Martial Law per CNN

[Quarrior]

I'm in Phuket now. Slept nicely last night, woke up, had my normal breakfast and had a nice dive on Kata Beach with Phuket Scuba Club. Seems business as usual around here to me.

 

[Vie]

Meetings of more than 5 people have now been banned. I wonder if that includes dive trips

Only "political" meetings are banned; business meetings, parties, sporting events, and diving trips, etc., are continuing as normal.

 

[mania]

MOD POST

I had to delete or edit number of posts here.

Please stay away from discussing politics.

Thanks a lot
Mania​

 

[H2Andy]

yea we were getting a bit political

sorry about that

 

[stevenl]

Again, everything ok here. Had some lovely diving, spotted a few frogfish and ghost pipe fish, squid, leopard sharks and of course all the normal stuff. No wind, nice and sunny, very good vis.

 

[stevenl]

I am not an expert in this kind of business, but according to the Phuket governor, all martial law means is that the military is authorised to issue commands to civil authorities.

 

[Ben_ca]

so Coup = More diving?

 

[MoonWrasse]

It has had some impacts, such as Ranong border crossing being closed by the Burmese. So no visa runs there right now.

Also some governments have issued warnings, which I don't personally agree with but that's their business.

Carrying identification might be more important than in the past - one would be surprised how many tourists don't carry any proper IDs there let alone the required passport or photocopy around.

 

[jonix]

so Coup = More diving?

but of course it means more diving. as with here