Why is it forbidden to swim at night and in the rain in Thailand? (5 photos)

Tourists from all over the world go to Thailand every day for the perfectly clean ocean, palm trees, sandy beaches. And of course, they find all these delights of paradise. Everything on Thai soil is great. But on the coast of Thailand you can’t swim at night, and also in the rain. This is warned by signs located everywhere. Guides and hotel employees tell newly arrived tourists about this.





You need to swim in Thailand during the day! Although warnings still don’t always work. For example, a terrible fate befell a tourist in Phuket. The lady, according to local police, had just gone swimming in the sea after sunset. That's where her body was found.

So what's the reason?

The simplest thing is that in Thailand, in Pattaya for example, lifeguards and doctors don't work at night. So if you get a cramp in the sea at night or swim too far, no professional will help you.



The second reason is that night is the best time for dangerous sea creatures. At least because of that, it's not easy for a swimmer to notice them in the dark. At night, these creatures, having become bolder, swim much closer to the shore.

For example, you can easily catch a poisonous fish, a dangerous mollusk, or meet a stingray that hits you with its spiny tail. Or, God forbid, step on a sea urchin with its long (up to 20 cm) sharp spines. During the day, whole scatterings of these bristly guys in the clear shallow water are quite easy to notice, but at night...

Removing a sea urchin spine from your leg will be a very difficult task - this is not a splinter. It is a very brittle thing when you try to remove it. You will tear up half your leg, rest assured! Plus it causes an allergic reaction.





Sea urchin needles

Jellyfish are also dangerous in Thai waters - here they are not the Black Sea simpletons, from meeting which you will have at most unpleasant sensations. Tropical jellyfish, the same terrible "Portuguese man-of-war" or other box jellyfish, can sting so much that you will kick the bucket from the burns! Especially since at night they are hardly noticeable.



The deadly dangerous physalia - also known as the "Portuguese man-of-war"

Areas with coral reefs are especially dangerous for night swimming - in the dark it is easy to get hurt on their sharp edges.

The same thing - in Thailand you should not dive into the sea in the rain, especially during the rainy season. Then the waves are unusually high. And all the sea muck is carried straight to the shore.

Another danger is the so-called reverse (rip) current, which is not uncommon on the Thai coast. It is also a drag, with whose treachery so many cases of death of unlucky tourists are associated. At night on the shore they simply may not notice that the swimmer is carried away into the ocean by the waves...



The insidious rip current - also known as the drag

In addition, at night on Thai beaches there is always a chance to run into a group of tipsy and not particularly friendly comrades? Do you need it?

In general, Thailand is for you, dear friends, not Crimea, you should not swim here at night at all! In Thailand, it is better to swim in the pool at dusk, before it closes for chemical cleaning. Or better yet, just enjoy the starry sky!