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PHUKET: The body of a woman of Asian extraction remains on an island off the coast of Krabi today because, for the second day in a row, a speedboat has been unable to out to sea to bring it to shore.
And on Phuket, on a beach where a 13-year-old drowned as six people were swept off their feet yesterday, lifeguards reported busloads of Chinese defying red flags and loud whistles to swim at their obvious peril.
The lifeguards at Phuket's Kata beach did not want a repetition of a drowning but the language barrier proved insurmountable, and Chinese went for a dip in the turbulent surf, risking their lives.
Experts reckon that this is the most dangerous time of the year on Phuket and along the Andaman coast, with the monsoon conditions powerful yet unpredictable.
On Krabi, staff from the Chaofa Krabi Rescue Centre were called to the Centara Grand Ao Nang Resort to help visitors deal with the uncontrollable bucking of a floating pontoon being whipped by high seas.
Sadder than the whiplashing pontoon was the inability of a rescue speedboat to put to sea to reach Kai Island, off the coast of Phuket but listed as being part of Krabi. There, a woman's body awaits a return trip to the mainland.
What caused her death remains a mystery because communications are so difficult.
Small boats are warned to stay ashore until the bad weather passes with its waves of three to four metres, and that could take two or three days.
And on Phuket, on a beach where a 13-year-old drowned as six people were swept off their feet yesterday, lifeguards reported busloads of Chinese defying red flags and loud whistles to swim at their obvious peril.
The lifeguards at Phuket's Kata beach did not want a repetition of a drowning but the language barrier proved insurmountable, and Chinese went for a dip in the turbulent surf, risking their lives.
Experts reckon that this is the most dangerous time of the year on Phuket and along the Andaman coast, with the monsoon conditions powerful yet unpredictable.
On Krabi, staff from the Chaofa Krabi Rescue Centre were called to the Centara Grand Ao Nang Resort to help visitors deal with the uncontrollable bucking of a floating pontoon being whipped by high seas.
Sadder than the whiplashing pontoon was the inability of a rescue speedboat to put to sea to reach Kai Island, off the coast of Phuket but listed as being part of Krabi. There, a woman's body awaits a return trip to the mainland.
What caused her death remains a mystery because communications are so difficult.
Small boats are warned to stay ashore until the bad weather passes with its waves of three to four metres, and that could take two or three days.
Surely if there's bus loads of them they're coming as a tour with a tour guide. Put some responsibility with them and hit them where it hurts should they not follow instructions??? Or are you using that as a figure of speech??
Posted by phuket madness on June 13, 2014 15:18