"We're going to the Devil's Passage, we have to do something, right?" The pilot stared at the navigator, and a few hours earlier, the yaw warning lights had been flashing, and by this time the light green icon for the ship and the dark green icon for the dangerous reef were already less than 1 nautical mile apart, which was quite a dangerous signal in such a climate.

"Damn, hasn't the poor eight generations woken up yet?" The captain picked up the phone, but the first mate on the other end of the phone looked at Chen Badai, who was still sleeping, and replied neatly: "No!" ”

"You'd better get over to the cockpit, and get everyone back to their posts, I'll just say it's a goddamn event!" The captain shouted, I can't care so much at this time, let's save my life first.

"Turn on the engine! Put away the anchor chain and turn the course! The captain ordered.

The Virgen turned its engines back on, and the crew heard the familiar vibrations, and their hearts calmed down slightly.

"Bang Bang ......" The Holy Maiden suddenly shook.

"Damn! What's wrong?! The captain asked anxiously, a shrill siren ringing in his ears.

"It looks like the anchor chain is stuck." The driver looked at the control panel.

The anchor chain of the Virgen had been dragged to the bottom of the sea for a long time, and was pushed away by the storm and the currents, and one anchor was now hooked to the stones of the seabed, but the other anchor chain was smoothly retracted, and this anchor hooked on the bottom of the sea made the Virgen tilt to one side, just in the direction of the storm and the waves.

"Bang!" There was another loud bang, the Virgen slumped to the left, and the captain saw a huge wave rushing towards him and smashing into the glass on the side of the cockpit, and the angry waves tried to crush the Virgen to the bottom of the sea!

"Put the anchor up!" The captain shouted, it was not a good thing for the side of the ship to face the storm and the waves.

"I'm trying!" The first mate pressed the button to retract the anchor again, and in the storm he could clearly hear the "crunch" of the windlass working hard, but the fault light was still flashing.

After a while, the windlass's overheating alarm lights also sounded, and several sirens sounded in the cockpit, making the captain even more agitated.

"Loosen the anchor chain! Engine half speed! Turn to the headwind! The captain shouted, and as soon as he finished speaking, another great wave struck, and the hull of the Virgen seemed to be about to be flattened, and some of the fixed cables of the materials on the deck, which were very strong, were broken, and the supplies, along with the waves, fell into the sea and disappeared.

"The ship can't turn! The anchor chain is stuck! The driver shouted.

The captain hurriedly ran over and saw that several modules on the control panel were now in a red state, the windlass was overheated, the anchor chain was stuck, and the navigator yaw indication kept calling, the captain tried to make the windlass reverse and loosen the anchor chain, so that the Saint Maiden had more room to turn, but the windlass did not seem to understand the captain's intentions correctly, it was still trying to tighten the anchor chain, the overheating indicator light flashed, the alarm light kept stopping, and the captain tried to cut off the windlass power again, but I don't know what was going on, it didn't even succeed, While the captain was scrambling to troubleshoot, a long alarm sounded, and the windlass on the control panel had been crossed in red.

"The windlass burned! Damn it! "The captain saw this fault light on and knew that the windlass was not saved.

If there is a windlass failure in normal times, you can stop the ship for repair, even if the anchor chain is stuck and cannot be recovered, the worst case is to cut the anchor chain with a welding torch and lose an anchor, but the current situation is even worse than Captain Stanley imagined - the anchor is stuck on the bottom of the sea, and the failure of the windlass has been tightening the anchor chain, which makes the left bow of the Saint Maiden sink, and the short anchor chain limits the turning space of the Virgin, plus the storm and waves, the Saint Maiden is basically centered on the anchor chain now, Shaken by the wind and waves.

"I knew it wasn't going to make a lot of money!" The captain did everything to save the Saint-Maiden in a bad situation, and under such wind and waves, the left bow of the Saint-Virgen sank, and it could not sail against the wind, and the ghost knew which wind and waves came over, and the Saint-Maiden was photographed into the bottom of the sea to accompany the sea god Poseidon!

"Second mate, take the welder, go to the anchor cabin, and cut off the anchor chain!" Captain Stanley struggled with the pilot to control the Virgen's posture as he grabbed the phone and told the second mate to quickly cut the damn anchor chain.

"Are you sending me to death?" The second officer roared!

"Get out of here, or we'll all die together!" The captain yelled in a louder voice!

Although the second mate was reluctant, he took a few men with him, put the welding torch on his back, and stumbled down the passage to the anchor compartment in the bow.

The bow of the Saintess has basically been dragged close to the sea surface by the anchor chain, and a large amount of seawater pours into the ship along the anchor chain window, which further aggravates the posture of the bow sinking, and the second officer wants to cut off the anchor chain, first of all, he has to wade through the chest-deep seawater, but in such a shaking ship, people are like ants thrown into the toilet, and they can't stand at all!

The second mate can't do anything, he has to find a way to pump water! But the problem comes again, usually the anchor chain window is the water pump, at this time the left anchor chain window is close to the sea surface in the gushing water, the pumping generator is also soaked in the seawater, to pump out the water here, the second officer has to lead people to connect the water pipe, the idea of letting the sea water from the right anchor chain window out.

"Damn! Why haven't the anchor chains been cut yet?! The captain waited for a long time, and the engine power of the Virgen went from half power to full power now, but it was still centered on the anchor chain, and it was blown irregularly by the storm.

"The water is too deep, and the pumping machine is broken again...... second mate reluctantly reported, several of them worked as hard as they could for 20 minutes, and although they succeeded in connecting the pumping machine, it seemed that more water was pouring in than it was pumping, and the water level in the bow of the ship had risen a little.

"Anyway, you've got to find a way to cut the anchor chain, or we're all going to die in this damn place!" Captain Stanley cursed, and the Virgen drifted helplessly under the attack of the storm and waves.

As soon as the captain's voice fell, a huge wave hit, the captain only heard a loud "bang", and the tightly sealed cockpit suddenly poured into the seawater, the power of this huge wave was too great, and it smashed the flash glass of the porthole, and the sea water carried by the huge wave poured in from the porthole, and the people in the cockpit suddenly became soup chickens.

The captain began to miss the navy ships that had served in the past, and the navy's ship anchor chains were designed to be discarded, and when the anchor was stuck, the anchor chain could be thrown off, but this damn saint did not have this function.

Caught in waves and storms, the Virgen swerved in circles around the stuck anchor, the captain, the pilot, and the first mate struggling to control the Virgen's posture, but the power of nature makes the steel machines of man seem so small.

The crew of the Virgen who had been battling the storm for more than an hour was exhausted, but the wind and waves did not seem to let them go, but grew stronger and stronger.

"Full speed ahead! Drag anchors! Taking advantage of the wind and waves to slap the Virgen in the direction of the wind above the bow of the ship, the captain ordered the engines to run at full speed, trying to drag the anchor chain out of the stuck seabed at high speed.

Under normal circumstances, in a storm, the ship's side of the ship has the largest force area on the wind and waves, and no captain would risk the ship turning on its side, so when the storm comes, the ship is full of horsepower, using the bow of the ship to the direction of the wind and waves, so as to reduce the force area, but Captain Stanley almost lost control of the ship, and now the waves have taken the Virgen to a suitable position, he does not want to lose this golden opportunity.

The Virgen steered hard, the engine roared, and the propeller paddled desperately, defying the power of nature.

"Crash Alert!" The bow of the ship had just been aligned, and the captain was horrified to see a wall of water pressing towards the cockpit of the Virgin, and he slapped the button of the impact alarm with all his might, and his hands clutched the handrails on the instrument console, ready for the impact.

The crew members who were struggling in the cabin had just heard the piercing impact siren, and before some people could grasp the fixing objects around them, they felt their bodies sink down violently, as if they had been beaten into the eighteenth layer of hell, and before they could react, the ship shook violently, and the ballast in the cabin was released and rolled in the cabin......

……

"Ah, what a sailing day!" When the storm cleared overnight, Tchaikov paced the foredeck of the Princess Sirapel and sighed as he looked at the clear blue sky.

"Tchaikov, we're passing by the K87 drilling platform, do you want to go and have a look?" Captain Roger stayed up all night, but he still maintained his full strength, and when he saw Tchaikov appear on deck, Roger shouted through a megaphone.

"Hey, that's of course......" Tchaikov muttered to himself, thought for a moment, and made an OK gesture into the cockpit.

"Turn! Let's get to the K87 drilling platform first! Captain Roger cocked his pipe, leaned himself comfortably into the captain's bench, and ordered.

Mr. Min didn't sleep well all night, although the drilling platform was as steady as Mount Tai in the storm, and it didn't even shake, but the howling wind outside and the roaring waves made Mr. Min unable to sleep, and before going to bed, the supervisor repeatedly apologized that he didn't take care of himself, but the other workers on the platform were lukewarm to them, and this gap in enthusiasm made Mr. Min feel that there was always something wrong.

Mr. Min took advantage of the fact that the storm was decreasing and finally slept for a while, and when he woke up, the storm had passed, Mr. Min looked at his watch, it was a quarter past 12 o'clock at noon, according to the plan, he had completed half of the journey at this time today, and he should meet Chen Badai in two days at the latest, but two storms in a row made his trip delay again and again.