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Volume 16 Issue 47 News Desk - Tel: 076-236555November 21 - 27, 2009 Daily news at www.phuketgazette.net 25 Baht The Gazette is published in association with Tsunami warning INSIDE system gets new life HE tsunami detection an annual battery change. red tape for the ongoing delays. The NDWC is working on buoy off Phuket will be However, the NDWC has The NDWC, initially under expanding the tsunami warning replaced just in time for never changed the battery and the the Prime Minister’s Office, has coverage in risk areas by setting the fifth anniversary of unit finally fell silent in early been shifted to different min- up small new towers capable of T istries so many times it has never carrying voice recorded alerts. the 2004 Tsunami disaster, the September, way past its design National Disaster Warning capacity of just one year. been able to get through the civil Meanwhile, former NDWC Center (NDWC) says. Rather than change the service procurement procedure Director Dr Smith Dharmasaroja, Group Captain Somsak battery at sea, the NDWC before having to start again from said he resigned from his job with Khaosuwan, director of the decided to order a new DART II scratch, he said. the agency almost two years ago NDWC’s warning system man- buoy from the US and replace the This also explains why the to protest its failure to properly Master at work agement team, told the Gazette entire unit, bringing the old unit in agency’s 1860 hotline is currently maintain the buoy. House music legend DJ David the new buoy is being shipped to for maintenance on land.
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