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Even though fish bombing is illegal in Malaysia,
it has been widespread in the state of Sabah, a
popular place for divers, for ages. But the method is
getting more attention now, since it was apparently
used to deliberately kill divers last month.
Divemaster Ab Zainal Abdu, 30, and Chinese
divers Zhao Zheng and Xu Ying Jie, both 26, were
diving near the island of Pulau Kalapuan on the
afternoon of July 5 when the incident took place.
They went out with a boat driver and another dive
guide, who later told the police they had dropped
the trio off at the dive site at around 2:30 p.m.
When they returned an hour later to pick the divers
up, they found sea foam around the area (a sign of
fish bombing) but no divers, so they called for assistance.
When police arrived, they found a lot of dead
fish, damage to nearby coral, the divers' equipment, and finally the diver's bodies, at 20 feet deep, which
were sent to the hospital for a post-mortem....
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