'Foolishness' hunting fish in the Ham Luong River: Seeing the corpse coming to the face 'death'

The risk of running back up to the mouth of the cave stabbed one by one so that the hunter could not sleep well. In addition, they face many dangers, even losing their lives.

The water began to turn net when the hunter sank to the bottom of the river tens of meters deep to catch the fierce, stunned fish that weighed tens of kilograms.

A sound of earning millions

An Qui hamlet (An Thoi commune, H.Moc Cay Nam, Ben Tre) people who follow diving professions go to find scrap iron, build a lot of bridges, but specialize in catching caves to catch fish only count on the fingers.

One day in early May, we went to Mr. Nguyen Tan Dat's house (48 years old) - who was called 'king hunting fish' . His house is located in the fruitless coconut gardens. Sitting and sipping a cup of hot tea, Mr. Dat said: 'I own a dozen-acre fruit garden, with an income of hundreds of million dong each year. However, the thing he most cherished is 3 net rackets, because it follows him from the beginning until now.

A long-standing family in Ben Tre, specializing in farming, hunting fish is only an appendage, but makes him passionate. Years of diving and catching all kinds of shrimp and fish, he found that there were many fish, but not many people could catch them. It is a school fish that inhabits deep caves, whirlpools and caves where soil is hard. Anyone who stabbed aches immensely as well as an infection .

Ham Luong and Co Chien rivers are the places where Dat often hunts fish.

Mr. Dat said, the fish cave often has a main door and from 2 to 3 nooks to escape when in danger. Catching fish is also not easy because they feel it is moving to stretch their fins and throw their fists like . shooting names. Taking advantage of the free time after finishing worrying, Mr. Dat's garden pulled out to catch fish.

'The cave catches fish very happy! Every time the big fish runs out, it pulls the racquet with me and pulls it back. In the morning, I heard guests came to play, so I stayed at home for a day , "said Dat.

After much persuasion, he agreed to take us to the river to catch fish. Get off the boat with the oil machine you dived in the river bottom a few years ago. On the boat is an old oxygen tank with a snorkel, a net rack, a cloth belt inside that removes nearly ten iron plates.

Before the boat departed, Dat flipped to the coconut water to chop off the spike to poke the cave for the fish to start running. After more than 10 minutes of moving to the location, it is said that Mr. Dat proceeded to throw anchors to the boat to stop. Wrapping the belt around his belly, he reached into the net to squeeze three nets and coconut into it.

Then he sucked on the steam pipe and before jumping into the water, he looked back and said: 'This place is close to home, there are only small fish, not like Ham Luong river' . On the boat, the sound of the machine exploded, and we sat and watched the bubble bubbles that marked the dive of Mr. Dat.

After more than 15 minutes of diving, Dat came to the surface, his face was covered with seaweed, but his mouth still smiling with booty was a fat fish that weighed about 3kg. Paddling on the boat, Dat quickly picked up the grip on the 3rd sharp-pointed prongs, because he needed a bit of trouble. After cutting the prongs, Dat gave the fish that he had just caught to the boat with water.

Before coming back to the riverbed, Mr. Dat said and explained: 'So make sure you eat me! Even though it was so hard, it was so many times, it was so painful that the fever was cold and trembling. It is not good for this fish to be stabbed, but it is swollen for a whole week.

Mr. Dat is preparing to dive to catch the fish near the house.

A fish that weighed about 2kg weighed down.

More than 1 hour dive, we returned from the hunt with the booty is 4 fish that weighs nearly ten kilograms (sign 120 thousand VND), making everyone very excited.

When he drove his boat home, Dat said: 'Hunting fish is happening all year round. Breeding season of this species starts from May to September of the lunar calendar. Tilapia often reside in the vertical banks of the river, more than ten meters deep. Many caves are so big that one can get in. Down to the bottom, I will use my hand to touch the cave mouth, if the door is smooth, the water inside is warmer than the outside. At that time, using the racquet to shoot into the main cave mouth, will continue to check the niche. Then use the hand or spice coconut to poke into the cave, causing the fish to start running straight into the net. Because the net is tied to the net, when the fish is thrown, the rope will startle. Just grab it and then follow the anchor line. '

Over ten years of work, no one has counted how many tons of Mr. Dat's spoiled fish. According to him, a dive into the 'golden age' he catches about 40-50kg of fish, sometimes when he catches babies weighing 13 - 14kg. The biggest goose fish he ever caught weighed nearly 20kg, so he had to unload all the new boats to make it slip. When I got home, I brought it to the shore. 2 people carrying their tail still hit the ground.

'Nowadays, many catches are about 20 - 30kg, and less than ten kilograms. Big fish are only 9 - 10kg but usually 3 - 5kg. The fish on the rivers in the West are still many, but compared to the previous three, there is only one left, because many of the catchers have eradicated it , 'Dat said with a regretful voice.

All the corpse came to touch 'death'

Mr. Dat said he worked as a diver when he was 24 years old. As a child, after setting up his family, he and his wife returned to An Hoa hamlet, Binh Khanh Tay commune, to store the house to wait for daily trips to catch motorbike taxi drivers. Once, he was acquainted with Mr. Ba Diving in Mo Cay district, so he was then brought along to the boat side. After a few times, he began to learn how to dive scraps, salvage boats.

After a few years of apprenticeship, ill Mr. Ba Diving gave him all the tools like . 'mechanical workshop'. Since then, he has been working as a professional boatman to pick up boats and to sink bodies, . to feed his family.

Around 2006, during a collapsed house due to landslides, Mr. Dat and many divers, even though they were afraid of danger, saw the crime of homeowners trying to cling to the bottom of the river for 11 days to find the bodies of two ill-fated victims so bloody ear.

Recalling that scene, Mr. Dat recalls: 'The landslide at Binh Khanh Dong market outside 3 houses, 40 tons of grated coconut also had 2 mother and daughter submerged under a whirlpool. Listening to family members recounted the time when the woman was bathing. After many days of diving, only the baby's body could be found, and the mother lost her body until now. Yet they not only did not thank them, but also suspected that they intentionally hid the body to remove the golden ring of the dead '.

Self-love, Mr. Dat just scooped up scraps and corpses and went to dive for bridge projects with the task of dumping the surface with negative soles, because at that time, the vehicles were not popular, many places were not accessible.

A few years ago, during the dive for the base of Ben Luc overpass (Long An), Mr. Dat was crushed by sand and stuck in the bottom of the river.

Recalling this time of death, Mr. Dat said: 'That bridge is from the water to the ground only 3m while it must be 11m according to regulations, so the construction unit hired me to do. Therefore, using a drill to break the hard soil such as kaolin, then use a suction nozzle. After going to the shore, I finished the cigarette and dived to check and went up, suddenly, the collapsed soil was stuck, causing my limbs to curl up. At that time, I thought I was going to die, but if I had trouble, I would be exhausted faster and have to reassure myself. '

More than 1 hour of diving the river Dat caught 4 fishes, collected millions of VND.

Mr. Dat is very afraid of his legs being sucked by a dragon, because it is impossible to draw because of the powerful attraction. It was discovered that any lump of soil fell out immediately, and then took it to the back because of fear of choking the hose, unable to absorb the amount of sand that was compacting him. Many hours later, his body was relaxed, and Dat immediately managed to escape, but was held back by two hard pieces of land.

Discovered a colleague who rescued him, but it was also very difficult. When he died, he lost his job and returned to his hometown. At that time, everyone thought he was retiring this time, but a few days later he saw him retreating to fix the tool to bring the boat to the big river to catch fish. The location he operates is: Ham Luong, Co Chien, Tien, because there are many big fish.

Dat said the stabbing fish was hurt but he was only afraid of the biggest enemy of water pressure. The locality once had Mr. Hai Duc's case once dived under water pressure, causing his legs to be lifelong.

Talking about the year-round occupation of deep river as a friend, Mr. Dat confided: 'The time to do it depends on the water, taking place from the moment the country stands to the end of the water. Sometimes I work all night. Usually follow the boat is two people: a dive, and a pipe watch. Doing this job requires workers to have a good base, because drowsiness is paralyzed or dead like playing. I am blessed, the big network has not been defeated by the riverbed, so now I have to catch fish . I have to know. Meet anyone who spreads medicine, catches with electric impulses, and hates and resolves to find ways to chase away for it. '

Mr. Dat, a neighbor of his family, said: 'In recent years, the fish from Ham Luong river have sold very well, so going diving and catching small fish is enough for him to let go. After finishing fishing, he also avoided damaging the cave so that he could catch the next time. The diving fish is his No. 1 '.

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