Dutchman (45) electrocuted in Phuket
The pool at the Marina Express Hotel in Phuket
The police in Phuket are investigating the death of a 45-year-old Dutchman on the peninsula. The victim died after he touched an iron fence and fell near the swimming pool of his resort, the Marina Express Hotel. The incident occurred on August 8 at approximately 18.00:XNUMX pm.
According to the police, the Dutchman checked in the same day when he and his family (wife 50 years old, his 16-year-old daughter and his 12-year-old son) decided to go swimming at the resort. At one point, the man stepped out of the pool and stood next to the fence. He grabbed the gate and then cried out in pain. His son tried to pull him away, but was also shocked and fell into the pool. The victim also fell into the swimming pool and suffered an unfortunate fall. He hit a wall with his head.
The Dutchman had a wound on his head and was then taken unconscious from the water by the hotel staff and taken to hospital by ambulance. His death was confirmed in hospital.
The police and the electricity company have examined the fence and could not determine that the fence is or has been under electricity. The man does have injuries on his finger that seem to indicate a burn. The victim's wife is convinced that her husband was electrocuted and has insisted on further investigation.
The man's body has since been transferred to Bangkok for forensic examination.
Source: The Puket News
RIP. This is not the first time that someone has been electrocuted in a swimming pool in Thailand. We may yet hear the cause.
Editors, Phuket is not a peninsula but an island. But that aside.
Phuket is a peninsula, because Phuket is connected to the mainland by a bridge.
It makes no difference that the bridge is a construction.
The fact that water flows under it also does not, because then you would have to call Amsterdam with all its bridges a collection of islands, and I have not heard anyone do that yet.
I hear a lot about accidents in Thailand lately, but if you look for the right cause then it is not there, I think they want to keep this quiet as much as possible.
They don't take things that seriously in Thailand with electricity and grounding: I'm an electrical technician myself and I'm surprised that so few accidents happen. Also in bathrooms with a flow water heater, hopefully think of connections usually made of plastic that don't let through so quickly, but there are almost no RCDs connected to ground wires anywhere. Not in viewtalay 2b for me either. and always had a slight electric shock when touching the washing machine. My wife asked a Thai if he could arrange that and yes he did immediately: Wire from the mass washing machine to the water pipe 300 baht well earned. Now OK but don't dare think what would happen if there was a complete electricity on washing machine would come ??? and plombs never fail with me. Think they serve more as a switch and I'm not afraid of electricity myself, but you should never grab anything with your hand. Work on the electrics and sometimes have a short circuit that the flames fly out. Never jumped out a plomb, but electric wires caught fire, loud bang and wires burn apart. So pay attention. But earth pipe in viewtalay just does not exist. They use the water pipe. Should there be electricity and a bath ???
In my newly (2003) built house, I had an earth leakage circuit breaker installed on all fuses (except those of the air conditioners). A special mechanic had to come here in the interior for this. I have tested everything myself, without using the white reset button and it works. Also for the 2 important fuses of the garden! Never take the risk, especially in the homes of the Thai people. If you look at the electricity there, you run away. My mother-in-law's house now also has an earth leakage circuit breaker, but that was only possible after all the pipes had been replaced.