Bodies of Chinese tourists missing at sea found floating off Phuket beach

Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

Rescue workers attend to the bodies of the deceased. Photo: Kusoldharm Foundation

 

PHUKET: -- Police have confirmed that the bodies of the two Chinese men who went missing when swimming at Freedom Beach on Sunday have today been found about 500 metres south of Patong Beach.

 

Patong Police Chief Col Tassanai Orarigdech told The Phuket News yesterday (July 17), “Patong Police received a report about two Chinese men who went missing after violating red-flag warnings and swam despite there being big surf at Freedom Beach at 2:50pm on Sunday (July 16).

 

The report was made by Liu Wei Jie, 21, who is a friend of the missing men.

 

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/bodies-of-chinese-tourists-missing-at-sea-found-floating-off-phuket-beach-63080.php

 

-- © Copyright Phuket News 2017-07-19

Usually people don't jump out of a plane, if they can't fly.

Whey the hell do they go into the ocean if they can't swim ? Must be a genetic deficit in this population, as they haven't been the 1st to try - and die.

53 minutes ago, Deli said:

Usually people don't jump out of a plane, if they can't fly.

Whey the hell do they go into the ocean if they can't swim ? Must be a genetic deficit in this population, as they haven't been the 1st to try - and die.

Even good swimmers can easily be drowned if the sea conditions are totally against them. I would say they were swept offshore by a strong rip and if there were decent sized waves it,s sayonara !

3 hours ago, webfact said:

who went missing after violating red-flag warnings and swam despite there being big surf

natural selection

1 hour ago, phantomfiddler said:

Even good swimmers can easily be drowned if the sea conditions are totally against them. I would say they were swept offshore by a strong rip and if there were decent sized waves it,s sayonara !

Exactly, they have no water experience and can't 'read' the sea. They get knocked off their feet, dragged out quickly and panic. Plus if you can't swim or even tread water it's all  over in seconds!  There are many people, most of Asia can't swim, not even enough to save themselves.

Freedom beach..... I suppose they found their freedom, then.

IAuthorities' statements sound so certain these poor buggers violated red flags and other safety precautions, it suggests someone saw them entering dangr zones.

Where were the rescue boats or other equipment necessary at any popular swimming spot to save people from their own ignorance?