Harbor Officials make urgent inspections of speedboats at Pattaya Port

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Harbor Officials make urgent inspections of speedboats at Pattaya Port



PATTAYA: -- Following the recent marine incident involving a speedboat carrying Turkish Tourists, which sunk off the coast of Pattaya, Harbor officials conducted urgent inspections of speed boats at the Pattaya Port early on Wednesday Morning.

Two officers from the Harbor Department Division 6 conducted their inspection at 6.30am and checked the boats themselves and their accompanying paperwork to ensure that everything is in order and a repeat of the hull breach which occurred on the boat involved in the earlier incident would not be repeated.

The boat, named “JaiJai” which sunk as it was being towed back into Port on Tuesday afternoon

Full story: http://www.pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/155730/harbor-officials-make-urgent-inspections-of-speedboats-at-pattaya-port/


-- Pattaya One 2014-11-20

[ATF]

Are they installing weighing scales for overweight tourists?

[shirtless]

Only after the event , How about prevention lives are at stake , safety before revenue, when will this sink in.

[Nuddy]

Do you reckon they don't know to make continuing inspections or is it that they just don't follow their own rules?

[jacko45k]

Whilst it is a good thing that paperwork is checked, I am not sure if they can detect a hull repair that may not endure rough seas.

Were the captains drug tested?

[Ulic]

No problem, they are used to these urgent inspections after a speedboat sinks.

[Lupatria]

...and the bribes make the waves.

[Krataiboy]

Stable door gesture.

[petermik]

Rest assured this is making Pattaya a MUCH safer place for tourists-as promised

[Pattaya28]

Fantastic news.

No loss of life.

[Longstaff]

I think there may be some confusion that a quick inspection equates to a marine survey. Anyone who knows anything about boats, commercial or private, understands how thorough a proper marine survey is, particularly for passenger vessels; and that it can only be conducted by qualified and accredited Marine Surveyor. A couple of officials in clean white shirts checking the paperwork is a far cry from a competent specialist getting dirty down in the bilge.

[Benmart]

Are they installing weighing scales for overweight tourists?

Or an intelligence test for nonsense posts.