Chapter 8: Grace and Might
"I've found a school of fish, and I'm ready to work! I guess it's a tuna chasing a school of stonefish. ”
It turned out that it was Gu Kun who was driving the boat in the wheelhouse, paying attention to the fish detector and discovering a valuable fish.
Some people may wonder: Gu Kun obviously has very bad underwater hearing, but he hasn't entered the water now, how can he find a school of fish that others can't find?
This starts with the principle of sonar, the essence of sonar is just a hydroacoustic wave-electric converter. The sonar listeners in the submarine also need to have strong hearing in order to hear the subtle features of the echo sound.
In this way, Gu Kun does not have to go into the water, just listen to the underwater sound receiver on the boat, which can also increase the resolution by a hundred times.
Similar to a chicken eater, his hearing is sensitive enough to hear people climbing on the grass hundreds of meters away.
A few seconds later, everyone ran into the cockpit.
Gu Pan straightened his hair: "Brother, what am I doing?"
Gu Kun quickly assigned the task: "Sister Chen is at the helm, little sister, you are staring at the fish detector." Long five twisted nets, I changed into the water to pull the net. ”
"Okay," Chen Li respectfully took the helm.
Long Wu bluntly suggested: "You are the leader, or you control the winch on the boat, and leave it to me when you go into the water to pull the net." ”
Everyone knows how to do it, so they naturally know that the work of going into the water and pulling the net is more tiring.
Generally speaking, if it is a two-ship trawling operation, there is no need for people to go into the water to pull the net. Because the two boats can each pull one end of the trawl, and the soldiers can make two detours to make dumplings for the fish.
However, Gu Kun only has a single boat here, and the cross-sectional area of the trawl is not large enough to be deployed underwater, so there is a good water-based launching traction at this time, which can significantly increase the harvest.
If no one is holding the net, the fish that swim faster than the boat can escape by turning around, so they can only catch some slow fish.
Tuna swims very fast, reaching a top speed of nearly 50 knots, half as fast as a dolphin. Therefore, to catch tuna, you must either rely on sea fishing or encirclement.
A single boat trawling from one direction can barely catch tuna.
Gu Kun was very skeptical of Long Wu's swimming speed and underwater flexibility, and originally wanted to refuse directly.
But after thinking about it, it will take many days to go to sea this time, and I always have to give him a chance to convince the boss.
So Gu Kun changed his words: "I said that there is tuna, are you flexible enough underwater? When the time comes, the containment speed is not fast enough, the angle is not good enough, and you will run away." ”
Long Wu replied bluntly: "Uncle Liu has hired so many crew members, and none of them are faster than me." If I can't catch it, you can't catch it, and why do you just say that there is tuna?
Chen Li was speechless for a while: Did you talk to the captain like this?
"Hehe, okay, I'll give you a chance. Anyway, there are many opportunities to go to sea this time. Gu Kun directly threw the frog webbing to the other party.
Long Wu didn't bother to wear a diving suit, so he only brought flippers, dragged the rope, and according to the direction pointed out by Gu Kun, a fierce man plunged into the water.
Gu Kun observed on the boat and instructed Chen Li to steer the steer, and then controlled the winch of the trawl.
The two women on the boat also looked at the situation in the water with concern. When Long Wu just left and finally closed the net, they could clearly see the speed of Long Wu's diving.
Gu Kun naturally saw it clearly, and he silently calculated in his heart: "This guy is also very good in water, dragging a rope with only flippers, and he can swim to a speed of five knots, in a normal sailor, his physical fitness is very against the sky." ”
You can't paddle with at least one hand when towing the rope, and you can't wear fins on both hands, so you can't compare it to the speed of a finswimming competition.
After more than ten minutes of containment operations, slowly setting up ambushes and quickly closing the net, everyone finally worked together to drag up a net of good things.
The harvest weight is not large, but they are valuable fish and the size is good.
Ryugo panted and climbed onto the deck, too tired to do it. After all, after more than ten minutes of high-intensity swimming and diving, the physical consumption is still very large.
Chen Li hurriedly took a bottle of cheap high-grade liquor to her husband, which can be regarded as driving away dampness and cold and replenishing some calories.
Long drank three taels of soju every ton, wiped his mouth and asked, "What did you catch?"
When the two of them drank to ward off the cold, the Gu brothers and sisters had already counted the fish, so Chen Li could answer directly:
"It's a small group of stonefish, 22, weighing 58 pounds. The largest one is four catties, and the small one is one and a half catties. In addition, there are three Tsing Yi and a bunch of miscellaneous fish. The captain said that he would cook the trash fish and eat it in the evening. ”
Stonefish can be sold for 40 lings a catty in the place of origin, and the unit price of big fish is more expensive, 60 a catty in Tsing Yi.
Therefore, these fish, estimated at about 3,000 reams, will be more expensive to sell to the northern non-origin countries.
Long Wu couldn't help but blush: "Captain, this hearing is really amazing, this net is full of valuable and precious fish? This net is worth three months' salary of our husband and wife?"
Chen Li: "How can the account be calculated like this! The ship doesn't need money, and the diesel supply and maintenance don't need money." ”
Long Wu also knew that what his wife said was reasonable, but he still couldn't help but be proud: "Anyway, this net harvest is very good." Tsing Yi is also a very flexible fish, and I can pull the net to put Tsing Yi in it, which shows that our underwater kung fu is still hard. Looking at the expiration of the next three months, the captain will not give us a salary increase. ”
"Looks like you're confident in your performance. A lukewarm voice sounded next to him, it turned out that Gu Kun had finished checking the catch and paced over with his right hand behind his back.
Long Wu couldn't help but be angry when he heard this, and thought that the boss was targeting him: "Isn't this efficiency still satisfied?"
Gu Kun: "You seem to have forgotten, I told you, I heard that there was a tuna, and now what about the tuna? You are underwater, and when you finally retract your head, you really didn't notice that a big fish slipped away?"
Long Wu's momentum was slightly suffocated, his vision was naturally very poor when he was underwater, and he couldn't see clearly from seven or eight meters away. However, according to the shadows and currents, it is true that a large fish is slipping by, and the speed is not slow.
But if you have to say tuna, it's a bit far-fetched.
What's more, he thinks that the performance of this net is already very good.
This kind of 200-ton fishing boat goes to sea, and the cost of depreciating from charter to diesel, replenishment, and maintenance is 600 reams a day. If the harvest of 3,000 reams is not satisfied, the captain is too harsh.
Thinking about it like this, Long Wu inevitably became angry: "I treat you as a cheerful person, do you dare to touch your conscience and guarantee: You can really distinguish a tuna by sound with this kind of precision fish finder? I have been running the sea for ten years, and I have never seen a person with such a keen sense of hearing! This is simply impossible!"
Gu Kun said proudly: "Of course I'm sure, because I can hear that the target is an object of about 100 catties, and the moving speed is more than 40 knots. ”
Long Wu: "Hahahaha, if you have to say that, I can't help it, anyway, there is no evidence." I think you're just angry, but I just advised you not to go to the mainland to do business, so I want to take revenge. ”
Gu Pan and Chen Li saw that they were about to stiffen, so they hurriedly persuaded one each.
Gu Pan said anxiously: "Brother, you don't usually treat people so harshly, Long Wu is already very hardworking." ”
Gu Kun gently patted his sister with his left hand and signaled her to be calm: "I'm not harsh, it's just that I can't let people bully me into being young and don't listen to my orders." The sea is changing rapidly, and it must be forbidden, and how can the captain achieve great things if he does not have prestige. ”
After saying this, he decisively raised his right hand that had been behind his back just now, and a dead fish "swished" towards Long Wu.
Long Wu subconsciously caught it, but he didn't react in a daze.
Gu Kun pointed at the dead fish: "Look at this bite surface and tooth marks for yourself, don't tell me that you have been running the sea for ten years, and you still can't recognize the mouth shape of the tuna." ”
It turned out that what he threw over was a stone fish weighing more than three catties, and the fish was bitten to death, and only half of the corpse remained.
Long Wu looked at it fixedly, and had to admit that the captain's eyesight was good, because looking at the appearance of this stonefish, he was half eaten by the tuna.
Gu Kun struck while the iron was hot, and put on a look of exhaustive strategy: "You look like a reckless man, and you don't know enough about the habits of all kinds of marine creatures. How can ordinary stonefish have such a tight school of fish?
When I heard it on the fish finder, I thought something was wrong, and then I realized that the group of stonefish was surrounded by large predators, so they gathered closer than usual, and we just caught them all in one net. ”
Long Wu suddenly felt that his face was hot.
The captain is also too experienced, and he is a combination of theory and practice, like a university expert in marine biology.
He is also a cheerful person, and after being impressed by Gu Kun's strength, he had to obediently admit defeat: "Captain, I was wrong just now, but I was not humble enough." I've been at sea for ten years, and I've never seen such a keen person as you, and I'm convinced today. I beg your pardon. I'm going to work harder. ”
"Since I admit my mistake, I won't bother with you. I'll just say a word, on my ship, you must order and forbid, and from this time on, you will do whatever I tell you to do. ”
"Yes, Captain. ”