Rimmer Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Cambodian drowns over 300 Baht in Pattaya Bay PATTAYA:--A 41 year old Cambodian drowned in Pattaya Bay on Thursday after 300 Baht fell into the water and he decided to jump into the water to retrieve the money and was never seen alive again. Pattaya Sea Rescue Workers rushed to the location, close to a Paragliding platform, located 1 nautical mile off the coast of Pattaya, and used diving equipment to retrieve the body of Mr. Sunsen, whose body was located 50 meters from the surface of the water. Fellow workers explained that he had lost 300 Baht in the water and decided he would jump in and retrieve the money. Read more:http://pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/202270/cambodian-drowns-over-300-baht-in-pattaya-bay/ -- Pattaya One 2015-07-04 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil B Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 RIP Wonder if he jumped in voluntarily? 300B = £6/9USD/8Euro, life is cheap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattaya28 Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Just wonder how he could be located 50 metres below the surface. Couldn't be 50 metres above the surface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisinth Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 RIP Wonder if he jumped in voluntarily? 300B = £6/9USD/8Euro, life is cheap It is also 36,583.84 Riel, quite a lot in their currency......................... RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard_smith237 Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 The story suggests someone witnessed the deceased jump in the water to retrieve 300 baht... Does this mean they simply stood by and watched the Cambodian drown? Unless the onlookers themselves can't swim there is an inherent lack of humanity... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudcrab Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 RIP Wonder if he jumped in voluntarily? 300B = £6/9USD/8Euro, life is cheap Could be a couple of days wages or more to him. What would you do in the same situation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomyumchai Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 only 1 went in after the money? for 300bt id have expected a few more, i dropped 80-ish baht in coins in the river kwai and 3 thais went in after it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alocacoc Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 The story suggests someone witnessed the deceased jump in the water to retrieve 300 baht... Does this mean they simply stood by and watched the Cambodian drown? Unless the onlookers themselves can't swim there is an inherent lack of humanity... And no lifebelt live west on board? No. TiT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Deerhunter Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 The sad, hard luck stories follow, day after day. Interesting to know if he was working on the platform or whatever. If so, no life jackets or life rings to throw, or did he get swept underneath & bang his head or something? Rhetorical question, really. Poor guy. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTIRIOS Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 .....does it really make sense....how did the money end up in the water..... ...if he was not alone...then there were other people involved....... ...and how do they know it was 300 baht...it could suggest someone else threw his money in the water..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeCeDe Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 (edited) Just wonder how he could be located 50 metres below the surface. Couldn't be 50 metres above the surface. Either the reporter means he was located on the surface 50m from the platform, or if he was located 50m (150 feet approx.) deep, how the heck did he get down that deep and stay down? current maybe? perhaps he got tangled in something. Edit: Either way, to lose your life over 300 Baht, how sad, RIP Edited July 4, 2015 by PeCeDe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 (edited) It's a tragedy of course but I think this focus only on the 300 baht is unfair to the drowning victim. Maybe he thought he was a skilled swimmer and didn't think he was taking a risk. We don't know. It was an accidental drowning. The money part is tangential. People go in the water and drown for lots of reasons, many I'm sure less "rational" than going after lost money. Edited July 4, 2015 by Jingthing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooked Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 The story suggests someone witnessed the deceased jump in the water to retrieve 300 baht... Does this mean they simply stood by and watched the Cambodian drown? Unless the onlookers themselves can't swim there is an inherent lack of humanity... What's all this about nobody going to help? I saw qualified life savers stand around and watch a newbie newly nearly drown in a swimming pool (applauding) that stayed down for more than two minutes. I had to shout before somebody went down to get him. Lot of keyboard warriors here, what did you want to do, jump into murky waters to find the guy after: 30 seconds. 1 minute. 2 minutes? If you had twenty life savers in place ready and drilled to go, maybe something could have been done. Maybe. People that haven't had life saving training should be very wary of going to help people in the water, the first principle is don't get drowned due to the guy's strugglings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emster23 Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Don't think of it as 300 baht. Think of it as three days pay for Cambodian worker.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matman Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Just wonder how he could be located 50 metres below the surface. Couldn't be 50 metres above the surface. Either the reporter means he was located on the surface 50m from the platform, or if he was located 50m (150 feet approx.) deep, how the heck did he get down that deep and stay down? current maybe? perhaps he got tangled in something. Edit: Either way, to lose your life over 300 Baht, how sad, RIP I would have expected a more sensible post from someone deemed to be a 'Senior Member' Pattaya28. The terminology used '50 Metres below the surface' was the correct terminology, and was giving a reference point. The 'surface' is not always the term used, in commercial diving if a diver was lost, the reference point might be the location where he was working. For most people they would have understood the meaning if it read he was found '50 Metres down' , but Pattaya28 no doubt you would have come up with the nonsensical response 'Well it couldn't have been up'. Its a pity you can't leave your petty comments for more frivolous postings rather than tragic ones. A person that has drowned has ingested sufficient liquid to overcome the bodies natural bouancy, hence it will sink to the bottom, after a period of time a decomposing body produces internal gasses that will overcome the negative bouancy and the body will rise to the surface. Nothing unusual or requiring uneducated speculation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petercool Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 argumentative posts removed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petmag Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 RIP, sad way to lose a life.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrdome Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Some decisions we make - often made without much thought - (may) end up costing us our lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Grumpy Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 I hope that 300b wasn't for his family back at home. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phycokiller Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Just wonder how he could be located 50 metres below the surface. Couldn't be 50 metres above the surface. Either the reporter means he was located on the surface 50m from the platform, or if he was located 50m (150 feet approx.) deep, how the heck did he get down that deep and stay down? current maybe? perhaps he got tangled in something. Edit: Either way, to lose your life over 300 Baht, how sad, RIP I would have expected a more sensible post from someone deemed to be a 'Senior Member' Pattaya28. The terminology used '50 Metres below the surface' was the correct terminology, and was giving a reference point. The 'surface' is not always the term used, in commercial diving if a diver was lost, the reference point might be the location where he was working. For most people they would have understood the meaning if it read he was found '50 Metres down' , but Pattaya28 no doubt you would have come up with the nonsensical response 'Well it couldn't have been up'. Its a pity you can't leave your petty comments for more frivolous postings rather than tragic ones. A person that has drowned has ingested sufficient liquid to overcome the bodies natural bouancy, hence it will sink to the bottom, after a period of time a decomposing body produces internal gasses that will overcome the negative bouancy and the body will rise to the surface. Nothing unusual or requiring uneducated speculation except that the water would be no where near that deep where it happened Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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