After leaving the magic capital, the Dream drove smoothly in the Pacific Ocean for five days according to the scientific research route provided by the Snow Dragon.

The crew also gradually adapted to life at sea.

After lunch at noon, when I was about to take a lunch break, news came from the cabin observation room.

The intercom on Liu Wei's chest sounded, "Captain, call Captain, there is a discovery on the bottom of the sea!"

Liu Wei was extremely excited and went down to the observation room.

Observe pointing at the computer screen.

On the computer, the picture transmitted by the underwater detector is a little blurry.

"Can you get closer?" Liu Wei asked the observer.

"I'll try!"

The camera gradually zoomed in, "Captain, this is the maximum!"

The depth of the seabed shown on the computer screen is 353 meters.

Liu Wei analyzed through the picture: "It should be a whale fall!"

"Whale Fall!"

"Damn, let's see!"

"I can't see clearly!Ah Wei, can you go to the sea?"

"When a whale falls, everything is born!"

"It's all met, it's too lucky!"

Liu Wei picked up the walkie-talkie and called the bridge, "Can the bridge hear me?"

"Received from the bridge, captain, please speak!"

Liu Wei said: "Slow down!"

"Roger!"

"Captain, 353 meters is too deep!" the observer reminded.

The current record for the deepest scuba dive in the world is 332 meters, held by a diver named Ahmed Gabur in India.

Humans will rise in the sea because their lungs are filled with water, and the average person will only dive in a safe area at a depth of about 20 meters, and the effect of water pressure at this depth on the human body is not very obvious.

However, once you dive to 40 meters, the water pressure felt by the human body is equivalent to 4 atmospheres, and the impact on the body is very large.

Ahmed dived as fast as he could, 332 meters, in 12 minutes, but when he returned from the depths, it took 15 hours.

In the eyes of professionals, a depth of 353 meters is beyond the reach of humans.

At least for now, no one has been able to break the record for the deepest of 332 meters.

Liu Wei directly put on the diving live broadcast equipment provided by the system, and with the help of the equipment that cannot be explained by science now, Liu Wei is not worried at all.

"I want to try it!" Liu Wei walked out of the observation room and went to the deck, and the crew rushed up one after another.

Someone stepped forward to persuade Liu Wei.

It's too dangerous.

"I believe that you are the same as me, very eager to go to the sea to explore whale falls, the total number of whale falls found in the world is less than 50, in April this year, China's scientific expedition team found one in the South China Sea, only three meters.

I've just watched the images from the underwater detector, and this whale has a big fall, and it has the potential to break known records!" Liu Wei said.

"Captain, stay safe!"

"Captain, I will monitor the water pressure for you at all times, and if you feel unwell, notify us immediately!"

"OK! Brothers!"

Liu Wei climbed down the escalator on the deck and jumped into the sea.

The crew was all staring at the live broadcast room and the computer screens on the ship.

"Twenty meters! normal!"

"Forty meters! The human body reacts normally!"

"Eighty meters! normal!"

"One hundred and fifty meters! normal!"

"Two hundred and seventy meters! normal!"

“……”

When each number came out, everyone was shocked.

Liu Wei has already dived to a depth of 300 meters, and every meter is a difficult hurdle to cross.

The scene captured by the microcomputer above Liu Wei's head is also becoming clearer and clearer.

", good Gil!"

"At least ten meters!"

"What a great discovery!"

"How the hell can I witness history!"

"Ah Wei, come on!"

The atmosphere in the live broadcast room exploded instantly.

The observers in the observation room became more and more nervous, and sweat began to break down on their foreheads.

The mouth unconsciously reported Liu Wei's diving depth.

“310…… 320…… 330…… 333…… Beautiful!"

"Broken the record!"

"Captain is awesome!"

Liu Wei did not have any abnormal reaction in his body and continued to dive.

Slowly descend to the bottom of the sea.

The turbid floats on the ocean floor rose up.

Liu Wei turned on the diving flashlight, and the light was projected on the whale fall.

A school of fish and crabs swims away in an instant.

Liu Wei swam forward.

According to microcomputer calculations, the length of this whale fall reached thirteen meters.

Liu Wei, like the audience in the live broadcast room and the crew on the ship, was extremely excited.

"Brothers, the soft tissues of this whale have not been eaten clean, and it should not have been dead for long.

Its skull is very large, almost one-third of its entire body, and its tail bones are small, and its shape looks a bit like a tadpole, and it is speculated that it is a sperm whale!"

"Can you see that?"

"The anchor is so professional!"

"Sperm whales typically have a big head and a small tail, with a square head!"

"It's cool to be able to see the underwater world through the live broadcast!"

Liu Wei swam further forward and floated in the water, "The bottom of the sea is very barren, basically all turbid floating objects, and the deep sea bottom is not as beautiful and colorful as the shallow sea."

You just mentioned that a whale falls into the bottom of the ocean, but in fact, a whale fall is an ecosystem that occurs when a whale dies and sinks to the bottom of the sea.

That's right, it's an ecosystem.

Whale carcasses can provide food and nutrition for deep-sea creatures, and a single whale colony can sustain at least 12,492 organisms of 43 species for a hundred years!"

Liu Wei took a flashlight and began to observe from the head of the whale carcass.

"The evolution of whale fall can be divided into five stages, and now we are seeing the initial stage, the mobile scavenger stage, where thousands of marine creatures from the ocean gather here to decompose the whale's carcass and eat its soft tissues, depending on the size of the whale, this stage will last for 4~24 months!

These sea creatures will eat 90% of the soft tissue of whale carcasses!

Look at its back and belly, it's hollowed out, and it's supposed to be eaten by large deep-sea creatures, such as sharks!

The rest of the soft tissues will be broken down by the crabs, fish and shrimp that we just saw.

It is estimated that the sperm whale will die in about 7 months!"

"I'm ashamed! I always thought that whale fall was the process of whale dying and sinking to the bottom of the sea!"

"That's what it literally means, there's nothing wrong with that!"

"What the hell did you tell me whale fall is an ecosystem, laugh and cry!"

"It's so ignorant, hahaha!"

“……”

Liu Wei said with a smile: "In fact, this ecosystem does not only exist in the sea, scientists have also found fossils of whale falls in the Sahara Desert, which also proves that the earth was a vast ocean a long time ago."

Perhaps our human research on the sea is only limited to the skin, as can be seen from the number of whales found.

There is no way to count the number of whales that die normally each year, and every whale that dies has the potential to form a whale fall, and so far, there are less than 50 human discoveries.

In order to study whale falls, scientists in some countries have even tried to artificially create whale falls, such as Riben, who threw a stranded sperm whale into the sea at the beginning of the century, and mastered the evolution of whale falls through many observations. ”

"Xiao Riben likes to do brain-opening things!"

"I have to admit that some of the technologies are more advanced than those in China!"

"I think we can try it too!"

Liu Wei shook his head and said, "It's very dangerous, and the working coefficient is very high!"

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