Placing of buoys contributed to death of Irish kitesurfer at Hua Hin

Your article about the drowning of an Irish kitesurfer at Hua Hin contains inaccuracies and is misguided on the topic of the responsibility for this accident. Allow me to provide a bit more perspective. 
1. Jonathan did not rent the equipment; it was his own. He was an experienced and competent kiteboarder. 
2. There have never been any warnings to kite surfers about the conditions at Hua Hin.
3. The buoys there have been put in the water recently without any consultation with experts and stakeholders, nor with any external communication as to why.
4. We all predicted that, because of the buoys, an accident was waiting to happen. It was a very ill-designed measure that had contributed to several near-fatal incidents in the weeks leading up to Jonathan’s death.
5. The buoys in the water have put kite-surfers at risk. Without the buoys Jonathan would be alive now. It was not so much the conditions that were dangerous, but the buoys in the water.
6. If the authorities had not closed off the beach for commercial activities on Wednesdays (harming local Thai people trying to make a living and making tourists think twice about coming to Hua Hin next time), there would have been jetskis and surf-shop operators on the beach who could have helped, so Jonathan might now be alive. 
Ron Wood
Ireland