Death by Whale called a fluke accident

[kurogane]

A poor young woman has died in a rare but nonetheless tragic accident where a whale breached into a diving tour boat.

http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/this-tragic-event-is-very-rare-what-we-know-about-humpback-whales/

More here:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/03/12/calgary-woman-killed-after-humpback-whale-slams-into-tourist-boat-off-mexican-coast-identified/

At any rate, she wasn't on a whale molesting tour but just out for a dive trip it seems. Poor woman, RIP.

[matsuki]

Sorta diving/Japan related but I accidentally came across this last night...

http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket-new ... ad-image-0



Is it SOP in Thailand to post dead people's passports like this?

[kurogane]

I see from that news article they are talking about making arrests over what seems like another tragic accident. Perhaps they are just trying to save face with the lucrative Japanese diving tour market? I can't see too many Japanese getting their noses bent out of shape by what sounds like a routine accident, sad as it is obviously.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Great subject line. Very subtle.

[kurogane]

:bows:

Tank you tank you. Sad story, but I have always found that the health chuckles help alleviate any natural tendency to blubbering............ :OMG:

Sadly, the replies to my similar Onionesque comments on the second linked article were less complimentary, though the really nasty ones got deleted, which is sad too.

[kurogane]

Is it SOP in Thailand to post dead people's passports like this?

It didn't really click last night, but yeah, that is quite, quite weird and should probably be illegal. Thailand is a total POS as a country, though, so no big surprises there. Let's just hope her next of kin were informed first.

At any rate, anybody reading that story should agree that it is terribly sad that the diving guide wasn't able to give her a heads up before the boat hit her.

[matsuki]

Thailand is a total POS as a country, though, so no big surprises there.

I dunno if I'd go that far but the police/gov corruption and incompetence there is....how you say, quite worrisome.

[Coligny]

At any rate, anybody reading that story should agree that it is terribly sad that the diving guide wasn't able to give her a heads up before the boat hit her.

Ok, I got this one... But the title still wooshes mee...

Sidenotes, if japs tourists didn't consider any tour/vacation abroad as safe as a Disney ride maybe the survival rate would be greater...

[Samurai_Jerk]

But the title still wooshes mee...

Look up the various definitions of "fluke."

[kurogane]

Let's make it easy: a whale's tail fin is called a fluke. Which also means a random occurrence.

Anyways, back to that poor Japanese diver: I find it ridiculous to hear they would even talk about arrests until an investigation of the incident was made. From that account she screwed up and floated into the boat. Poor girl. But my first impression was certainly that of a Disney Image management routine to protect the Genkin Ushi. I actually found Thailand quite menacing off the beaten track and that was on idyllic islands like Tao and Samui. They're only a nice people when you're paying them, in my experience, allowing for the occasional and hopefully obvious exceptions to any rule.