Naval base at Sattahip invaded

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Naval base at Sattahip invaded



SATTAHIP: -- The Royal Thai Navy's base at Sattahip is now invaded by a million of multi color jellyfishes floating around its frigates and other gunboat's and patrol vessels anchoring at Laem Thien pier.

The converging of a million of jellyfishes at the bay above the surface of the water has illuminated the bay when they contacted the sun light.

It was a rare phenomenon and a beautiful scenery when the jellyfishes in different colors sparkled in the sun.

The appearance has aroused the curiosity of the navy crewmen with many of them taking out their smart phones to photograph the rare natural beauty.

Sattahip port director Rear Admiral Chatchai Photipak said the million jellyfishes floating in the bay did not pose threat to navigation of cargo and navy ships in the bay.

He said it was a very rare natural phenomenon to have seen.

However it was unfortunate for the people to see this phenomenon because it is in the prohibited area of the Navy which outsiders are not allowed entry.

But he said media representatives have been allowed in the area to take pictures.

He said the jellyfishes might be those floating to Sattahip from Laem Ya bay off Samet island of Rayong province in August.
He also expected the million of jellyfishes would float to Jomthien beach of Pattaya soon.

(Photo : bangkokbiznews.com)

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/naval-base-sattahip-invaded/


-- Thai PBS 2014-09-24

[lee b]

Maybe not too nice for the poor guys that have to go diving to clean the underneath of the ships !

[canuckamuck]

In other countries journalists might take it upon themselves to get a closeup or perhaps do 5 minutes of reporting to determine the species. But hey, they are colorful and sparkly and don't seem harmful - to the ships!

[Suradit69]

In other countries journalists might take it upon themselves to get a closeup or perhaps do 5 minutes of reporting to determine the species. But hey, they are colorful and sparkly and don't seem harmful - to the ships!

In other countries the story would only get attention on a really, really slow news day ... although headlining that a naval base is being invaded is catchy.

Edited September 24, 2014 by Suradit69

[oneday]

Horrible English.

[Suradit69]

Horrible English.

I doubt the jelly fish are English.

If you mean the content of the report, you could always read the story in a Thai language news source ... this being Thailand and all.

Edited September 24, 2014 by Suradit69

[petercool]

an off topic troll post removed

[wabothai]

this is not news. I opened it because i was led to believe that thugs are at play. Thanx guys!

[lvr181]

Horrible English.

And you are fluent in Thai?

[Pii Kate]

In other countries journalists might take it upon themselves to get a closeup or perhaps do 5 minutes of reporting to determine the species. But hey, they are colorful and sparkly and don't seem harmful - to the ships!

And the title of the article is completely misleading.

[lvr181]

In other countries journalists might take it upon themselves to get a closeup or perhaps do 5 minutes of reporting to determine the species. But hey, they are colorful and sparkly and don't seem harmful - to the ships!

And the title of the article is completely misleading.

Gotcha!

[petercool]

Off topic troll post removed. See this forum rule ...

9) You will not post inflammatory messages on the forum, or attempt to disrupt discussions to upset its participants, or trolling. Trolling can be defined as the act of purposefully antagonizing other people on the internet by posting controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.i

A post in which sarcasm was supposed to hide an inferred slur against the Royal Thai Navy was also removed.

[jamiesilver]

Invaded? hmmmm okay

[MediaWatcher]

Suradit69, on 24 Sept 2014 - 16:45, said:

canuckamuck, on 24 Sept 2014 - 15:20, said:

In other countries journalists might take it upon themselves to get a closeup or perhaps do 5 minutes of reporting to determine the species. But hey, they are colorful and sparkly and don't seem harmful - to the ships!

In other countries the story would only get attention on a really, really slow news day ... although headlining that a naval base is being invaded is catchy.

In Australia there is an award for this type of headline, it's the Walkley award for Headline Journalism, "this award recognises the art of witty and succinct journalism that grabs attention," in other words exaggerated, sometimes misleading , this is the award Ed, from PhuketWan, is so proud of winning.

[JacChang]

I think we need North Korea's help on this one. They are experts at firing missiles into the ocean. That should take care of the invasion.

[Cake Monster]

Send the submarine to fire torpedos at the little blighters.

That should sort them out.

[Anon999]

In other countries journalists might take it upon themselves to get a closeup or perhaps do 5 minutes of reporting to determine the species. But hey, they are colorful and sparkly and don't seem harmful - to the ships!

And the title of the article is completely misleading.

The word is ambiguous!