Video: Foreign boat hunted for anchoring on coral off Phuket

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Video: Foreign boat hunted for anchoring on coral off Phuket

Phuket Gazette 

 

          

The owner of the foreign-flagged Azimut is wanted by the Dept of Marine and Coastal Resources for damaging the island's marine environment. Video: DMCR

 

PHUKET: -- The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources is hunting for a foreign boat that was captured on video anchoring on a coral reef at Koh Racha. 

“We received the report and video clip from a tour guide who wishes to remain anonymous,” Suchat Rattanaruengsri, head of the Marine and Coastal Resources Conservation Division Region 6, told the Phuket Gazette.

The video shows an Azimut with the serial number ZH8555J.

 

Full story: http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket-news/Video-Foreign-boat-hunted-anchoring-coral-off/66183?desktopversion

 

-- © Copyright Phuket Gazette 2017-01-26

[cyberholz]

That's how Thai boats anchor all the time...

[stevenl]

Maybe where you are, but not here. That's why there are mooringlines available, and if none available they have to moor next to another boat or go elsewhere. And if still anchoring on the corals, they will be reported.

[Deli]

Finally a decent boat not made of plywood and paint

[Gandtee]

1 hour ago, Deli said:

Finally a decent boat not made of plywood and paint

Pity about the skipper