What is it for? I guess it's a towing service at sea. If the ship breaks down at sea and can't be towed with a tugboat, for example, if the hold is leaking, or if the rudder has a big problem and can't be repaired in place, then what should be done? It will sink its own hull, and then slowly drill the hull under the keel of the faulty ship, support the hull of the faulty ship, fix the faulty ship to its hull in a special way, and then use high-pressure air to squeeze out the seawater in its own hull, so that it will float, which is equivalent to supporting the faulty ship on its own hull. Then the faulty ship can be carried back to the shipyard for repair, or it can be repaired directly in place, so it is also called a dock ship.

Amundsen didn't want to salvage the entire wreck, and no one would pay him the money, all he had to do was dig a few holes in the mud and sand under the wreck, put six thick steel cables through the entire wreck, and then drain the sea water from the semi-submersible ship, using the buoyancy of the half-submersible ship to pull the wreck up alive. Once it leaves the bottom of the sea, the semi-submersible ship will pan a few tens of meters to the west, re-loosen the tightropes, and throw the wreck back to the bottom of the sea. It's not a shipping lane, so the wreck is out of the way, and it will provide a refuge for marine life.

The professional is the professional, and it only took half a day for the semi-submersible ship to begin to float. The semi-submersible ship of more than 30,000 tons pulled up a sunken ship of less than 2,000 tons, without the slightest hesitation, the hull of the semi-submersible ship had not yet risen, it was already moving to the west, and it seemed that the underwater wreck had been pulled away from the seabed. After a while, the semi-submersible boat suddenly jumped slightly, and then it was as if a mine had exploded under the water. All that churned up was black mud.

"Well, the wreck is broken. My mission is done, if there is an 18th-century cannon, leave me one. I'm a big fan of collecting ancient weapons, and that's the final payment. Amundsen, who had been standing on the platform of the Mouse Superman, suddenly stretched out his hand to say goodbye to Hong Tao.

"Don't be so practical, I still have girls on the boat in two days, don't you want to see what I have caught?" Hong Tao didn't expect Amundsen to leave so soon, didn't the misunderstanding between the two of them disappear in the Christmas party, why are they still so ruthless?

"Well, I'm not as easy as you are, and next month the Odyssey and the Commander will be leaving for the Pacific. When I retire. Let's also get a treasure hunting fleet, I'll be your technical advisor, it's enough to catch such a fish once a year!" Amundsen shrugged helplessly, a little involuntarily feeling that he was in the rivers and lakes.

Amundsen left, with the cannon that had just been disposed of, as for how he cleared the customs, that was his problem, anyway, Hong Tao had nowhere to give him the proof materials. At present, there is no clear identification of these salvaged objects on board, and they dare not report to the Spanish government, and they will definitely be confiscated if they are reported. If the ships buried in the mud and sand are really the golden fleet. There must be more than a few hundred gold coins, maybe you have to count the tons. The government of any country will not watch a windfall fly away, and it is useless to see any permit in a hurry, and directly grab it!

There is no impact of the shipwreck. The salvage work was much easier, and after the sediment on the bottom of the sea had settled slightly, Hong Tao drove the small submarine down to do his water spraying work. With a new snorkel. The high-powered lights on the small submarine can be used without relying on Jim and Dan's command. You can get a rough idea of what is going on. Jim and Dan weren't idle, either, and they both took turns holding the vacuum cleaner-like tube. Follow the small submarine and suck the cleaned seabed again with a large pipe until the wrecked items below are exposed.

After actually entering the excavation area, the Puyol brothers were too busy, and the mud and sand they smoked up were mixed with a lot of small items, everything, and the two of them couldn't pick them, and finally had to even Dan's nephew and Cole, plus the two female crew members to pick it together, but they were still too busy, so they could only let Jim and Dan smoke for a while and stop for a while. In fact, there was more to the bottom of the sea, and after the sediment in the upper layer was blown away and pumped away, the silhouette of a Spanish galleon began to slowly unfold, and a few days later, it finally saw the sun again after a few hundred years.

The galleon was rotten in its entirety, and with the exception of metal and a small amount of wood, what was left was largely shattered at the slightest touch. But you can probably see what it looks like, its bow facing northwest, its bottom facing east, lying on the bottom of the sea, except for a pile of clay pots in the cabin, the rest of the thing has long been unrecognizable, wrapped in sea life and limestone, like a pile of reefs.

The most important thing is this thing, from the bow to the stern of the ship, piles of gold coins are the same as when Hong Tao first found them, all in the form of shells. As you can see from their walks, they should have been packed in boxes, but after a long time, all the boxes rotted, and the gold coins inside sank, becoming a large pile or a small pile, and slowly wrapped in calcareous.

There are quite a few of them, dozens of them, large and small, and there are also a lot of shells that are the same as alien eggs. There wasn't much left, a huge ship, and the remaining items seemed to be compressed into a flat surface, and the rest turned into dust.

Hong Tao was not in the mood to sigh, and the items full of the sea made him fall into a state of excitement again. In order to get all these things on board more quickly, he had the crew weld a large iron basket out of steel bars, and then sank to the bottom of the sea using an A-type hanger. He and Rada drove the small submarine like a big lobster, and used their mechanical hands to clip everything he could see into the big iron basket, whether it was gold coins, jars, or stones, and there was no time to carefully identify them, as long as they were larger than the size of a fist. After the iron basket is full, it is hoisted directly onto the deck, and stacked on the helicopter lift, and after a few baskets, the lift is lowered to the hangar to prevent it from being seen by outsiders.

The rest of the small items, Jim and Dan, would be vacuumed again, and the mud and sand that didn't have time to be cleared were all piled up on the three decks below the Mouse Superman hangar. Anyway, except for the dock of the submarine, there is nothing worth distressing, pile it up, get 100 tons of sediment has no effect on the tens of thousands of tons of Mouse Superman. This is no ordinary mud and sand, and there may be a few gems hidden in it.

The reason why I am so anxious, in addition to seeing the money, is that this salvage operation is about to be revealed, since the semi-submersible ship came, there are often local ships coming to check, and some can't catch up. People do not enter the warning buoy, just watch from dozens of meters away, and some of the people on the boat may be local fishermen, some may be residents of a nearby port, and some may be local government staff.

To make Hong Tao even more frightened, a speedboat claiming to be the local police tried to board the ship for inspection, saying that the Mouse Superman had affected the channel of the local ferry and the fishing operations of the fishermen, but Singh refused and only showed them an excavation permit. The other party didn't force them to get on the boat, but Hong Tao felt that they wouldn't give up so easily, maybe they would report it after they went back, so there was not much time left for themselves, so take a little more if they could.

With the advent of the new century, after four days and nights of hard work, the wreck area was finally completely salvaged in the early morning of January 1, 2000.

"I'm against it! We can search south a little further, since there are two shipwrecks here, then the remaining ones should be around here!" The Puyol brothers' dream of half a lifetime was realized, and they didn't want to give up halfway, Hong Tao just got off the submarine, and the two old men rushed up, and they almost grabbed Hong Tao's neck in protest. The crew wouldn't listen to them, and by this time the Mouse Superman had already started to play with the anchor and began to turn around.

"Be a man, you must be content! There is an old proverb in my country, called contentment is always happy! Now that we have gained so much, once the Spanish government finds out, then all these things will be confiscated, and then we will have to come to Spain to fight them in court." We might as well take these spoils back to China first, wait a month or two, if the Spanish government doesn't react, I promise, we'll come back in the spring!"

"Aite is right, this time the harvest is beyond imagination, I thought there was only one ship, but I didn't expect it to be two together. Puyol, let's go, let's go sort out those hills of gold coins first, and if Aite discovers a rare variety, maybe it'll be in his pocket again. Jim, as the actual person in charge of this operation, couldn't close his mouth with a smile, he raised his hands and feet in favor of Hong Tao's decision, it is estimated that this grandson is calculating how much money he can get in his heart, whether he will buy equipment by himself after he gets the money, and secretly run back to continue exploring, who knows.

Except for Jim, the others were not as persistent as the Puyol brothers, and everyone had an estimate of how much they had harvested from this salvage. This estimate has not only met their **, but also greatly exceeded it. If the satisfaction is too strong, there will be a sense of fear, always worrying that all this is too unreal, and wanting to turn the possibility into a necessity as soon as possible. There is only one way, first to clean up all the salvage items, register them, and then apply to the International Maritime Salvage Organization for recognition after returning to the United States; as long as they are recognized as legal, then these salvage items will have a formal identity, and no matter whether they are collected or sold, no one will dare to buy them. (To be continued......)