Tan's Dive Log
Chen Jiajun's diving log
Dive No.: 3000+ (number of dives)
Date: 12/26/2004 (Date)
Dive Site: Elephant Head Rock (Dive Site Name: Elephant Head Rock)
Location: Similan Islands (Location: Similan Islands)
In the past few years, during the Christmas and New Year holidays, Chen Jiajun would come to Kou Lie to work for a period of time and lead a group to liveaboard diving in the Similan Islands. Because it is the peak holiday season, the tourists who come to dive are beaming and generous. They usually celebrate Christmas Eve on the shore, and board the ship after dinner on Christmas Day, put a hanging whip, and set sail in the lively crackling sound.
The diving boat that can accommodate more than ten passengers heads to the Similan Islands at night to find a bay to anchor. On the second day, the submersibles woke up early in the morning and were able to plunge into the blue waves of the Andaman Sea. In the following days and nights, the dive boat traveled between the archipelago along the dotted dive sites, reaching as far as the Richelieu Rock in the north. You often see manta rays along the way, and if you are lucky, you will also encounter whale sharks.
Chen Jiajun already has thousands of diving records and is very familiar with the dive sites along this route, and will no longer meticulously jot down the details of every dive like a beginner. But when he was pushed to the surface of the water by an invisible huge force, he knew that this morning's potential was extraordinary.
Although there are ocean currents in this area, they are usually not strong. Halfway through the planning time, he took four customers to admire the corals and swimming fish at a depth of about fifteen meters. Suddenly he felt that the water was stirred like a washing machine, and he was rushed to the surface with a strong force. Four or five meters out, the dive computer screamed "beep". He immediately emptied the buoyancy control device (BCD for short), adjusted his posture, kicked his fins vigorously, and controlled his body to a relatively stable depth. Looking at the customers behind him, they had been separated by the turbulence. He looked at the Dutch girl, who was the weakest in technology and physical strength, and swam towards her.
The girl was taken to the depths by the current, and suddenly drew a distance of more than ten meters from the leader, panicked and constantly inflated the airbag. But the ocean currents are weird and changeable, and the downward pull suddenly disappeared in the next second, and she was like an inflated hydrogen balloon floating to the surface of the water uncontrollably. The result of the sudden rise was a burst of lungs and a series of decompression sicknesses. Chen Jiajun rushed forward without hesitation, grabbed the belt around her BC waist, and quickly pulled the exhaust valve behind the girl with the other hand. She was too nervous, panting quickly, accumulated a lot of air in her lungs, and her body was still floating in the water, as if flying away from his hands. Chen Jiajun vigorously placed her fins, rushed to the top of her side, pressed the valve of the gas cylinder behind her, and pushed her back to a relatively safe depth.
The girl was undecided, her eyes under the diving goggles looked around in a panic, her mouth was short of breath, and a series of gurgling bubbles appeared. Chen Jiajun stared into her eyes and waved her palm lightly to signal her to calm down. Looking at the other people, they have disappeared. He decided to stop the dive immediately, took the Dutch girl to a safety stop at a depth of five meters, and released an orange safety buoy. Back on the surface, he found that the diving boat had almost become a small spot in the field of vision. Chen Jiajun waved the buoy vigorously, and the submersible boat came slowly in the waves.
The old captain, who has many years of sailing experience, was also very shocked. He quickly described the scene just now in Thai. The originally calm sea suddenly soared. The difference between the peaks and valleys was more than ten meters, and the diving boat undulated sharply. Chen Jiajun and the crew stood on both sides of the ship's side and looked at them, taking the divers who had surfaced back to the ship one by one. The farthest one had appeared one kilometer away.
Everyone felt like they were left behind, and they asked what happened. A crew member waved his mobile phone and rushed to Chen Jiajun in a panic expression, shouting loudly in Thai: "Tsunami, tsunami!"
From the phone call from the crew’s wife, they knew that shortly after the underwater distress, several-story high waves hit the shore of Koleng. Wherever the torrent reached, ordinary wooden houses were instantly razed to the ground. , The trees collapsed, the vehicles were swept by the turbulent tide, the boats washed inland from the coast, and countless people disappeared in the water in a flash. Even if they were not drowning, they were hit by various debris in the waves.
Chen Jiajun looked somber and solemn, and ordered the captain to return immediately. He took out his cell phone, his fingers trembling slightly, and called Huang Biling who was living in the backstreet of the resort, praying in his heart, answer the phone quickly, and answer the phone quickly. They stayed on the second floor of the same family hotel every time they came. Huang Biling often went to sea with the boat in the first two years, but she was unwell these days, always feeling tired, and could not wake up every day. She was afraid it might be a sign of a cold and fever. , Then stay on the shore to rest.
A soft artificial voice came from the receiver: The call you dialed cannot be connected.
The vicinity of the pier has been razed to the ground, and all diving boats have been ordered to temporarily defer entering the port. Everyone wandered on the sea for a day and a night before sailing slowly to the shore. The scene of the shadow of the coconut grove and the white sand coast no longer exists. Everything in front of you is unrecognizable, and you can't even find the location of the dock. Floating on the water are a large number of broken house fragments, tree branches, large tracts of palm and coconut leaves... There are also corpses, countless floating bodies with unrecognizable faces.
The patrol boats of the army and the maritime police, as well as some voluntary fishing boats and submersibles, have begun salvaging work. Everything is destroyed.
Chen Jiajun repeatedly dialed Huang Biling's phone, but the same response was always received. He contacted all the people who knew Kou Li and Phuket, and asked them to help find Huang Biling's whereabouts. He carried some clean water and food on his back, jumped into the water from the old pier site of indistinct shape, and trudged hard. The crisis is hidden in the water, with the raised iron plates, jagged branches, and hideous ruined walls. Chen Jiajun doesn't know how many wounds and bloodstains have been cut on his body, and how many impacts he has endured, but he doesn't feel any pain anymore. The shadow loomed in his mind, but he never moved the thought that she had been killed.
He firmly believes that Huang Biling must be somewhere, waiting for his arrival.
There were wailing and weeping people on the side of the road.
Through the crowds and ruins, Chen Jiajun relied on his instinct to find the small courtyard where the two rented along the almost non-existent streets. The quiet courtyard, the sparse flowers and trees, the wood-colored tables and chairs... everything was gone. Save. This block not far from the sea has been razed to the ground.
The scene in front of me is like purgatory on earth. You can also see whole or incomplete bodies floating on the water in various poses, with clothes floating bulgingly. Chen Jiajun grabbed the clothes and fished them one by one, but he couldn't find Huang Biling.
So he fumbled under the water, and several times found his soft, lifeless arms, his body was crushed by the collapsed rubble and could not be pulled out. So he dived holding his breath, unable to see clearly in the dim water, and could only use his hands to explore the contours of his face and body.
When he surfaced, his stomach couldn't help turning over. But he ignored the nausea, took a sigh of relief, and went looking for it again.
After checking around here, the search scope was expanded. Chen Jiajun and some survivors salvaged the bodies and rescued the trapped survivors. One after another, just without Huang Biling. It only takes more than ten minutes for Kou Li to walk from this end to the other end. The small town a few streets before and after has now become an endless wilderness.
At night, Chen Jiajun could not sleep peacefully. His body was exhausted, but he was still a wandering soul, his eyes straightened, and he continued to search among the ruins of the mountain of broken walls. After searching for this all day, I suddenly heard an almost faint cry. He turned his head mechanically and ran over subconsciously. The sound came from a fallen coconut tree with its trunk lying across the water and huge leaves spreading out. Lift the top one to reveal a cradle that will be stuck on the lower leaf. A little water got into the cradle, but fortunately the water only soaked the baby's feet. She kept kicking, her face flushed from crying, and her throat hoarse, and she might not be able to make a sound in a while.
Chen Jiajun picked up the baby, his nerves tense all the time, and he was tired and vague, and suddenly burst into tears uncontrollably. He couldn't wait any longer and went to the nearest hospital with the baby. If Huang Biling is still alive, the most likely place for her to appear is in the hospital.
When he rushed to the front door of the hospital, he was shocked by the sight in front of him. The lawn was full of tents and spread out into the street. The survivors covered in scars and stains have more numbness and blankness on their faces. Everyone stares blankly in front of the bulletin board and TV, trying to find the whereabouts of their lost relatives and friends.
More blood-stained people were sent in. This is just a hospital, which has been overwhelmed by almost desperate crowds. Wanting to find her seems to have become a luxury.
Huang Biling didn't know how many times she was in a coma, and how many times she woke up from nightmares.
She didn't remember what scene she had seen, only the deafening sound in her ears, the violent roar of the waves destroying everything, and people screaming hoarse. She only remembered that she was running non-stop, non-stop running, not daring to turn back and running forward, but in a flash, the filthy sea water rushed over and swallowed her. She subconsciously held her breath, and did not know that she had rotated a few times under the water, her chest was hit hard, her mouth opened, and the sea water poured in toward her mouth and nose. Her body was uncontrollable, and she drifted away rapidly with the current, and she was hit by various objects in the water for an unknown number of times. She tried to grab the top cover of a car, whirled along with the car and drifted forward, hitting a wall hard...
I don't know how long it took, she vaguely heard someone speaking, asking her name. But she was unable to answer. The whole body was shattered in general pain, and she couldn't hold back tears. Before reaching the hospital, he passed out again.