Chapter 1017 is still to keep a low profile
The water is too deep to pass the news up and down is troublesome, the normal pressure diving suit did not go down today, not because of the failure, but the most important thing is to dismantle the ship and explore flexibility, since the ordinary diving suit can deal with it, then this set of "no hands, with pliers" iron bumps is obviously not the ideal choice for divers.
Similarly, a large hooded wetsuit with a snorkel is not the most suitable: if the tube gets entangled in the cabin, or is crushed or flattened by a collapsed weight, the diver is sentenced to death!
It's better not to take unnecessary risks, it's a big deal to spend a little more time, safety first, it's better than life.
Without the two types of diving equipment that connect the snorkel and the cable, two-way real-time communication becomes impossible, and the people on the boat can still see the real-time picture through the underwater surveillance camera, and the clipboard has become the best communication tool for divers to report the situation.
As for notifying the people below, it would have to be done by sending divers into the water again, or using a rope with a heavy object to send the clipboard down, which is quite troublesome anyway.
Before nightfall, the covers of the four main cargo compartments were all opened, and at least three or four hundred tons of useless rubber iron drums were found, and the internal situation of the lower cargo compartments was not fully understood, so it was only determined that three of the cargo holds were filled with tin under the two torpedoes, plus a small amount of other non-ferrous and rare metals.
It was satisfying, much simpler than the situation of the Awa Maru, which was cut in two by deep silt, and it was said that it took several months for divers from the Chinese Navy to basically find out the inside of the wreck.
When the last group of divers to take turns to enter the "rice cargo hold" today and use a crowbar to crack open those small boxes and get some of the items inside, Vita, who had already returned to the "Big Shark", was already discussing specific salvage methods with the boss, Captain Jamie and others.
There were no shipwreck drawings from the Little Devil Shipyard at hand, so Weta drew a sketch of his own to deal with it.
The news is both good and bad, "... The upper cargo compartment is made up of lighter cargo, basically either rubber or rice, and some tropical wood, possibly some hardwoods such as teak, which are needed for shipbuilding.
Except for the second 'rice cabin', which has a smooth passage to the lower level, the other cabins are all blocked by messy things...
The upper decks are no longer worth salvage, and my suggestion is that the first, third, and fourth compartments cut their entrances from both sides of the bulkhead and go directly into the lower cargo compartments.
The good news is that this kind of battle standard general cargo ship does not use a double hull, and it will not be very difficult to cut.
The bad news is that the structure of the lower cargo compartment of this type of single-hull ship is relatively complex, and it is estimated that a large amount of underwater blasting will be required in the second half of the salvage stage.
The detonating device and materials on hand are sufficient, but the explosives are insufficient, and you need to get a batch of the boss's related household in Indonesia, the quantity is at least one ton, and the mine explosives that can be used under ordinary water can be ......"
Zhang Nan said that there was no problem: Lin Jianghe's family had already opened mines, and some of them were mine explosives.
It may be difficult to ask for a few tens of tons, and one or two tons are trivial.
“... The opening of the lower passage of the second cabin is better, and if we use a flexible salvage sling, we can extract those tin ingots directly from the lower cargo hold..."
The other two senior divers also thought the same thing, if everything is normal and typhoons don't come to cause trouble often, it is estimated that the materials inside the wreck can be basically emptied in two or three months.
How much can be moved depends on luck, salvage is not a demolition of the house to recycle steel bars, the whole is not complete.
After listening to Weta's suggestion, Zhang Nan said: "The personnel of the head office in Japan have gone to investigate the route records of this type of cargo ship during World War II, but don't get your hopes up, a lot of information was lost in the strategic bombing in the later stage of the war.
There is only as much as possible, and some of the route records were military secrets in the first place, and the possibility of finding them now is very slim. ”
There's no way around it, not to mention that until now, the group of people hadn't even figured out the name of the shipwreck.
It's a strange thing, and that's the reality!
As usual, the stern and bow sides of the cargo ship will have the name of the ship, but the reality is that the place where the bow side of the wreck should have the name of the white painted ship is covered with coral and some shellfish marine life, and the metal plate of the ship's name at the stern is simply missing, it may be when it is torpedoed, or when the ship sinks and hits the bottom of the sea.
It doesn't matter what the name of the ship is, if you want to know, you can always know if you demolish the half-collapsed shipbuilding, and there should be some items with the name of the ship in it: no matter how simple the ship is, there will always be a clock with the name of the ship.
But there is no hurry, this is something that needs to be done at the last stage: perhaps, it can only be said that if the wreck had carried a small amount of precious metals such as gold, it would have been transported not in the hold, but by the military police, and in the building where the people lived.
A group of people were talking in the container in the guest conference room, and a deck sailor came in and reported: "Mr. Captain, boss, the last basket of the day has come up, probably silver." ”
Silver, precious metals, good stuff!
The meeting has already been held, and everyone will go to the deck to watch.
It's a metal ingot, and there aren't many in the net pocket, maybe seven or eight.
Gray is not slippery, Zhang Nan took one, and in some places on it, you can still see silver-white and yellow metallic luster of different depths.
One weighs about 10 kilograms, and if you look closely, you can see that the weight is still marked with Arabic numerals, and your own feel is right.
There is also a Japanese logo on the top, which is also typed by hand, and the font is quite ugly.
He took a sailor's knife from the sailor and scraped the bottom of the metal ingot, the hardness was not high, and the typical silver and silver luster immediately appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
There is also a wooden box in the salvage basket, and the wood is not very rotten, and it may be made of corrosion-resistant hardwood.
The silver ingots were supposed to be in these wooden boxes, two pieces per box.
At this time, Vita on the side said: "I see at least hundreds of such boxes on the side of those tin ingots in the second cabin, maybe there will be more inside, and the total amount can be at least ten or twenty tons." ”
Zhang Nan smiled and said, "At least a few million dollars, it's a good thing."
However, Mr. Thompson, this may not be good news for you, there are so many things that the material for this wreck will most likely need to be sealed. ”
Choreographer Thompson shrugged his shoulders and deliberately showed a helpless expression and said, "You are the boss, you have the final say, and it would be good for us to come for a trip."
And boss, even if we only find a sunken fishing boat in this feature film, we can make a good film, and it won't run away. ”
At this point, Zhang Nan thought for a while, "In this case, tomorrow you take my yacht to a new location nearby, and I will not accompany you, where the water depth is 15 meters, and it is a Chinese sailing ship more than 200 years ago."
There is a small amount of porcelain that is not very valuable, just shoot that, and make it into a program like a rich idler exploring the secrets of ocean shipwrecks, not to mention the salvage company..."
Zhang Nan thought about it a few more times today, and felt that it was better to be as low-key as possible, replacing professional salvage with leisure exploration, and as for the ratings, it was in charge of it.
The boss has the final say, the choreographer has no opinion, and Anna and Kurt are still happy: 15 meters, the two of them can go down.
As for the rich ...
It's not bad to keep it mysterious, and it's their business whether people watching TV recognize the "Sunshine Star" or not.
Rich people always love to play.