News Forum - Phuket tour boat operators arrested for safety breaches

[Thaiger]

Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) and Marine Police Region 8 yesterday arrested two tour boat operators in Phuket for a series of breaches. The authorities detailed their infractions in an online post, including operating boats with expired registrations, failing to provide adequate life rafts and overloading their vessels with passengers. The routine check-up led to the … …

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[ChrisS]

"However, the Phuket Marine Office has yet to officially acknowledge the arrests."

Waiting to see if any brown envelopes are forthcoming?

[MrStretch]

"...lacked a sufficient number of life rafts..." ?  The boats in the pic seem too small to accommodate life rafts.

Perhaps "life preservers", "life jackets", "life vests" or even go back several decades to "Mae Wests" or "cork jackets" So many ways to say this correctly, if that's what they are referring to.