Tourist Police join fray over Pattaya’s poor marine safety

PATTAYA:--The Tourist Police Division has waded into Pattaya’s chronic marine-safety problem, again promising things will get better if everyone works together.

Maj. Gen. Surachet Hakpan, commander of the Royal Thai Police division, chaired a June 6 meeting at Pattaya City Hall with rescue volunteers, scuba diving operators and parasailing, speedboat and jet ski vendors to try and improve accident prevention.

The meeting follows of a string of speedboat accidents, deadly collisions between boats and jet skis and, on June 4, the death of a Sri Lankan tourist during a failed parasailing trip.

Aloysius Nirmalarajan, 37, fell two minutes into his ride onto an anchored boat. The accident occurred because there was insufficient wind for the Siam Local Co. boat driven by Jamlong Yusawat, 48, to support the parasailer.

Innumerable meetings have been held in the past several years urging boat and marine sports operators to adhere to safety regulations and threat upon threat has been made to crack down and put scofflaws out of business. But the accidents continue unabated and few, if any, of the enforcement pledges have been kept.

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-- Pattaya Mail 2016-06-17

they will get it sorted soon

Innumerable meetings have been held in the past several years urging boat and marine sports operators to adhere to safety regulations and threat upon threat has been made to crack down and put scofflaws out of business. But the accidents continue unabated and few, if any, of the enforcement pledges have been kept.

To be more accurate change "years" to "decades"...

Once again more "Jaw-Jaw" and "no action"

No mention of action against jet ski scammers. Too close to home and the negative impact on envelopes I expect.

How many jet-ski accidents are there per day near the police station?

Interesting, none of the diving operators I know have mentioned this meeting.

These operators are not sailors. To make money, they get a boat and drive it. That's it. That's as far as the mental activity goes.

Enforcement? Me no savvy master, not country belong him! As they say in New Guinea, where you might as well be if anyone wants the police to act against law breakers!

Yet another "talkfest".................do the "talkers" really think that the rest of the world (tourists or otherwise) believe them?