Chapter 990: South China Sea
Early in the morning of June 15, 1991, in the southwest of the South China Sea, the small town of Manetta on Matak Island in the Riau Islands of Indonesia had woken up.
There were two boats there that came to dock for shelter from the wind.
The big one is very common, it is not far from the Strait of Malacca, not to mention that every once in a while there are such large ships to load and unload cargo, and during the typhoon season, larger cargo ships sometimes come to the bay for shelter.
Everyone is looking at the small one: even though there are always some Western tourists visiting the island all year round, such a large superyacht is still in the sight of the residents of a small town for the first time.
At the same time, Zhang Nan woke up from the luxurious master suite bedroom of the "Sunshine Star", feeling that the ship was much more stable than when he entered the port the day before yesterday, and he would not feel that he was on board without thinking about it.
The damn typhoon effects are finally getting away!
I've slept enough last night, so I'm going to get up.
"It's better to be comfortable on your own boat!"
I unconsciously muttered in my heart: The waves in the bay port area were not small the night before, so I simply went to the island to spend the night.
As a result, after one night, I didn't want to stay on the island for a second night!
To say that Manetta is a small city is to lift it, it is a big place, with a population of several thousand, which is not as good as a larger town in China.
The hotel is tropical exotic, the single-storey room faces the sea, but at night there are unknown insects crawling in the room, and they dare to sleep after using insecticides. But the problem is that the damn air conditioner sounds like a tractor, and it always feels like the spring bed lying on one side is high and the other is on the bottom, and when you lie down, the person is crooked.
Madhuri Dixit, who slept next to herself, was so noisy that she couldn't sleep with the air conditioner so noisy that she suggested simply turning off the air conditioner and sleeping with the windows open, and made do with the sea breeze blowing from the typhoon for half the night.
The hotel room has a screen window, otherwise it would be maddening: the wind outside doesn't seem to be able to stop the night flying insects.
And that's not all, just around four o'clock in the morning, almost everyone in the hotel was woken up by a burst of hysterical screams.
The scream was next door to Zhang Nan's room, and Zhang Nan, who was not sleeping well, woke up directly, and easily picked up a PPK on the bedside table and got up to check: It was Yasuko Sawaguchi who lived next door, and the screams were extremely terrible, and I didn't know what was going on.
Before he went out, there were already bodyguards knocking on the door next door, and when Zhang Nan, who was wearing big pants, went over to take a look: the bodyguard grabbed an unknown snake from the bathroom of Yasuko Sawaguchi's room, which was three feet long!
There is no need to sleep now, it is about to dawn, a group of people simply get up and check out, even if the wind and waves are stronger, they will no longer stay in this ghost place, and they will all go back to the ship.
Oh, this time Zhang Nan is here to find some excitement, although the scheduled salvage mother ship has only been working in a shipyard on the East Coast of the United States last month, and the salvage company has been registered for several months.
Now that you're registered, you'll have to do some work!
There are conservative estimates of more than 3 million shipwrecks in the world's oceans, and there are many places where it is easiest to find valuable shipwrecks, one of which is in the South China Sea, but Zhang Nan does not go there, otherwise it will become poaching.
I used to be a Tufuzi, but that was when no outsiders knew, and now I am driving a boat?
Target boss, let's not do it!
Speaking of which, we have to mention the nine-dash line: on the map of China, there is a U-shaped line composed of nine intermittent lines in the South China Sea, commonly known as the nine-dash line, and the area within the line is the South China Sea.
The nine-dash line separates the South China Sea (about 3.5 million square kilometers) from the South China Sea (about 2.1 million square kilometers) and the South China Sea (about 2.1 million square kilometers), and many people generally don't pay attention to the difference in this term: Mind you, the South China Sea is not the high seas, it is China's sea!
As for the South China Sea, it's a geographical term, and as long as it's outside the nine-dash line, a large part of it is the high seas. Except for the sunken warship there, the salvage company can fish as much as it wants, and no one cares!
As for the sunken warship ...
It seems that there is an international law that stipulates that the ownership of this warship sunk in the high seas belongs to the country to which the warship belongs.
If you salvage other people's warships, it will inevitably chirp crookedly, the most typical is Spain, which always sues some salvage companies in court: this girl used warships to transport gold, silver and precious stones during the colonial period, and the warships sank a lot, and as a result, there were many lawsuits.
However, there is an exception: it is estimated that one day if you fish out the devils sunk in World War II or the warships and submarines of Nazi Germany transporting gold, will these two defeated countries jump out and chirp crookedly?
I don't know, because I haven't fished it out recently.
There are many shipwrecks near the South China Sea, and some are usually found by nearby fishermen, but even if some shipwrecks at a depth of twenty or thirty meters have been dragged by fishing nets, few fishermen have gone out of their way to catch them.
One is difficult, the second is "ten ships and nine empty", the proportion of valuable shipwrecks is not large, how can the fishermen who are usually busy with their livelihood have that leisure, at most when chatting about "there are shipwrecks in such and such a sea area".
Over time, some of them became "now-style chatter", some of them became stories, and even some of them became legends!
The islands near this large area of sea have a very great influence on the United States, and since they want to hunt for treasures under the sea, this is still a semi-leather bag salvage company has also sent a few guys who have stayed in Southeast Asia for many years to Indonesia and Malaysia to collect stories in this regard, and also let the Lin Jianghe family in Indonesia help a little.
Good guys, this one is different with the help of the head snake! Not to mention the Malay side, there are thousands of islands in Indonesia, and several large islands close to the ancient shipping route are a lot of stories.
Then, the company's "intelligence officer" made a cameo as a diver and rented a local boat to take a look. It didn't take many days to find traces of a shipwreck in the shallow waters of the open sea off Indonesia's Matak Island.
I don't know if it's a treasure boat, but it gave Zhang Nan enough reason to come and play.
As for bringing these two women, it is because the four in my own family, two are pregnant, and the other two have to take children, which is inconvenient, and they are too lazy to accompany their men to the tropics to bask in the sun.
As for Charlize Therona, Niko really wanted to come, but not only did Zhang Nan not want her to hang out in front of her in a swimsuit all the time, but there was also a big problem for her to deal with herself: the sentence could not be changed, there was always room for negotiation, and the result was that her mother was released from prison and temporarily returned to Europe. As a daughter, she always had to go on a trip or give her mother another sum of money.
Just released from prison, this is difficult, Xiao Nizi's pocket money for a month is enough for her mother to live comfortably for many years.
Zhang Nan didn't care about these things, no matter what, Charlie was always her mother's daughter.
It's not convenient to go out without a woman, and it just so happens that Madehuri has two months of empty schedules, so I'll bring it with me.
I didn't think about it, I heard Henry say that she and Yasuko Sawaguchi were relatively close, and the latter didn't have an appointment for a while, so he simply called it.
Even if you don't use it, it's good to put it in front of your eyes and look exquisite.