It is not a dive company as mentioned by PhuketWan; but instead a tour company with snorkeling tours with a catamaran.
If you look carefully the picture of the catamaran, you will not see any dive tanks on the deck.

Posted by Whistle-Blower on February 11, 2015 11:59

This company laughs in the face of a 15,000.00 Baht fine. This is not a fine, but a mere fee for registration. A fine should deter such wrongdoings. A fine would be in the region of 115,000.00 Baht. Who is scared of who here?

Posted by Duncan B on February 11, 2015 12:23

This is part of the reason I am thinking about leaving Thailand. Some marine animals take decades to grow and to see heartless self gratification by random collection like this destroying clams etc and the authorities doing nothing to protect the marine life is not my style. Very short sighted and in 10 years when there is nothing left to dive/snorkel and see then people will moan.......so so sad.

Posted by Feisty Farang on February 11, 2015 12:25

@ Editor
Clams are often in shallow water and are easy to be catch while snorkeling.

If you check on google, you will find it is impossible to find a FaceBook page or a website about that company!!! Weird!!!!

It would be good to have some officials to check tour boats during morning departures at Chalong Bay and different marinas in Phuket to see if all dive and tour boats have Thai guides and Thai staff as stipulated by the law.

Lawbreakers are the winners since too long at the expense of properly managed Thai companies.

Posted by Whistle-Blower on February 11, 2015 14:40

Marine life around Phuket? There is not such. Go to Phromthep Cape in the morning, sit on the rocks and watch the seagulls. Seagulls? There are no Seagulls, because there is no fish. The sea is death and it is silent. The boat tour company paid a fine of 15,000 thb and sailed out the next day with the same guide and the same crew. Not even talking about environment environmental breaches.( Same as being fined for not having motorbike driving license, 500 thb fine, and you drive on until next police check some time later).Did khun Santi already close that hotel on Racha island, that throws garbage and flows untreated water ( kitchen, bathrooms, toilets) into the sea. destroying the corals, and other sealife around? Once a vice governor did visit the hotel on Racha island, with a busload of staff. Many serious faces on photos, but what is there done now so far?

Posted by Kurt on February 11, 2015 15:43

Kurt

There are no seagulls in Phuket you get them up north in the winter when they migrate in

Posted by Michael on February 11, 2015 16:23

Whistle-Blower is right, every morning thereshould at every marina a check by Harbour master staff or/and staff of Phuket marin 5 Office a check on sea going thai tourist vessels. Check on boatdriver license, enough life jackets, is VHF working, enough gasoline, certificate of last technical boat check, spot urine check on crewmembers. Are crewmembers thai? EVERY DAY! Tourist boats should only sail out after giving a clearance.

Posted by Kurt on February 11, 2015 16:23

@FF

Are you moving to Sudan or PNG, where marine life is almost untouched by mass tourism?

Or to the state of Kosrae of FSM? There incredible corals and marine life , very small % of destruction ir dead corals etc. - but not much else to do there ..

Posted by Sue on February 11, 2015 16:28

Kurt, Thailand is not Germany or Switzerland, that brings both positive and negative things.
It so quite opposite , thus it should be approached from that perspective ..

There is finally a good commercial on Thailand promotion "The Way of Thai" which goes on not only on positive note , but also explain things well, and without deformations:
http://youtu.be/i0V6Y7BLANA

Posted by Sue on February 11, 2015 19:12

@ Sue you really are an idiot I have already lived on the Great Barrier Reef in Cairns Australia. Are you saying in Cairns there is nothing to do? The GBR is over 2000kms long the largest living structure on the planet. If Cairns there is nothing to do why have they recently expanded the international airport which can service planes from Asia etc. Sue think before you open your mouth, are you also saying the Caribbean is all devoid of marine life and a boring place to live, Pacific Islands, Tahiti, Hawaii. Wow you are one really stupid lady.

Posted by Feisty Farang on February 11, 2015 19:29

@FF

you are so much out of topic, as it seems that you travelled not much, or didn't understand anything during your travel.

I have been in 70+ countries&territories, mostly sun-sea-sand kind,major of part of of South/North Pacific, Caribbean with exception of not-worthy places like Jamaica etc.

Sudan. PNG, Kosrae are the very top of conserved marine life.

GBR comes quite behind them, half of coral cover has been lost during last 30yrs or so.
Australia has been just slammed for not doing enough to protect GBR
http://goo.gl/6dlNTv

But Caribbean, Tahiti is. and Hawaii, are all so remote in a rank to the top places in term conservation.
You FF obviously have no slightest understanding of difference of level of conservation and diversity marine life along the coast Sudan and around 3-days-weekend-hideaway-of typical-American on Grand Bahama :))

And to tell that on Pacific islands like Pacific island, icl. Tahiti is. is not boring place to live, hm, one probably never visited the place.


Yes, Feisty Farang is not only one uneducated stupid lady, but also one with bad manners.

Posted by Sue on February 11, 2015 21:54

Let's see......less than $500 fine for pillaging the crap out of wildlife, running an illegal tour guide and crew, and not registering the boat. OH......THAT will straighten them, and those that act like them right up!!

Posted by Nobama on February 12, 2015 08:23

@ sue. You do know that empty vessels make the most noise, yes you. Heard about your accident, hope it was not trivial.

Posted by Robin S on February 12, 2015 13:58

Sue, I am a man - proves your perceptive skills are bad to be polite.

Posted by Feisty Farang on February 12, 2015 15:21