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Divers learn diving, go abroad to dive

Divers learn diving, go abroad to dive

Thursday, April 11, 2013, 20:08 GMT+7

Despite possessing self-trained skills for sea diving, divers on Ly Son Island have enrolled in professional training courses to equip themselves with appropriate knowledge to avoid injury and expand their working place to the seas of the other nations.

Thanks to support from the government, Ly Son divers have won contracts with Malaysian authorities to cooperate in exploiting sea products in their waters. The maritime territory of Malaysia is actually the southern tip of the East Sea.

Divers learn to dive

Such a training course was organized in March last year thanks to the guidance of professional divers from the Francophone Association for Mutual Aid and Promotion of Sciences (AFEPS).

As self-trained divers who learn by heart the different seabed geology, water flow and other characteristics of the East Sea, Ly Son divers recognized after the course that they had risked their own lives due to their ignorance of safety standards and diving knowledge.

Divers began training first with diving instruction from AFEPS, including tips on checking the air valve of the air tank and the proper way to open the valve. Before, local divers needed only an air pipe and goggles before jumping into the sea without the use of a protective diving suit, flippers, or an air tank.

“We were embarrassed by the new equipment attached to our body. We didn’t like it, but it was for our safety so we all tried to adapt to it,” said fisherman and diver Nguyen Quoc Van, 33, in Ly Son.

Besides safety standards, divers were guided in the correct way to rescue a diver in distress at sea. When a diver feels burning pain, numbness and difficulty moving their limbs during diving, he should be kept with oxygen supply, sent back to the sea, and kept at a depth of 6-9 meters for an hour to maintain his blood pressure.

In other cases, such as losing consciousness, dizziness, suffocation and vomiting, the diver should not be taken to sea, but rushed to the hospital within six hours.

“A diver in such a situation should be treated with special devices to blow out air bubbles which can cause blood vessels to become blocked,” Jean Ruffez, AFEPS chairman, explained.

Diving in Malaysia

Besides preparing themselves with diving knowledge, Ly Son divers have rushed to repair and upgrade their ships in recent months to go abroad for a fishing trip after the governments of Malaysia and Vietnam approved a deal for fishery cooperation.

Fishermen Vo Van Hieu, 39, and Duong Van Thach in Ly Son have each built a 400CV ship to head to Malaysian waters.

“Experienced divers from Vietnam are trusted and invited to Malaysia,” Hieu said.

“Each trip in Malaysia lasts 4-8 weeks and a ship of 14 laborers can earn an income from VND700 million - VND1 billion (US$48,100).”

The sources of sea products in Malaysia are still abundant. Fuel costs are cheap but the price of sea products is high,” Hieu commented.

Nguyen Thanh Hung, deputy chairman of the People’s Committee of Binh Chau Commune in the central province of Quang Ngai, said his local fishermen began cooperating with Malaysia for fishing expeditions in 2009.

Now, over 20 fishing ships from the locality are fishing in Malaysia, he said.

Tuoi Tre

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