"The submarine salvage team?"

The polar bear wondered, "You're finally going to go into the vast expanse of the sea in search of treasure?" ”

Wu Tianyuan took the phone and smiled: "That's not it, but some clues are in the sea, you can't let it go, right?" ”

"That's right!" Polar Bear thought for a while and said: "I know that there are two best salvage teams, one is the American one-eyed dragon, he is the top master in the industry, there are seven or eight boats all over the world every year to hunt for treasures, and the harvest is very rich!" ”

"There is also one of you Chinese, in Singapore, nicknamed Master Hai, surnamed Qiao, and his reputation is also very loud. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Wu Tianyuan hung up the phone, the information provided by the polar bear was the same as that investigated by Wang Jun, needless to say, the one-eyed dragon was behind it, and the DuPont family salvaged at least hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

As for this sea lord, it is very interesting, when he was young, he was a fisherman and relied on the sea to make a living. By chance, he salvaged some gold coins, and became obsessed with treasure hunting. I didn't expect it to get bigger and bigger, and now I have six or seven professional salvage boats in my hands, and my reputation is not small.

"Boss, do you really want to find outsiders to salvage? We ...... ourselves."

Wu Tianyuan waved his hand and explained: "I understand what you mean, but it's still an old saying, it's inconvenient for you to come forward for some things!" It doesn't matter on the high seas, whoever finds it is whoever's. But in case it enters the territorial waters of other countries, it can easily cause international disputes! ”

"Private individuals have this benefit, Master Hai has worked professionally all their lives, and they must have rich experience. Let's go to Singapore tomorrow, I'll find Yin Lao to see if anyone can catch up with the line? ”

The next day, the group flew directly to Singapore, and under the recommendation of Yin Laoguan, they met the sturdy old Qiao.

"You are the legendary treasure hunter Wu Tianyuan?"

As soon as the two met, Wu Tianyuan hadn't spoken yet, and Lao Qiao was very excited, looking at the young man in front of him curiously.

"My ears are calloused when I hear your boy's deeds! It's a god, every time it's hundreds of millions of billions of treasures found, is it really fake? ”

Wu Tianyuan said with a smile: "Half-truths and half-truths, the value is a little overestimated, but the level is not bad!" ”

"Are you interested in hunting for treasure in the sea together?"

Before Wu Tianyuan could speak, Master Hai couldn't wait to take the lead in inviting Wu Tianyuan to come, and said excitedly: "It's not interesting on land, how much treasure is there?" If nothing else, how about Nanhai No. 1? ”

Master Hai lured Wu Tianyuan and said: "According to the latest Southern Song Dynasty coins salvaged on Nanhai No. 1, it can be judged that this is a Southern Song Dynasty shipwreck. There are 6-80,000 pieces of cultural relics preserved in the cabin, and it is preliminarily determined that its nature is that of an ocean-going merchant ship. From the discovery to the salvage of this merchant ship, it has brought great shock to China and even the world. ”

"First of all, it sank to the bottom of the sea for more than 800 years, but the hull is quite well preserved, the whole ship did not turn over, did not have sides, but sat on the bottom of the sea, the wood of the hull is relatively hard, such an example is also extremely rare in the history of underwater archaeology in the world."

"Regarding the raw material for shipbuilding, some scholars believe that it is masson pine. According to the folk saying of Guangdong: the blister is a thousand-year-old pine, and the wind blows a thousand-year-old cedar. This tree is mostly found in southern China, such as Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places, and is an important timber for Chinese ships. Not to mention the treasures found above, I am invaluable. ”

"Professional sea treasure hunting teams like ours are persistently wandering the historically important routes, constantly searching for treasures that have been submerged under the sea. Due to the vague definition of the relevant laws, there are many legends of overnight wealth in the sea treasure hunting. For example, in 1985, the Englishman Hatcher salvaged a large number of porcelain from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties in the South China Sea, and fetched a high price of 20 million US dollars in the Netherlands; In 1999, he salvaged the wreck of the "Taixing" in the late Qing Dynasty in the South China Sea, and salvaged tens of thousands of white porcelain and purple clay pots and other exquisite ceramic products. ”

Wu Tianyuan looked at Master Hai more excited than himself, and said with a smile: "So I came to find Lao Qiao to see if you can cooperate?" ”

"How to cooperate? You hired us to salvage? ”

Wu Tianyuan shook his head, but instead diverted the topic and asked, "How is your current equipment?" Isn't it the best? ”

"This ......"

Master Hai said helplessly: "The best? You underestimate this profession! ”

"A salvage ship is a kind of engineering operation ship, which is used for underwater salvage operations, salvage underwater sunken ships, sunken objects and floating objects on the surface of the ship. The inland river salvage ship is a small salvage ship with a displacement of 20~200 tons, which is only equipped with booms, winches and simple diving equipment, and is used for the salvage of wrecks and sunken objects in rivers and lakes. ”

"The ocean salvage ship is a large salvage ship, with a displacement of several hundred tons, or even more than 1,000 tons, and the latter is generally equipped with large lifting equipment, as well as diving, compressed air, underwater electric welding, underwater cutting and other equipment."

Lao Qiao sighed: "Salvage seems simple, but it is extremely difficult. A good salvage ship costs at least a few million dollars, and the top one costs tens of millions of dollars! It's all German goods, and we Chinese can't do it! ”

Wu Tianyuan nodded, he had already investigated this point, the wreck can be salvaged by a variety of methods, various methods can be used alone, or several methods can be used together, depending on the specific needs.

For example, the sealing and pumping salvage method, after the wreck is broken and blocked, the water in the ship is pumped out to make the ship float, because it is difficult to seal and repair, and it is difficult to operate when the wind and waves are strong, so it is rarely used.

The pontoon salvage method uses a number of pontoons to inflate under water, and floats the wreck out of the water by buoyancy, which is buoyant and reliable, and the construction is convenient and safe.

Ship skid salvage method, with a steel cable on the bottom of the wreck, with the lifting equipment on the salvage ship to lift the wreck, salvage generally use two or more salvage ships to work together.

Styrofoam salvage method, the light specific gravity of closed-cell foam into the wreck cabin, discharge the seawater, by the foam buoyancy to lift the ship, this method to avoid the inconvenience of the sinking ship bottom through the steel cable, and reduce or eliminate the sealing work, but also adapt to the operation under the wind and waves at sea.

Finally, the cofferdam salvage method, when the ship sinks in the water area with a small water depth, the weir can be built around the wreck, the water in the weir can be pumped out, the wreck is sealed or repaired, and then the cofferdam is removed after the ship is floated by filling the water.

Now the most advanced method is the pontoon salvage method, that is, a group of pontoons are dragged to the operation area of the wreck, so that they are filled with water and sunk to the bottom, and then the divers are launched into the water and the pontoons are tied to the wreck with steel cables. Then the compressors on the salvage ship are activated and the air is pressed into the pontoons, which will float to the surface with the wreck.

"I've worked all my life, and I've only accumulated seven boats in my hands, and only four are really responsible for salvage. The others are treasure hunt ships, which not only require luck, but also money! ”

Lao Qiao smiled bitterly: "Every time we go to sea, it is a few months, looking for treasures everywhere, and it is good to have a harvest once a year!" I'm lucky, I haven't lost money for so many years, and 95% of the treasure hunters give up halfway, just because they don't have the money to continue. ”

"I invested $100 million, how about we cooperate?"

Wu Tianyuan finally threw out a bombshell, listening to Lao Qiao's stunned, it took a while before he came back to his senses and asked calmly: "What conditions?" ”

"100 million is considered to be the establishment of a company, the name is Tianyuan Salvage Team, buy the best boat, find the most professional person, Lao Qiao, you are responsible for management. I provide treasure hunt clues, and all costs are mine! ”

"Is there such a good thing?" (To be continued.) )