News Forum - Vietnamese mother and daughter drown at Phuket beach

[Thaiger]

At Naithon Beach in the Thalang district of Phuket, a Vietnamese woman and her daughter drowned while swimming yesterday. The waters off the coast were rough with high waves caused by strong winds, and red flags were set up to warn tourists of the dangers of swimming in those conditions. The two women drowned early yesterday morning with police being called by rescue workers, according to the Sakhu police station whose officers arrived at about 8:50 am. Upon investigating, it was found that three Vietnamese tourists that were staying at the Pullman Phuket Arcadia Naithon Beach had decided to go […]

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[PapayaBokBok]

geez mom those waves look high and the red flags are whipping!

i know we arent good swimmers but hey what the heck......lets go!

smh

[Mandy]

Totally agree with that, we were in Sri Lanka about 30 years ago, about to go swimming, locals asked us not to swim and explained the danger, we're both excellent sea swimmers but heeded the warning, went with the locals on a boat instead, two tourists didn't, they died. Moral of the story, always listen to the locals.

[Guest1]

On 8/1/2022 at 11:02 AM, Thaiger said:

The waters off the coast were rough with high waves caused by strong winds, and red flags were set up to warn tourists of the dangers of swimming in those conditions.

With this high tides, I highly doubt that at 7.30am, there was ANY red flag set up.  Since the beach boys, eh, life guards are not coming that early. And over night, the flags could be flushed away.

Nevertheless, common sense should tell people, to listen to locals. 

Police warned people to pay attention to the notifications they post, noting that red flags were visible on the beach along with a sign saying, “Dangerous. Do not swim more than 20 metres from the shore.” 

That with the flags, like mentioned, was when the police was there, but: "do not swim more than 20 meters..."? Where does that sign come from? Never seen one, only did hear the beach boys whistling and shouting, if someone just bathes his/her feet near a red flag. in special if it is where the speed boat wanna start for a paraglide. Which is often the reason for "Now red flags b/c of, eh, rip current here"

[Benroon]

4 hours ago, Guest1 said:

 

 if someone just bathes his/her feet near a red flag. in special if it is where the speed boat wanna start for a paraglide. Which is often the reason for "Now red flags b/c of, eh, rip current here"

What the ???

Bit early to be drinking isn’t it ? 

[ChrisS]

Given that these women chose to swim before the lifeguards start their shift I wonder if in fact there were any warning flags in place when they entered the water. Police officers arrived at 08.50 so 50 minutes after the lifeguards started and (presumably) put up the flags