that one of the contributory factors leading to this tragedy might have been that the sign was not posted in BOTH simplified and traditional Chinese characters, as well as the Pinyin romanization recognized throughout China?

 

This was my first thought.

 

Chinese people from the mainland do not like to read traditional characters. And, those from Taiwan prefer not to read simplified characters.  The reasons for this are only partially related to political differences.

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

5 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

 

It's tricky, because in both Thailand and China, rules, laws and warnings aren't really considered binding.  They need some sort of caveat like "No, we mean it this time, this isn't one of those signs that we put up then everyone ignores and we never enforce, you will die."

 

In Hawaii, at some beaches, people put up signs showing an annual running tally of numbers of deaths at the more dangerous swimming spots.

They just use the same markings as prisoners use on a wall to count off the days and years spent in their prison cells.

 

[chickenslegs]

11 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

In Hawaii, at some beaches, people put up signs showing an annual running tally of numbers of deaths at the more dangerous swimming spots.

They just use the same markings as prisoners use on a wall to count off the days and years spent in their prison cells.

 

We called them "5 bar gate" markings.

[GammaGlobulin]

49 minutes ago, chickenslegs said:

We called them "5 bar gate" markings.

 

They have them at some beaches, in fact.

 

[Middle Aged Grouch]

News will fly back home in China and many Chinese will obviously chose not to come to Thailand,

 

Rip to the victim and condoleances to the family.

[BarraMarra]

Yes the PM's office will already have a good answer for any possible fall out from Potential Chinese tourist.

[Harsh Jones]

On 7/30/2024 at 4:06 AM, BangkokReady said:

 

It's tricky, because in both Thailand and China, rules, laws and warnings aren't really considered binding.  They need some sort of caveat like "No, we mean it this time, this isn't one of those signs that we put up then everyone ignores and we never enforce, you will die."

That is the problem. But I do recall seeing signs around there that do say death on them. But maybe that was somewhere else

[Harsh Jones]

On 7/30/2024 at 10:53 AM, Middle Aged Grouch said:

News will fly back home in China and many Chinese will obviously chose not to come to Thailand,

 

Rip to the victim and condoleances to the family.

And here we have the typical Thailand doomer post

[stevenl]

On 7/30/2024 at 11:53 PM, Middle Aged Grouch said:

News will fly back home in China and many Chinese will obviously chose not to come to Thailand,

 

Rip to the victim and condoleances to the family.

Nonsense.

[watchcat]

On 7/30/2024 at 9:05 AM, snoop1130 said:

A Chinese visitor, who vanished after a late-night swim at Karon Beach last Thursday, was discovered dead on rocks near Freedom Beach in Mueang district.

 

What's the thrill of a late-night swim in a place that's famous for drownings?