2015年CRI 潜水员回忆搜救长江倾覆客轮受害者

 

More than 200 divers¹ have raced against time to find possible survivors².

Zhou Dong is one of them.

The 37-year-old diver has 17 years of experience.

He recalls his experience of finding the body of one victim.

"Windows and beds blocked my way forward (when I arrived at the cabin). Then I slowly moved them away and cleared a way for me to go further. Several minutes later, I found the body of a victim above me."

Zhou Dong and other four colleagues from the East China Sea Rescue Bureau dove in the water in turns, searching for possible survivors in one room after another.

In the meantime, Xu Zhaojian and his colleagues from Shanghai Salvage³ Bureau are responsible for fixing strengthened cables to the ship, an important step in righting and lifting the vehicle.

They have fixed⁴ cables to bamboo sticks and then extended the sticks through the space between the ship hull⁵ top and the river bed. After this, they then attached cables to the ship.

Xu Zhaojian says the process is a difficult one.

"The water flowed very fast, so the sticks flew away when they were extended to the other side of the ship. Divers at one side of the ship could not find the sticks, so their companions at the other side needed to do it again. We repeated this for five or six times. We spent much time on it. The temperature was low, we consumed much energy; we felt cold and hungry. It would usually take two to three hours, but no one complained, and continued to do it until it was done."

With their efforts, the ship was lifted on Friday evening.

The ship "Eastern Star" carrying 456 people capsized on Monday in a storm in central China's Hubei Province.

According to Chinese authorities, the death toll⁶ has climbed to 406 as of Saturday evening.

14 survivors have been found so far.

1 divers   

adj.不同的；种种的

参考例句：

• He chose divers of them,who were asked to accompany him.他选择他们当中的几个人，要他们和他作伴。
• Two divers work together while a standby diver remains on the surface.两名潜水员协同工作，同时有一名候补潜水员留在水面上。

2 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

3 salvage   

v.救助，营救，援救；n.救助，营救

参考例句：

• All attempts to salvage the wrecked ship failed.抢救失事船只的一切努力都失败了。
• The salvage was piled upon the pier.抢救出的财产被堆放在码头上。

4 fixed   

adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的

参考例句：

• Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
• Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。

5 hull   

n.船身；(果、实等的)外壳；vt.去(谷物等)壳

参考例句：

• The outer surface of ship's hull is very hard.船体的外表面非常坚硬。
• The boat's hull has been staved in by the tremendous seas.小船壳让巨浪打穿了。

6 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。