Chapter 822: Treasure Hunting Temporarily Turns into Fishing
On this trip to Indonesia, Zhang Nan wanted to do a two-pence thing: he was going to come to Borneo anyway, and he knew that there were definitely ancient shipwrecks near Belitung Island, so he simply sent two ships over.
It's not good to raise such a large group of people, it's not good to be too idle, you have to find something to do for them.
If you have it, you can catch it, if you don't, you should make a detour, anyway, it won't run out after that: the "Big Shark" has to go to the Philippines, and the guys who stayed behind there have dug something out.
Not precious metals, nor jewelry, but non-ferrous metals, the little devils were scavenging and hoarding strategic materials in Southeast Asia.
At least one or two thousand tons, enough for the cost of this run.
And Zhang Nan also ordered a batch of high-quality timber in the Philippines by the way, which was to be shipped to the United States: when it is to do business, it is better to keep it for himself to customize an amazing amount of Western-style furniture in the future, anyway, the transportation capacity does not have to be wasted, and there are enough warehouses at the wharf, so pull a batch back.
There was no set goal before, and when Jamie reported that they had found a giant sailing ship and fished out a lot of items from Huaxia, Zhang Nan decided that it was the "Taixing".
To be honest, that ship was not attractive to Zhang Nan at all: millions of pieces of porcelain exported from Daoguangmin's kiln, in addition to leaving some gifts to Chinese places and museums, the auction was only one or two million US dollars.
It has to be auctioned in Europe, where I like the "Clark porcelain" of that era the most, otherwise who will sell so much?
The number is too large, and a lot of manpower and material resources are required to go through the process, which are all consumption, and the engineering vehicles are too large.
But since you have found it, you still have to fish, there are so many mosquito legs, and it is also meat, which is better than cheaper others in the future.
Zhang Nan can keep dozens of hundreds of fine products at most, and he has little interest in exporting porcelain from private kilns.
But when I arrived at the place today, I had the courage to dive back into the water, and when I got on the boat and saw the big reef in the distance, I seemed to think of another wreck that was a little famous.
How many nautical miles apart are two shipwrecks?
I don't have an impression in my mind, but in fact it is not surprising, the shipwrecks in this sea area cannot be said to be as many as cows, but under the accumulation of one or two thousand years, the number is absolutely indispensable!
Anyway, there's no hurry, so let's go into the water and look for it.
If the divers can't find it all at once, and the working boat with the submarine imaging radar is transferred to the boat again in two days, there may be an unexpected gain.
Wait, there's no rush.
......
After a brief shower, twenty minutes later I returned to the main deck dining room. It's still too hot outside, and it gets cooler at night.
I didn't bother to go out, so I looked through the huge porthole: Boatswain Lรณpez Cuenca was also on the yacht this time, and he was temporarily transferred out of the Philippines.
Because the boss wants to make money, and the crew wants veterans, Cuenca came: this will Zhang Nan see him busy outside the porthole, and he happened to see himself too.
With a gesture of his hand, Cuenca quickly walked into the dining room.
"Boss. โ
Just stand, waiting for the boss's instructions.
"It's nothing important, I forgot to tell Philip just now that the Indonesian monkeys here love to steal, you discuss with Brother Guan and get a duty schedule at night, so that the monkeys don't climb up." โ
This is close to the coast, and the part-time pirates among the Indonesian monkeys generally do not come, and they are not afraid to come.
But monkeys like to steal, and some of them don't even count as robbery, and so close to the coast that thieves who paddle a sampan to steal things should be on guard.
Cuenca nodded, "Yes, boss." โ
They actually have an arrangement, Zhang Nan just thought of it, and reminded me again.
Wait, I see divers sometimes showing their heads in the distance, but I haven't noticed them.
Even if the general scope is delineated, it will not be a matter of time to search the bottom of the sea. Divers work in groups of two or three, and it will take at least two or three days to check them.
Zhang Nan is not in a hurry, the yacht is comfortable, it is also close to the tourist island, you can go to the cruise dock at any time to refill water and replenish supplies, which is more comfortable than staying in a hotel with poor conditions on the shore.
Wait slowly...... The divers have changed the oxygen cylinder once, but they still haven't found anything, but some divers knocked Zhang Nan a red coral more than three feet high.
The tree is perfectly shaped and undamaged," ...... It's nice to have a pot to fix it! If it were hundreds of years earlier, such a red coral would have been a real treasure!"
It's worth a little money now, but it's not a treasure, but it's rare to be so beautiful, and you have to get it back as an ornament.
Finding a big iron bucket, a few sailors were busy for a while, and finally fixed the big coral, and put it in the dining room for the time being: the size was too big to pass through the door of the storeroom.
Time passed slowly, and the sun was about to go down to the sea, and I still didn't notice it.
The divers got close to the re-opened stern deck and farther to the boat, intending to continue tomorrow morning.
And then......
, the sea in the distance is busy!
Most of the people were on the deck, and Zhang Nan saw that several people on the traffic boat three or four hundred meters away seemed to be busy facing the sea, and hurriedly asked, "What's the situation?"
Walkie-talkies, there's that stuff on the transport boat.
Cuenca took off the walkie-talkie hanging from his waist and asked the same question.
Well, the other party quickly replied: It's all Paul's fault!
Paul's diving skills are good, not to mention 15 meters, 40 meters deep can go down, this time I volunteered to go into the water to hunt for treasure.
When the others got on the boat just now, Paul, who got on the boat one step first, found that there was a situation behind the guy, and he was actually followed by a shark that was at least four or five meters long!
The others pulled people onto the boat, and Paul picked up the speargun that he put aside and shot at the shark that was swimming almost on the surface of the water seven or eight meters away!
This is a large hand-held speargun that can deal with the great white shark, the power is absolutely strong, and there is no water resistance in front of it, and it shoots directly into the shark's back, and it is estimated that it is all penetrated into the internal organs!
Paul is also fast, and wraps a powerful rope attached to the speargun around the tethered bollard of the transport boat, which will cause the seriously injured shark to tug into the untapped traffic boat!
The divers had already boarded the boat safely, Zhang Nan asked for the boatswain's walkie-talkie, and said loudly into the intercom: "Paul, Lao Tzu doesn't eat shark fin, you and the shark pluck a hairy river!"
Eliminating danger is normal with a speargun, but what rope do you tie?
Playful?
You must know that shark meat tastes like sandpaper, and juvenile sharks grind their mouths, not to mention that they are big enough to eat people: shark meat tastes even more messy, and it is not an economic fish species at all in terms of fish meat alone.
"Boss, it's a thresher shark, I see that long tail. โ
Okay, Zhang Nan just didn't say what he just said.
There are many species of sharks, and other species of fish meat are garbage, but the meat of thresher sharks tastes very good, and Zhang Nan has eaten it more than once: although it is in the Atlantic Ocean off New York, there are also thresher sharks, which can sometimes be caught when fishing for tuna.
Now the guys on the yacht are not crooked, and many sailors know that the fish of this thresher shark tastes very good, which is veal in the sea.
Thresher shark, a genus of thresher sharks of the order Thresher Shark, has 3 species, commonly known as thresher sharks.
The longest body length can reach 4.5 meters, which will be the same as the tug-of-war of the traffic boat, which belongs to the big one: this is the length of the body, not the tail fin!
You must know that the upper half of the tail fin of thresher shark is particularly long, almost reaching the length of the rest of the body combined, and the tail is generally half the length of the body!
This shark is a pelagic pelagic fish, rarely reaching deep waters below 500 meters, feeding on surface fish and often following schools of migratory fish.
However, they sometimes go to the sea, there is no harm to people, but they are often hunted by people, mainly internal organs can be made into cod liver oil, fish skin can be made into fish skin glue, shark fin is a high-end food......
At this point, Zhang Nan thought that that thing was not harmful to people, so Paul ......
Forget it, who had the heart to tell if it was a biting shark on the boat at that time, and shoot it!
When the long tail of the big fish is thrown out, Paul is probably a conditioned reflex to catch fish.
didn't talk much nonsense, Zhang Nan said into the walkie-talkie: "Don't hit the tail, give us the veal to get it back quickly, and let the guys who go back to the cargo ship take more than half of it." โ
Thresher shark's tail fin is not fun to hit people!