{"id":2089,"date":"2015-02-05T06:54:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T04:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2015-02-04T11:55:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T09:55:08","slug":"tanks-and-trains-sunk-in-the-gulf-of-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/2089-tanks-and-trains-sunk-in-the-gulf-of-thailand","title":{"rendered":"Tanks and trains sunk in the Gulf of Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, it was not an accident, the 25 tanks, 273 old train cars and 198 garbage trucks were deliberately thrown into the sea in the\u00a0Gulf of Thailand. With a ecological purpose.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5147\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/chars-jetes-en-mer-de-thailande.jpg\" alt=\"chars mer Thailande\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This major operation that we can see in the video below was organized in order to create artificial reefs for fish and develop a new ecosystem. The Thai authorities hope to increase the number of fish in the gulf which was decreasing and help\u00a0Thai fishermen.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_fhHK9XqUfA\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first operation of its kind in Thailand. Over a year ago, an old\u00a0US warship was sunken\u00a0off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/cities\/koh-chang.php\">Koh Chang<\/a>. With a slight difference in the purpose. This time it was all about creating an exceptional dive site for tourists.<\/p>\n<p>I do not know the exact location but no doubt for me that in a few months this tanks and other equipment sunk in recent days\u00a0will\u00a0appear on diving\u00a0agency tours program&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it was not an accident, the 25 tanks, 273 old train cars and 198<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}