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 Phuket udmærker sig igen, igen.....
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Lagt på d. 09/01-2012 06:12
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EIGHT Melbourne families are lucky to be alive after a terrifying Phuket boating accident left them fighting for their lives. The tropical getaway turned to holiday horror when the group was forced to jump from the tourist speedboat they were on when it started to sink during a cruise to Phi Phi Island last week. Seven children aged from two years and 18 adults were on board when the boat started to sink about 9.30am Thursday. The families, members of the Banyule Cricket Club, had gone to Thailand for a wedding. Philip Barnes, whose wife, Susan, and daughters Alyssa, 9, and Megan, 7, were also on board, yesterday hit out at tour operators, Destination Asia. "The boat and crew were completely ill equipped for an emergency," he said. "There were no flares and no radio on board, so if we weren't able to wave another boat down there would have been no way of telling anyone we were in trouble. Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar. Teen's heroic swim to save mate End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar. "They don't give a s--- about safety. It's just all money to them," he said. Mr Barnes, who captured harrowing photos of the boat sinking, said the group was about 45 minutes into its trip when the drama unfolded. "The driver was really thrashing the engine, going really fast, and then an engine died," he told the Herald Sun. "We started drifting around on one engine ... then saw there was water coming into the back of the boat ..." "All of a sudden panic set in when we started to sink. "Life vests were thrown around and I realised we were in real trouble. We knew we were going to have to get off ." Mr Barnes said a last-minute decision to fit the children with lifejackets may have saved them. He said it took about 10 minutes for the boat to sink. "All the kids were crying, they were really frightened. We all were. Several of the people on board couldn't swim and it was causing absolute panic," he said. Passengers flagged down a passing scuba-diving boat. "We were able to pass one child over but then the boats had to separate," he said. The remaining 24 people jumped into the water and waited to be rescued. www.heraldsun.au "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
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| Conrad |
Lagt på d. 09/01-2012 08:16
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Det er ikke første gang man hører at en af de store speedbåde med plads til 20-35 passagerer eller flere og med 2, 3 eller endda 4 påhængsmotorer, hver på mere end 200 hk, forulykker. Bådene ser ud til at være fremstillet af krydsfiner, nogle med et lag glasfiber lagt på andre ser kun ud til at være malet. Med så mange hk på bagsmækken er der et meget stort vrid på denne og når båden smutter hen over bølgerne giver det ekstra stort vrid. Jeg tager hellere en long tail båd eller en større passagerbåd ved længere distancer. Jeg har sejlet så meget med påhængsmotor at jeg ikke har lyst til at overlade mit korpus til denne slags speedbåde. |
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