Chapter 43: The Storm Strikes
Sure enough, when Ye Chen and the others started to eat in the evening, the fishing boat slowly started again. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoTom immediately put down the bread and ran to the deck, where he saw the fishing boat slowly moving northeast.
"Great, hurry up and eat, rest well in the evening, and start a new job tomorrow." Sure enough, when he realized that the work could continue, Tom's mood immediately recovered.
Ye Chen also hopes that the cooperation can continue smoothly, and it is naturally better that the film crew can start work normally. But there is one more troublesome thing in front of us, which is to solve the toast in your hand. There is absolutely no qualification to be picky about food when working on a fishing boat, especially when it comes to reaching the limit of the fishing boat's reserves, which is basically what you have to eat.
When he first boarded the ship, Ye Chen was very interested in the seafood that was available in Dunton, but the taste was a little simpler. But no one can continue to eat fish every day, and Ye Chen now feels that there is a fishy smell when he speaks.
Tonight, Ye Chen and the others prepared toast with jam, which can be regarded as adjusting the taste. Even after being heated in the oven, the bread that had been stored for a few days still had a dry taste and had to be swallowed in the stomach with jam.
"No, I'm going to take a shower outside, who's going with me?" When George finished eating, he pulled out his toiletries from the bed.
When it is said to be a bath, it is actually a bath with water on the deck, and it is also seawater. Although there is a small desalination processor on the fishing boat, these are precious but mainly used by the crew. Therefore, seawater is used to bathe and wash clothes on fishing boats, and at most it is washed with a basin of fresh water at the end.
In this case, every time he took a bath, he felt more uncomfortable than not taking a bath, so Ye Chen had not used seawater to take a bath since he got on the boat. Just last night, Ye Chen deliberately insisted until late without resting, until after 12 at night, he teleported back to his Liverpool apartment while everyone else was asleep, and washed up at home.
However, Ye Chen didn't shave, and the clothes were still worn and brought from the ship. The main thing is to keep no one else from finding out. Since boarding the ship, everyone has barely shaved, and after a few days, all of them look haggard.
After eating, Ye Chen walked out of the lounge, and in addition, he had to watch George, it was still a bit dangerous for him to wash up on the deck alone.
The temperature on the sea surface at night has not completely cooled, and it is not particularly cold even at high latitudes. Something seems to be wrong tonight, though.
A kind of air flow that was not usually there was blowing towards Ye Chen, and if you didn't pay attention to it carefully, there was a stream of water vapor mixed in the air flow. This unusual air flow immediately attracted Ye Chen's attention, although there is usually a sea breeze on the sea, but Ye Chen, who is very sensitive to the water element, can tell that the smell of water vapor in the air flow is not like the sea water near the fishing boat.
Although the sea breeze tonight was not as strong as before, Ye Chen was more sure of his thoughts, and observed quietly, there was silence around the fishing boat, and there was a feeling of depression pressing down from the sky.
According to the captain's experience, it seems that a rainstorm is about to come in the vicinity. Ye Chen couldn't determine the extent of the upcoming rainstorm, so he had to rush to the cab.
"Sam, there's something wrong out there, it looks like it's going to rain." After Ye Chen knocked on the door of the cab, he told Sam his news.
"Heavy rain?" Sam was listening to music in the cab, and suddenly heard Ye Chen's news and was puzzled, "Didn't you receive a notice of heavy rain during the day?" ”
"Ye Chen, where did you get the news?" In the face of such news, Sam did not dare to be careless, and naturally wanted to understand the reason.
"The air is very humid and muggy, and the light of lightning seems to be visible from afar, so ask the weather station again." Ye Chen told Sam how he felt.
Fishing boats receive daily weather faxes from the shore, but late at sea is always changing, and it can take only three or four hours to go from scorching sun to stormy weather. If not prepared in advance, heavy rains and strong winds can destroy much of the boat's equipment. To make matters worse, if the fishing boat does not get out of the hurricane's path in advance, it is likely to encounter a hurricane of up to 11 degrees, followed by waves more than 10 meters high, and no fishing boat can escape in this situation.
Sam is also a veteran of sailing in the mountains all year round, and it is not difficult to imagine the upcoming rainstorm when he heard Ye Chen's introduction, so he immediately radioized to the meteorological station to ask.
The waiting time is very torturous, although Ye Chen is not afraid of any heavy rain, but the whole boat does not have the ability to do this, so it is best not to have too bad a situation.
The radio on the signal fishing boat worked, and Sam sent out a message for help and got a reply a few moments later.
"Indeed, as you said, Ye Chen." Sam looked at the fax from the radio, "A thunderstorm is forming on our south side, but the wind is between level 5, and it will take about two hours to reach our area." ”
"Sam, what do we need to do to prepare?" The sea breeze approaching level 5 was a big challenge for the fishing boat, and Ye Chen reminded Sam to prepare quickly.
"You go and call everyone to the cab, I need to get ready for the assignment."
Ye Chen did not pause and hurriedly left the cab.
"George, don't take a shower, now go to the cab at once." When Ye Chen returned to the deck, George was still taking a shower with the lights on, and immediately shouted for him to gather in the wheelhouse. Then run towards the lounge.
"Guys, hurry up and get to the cab, it's raining, Sam let us go." Ye Chen, who came to the lounge, loudly attracted everyone over, and after hearing him say that there was a heavy rain, the three sailors immediately jumped out of bed and urged everyone to leave.
"You guys go first, I'll go to the lab and inform Professor Cooper." Ye Chen saw that everyone had already left, and he was about to go out after arranging, "Tom, you are responsible for the number of people and make sure that everyone arrives at the cab." ”
Professor Cooper in the laboratory had not yet rested, and immediately rushed to the cab with him after hearing the news brought by Ye Chen in front of the experimental table. By the time Ye Chen and the two of them arrived at the cab, everyone had already arrived, and there was also a George who didn't have time to get dressed and was only wearing underwear, standing aside with a confused expression.
"Gentlemen, according to the information we just received, we will be in a torrential rain in two novels, which will probably last for two hours or more, and more seriously, there will be strong winds of more than 5 degrees, and the waves may be as high as about 3 meters, so I need to arrange the next work here in advance." Sam made sure everyone was in and started arranging the work.
"Howard, you go and get the life jacket and the marine emergency kit right now, and make sure everyone puts them on now." Sam made arrangements to a tall black sailor, then turned to Professor Cooper, "Professor, please arrange for two people to follow Howard to get life jackets and other items, and make sure to hand them over to everyone after they are brought in, and supervise them to equip them." ”
"Modell, Gaunt, put the anchor in the water in a moment, and then recycle the tools on the outside of the fishing boat." After Tom had finished his order, the remaining two sailors also left the wheelhouse, "Tom, you and your crew will take your equipment back, and it doesn't matter if these equipment are expensive or not." ”
In the end, it was Ye Chen and a few people, "The rest of you go and check the items in the lounge, laboratory, kitchen and storage room, and try to fix them as much as possible, the shaking of the fishing boat will be very large in a while, be careful not to hurt people." ”