Chapter 993: The Coachman's Ship at Sea
Zhang Nan smiled after hearing this, and signaled that the captain could go and get busy.
The Sunshine Star had enough supplies for two months, but the fresh water couldn't last that long. It's different with the Big Shark, it's a temporary tank with a huge water tank, and the cargo ship is a big place.
But two months?
For Zhang Nan, this month is estimated to be the limit, even if the yacht is luxurious, it will be more than 1,000 tons, and the space is so small, it will be annoying after a long time.
Well, even if it is replaced by an ultra-luxury super cruise ship, Zhang Nan will get bored of living on it for a month, people are always land animals.
In less than half an hour, the yacht began to depart, and the Great Shark followed later.
Still in the dining room, a group of people stood around a long table with a local chart spread out on it, with five crosses on it, marked ABCDE to distinguish it.
The four red, 15-meter-deep point A has been blackened with a pen: this is the location map of the five wrecks, and the black is the wreck that only comes out of the water with a small amount of porcelain for daily use in the Qianlong kiln.
Thomas took a pen and pointed to two of the similar dots and said, "Boss, let's go to point E, and the Shark goes to point D, where the water is too deep." ”
Can it be deep, the water depth of the salvage point where the big shark is going is 48 to 50 meters, which is close to the limit of air and nitrogen oxygen professional diving, and then you have to use helium and oxygen diving equipment at a depth of ten meters.
Of course, if you use that 500,000 atmospheres super wetsuit by air, divers can go down to a depth of 300 meters.
Dive captain Weta Bruno said he and his buddies were able to work at a depth of 65 meters with nitrox diving equipment, as long as they followed the diving rules, 50 meters is a small meaning.
The artists are bold, and with them, the divers know what they know.
As for Zhang Nan, just go to point E, where the water depth is only 8 to 9 meters, and you can go down and hang around.
As for the remaining two points, one is 18 meters deep and the other is 27 meters deep, which is relatively far away and is not in a hurry for the time being. Explore the two most difficult and least difficult places, and let the boss have a good time first.
At a speed of 16 knots, it will reach the target sea area after an hour, stop the ship and anchor.
On the aft sun deck, two full-time divers are ready to go into the water early to make a stand for the boss.
The traffic cabins on the side of the yacht were also opened, and the crew steered the dinghy ready to meet in the nearby waters.
There is no need for shark removal medicine for the time being, there are sharks in this area, but they are all species that basically do not attack humans.
The temperature of more than 30 degrees is not particularly hot, and the visibility of the sea water is OK: some time ago, the personnel who explored in advance dived here, and the residual length of the wreck at the bottom is more than 20 meters, and the original tonnage is not small, it should be able to exceed 300 tons, or even greater.
Zhang Nan was not in a hurry to enter the water, and waited for the divers to report the situation below.
Sitting under the open shade net, there were two beautiful swimmers sitting on the side, and asked, "Yasuko, will you go down and have a look later?"
She didn't want to dive the other day, but she could swim, as if she was guilty of diving phobia.
Well, this girl still shakes her head like a rattle!
That's no problem.
Dixit was interested, and planned to go down, not even planning to change into a wetsuit, and would later wear a compressed air bottle on the back of a swimsuit and go into the water.
The water depth is within 10 meters, and the Indian girl has learned to dive in Los Angeles, and it is said that she has obtained a 2nd level diving certificate at a depth of 30 meters, and she can play casually within 10 meters.
There are almost no poisonous creatures in the sea in this area, and it is not a problem to wear a swimsuit or not.
Not only did Dixit not plan to wear a wetsuit, but the several bodyguards who would accompany Zhang Nan into the water later were also bare-chested preparing to compress the cylinder, and put flippers on their feet.
Not long after, one of the first divers to enter the water came up and took out a few small things from the small mesh bag hanging from his waist after working overtime in the sun.
"Found in the back half of the hull, on the other side is a deteriorating bow statue. ”
Many wooden shipwrecks on the bottom of the sea will only rot to the bottom of the ship, and it is very rare to keep the ship in its original three-dimensional form, and the same is true for the one below.
But divers also have their own unique skills, and can judge the bow and tail of the ship from some features of the wreck's residual structure, and it will be easier to judge if they find the bow image still inserted in the hull.
It's just that the previous preliminary report didn't mention that there was a ship's bow statue, and it seems that the ocean currents here have changed a little in the past few months, or the guys from last time were lazy.
There are three things poured into the pre-prepared plastic basin, all of which are metal, and it is a little awkward for these three things to appear together!
The bottom of the seabed was a coral-and-silt bottom, and one of the three had traces of shellfish on it, while the other two were clean and had a slight silvery-white metallic sheen.
Three silver gadgets, two European-style spoons, and two pointed silver ingots!
It's really a silver ingot, a genuine, Chinese-flavored silver currency, with a size of ten taels.
didn't bother with the two spoons first, Zhang Nan picked up the silver ingots and looked carefully: there should have been words engraved in the middle of the upper part, but this piece of oxide was very thick and couldn't be seen clearly.
"Mr. Allen, the East and the West are coming together. ”
Yasuko Sawaguchi on the side was also watching, and she was looking at it very seriously, and what she said was also a strange thing about the discovery of the item.
When Zhang Nan heard this, he looked at the two spoons again: he couldn't see any marks on them, at least not before the oxide was further removed.
"It could be a trading ship, but I don't know which country it is. ”
It will definitely not be Chinese, because the traditional ancient Chinese ships would not have any Western-style bow statues on the bow.
No matter what country it is, Zhang Nan is also ready to go into the water to have a look.
Two hours later, a pile of miscellaneous items was salvaged from the water: none of them were cargo, but probably the crew's personal belongings and daily necessities.
This is the South China Sea, which has been the territory of China for many years, and China has had a profound influence on this area, which has led to the arrival of Western ships that have come here for hundreds of years, whether they are trading ships or colonial warships, and there are often large quantities of Chinese products on this ship.
Now the plastic pot is rich in contents: a Ming Dynasty style kiln broken bowl, a Ming Dynasty style blue and white soup spoon, a ten taels of silver ingots, two glass beads, two round non-perforated silver coins......
It took a little effort for Zhang Nan to clean up one of the silver coins: the earliest silver horse sword trade in the Netherlands, which is earlier than the silver horse sword found in Klingenthal!
At the beginning of the 16th century, the Portuguese established trade relations on the island, followed by the Spaniards. At the beginning of the 17th century, the trade monopoly between the Portuguese and the Spaniards was broken by the Dutch, who succeeded in replacing the influence of Madaram by interfering in the affairs of the kingdoms.