Chapter 824: The Fishing Boat Calls for Help
Subsequently, Sun Hongzhi sent some divers to mark and investigate the wooden boxes scattered underwater, so as to provide a number of jรน for the next salvage.
After completely figuring out the location of the wooden boxes scattered nearby, a team of six divers dived to the bottom of the sea again to clean up some silt and seagrass near the wooden boxes, and then the divers and underwater machine Qร worked together to fix the cables of the salvage equipment to the boxes.
After the people learned about the situation on the seabed, Sun Hongzhi gave an order, and the floating crane equipment began to run slowly, and the box was directly lifted out of the seabed silt, and then, several divers held a nylon steel wire mesh to cover the box completely, and then tightly fixed it on the cable.
This is also to prevent the box from breaking away from the cable and then sinking to the bottom of the sea during the salvage process, these nylon wire meshes are composed of thick nylon ropes and steel wires, which can carry a very large weight, which is also purchased with salvage equipment when the shipyard is refitted.
With the fixing of the nylon net, the salvage officially began, and the floating crane began to slowly pull the box up, and one of the underwater machine Qร people has been following around the box in order to observe the condition of the box.
After nearly half an hour of salvage, the first box was salvaged out of the water, and a burst of cheers broke out at the scene.
After the box was salvaged, Chen Yi opened the box, although the appearance of the box was not broken, but a small part of the porcelain inside was broken, and after one or two hundred years of soaking in seawater and buried by silt, the glaze was damaged, and the surface of the glaze seemed to have taken off a layer of skin. The footlet is soaked in seawater for a long time. A layer of age oxide is formed. That is, a layer of slurry-like objects was formed on the original tire, which is the mark of the age and the characteristics of Hailao porcelain.
After appraising the pieces of porcelain in the box, Chen Yi made a judgment that in this box, there were more than 70 complete small pieces of utensils, which were fired in the kiln. The quality is okay, according to the information after the system's identification, the overall value of the porcelain in this box is between 500,000 and 1 million, according to his estimate, it is estimated that it is between 500,000 and 600,000, and the value of each piece of porcelain is 6,000 to 7,000.
According to his previous general identification, there were many batches of porcelain of varying quality in this wreck, and this one box has been salvaged now. It should be medium, while some are of good quality. and fine porcelain from folk kilns.
As for the official kiln porcelain, he also found some, but the most valuable one was still the Celestial Sphere Bottle that was found by the treasure hunting rat before, which was worth fifty to one million years ago.
Originally, Jiaqing's national strength was weak, and the quality of porcelain was not very good, although it was said that the kiln produced by the kiln was not much different from the official kiln, but under the same quality, in terms of value, it was the highest value of the official kiln, and the official kiln porcelain that sank in the seabed and was soaked for one or two hundred years was worth between 500,000 and 1 million, so if it was intact, the value should be millions.
And Jiaqing porcelain, millions of them, can be said to be very small, most of them are below 100%.
The value of the present does not mean that it will be in the future, for the maintenance of Hailao porcelain, Chen Yi also specially consulted his master, and there are some ways to make Hailao porcelain slowly restore its luster, at that time, the value of these porcelains will increase significantly.
In the following afternoon, some of the boxes scattered near the wreck were completely salvaged, and there were as many as 30 boxes in total.
Fifteen of them are porcelain, eight are tea, and seven are silk, and because the tea leaves are scattered on the bottom of the sea and fully soaked in seawater, a large part of the tea leaves have been oxidized and depleted, and it is okay to be exhibited as cultural relics, but as for drinking, it is impossible.
Among these things, porcelain is undoubtedly the most valuable, the characteristics of porcelain make them only glaze damaged, the others are still intact, tea and silk, is different.
The whole fifteen boxes of porcelain, among which there is no private kiln fine porcelain, there is no official kiln, the quality is different, those private kiln fine porcelain and official kiln porcelain, I am afraid that it is the top priority of this trade, so it was placed in the innermost part of the cabin, and it was not scattered, and the overall value of these porcelains reached more than five million, which is also a very amazing value.
So far, the boxes and items scattered around the wreck have been basically salvaged, and the whole wreck will be salvaged tomorrow.
Chen Yi found a dry room without sunlight, and put the salvaged porcelain and items in it, so that he could wait until he returned to carry out maintenance and restoration work.
Looking at these salvaged things, Chen Yi sighed and smiled, his salvage has really taken a solid step from now.
It is believed that with the help of identification and treasure search, as well as these marine animals, he will definitely find more shipwrecks and bring these treasures that have been buried for hundreds of years or even nearly a thousand years back to the world.
At night, the dazzling lights on the cruise ship made the surrounding merchant ships a little surprised, not knowing what this luxury cruise ship was doing on the sea, so they sent radio signals one after another, asking if they needed help.
The staff on duty, naturally, thanked them and said that they did not need any help.
On this day, many soldiers slept very peacefully, they were still worried that if they couldn't salvage anything at sea, their job would probably be a little unsecure, and the treatment given by Chen Yi was very generous, much better than changing jobs after they were discharged from the army.
And now, the discovery of a shipwreck has relieved them, and there is a slight chance that they don't want to give up the job.
After a night, the next morning, the crew began to get busy, preparing to salvage the wreck as a whole.
Before salvage, the silt around the wreck must be cleaned up, and then the pontoons must be placed to lift the entire wreck off the seabed, and then it is like a salvage box, covered with a huge nylon wire mesh, and then the whole ship is hoisted up with a floating crane.
This ship is still relatively small, and if it is replaced by some large merchant ships, with their equipment, I am afraid that the whole ship will not be salvaged at all.
After the salvage began, Sun Hongzhi sent more than a dozen divers to the bottom of the sea to carry out dredging work, and what made Sun Hongzhi happy was that during the two-day salvage process, there were no large fish to harass, otherwise, it would be a little troublesome.
If Chen Yi knew what Sun Hongzhi was thinking, he would only shake his head and smile, there were no large fish, it was because many fish nearby had been tamed by him, plus there were a few sharks, dolphins, plus a huge whale, and a large number of sailfish with a fierce temperament, even if it was a great white shark, he would not dare to set foot here.
Chen Yi looked at the equipment room for a while, and then went to the deck, using identification techniques to identify the situation on the seabed, and these divers would rotate every once in a while to prevent accidents.
At this time, the walkie-talkie that Chen Yi was carrying rang, "Boss, boss, please rush to the cab, there is an emergency to report to you." โ
Hearing this voice, Chen Yi's face tightened, knowing that this was Sun Hongzhi's voice, and asked him to rush to the cab, not the equipment room, presumably it was not that there was a problem with the submarine salvage, that is, there were pirates nearby, he did not hesitate, and quickly rushed to the cab.
"Brother Sun, what's going on." As soon as he entered the cab, Chen Yi asked directly.
"Boss, listen to this." Sun Hongzhi pointed to the cab's PA system, and then pressed a button.
"Urgent distress, urgent distress, this is Qionghai No. 09056, we are Hainan fishing boats, currently attacked by pirates, ...... our location is ......."
Hearing the helpless cry for help on the radio, a wave of anger surged up in Chen Yi's heart, "Boss, what should we do, according to the information we received, my country's maritime department will take thirty minutes to reach their location, and we are salvaging ...... now." โ
"Brother Sun, have you forgotten who you are, not only a Huaxia person, but also a Huaxia veteran, how far away we are from them now." Chen Yi directly interrupted Sun Hongzhi's words, and then said with a straight face.
The South China Sea is very chaotic, he knows it, but he didn't expect it, but it is so chaotic, how can he watch these fishermen being attacked by pirates and ignore it.
"Our position, if we're full throttle, is only eight minutes away from them." Hearing Chen Yi's words, Sun Hongzhi, who was a little worried that Chen Yi would not go, suddenly said with a solemn face, and some crew members in the wheelhouse next to him looked at Chen Yi with a touch of excitement on their faces.
As Chinese soldiers, it is their duty to protect their families and defend the country, even if they are retired now, but that sense of glory is still in their hearts, of course, if Chen Yi chooses to continue salvage, they will not resist the order, and now, Chen Yi's words completely resonated in their hearts.
"Inform the undersea diver to get back to the cruise ship as fast as possible, and then give me the fastest speed to go." Chen Yi said categorically that he must rush to the place as quickly as possible.
And the location where this incident happened belongs to the territorial waters of China, but those pirates are so rampant, if Chen Yi doesn't meet it, it will be fine, now he has met it, there are his own compatriots there, how can he turn a blind eye, not to mention that he has just started to prepare for salvage now, even if the hull has been salvaged halfway, he will put the ship into the bottom of the sea and go to the rescue.
The divers, who were dredging the seabed, immediately surfaced, and then the cruise ship lifted anchor, slowly drove as fast as possible, and headed for the location in the distress announcement. (To be continued......)