Tag: DCI

A Urak Lawoi fisherman, near Ban Saladan. (Photo: Jennifer Phelps Quinn via Flickr)

With No Training, Thailand’s ‘Sea Gypsies’ Successfully Treat DCI

Posted on 07/26/09 No Comments

With no technical training, indigenous fishermen of Thailand Andaman Sea have successfully treated nearly two-thirds of those who suffer decompression illness through in-water recompression. The Urak Lowoi, better known as Thailand’s “sea gypsies,” make their living fishing using surface supplied air on the islands of Phuket, Phi Phi, Lanta, Lipe, Jum and Adang. While the [...]

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