Chapter 35: Everything is ready
(Sorry, I drank too much, but this chapter is a little dry today.) Thank you for the rebirth fan crossing, Erfeng @, Jie Qiong stage truss, Da Keke, adult 999 reward, thank you for your support, today I woke up as much as possible three more. )
The sea in the tropics is probably the most beautiful, and due to its windless zone, the waves here are calm and there are never waves of more than five meters.
It was almost seven o'clock in the evening, and the golden sun began to set, gilding the water with a layer of golden scales, which was particularly beautiful.
With the exception of the two chefs and the people who still had work to do, everyone was on the deck and watched Chuckel compete with Zhou You.
Neither of them wore wetsuits or fins, each wearing only a pair of swim trunks and then three pieces of equipment. Goggles, a searchlight, and a reel of nylon rope.
In terms of muscles, Zhou You is certainly not as good as Chakel, but his body is already considered strong among Asians, and the people on the boat do not envy Chakel's exaggerated muscles, but they all envy Zhou You's tendon meat.
"Are you ready?"
"Of course, I can go into the water at any time. I'm sure I'll win you this time. ”
"No, Chuckle, you can't beat me in this life." Zhou You leaned over and grabbed a three-dimensional triangular shelf welded by angle iron under his feet, and threw it more than thirty meters away, and the shelf sank directly to the bottom of the water.
Chakel did the same, throwing the tripod at his feet into the sea, but his arm strength was obviously not as good as swimming, and he threw it less than twenty-five meters.
This kind of tripod is one of the training equipment on the ship, which is to train the crew to salvage under the sea, and the standard weight of each is about ten kilograms, which is not very different.
It was only when the tripod sank to the bottom that the two of them began to put on their goggles and then on underwater searchlights.
Although you can open your eyes in the sea for a short time, it is very harmful to your eyes, and if you don't want your eyesight to be damaged, you must wear goggles even if you are superb swimmers. As for the movies about opening their eyes in the sea, many of them are actually fake, without exercise, ordinary people can't open their eyes in the sea at all, and those movies are all shot in the pool with clean water.
Chuckel put the nylon rope around his arm, but Zhou You didn't even think about using the nylon rope. The two men glanced at each other, jumped into the sea one after the other, and swam to the location where the tripod fell into the water.
Chuckel was still very chivalrous, and when he swam around, he took a breath and sank to the bottom.
The seabed here is 46 to 48 meters, although ordinary people can't swim to such a deep position, but for Zhou You and Chuckle, this depth is not the limit.
In the sea, in fact, the day is similar to the night, because once it goes to the bottom of the water, at a depth of forty or fifty meters, the light is very dark, at two hundred meters, the light is very blurred, and when it reaches about three hundred meters, the bottom of the sea is dark.
Therefore, shallow sea salvage still depends on time, but deep-sea salvage never cares about time. Because it is impossible for you to see the environment of the seabed in broad daylight, deep-sea salvage only cares about the weather.
In front of so many people, Zhou You doesn't want to lose, the bet is a small thing, and face is a big thing.
His torso was small, his hands and feet were long, and when he held his breath, his hands and feet moved quickly, and he dived straight down.
The beam of the searchlight is very concentrated, and you can clearly see the seabed below you as you swim around, and there are many tropical fish swimming around.
The tripod, which had just sunk to the bottom, caused a burst of mud and sand on the seabed, and the tripod only needed to see where the bottom of the sea was muddy to determine the location of the tripod. So, when he was diving underwater, he grabbed the tripod he had just dropped.
A ten-kilogram tripod is just over eight kilograms in the water, which is not a lot for a diver, but it takes up one hand.
Chakr brought nylon rope to strap it to a tripod under the water and wait until it reached the surface of the water before pulling it up.
Zhou Chuan returned to the water, only to see that Chakr had just come out of the water, and the two of them scrambled to swim towards the Ranger.
At this time, Chakr has the advantage, he can use his hands and feet, while Zhou You still has to hold a tripod with one hand. However, it is only thirty meters away, and even if it is a waste of time, it will not be wasted too long.
And Chackle's tripod child is underwater, and it will take time to pull it up.
As a result, Chakel got on the boat about five seconds ahead of Zhou You, but Zhou You's tripod was held in his hand, and it took him more than ten seconds to retrieve the tripod.
Strictly speaking, it was Chakr who lost, so he looked particularly frustrated. However, Zhou You hugged him and said: "We have our own before and after, this time it should be a winner, I invited the wine money tonight." ”
His words caused unanimous cheers from the ship's crew, and even those navies applauded loudly and joined in the fun.
The Navy is different from the Army and Air Force, and those soldiers are strictly forbidden to drink alcohol, but the Navy will also issue a small amount of high alcohol during non-mission periods. Because of the humidity on the boat, it is easy to get rheumatism, and drinking a little wine will prevent rheumatism.
The dinner was very hearty, full of big nutritious fish from the South China Sea. At sea, there is never a shortage of seafood of all kinds, and they do not concentrate on fishing at all, but only drag a small large-hole fishing net in the stern of the boat. By the time they reached their destination, there were already a lot of big fish in the net, enough for the people on the boat to eat for a week.
On the first day of the voyage, everyone was still quite excited, and after the boat stopped, the crew also formed a team to use the speedboat to fish near the Ranger. They also invited the servicemen on board, and after receiving permission, several servicemen also took part in their operation.
However, they are fishing at this time, mainly not for big fish, but for some rare seafood.
Major Zhong Hanwei, the leader of the navy, came to Zhou You, who was still wearing shorts, and looked at the sunset on the horizon like him, and said: "Mr. Zhou, tomorrow we will start a small-scale exercise, do you have some questions?" ”
The Navy's exercise plan was also seen around, and there were only 20 of them, and they would conduct various simulation exercises using the environment on board. Due to the small number of people, it will not prevent them from traveling around the salvage operation.
"It's good that you can communicate directly with Captain Lin Jiapei about this matter, he is a soldier and the captain of the Ranger, and he is very familiar with the situation on the ship. As long as it doesn't interfere with our salvage operations, your plans will be granted. ”
"Before boarding the ship, we have arranged for all the soldiers to carefully study the rules on the Ranger. Not only will our Navy not be a burden to the Ranger, on the contrary, we will be able to be an effective addition to the Ranger. ”
That's great, just arrange for you to communicate with Captain Lin Jiapei on a daily basis. ”
Since the prototype of the Ranger is a warship, although there is no weapons and equipment in the original position, this kind of ship still has an irreplaceable role for naval officers to familiarize themselves with large and medium-sized warships.
For the Singapore Navy, the largest warship, which has a displacement of just over 1,000 tons, it is only fitting that a small team can be arranged to study and conduct exercises on the Ranger.
And the Ranger is not an ordinary small boat, the crew of this ship can reach nearly three hundred, and now there are less than fifty people on board, distributed on one floor with six or seven hundred square meters, and more than six floors up and down the ship, sparse, there is no question of who hinders whom.
Besides, when the ship is suspended, most of the crew has to take a speedboat to survey around, and there are even fewer people left on the ship, and these naval officers and men can almost toss around at will on the ship.
Since the operation has not yet been officially launched, and it is the first official mission, there was a small celebration on the ship on this day.
On board, regular meals are free, but all drinks, drinks, are still charged. There is no need to arrange a special person to be responsible for this kind of thing, Zhou You moved a vending machine from the shore, and everything can be solved.
When they got on board, each seaman was given two hundred dollars in coins, and they were free to choose whether they wanted to buy alcohol or not.
But on this night, everyone can enjoy it to their heart's content, and the tour will pay for it.
But everyone is still drinking in moderation, and no one is drunk, and when they are all slightly drunk, they return to the cabin to rest, because the next morning, there is a task.
After dinner, he and his three brothers, as well as Chukel and Lin Jiapei, sat in the living room of his cabin and began to arrange the next day's work tasks.
The Ranger has two powered speedboats on it, one is an ordinary fiberglass speedboat, which can accommodate up to thirty people. The other one is a little smaller, but it can accommodate about twenty people.
Therefore, in addition to the commander-in-chief who stays on the ship, all the crew members can also be divided into two teams, and the personnel arrangement and the scope of work arrangement need to be deployed at the beginning.
Although I knew that this week's survey would not necessarily be fruitful, I still valued it because it was an important opportunity to train my crew. Regardless of whether there is a harvest or not, at least the crew can adapt to the current workflow and prepare for the official salvage in the future.
At the same time, Zhou You is also considering whether to cooperate with the Singapore Telecom department to install a wireless network base station on his ship.
At present, there is only one set of radio base stations on the ship, which can communicate with a certain range of radio stations, but after going to the deep sea and far away from the mainland, this system is somewhat insufficient.
In addition to the GPS positioning system, he could only communicate with the outside world through the two satellite phones on the ship, which was quite detrimental to his plan.
Because I want to build the Ranger into a base camp, this system is not enough at present.
If a wireless network base station can be installed, not only can the existing walkie-talkie system be replaced with a cornet cluster, the call quality is higher, but also can directly contact the outside world, no matter where you go, there is a network on the ship to contact the outside world.
In this way, even if you are on the ship, you can keep abreast of the information of the outside world at any time, so as not to be blind and deaf.
But this matter still needs to be confirmed, because with the Internet, the crew has more channels to communicate with the outside world, which also increases the risk of exposure, so it also needs to be considered in the long run.
However, he is now in his wings, and even if there are some small storms, they will not be able to overturn his Ranger. And, until he really has a great place to make a name for himself in the world of commercial salvage, no one is going to corrupt these members of his crew. (To be continued.) )