The 'farmer mutants' hunt treasure on the bottom of the Red River

There is a group of people, who are farmers, who grow rice and grow potatoes all year round, and become natural hunters of treasure in the river.

Many people are happy to call the diving team of Mr. Ha Cong Chuom, who specializes in hunting the wealth at the bottom of the Red River as 'farmer archaeologists'.

We are often seen on films of professors, doctors, talented archaeologists, who are not afraid to rush into danger, directly searching for antiquities. But in our country, the farmers, the teams of new amateur divers are 'archaeologists', dare to venture into the dangerous water.

The fierce Red River contains many treasures.

Ha Cong Chuom is also just a scuba diver who is not well known, without the fact that he discovered an ancient ship on the Red River that shocked the public. As time went by, when the ship was settled in the Hung Yen museum, this 'farmer archaeologist' went up and down the river to make a living.

I met Ha Cong Chuom, the young man with a small figure when he was diving under the Red River in Bat Trang commune (Gia Lam, Hanoi). Chuom said, there is some bomb in the river in this section. The sunken siblings who had just swept up were sold to scrap metal.

Still the figure was thin, her face was dyed red with the color of silt, but her breasts were blooming like . women. Most divers are possessing the breasts of bodybuilders. Under the pressure of the water, fluid spilled into the lungs, causing their chest to swell. Moreover, breathing in the pressure-intensive environment, their breasts also hatched to protect the heart and lungs.

I was happy that his name sounded strange, it sounded like a frog. Chuom said, 'My father's name is Ha Cong Ao, so my name is Ha Cong Chuom. My home, the small pond is called chuom. Perhaps, the name Ao and Chuom kept my father and son's life in the water, and could not stand up. '

Antiques in a ship that Mr. Ha Cong Chuom earned

Chuom's hometown is in Tan Le commune, a poor commune of Dong Hung district (Thai Binh). Little land, rice cultivation is not enough to eat, so his father and son do more fishing to make a living. The source of fish is exhausted, buying an old boat and trading in sand and gravel. The job of hunting wealth and shipwrecks in the river stemmed from the salvage of a ship to help a native.

His sand carrier was sunk in the Red River. Hiring a state-run salvage team is more expensive than paying for a new ship, so he plans to leave it in the river. At that moment, the father's boat carrying stone passed. Hearing his neighbor tell the story, he said: 'Let me see how'. After saying that, Chuom jumped into the river, and after a while, raised his head and said: 'You hire a crane, you blow sand and net the cable into the ship. Just need to lift it up. ' Yet Chuom's father and son could do it.

Also after that, Chuom thought of hunting shipwrecks in the riverbed. He gathered a few farmers around the village into a team of divers, all big guys, experienced with the river. Unexpectedly, at the bottom of this ferocious river, there were quite a lot of shipwrecks, scrap metal . so the crew of Chuom's dive also survived, and even bought an old ship, with salvaged tools worth several hundred million dong.

And the ancient ship under the Red River river flows through Hung Yen, which Chuom salvaged.

The story of hunting an ancient ship made the whole country pay attention to sweat, tears, and even blood of Ha Cong Chuom and his brothers, not coincidentally, as people often think. His team took over five years, crushing the entire section of the Red River flowing through Dai Tap commune (Khoai Chau, Hung Yen) to find it.

In order to find treasure effectively, these divers are often as archaeologists, meeting old people living along the Red River to exploit information. The longer you live, the more information you will have. It was the old people living in Dai Tap commune who told Mr. Chuom about this ancient ship.

The old men said that his father often told the children about a 'ghost ship', which threatened to get the children out of the river to be mischievous, drowning. However, the story of that "ghost ship" stems from an oral truth.

Steam engine of ancient ship.

Accordingly, about 200 years ago, at the river section of Dai Tap commune, there appeared a giant merchant ship, whose owners and crew were Chinese. This ship transports goods from China to Hanoi, and then replenishes goods shipped. In a fierce flood, it crashed into another ship and the two sank, sailors also died.

Information is only that, but Ha Cong Chuom and the team of divers still persist in the bottom of the river. They used tens of meters long iron rods to dig down the Red River. After a year of perseverance, Chuom's iron basket touched that ship.

After using the machine, both blowing and sucking mud and sand, to a depth of 5 meters underground, the ship's nose appeared. Chuom did not believe his eyes, it was a huge ancient ship, covered by thick copper leaves. Just peel off this layer of copper to sell, also earn not small amounts.

But it was not simple to roll it up, because the ship was in the direction of its head down. The bow of the ship is 5 meters underground, but its tail is 15 meters deep underground. With such a depth, salvage will be very costly, so it is not possible to know the loss or profit.

The stern part sinks 15m deep underground.

Hoping to get a merchant ship full of wealth in the river, Mr. Chuom had poured all his money, bank loans, salvaged ships, crane machines, and decided to 'gamble' a little. The total cost for salvaging the old ship has reached 230 million dong. However, in this ancient ship, there were only wood, brown tubers and clay. Antiques only have a statue and some ceramic bowls with little value.

When the magnificent copper-covered ship floated out of the water, the people of Dai Tap commune pulled out to see the "ghost ship" that the old people often told the children, when Ha Cong Chuom was breathing. Long desperate. This underwater archeologist knew that it was an ancient ship, which was an antique, it was a national asset. The story of the ship was revoked by the State, as predicted by Ha Cong Chuom.

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