Courage Of The Sea -----Sea Gypsies
Yesterday I was thrilled to watching the skill of a tribe known as sea-gypsies.in T.V.channel.
They live in the Surin Island of Thailand in huts , roofed with leaves and branches, erected on four poles ,high from the ground.They live very close to the sea-shore.They lived on fishing It is amazing to watch how both flocks of fish and human kids(aged between 7/8 to 12/15) moving under deep water in the same way.They are completely nude.Each of them ,with long spear in their hand dive deep into the sea chasing the fish reaches even the sea -bed in a twinkle of an eye and comes up the shore with successful hunt.They look like fish with divided tails. which are tactually their legs. No other device but a long spear made of wood ,perhaps made by themselves.
They were almost unknown until the Tsunami of 2004 which extinct their population remaining 230 only. After the tsunami,the tribe is getting food ,clothes ,education under the Thai government care.
"Sea-gypsies" culture language and SKILL are changing through modernisation -&-education.
The old generation are sad that their specie will be lost.Their land is now reserved for commercial use of fish-industry.
I think,the extraordinary skill and experience of this tribe was a great live-resource of profound knowledge for the university of Oceanology These sea-gypsies were no less than any doctorate, though illiterate.
Instead of grinding them into"factory-product" of typical School Education, their incredible talent should be honored and valued in better way.
Same fate was to Phi-Phi island in Thiland near the the Andaman sea.
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