Russian tourist cut in half by speedboat's propellers, another missing

Chon Buri - A Russian tourist was cut in half by propellers of a speedboat off Pattaya coast Monday afternoon, police said.

Police said two tourists were hit by propellers of a two-engine speedboat, Kantalak 409, near Koh Larn off Pattaya's coast in Bang Lamung district at 2 pm while the two were scuba diving at the spot.

One of them was cut in half and another went missing.

The two tourists have yet to be identified.

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Whenever I have dived over there I have been really angry about the way these dickheads drive their boats completely disregarding anyone who is in the water. This is a terrible accident, but one waiting to happen.

There seems to be quite a few things going wrong on the Tourism side recently. This is particularly worrying as the Country is still trying to recover from the double whammy of recession and political unrest which kept a lot of tourists away. I think the Thai Tourist Board need to start getting their thinking hats on and not only bringing in legislation to protect tourists from these and similar incidents, but also educating the Thai population who are involved in the Tourism Industry in any shape or form, to act in a way to encourage rather than discourage the Tourists. Thailand and it's people (by and large) have so much good to offer.

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