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Home » News from Thailand » Short news » Beach of Khao Takiab (Hua Hin) seriously polluted by oil
Beach of Khao Takiab (Hua Hin) seriously polluted by oil
Yesterday, beachgoers at Khao Takiab (just outside Hua Hin) were unpleasantly surprised by a thick layer of oil that had washed up on the beach.
A strip of a few kilometers is seriously polluted with an oily substance. It is unclear where the pollution comes from. The mayor of Hua Hin, Nopporn Wuthikul, has closed the beach and ordered his officials to clean up the beach. Samples are also taken for further investigation. It may be an illegal discharge at sea.
According to the deputy mayor, Pailin Kongphan, this is the first time that Hua Hin beach has become polluted in this way. He has asked the navy to track down the perpetrators.
Yes indeed a big problem and the question is how long it will take before the beach is cleaned and you can swim normally in the sea again and because this problem is not enough yet, there are no longer many sunbeds allowed as in the past was the case and the prices will be increased by 100% per day…so it is now 100 baht per day instead of 50 baht and you will therefore have to run to score a bed in high season…
I think this will be a big problem for the permanent hibernators who have to pay more and more and who may have to lie on a towel because there is no place..
I think this was a tanker that, at night?, did tank cleaning and simply pumped the gunk overboard. Not allowed and must be collected in a large tank and discharged in a port. Satellites nowadays see who is doing what at sea. In the former Persian Gulf, now Arabian Gulf, the tanker has to go to the Indian Ocean to do this tank cleaning and then back to load again. There are irresponsible Captains who just pump all the gunk overboard at night, it doesn't matter what. Bilge lensing in the engine room must also be reported every time in a journal. If there has been a leak there, not at all unimaginable, of a large amount of fuel oil or heavy oil and it is simply pumped overboard, without entering it in a journal, then this is what you get. All experienced. Also a pumpman who opened a wrong valve and poured a few tons of heavy oil into the sea, fined GBP 100,000, was in the early 60s. It is considered and treated as a criminal act and is punishable by imprisonment and/or a large fine.
Figs after Easter. Most tour operators in Belgium and the Netherlands have informed their customers who wanted to go on a sun holiday to Thailand that they had to lie on a mat on the beach. Done with the luxury of the past. With a little wind you got the sand on your body and your face, which made the teeth grind.
Most have said well thank you then, one chose a different country of vote. This is as far as the current military government has gotten, tourism (an important source of income) has taken a back seat. If you see how bad it is already, the hospitality industry, shopping center and nightlife will continue to wait anxiously for the high season, if that does indeed fail, numerous bankruptcies will follow.