A Diver Dies in the Red Sea
一名潛水員在紅海喪生
Introduction
Yuri Lipski was a diver. He died alone in the Blue Hole in Egypt.
Yuri Lipski 是一名潛水員。他在埃及的藍洞中獨自喪生。
Main Body
Yuri went 91 meters deep. This is too deep. He felt confused and happy because of the water pressure. He did not follow the safety rules.
Yuri 潛到 91 公尺深。這太深了。因為水壓的關係，他感到混亂且興奮。他沒有遵守安全規則。
Tarek Omar told Yuri to train for 14 days. Yuri did not train. He went into the water alone. Divers found his body the next morning.
Tarek Omar 要求 Yuri 訓練 14 天。Yuri 沒有訓練。他獨自進入水中。潛水員在隔天早晨發現了他的屍體。
A camera on his helmet showed the bottom of the sea. He could not breathe. Many people die in the Blue Hole. About 200 people died there.
他頭盔上的攝影機拍到了海底。他無法呼吸。許多人在藍洞喪生。約有 200 人在那裡死亡。
Other divers died in other places too. In 2002, a diver went into a cave. The water became dirty and dark. No one found that diver.
其他潛水員在其他地方也發生過意外。2002 年，一名潛水員進入了一個洞穴。水質變得混濁且黑暗。沒有人找到該名潛水員。
Conclusion
Yuri Lipski died because he dove too deep without help.
Yuri Lipski 因為在沒有協助的情況下潛得太深而喪生。
Vocabulary Learning
💡 The 'Action' Pattern
Look at how we describe things that already happened. We change the action word to show it is in the past.
The Pattern:
- Go Went
- Die Died
- Feel Felt
- Become Became
🚩 Saying 'No'
To say someone did NOT do something in the past, we use did not + the original word.
- Correct: Yuri did not train.
- Wrong:
Yuri did not trained.
Examples from the story:
- He did not follow the rules.
- Yuri did not train.
🌊 Useful Words for Places
- Deep: Far down (opposite of shallow).
- Bottom: The lowest part of the sea.
- Cave: A big hole in a rock.