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    Phuket's Killer Beach Claims American Tourist

    By Chutma Sidasathian and Alan Morison
    Monday, June 14, 2010
    Today's Updating Report

    AN AMERICAN woman has drowned in the surf at Karon on the first day of her holiday, restoring the beach's reputation as a killer during the monsoon season on Phuket.

    Another tourist is in intensive care at Bangkok Hospital Phuket. A spate of rescues took place around the same time at three different Phuket beaches on Saturday.

    The American woman, aged 20, hired surf boards with her boyfriend at Karon despite a warning from a lifeguard that the sea was unsafe.

    Phuketwan has been told a nurse, a tourist on the beach, helped to perform cardio resuscitation, but the effort was in vain and the woman died in Patong Hospital.

    second tourist, a Korean man, was pulled from the water in an incident at Kata beach. Two other swimmers, Thai teenagers Chaiyaphum Boonrasri, 16, and Knitaani Hursuachet, 15, were taken to hospitals after being rescued from the surf at Nai Harn.

    All of the incidents came around 5pm on Saturday. A planetary alignment may have helped to strengthen undersea ''rips,'' which were particularly bad at Phuket's beaches at low tide.

    Several drownings occurred at Karon last monsoon season. As a testimony to Karon's treachery, Lonely Planet listed the Phuket beach among the Top 10 stretches of sand in the world for families.

    Even with red flags placed along beaches, Thais and expat tourists continue to try to enjoy their ''summer holidays'' on Phuket by swimming in the sea, despite the dangers.

    Phuketwan was at Karon last year and witnessed a lifeguard struggling to warn tourists who insisted on swimming at the spot where a Russian tourist had drowned just hours earlier.

    Lifesaving chief Prathayut ''Nut'' Cheryon said today that Saturday's low tide had brought with it an exceptionally strong rip.

    ''People really shouldn't go in the water when conditions are so dangerous,'' he said.

    If drownings continue, authorities will have no choice except to ban swimming at some beaches during the monsoon season.

    A US disaster and safety expert recently recommended adding a warning about the potential for tsunamis to the Phuket promotional videos shown to tourists as their flights descend towards Phuket International Airport.

    Another 10 seconds on the video would also alert them all to the dangers of swimming at Phuket's beaches during the monsoon season.

    A lifeguard struggles to get swimmers to leave the water at Karon after a drowning
    Photo by phuketwan.com/file

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    Quote Originally Posted by FarangRed
    Several drownings occurred at Karon last monsoon season. As a testimony to Karon's treachery, Lonely Planet listed the Phuket beach among the Top 10 stretches of sand in the world for families.
    I don't believe lonely planet would be that irresponsible, maybe lonely planet listed it as in the top 10 of most dangerous beaches in the world.



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    the beach's reputation as a killer

    ffs , does nobody know anything about personal responsibility amymore ?

    fokin sad

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    ^I think Phuket is promoted as an all year holiday destination, if they mentioned you was most likely to drown during the 3 months of monsoon people wouldn't go.

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    I'll go down the beach this after and take some pic's it's wild at the moment on Nai Harn beach

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    not unless the beach is full naked Thai poo ying^^^^

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    Red flags and verbal warnings.

    Sad, but she, and the next person to die, won't be ignoring them again.

    RiP.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FarangRed View Post
    A lifeguard struggles to get swimmers to leave the water at Karon after a drowning
    Sven & Helga (pictured) have plenty of seasoned hours of surf life rescue experience back home in the Norwegian Sea. They are not going to listen to Karon life guard Apsara tell them when & where to swim.

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    Yes, you can tell by his physic that Sven is an olympic trained athlete who would have no trouble in beating off a 30 death per year sub-tropical tidal rip.

    Thus has no need to listen to idiot monkey man.

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    You see it all the time get these guys and they been drinking all afternoon now all of a sudden he's fuking superman and needs to cool off in the ocean, I was wondering at what time most of the incidents happen like after 4pm

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    BIG LIE

    And that couple in the picture disappointed they can't swim in what was purposefully branded to them as "Summer Season" will now go home and tell their two friends who'll each tell their two friends and so on that Thailand is a great fat big lie.
    4 people in one day in rip tide trouble ..

    CRIMINAL . SOMEBODY SUE THIS COUNTRY

    Man... I am against rules but seems some days I guess it should be closed and have police there to ensure and any marketing campaign that doesn't explicitly state beaches are closed many days in the season should be breaking a law and dealt with.

    No responsibility.

    Arghhhh WE ARE dealing with a wholly alien mind set, yeah MONKEY MAN would be a rude way to say it.

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    another warning to ignore . . .

    Monday, July 26, 2010
    Warning to Phuket Tourists: Don't swim!

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    PHUKET: Red flag warnings are in force along Phuket's west coast beaches, several of which have achieved notoriety in recent years for scores of drownings and near-drownings during the monsoon season (May through October).

    Strong West/Southwesterly winds reaching speeds of 50-60kmph with waves rising to 4.5 metres in the waters off Phuket are expected to continue until Thursday.

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    another warning to ignore . . .

    Monday, July 26, 2010
    Warning to Phuket Tourists: Don't swim!

    Phuket NEWS Hound
    – A daily digest of news from around the world compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket's international community.

    PHUKET: Red flag warnings are in force along Phuket's west coast beaches, several of which have achieved notoriety in recent years for scores of drownings and near-drownings during the monsoon season (May through October).

    Strong West/Southwesterly winds reaching speeds of 50-60kmph with waves rising to 4.5 metres in the waters off Phuket are expected to continue until Thursday.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FarangRed View Post
    You see it all the time get these guys and they been drinking all afternoon now all of a sudden he's fuking superman and needs to cool off in the ocean, I was wondering at what time most of the incidents happen like after 4pm

    Fair comment, wankers don't respect the flags or the life guards directions but expect them to put there life in danger saving them. Foking tossers.

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    I live here 10 years and believe me there is a lot that goes unreported incidents and one of the reasons I say after 4pm is normally there are many people down the beach at that time

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mid View Post
    the beach's reputation as a killer

    ffs , does nobody know anything about personal responsibility amymore ?

    fokin sad
    She was an American. Her parents are probably looking for an international affairs lawyer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by socal
    She was an American. Her parents are probably looking for an international affairs lawyer.
    Could always try Robert Amsterdam.

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