Thread: 61 Year-Old Canadian Tourist Dies on Yacht in Chonburi Thailand

PATTAYA – Police and rescue workers were called to Ocean Marina Yacht Club in Chon Buri’s Sattahip district after a Canadian tourist was discovered dead on a yacht early on Friday morning.


The Royal Thai police were informed at 2.30am that Gilbert Tourville , 61, had died on the yacht that was docked at the Ocean Marina Yacht Club in Tambon Na Jomtien.


A doctor determined that he had died about eight hours earlier. There was no sign of four play.


The victim’s friend, 53-year-old Denis Bachand, also a Canadian national, told police that they both sailed the yacht out into the sea last night. However, Gilbert complained about chest pains, so Bachand sailed back to the yacht club, but Gilbert didn’t make it.


Authorities suspect a pre-existing medical condition flaring up to be the cause of his death.


His body has been transferred to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in order to finalize the cause of death.


Gilbert’s relatives have, reportedly, been contacted by the Canadian Embassy in Bangkok.

https://www.chiangraitimes.com/61-ye...-thailand.html

Originally Posted by misskit

A doctor determined that he had died about eight hours earlier. There was no sign of four play.

Ohhhhh Boy, we are gonna have some fun with this......

^ yes there will be some .
Looks to be all very innocent to me. Couple of buddies go out for a sail, one takes ill, they return, dock at 2 am, but the one buddy was DOA.

Originally Posted by JPPR2

we are gonna have some fun with this....

bennetau ?

Originally Posted by baldrick

bennetau ?

I think not, too much front slope for a benetau.

yacht out at sea with 2 on board.
one dies,yacht returns to dock.
police turn up at 2.30AM.
doctor estimates time of death was 8HRS.AGO.
that makes it 6.30PM.the day before.
so didnt his mate have a mobile phone.
chicken play.EH.

Originally Posted by headhunter

so didnt his mate have a mobile phone.

Probably did. Have you ever tried usinga mobile phone when you're 8 hours sail out to sea? Good luck with that . Even one hour out, even in the Gulf of Thailand, it's unlikely you'd get coverage. And maybe by the time he was close enough to get a signal, he had only one thing on his mind; to keep sailing as fast as possible back to port. It would have been relatively close by that time.

studying the facts of his mates story,we left port to sail last night. WHAT TIME WAS THAT?
doctors estimate time of death 6.30 PM.is that classed as early evening or in the night.so how far out did they sail before he died.
maybe doctor got the time of death way way out.
oh i do like a good conspirancy theorie.

pretty obvious it was suicide....what with him being a foreigner and all

Originally Posted by headhunter

doctors estimate time of death 6.30 PM.

Good point.

Originally Posted by headhunter

studying the facts of his mates story,we left port to sail last night. WHAT TIME WAS THAT?

Yes, very good point.

What we know is from time of death to time of docking was around 8 hours.

So, if something untoward happened, the living guy took 8 hours to get to the dock and report the death.

The time they left is important.