Thaivisa News Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Krabi:- A 52-year-old Japanese woman visiting Krabi with nine friends drowned Tuesday while snorkeling near Koh Kai, police said. Pol Captain Praphan Noochaikaew, a police officer on duty of Mueang Krabi police station, said Kato Akemi died at noon Tuesday. After alerted of the incident at noon, Praphan rushed to the Krabi Hospital where the woman had been rushed to. Praphan said Akemi was an owner of a cosmetic firm in Japan. She bought a tour package of Hello Tour Co Ltd and checked in with nine friends to the Rayavadee Hotel on the Railey Beach on Monday. She was scheduled to check out and return to Japan on Thursday Praphan said Akemi and nine friends traveled on a speedboat of Ao Nang Orchid Tuesday morning to visit four spots – Thalay Waek, Koh Tub, Koh Kai and Railey Bay. The accident occurred when the woman was snorkeling at the Koh Kai. She and her friends were properly dressed in life vest, the police officer said. After they snorkeled for a while, Akemi's friends noticed that she was lying face-down for too long so they shook her body but she did not respond. The friends alerted the staffs of the speedboat. The staffs provided her cardiac resuscitation before they rushed her to the Krabi Hospital. Doctors gave her more cardiac resuscitation but failed to bring her back. Doctors concluded that she choked on the seawater and died probably on the way to the hospital. Police are checking whether she had chronic diseases. The Japanese Embassy will be informed to contact her relatives to reclaim the body for funeral rite.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeverSure Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 I know this is just a writer's interpretation but it makes me wonder if they continued to apply resuscitation without interruption until she was in the hospital. Sometimes people don't come around for a very long time. It says: "The staffs provided her cardiac resuscitation before they rushed her to the Krabi Hospital." "Doctors gave her more cardiac resuscitation but failed to bring her back." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Local Drunk Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Isn't this the second snorkeling death in as many weeks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivinginKata Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Isn't this the second snorkeling death in as many weeks? I think it's the second. Chinese man on the 2nd April,. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangon04 Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 "Doctors concluded that she choked on the seawater and died probably on the way to the hospital." yep - being tossed into the back of a pickup thai ambulance is likely to kill you.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murphya33 Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Snorkeling is a lot harder than it looks. It just takes a little salt water getting in the tube, a panic attack and that's the end of you. If someone is not very experienced, he/she should definitely wear a life jacket so that they can take off the apparatus and get their breath back before continuing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaeJoMTB Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 It takes 5 minutes to drown, how could this possibly happen? More like heart attack or stroke. Sad, 52 isn't old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivinginKata Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 It takes 5 minutes to drown, how could this possibly happen? More like heart attack or stroke. Sad, 52 isn't old. How could this happen - inexperience and severe lack of supervision/training. I have been out on these sort of tours a few times. They just hand over the flippers and snorkel, off you go, no supervision whatsoever. Only count heads when up anchor at the end of the tour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbelyeu Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 She was wearing a life vest.. please re-read. As suggested most likely a heart attack. RIP. Kurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike324 Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 With the amount of tourist coming in, its not surprising if you hear about deaths like this. Its just like during spring break in the US, you hear about kids dying in accidents every single year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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