229. Gold coins of George Shoal

Seeing Qin Shiou's luxurious trawling yacht, the fishermen on the other fishing boats were a little confused.

Soon someone came up in a boat, and at a quarter of a mile away, the boat stopped, and someone stood in the bow with a horn and shouted, "Hey, rich man, are you here for a vacation?" You've chosen the wrong place! On vacation, go to Gloucester Harbour, with its hot beauties and delicate sandy beaches, don't be here, don't trouble us. ”

Although they both speak English, the Canadian accent is very different from the American accent, and many words and grammar are also different, so as soon as this person opened his mouth, Qin Shiou knew that it was an American.

He shook his head and said, "Americans are so rude and selfish, even if I bask in the sun here?" This is not their backyard. ”

Standing next to him, Shaq laughed, "As much as I hate the Yankees, I have to explain, boss, that he didn't let us go to dominate the catch here." Instead, we are worried that we will drop anchor here, or go straight to the hook, so that once someone catches tuna, those big guys will rush around, and it is easy to cause a messy line, which will lead to the situation where the anchor line or fishing line is cut off. ”

Qin Shiou shrugged his shoulders and said, "So that's the case, then let's leave first, and then drive the fishing boat back." ”

The Kraken said, "This is not your style, boss. ”

Qin Shiou said: "This is my style, what if our own fishing line is cut by the anchor rope?" ”

The yacht turned around, and the fishing boat showed its face, Qin Shiou and Shak, the sea monster, and Iverson, with the tiger and the leopard on the fishing boat. Nelson drove the yacht away from George Shoal.

After getting on the fishing boat, Qin Shiou leaned over and looked into the sea, and felt that he had come to the right place.

Far from the coast, the marine pollution is naturally small, and the water in the deep waters is almost clear and completely transparent. It's just that the ocean is too deep. The sun does not reach the bottom of the sea, so the sea will appear dull.

But George Shoal is different, the water here is relatively shallow, especially where Qin Shiou docked, the depth of the sea water is definitely less than ten meters, and the sunlight shines from the surface of the water to the bottom of the sea. The crystal clear water shines brightly.

In this way, the water level here seems to be transparent. When the sea was calm, Qin Shiou looked down into the water, as if there was no seawater under the boat, and the fishing boat was floating directly in the air.

This clear beauty. Qin Shiou was shocked for a while, and he couldn't help but stretch out his hand into the water, feeling that he could touch the delicate snow-white sand on the bottom of the sea as soon as he stretched out his hand.

From time to time, schools of Atlantic herring swim past the bottom of the sea, and seaweed stays quietly in the water, and this combination of movement and stillness is like a dynamic picture of an elaborate zuò.

Lying on the bow of the boat and watching for a while, Qin Shiou took out his mobile phone and began to shoot. Dozens of shots came in a row from various angles.

He took off his shirt and jumped into the water, keeping his balance in the water and letting Shaq take a few shots. From the photo, it looks like he's floating in mid-air. You can see how clear the water is!

The tiger and the leopard saw him enter the water, and Employment jumped off and swam around him excitedly.

Qin Shiou finally caught the two little guys, Sha Ke 'clicked' and pressed the shutter, and there was another series of photos.

After making trouble for a while, Qin Shiou turned over and got on the boat. In the distance, the fishermen on several fishing boats observed them with binoculars, and when they saw Qin Shiou playing there, they thought it was a tourist. But wait for Qin Shiou to get on the boat. Rods were erected on their fishing boats.

When leaving Halifax yesterday evening, Shaq went to buy two boxes of frozen herring and mackerel. He put on gloves and took the small fish to the board, used a quick knife to make four parts, and began to make zuò bait.

Although the shallow water is beautiful, it is impossible to catch big fish because big fish do not appear in such a conspicuous place.

The sea monster was very experienced in choosing a place with a water depth of about 40 meters, and then dropped anchor and cast bait, warming up for work.

Qin Shiou immediately released the Seagod Consciousness, and he wandered around for a while, not only looking for fish, but also looking for the two sunken ships that Billy Ste had told him.

George Shoal is not very large, and it is a shallow sea area, so if there is a shipwreck treasure, it should have been fished away a long time ago. So why are there two shipwrecks here that have not yet been found?

The reason is simple, both of these wrecks are small boats, small wooden boats. According to the inspection of the Osside company, the two boats are a small sampan with a length of 6 meters and an ordinary wooden fishing boat with a length of 10 meters.

The sinking of these two ships is not the same thing, the small sampan sank in 1915. It was a Navy ship carrying American Gold Eagle coins from New York to Arcadia on the Maine border, carrying a total of 50 naval officers and 40,000 Gold 1907 Eagle coins.

As a result, George Shoal had a lot of shallow reefs, and the Navy ship ran aground while sailing here.

It was raining heavily that day, and after the officers and men of the navy sent out a distress signal, they hurriedly moved the gold coin box to a sampan, and an officer led two soldiers to escort them out of the place first.

When they were rescued from the half-sunken warship, they found that the officers and soldiers who had left first had died, and the sampan carrying the gold coin box had disappeared.

A foremic examination of the officers and soldiers revealed that they had no wounds and had drowned. In this way, it is almost certain that the sampan fell over in the storm that night, and the gold chest fell into the sea.

However, the sampan was so small that the U.S. government successively dispatched naval salvage teams to search for it, but they couldn't find it, and the civilian salvage team came to search for more people, but they still didn't find this box of gold coins.

However, this is how the fishery resources of George Shoal were discovered, and a fishing company that came to salvage gold saw that there were such abundant fish here, so it directly changed its goal and fished out of gold, which led to the development of the salvage industry here.

The other ship was named the USS Frikenstein, which sank much earlier, during the Civil War.

At that time, President Lincoln announced the abolition of slavery, which caused the dissatisfaction of many large plantation owners, and a large plantation owner living in Concord City wanted to move from the sea to the southern region where the anti-Zhengfu army was concentrated, with all his wealth and gold and silver.

As a result, Frikenstein also encountered Waterloo in George Shoal, and only two children escaped from the family of six. According to the child's description, their boat ran aground and sank in the waters of George Shoal, and they must not remember the exact location.

Over the years, countless salvage teams and fishing boats have come to George Shoal to try their luck, but none of them have been lucky enough to find the two wrecks.

Slowly, people lost interest in the two boats, and they all speculated that the two small boats were probably covered with sand on the seabed, and it was impossible to find them.

What Qin Shiou wanted to do was to find them. According to the information given to him by Billy Sturmer, the treasure on these two ships, any of which is worth more than 20 million dollars, is a huge amount of money, and it has to be tempting! (To be continued)