Chapter Ninety-Four: Salvage Discussion
Although everyone wants to solve the problem of the wreck at this time, it is definitely not easy to salvage or remove a 3,600-ton shipwreck, even if it is a wooden ship. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 But this problem is the most important and urgent problem to be solved now, so -- these guys in the Senate still held a meeting for this purpose, and there were quite a lot of people involved in this shipwreck salvage meeting, not only representatives of the navy and army, but also representatives of heavy industry and light industry, and people from the technical department and the military industry department also sent people to participate in the discussion.
"Given that the tonnage of this wreck is at least 3,600 tons, and it sank on the seabed at a depth of 12 meters." Liu Yeqiang stood on the podium, behind him was a photograph of a slide projected on a screen. "As you can see," he said, changing the picture, "it's based on sonar mapping of the seabed, and the sinking of the wreck is quite gentle, and the current during salvage doesn't affect the hull too much, but the question is how to get the ship up." ”
Lin Chuanqing sat down and raised his hand and asked, "Can you use those two captured boats as a lifting platform and use the beams to scoop up this boat?" ”
"What kind of beam can carry a ship of three thousand six hundred tons?" A chubby glasses brother on the side asked weakly.
Everyone was silent all of a sudden, and they all turned their heads to the place where the sound came from, "So do you have a way?" ”
"Oh?" The person who spoke quickly shrank his head and pretended to be innocent.
"It's okay!" Liu Yeqiang hurriedly explained, "Of course you can put forward your opinions, the three stinkers have beaten Zhuge Liang, and they can work together to come up with a way." ”
"That's it," Zhang Yuan, who came to the meeting, sat near the rostrum, "Friends who have ideas can talk about it, don't worry." As he spoke, he looked at the bespectacled patriarch in the distance.
Brother glasses stood up, smiled at the focused eyes on all sides and nodded, "Hello everyone......"
"I'll go," someone below muttered quietly, "isn't that from the Department of Commerce?" Does this shipwreck have anything to do with the Ministry of Commerce? ”
"Why not? If the shipwreck is not removed, the ships of the Ministry of Commerce will not be able to get out, haven't you seen that the destroyers have been negotiating with the ships that come to make transactions outside the port these days? As long as the port is not open for a day, the Ministry of Commerce will not be happy for a day. ”
"But isn't this guy from a tea house?"
"Tea house? Which tea house? ”
"Dongfeng Tea House! You're not going to the Dongfeng, are you? ”
"Oh? It's Fan Wenrui! "Finally someone recognized the example.
"Ahem cough ......" example for everyone to focus on their own names feel a little dissatisfied, he has also been engaged in the management of Dongfeng Tea House for a month, in and out so many veterans can not remember their names, can't help but have a sad face, "I am the Ministry of Commerce stationed on the Dongfeng ship on the Dongfeng Tea House administrator, today I heard that there will be a meeting to discuss the salvage of the wreck, specially Mao recommended himself to participate in the meeting." ”
The whispers below came up again, "Salvaging the wreck is a matter for the Navy and the port department, right?" The Ministry of Commerce is supervising at most, right? What is he here for? ”
"Ahem......" The example had to cough twice again to interrupt everyone's muttering, "In the old time and space, I studied finance, and the work I did was also in investment and financing, but I have a salvage company at home. ”
The whispering below immediately stopped, and everyone's eyes were once again focused on the example. The salvage company is not just a few migrant workers who can do it, and there are quite a lot of aspects involved.
"Great," Zhang Yuan was so happy that he immediately sat up straight, no wonder Du Yande checked the list of participants and left the name of the example, "Among our five hundred people, there is really a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger!" Now the salvage of the wreck is a show. ”
"There are a few things to understand when salvaging this wreck underwater, the first is how damaged the ship is? Is it a keel fracture sinking or a water ingress at the bottom of the ship? Or did the upper deck catch fire and sink...... Oh......" Paradigm paused, and suddenly remembered the mast he had seen peeking out of the water as he passed the trestle during a meeting. "If the mast is intact, it must not be a fire on the upper level. Also, the distance between the masts seems to be the same as that of the captured ship, and there should be no keel breakage, so I speculate that the bottom of the ship was blown up and flooded. ”
"Yes," said the Navy's Ho Lin, standing up in agreement with his speculation, "the ship was about to flee that night, but was hit by a shell on the port side, causing a large amount of water to sink and sink. ”
"Then I want to ask if you want this boat?" Paradigm asked, pushing his glasses up on the bridge of his nose.
He Lin didn't understand his question for a while, and unconsciously sighed.
Paradigm smiled and explained, "I'm asking if your navy has any plans to repair the ship and reuse it?" ”
He Lin nodded hurriedly, "Of course, the navy has a lot of ideas about this warship, and the reason why it applied to the executive committee for two dry docks is to be able to repair this battleship while refitting the captured warship." ”
Paradigm nodded, "Okay, that's the second question, how big is the damage to this boat?" How to prevent the seawater from backing up again after it has been salvaged. ”
"We consulted some of the ship's carpenters about this, and they said that if we can salvage the ship and prevent it from sinking, we can repair it urgently at sea and prevent this by plugging the leak."
"So do you know where the bottom of the ship is broken or something?" As the example asks questions, he watches as everyone shakes their heads like rattles. "Since everyone doesn't know, we need to have divers go into the water to check the damage to the sunken ship first, and if possible, it is best to take pictures, so that we can make a salvage plan."
"And then?" Zhang Yuan was a little anxious, "How can we salvage the sunken ship with our existing conditions?" ”
"It's not a problem." Paradigm smiled, "I've seen a lot of salvage cases before, and I've participated in it. ”
Everyone sighed in unison, and Liu Yeqiang couldn't help but glance at Zhang Yuan and exchanged glances, "Good guy, you're still a practitioner." ”
"First build a platform with steel beams between two captured ships of the same type, and then use steel cables to fix the wreck on the platform, first load the ship with ballast, and then tighten the steel cables. Then the ballast is thrown, and the wreck can be pulled off the bottom of the sea by buoyancy, because the bottom of the sea is relatively gentle, so there is no need to worry about things like ocean currents affecting the safety of the platform. Then you can make the wreck surface first, and after the sea water in the wreck flows out, the weight of the ship will be greatly reduced. At this time, after sending someone on board to clean up and plug the leak, you can pull it to the dock. ”
"But at this time the dock is still on the blueprints...... "Someone below objected, "and we don't have cement that we can use to build a dry dock." ”
"Isn't the cement plant already in operation? Isn't the current executive committee building made of cement and brick? Someone below immediately asked.
"Those are earth cement, which is not waterproof, and if it is used as a dry dock, it will not take long to collapse."
"Oh my God...... the questioner rolled his eyes, "Feelings, the people who work in the executive committee building are all people living in dilapidated houses." ......," he paused suddenly, "what about the dormitory building we live in now?" ”
"It's also earth cement." The answerer waved his hand to stop talking, and quickly nodded at his example.
Seeing that the other party stopped talking, Fan quickly continued to explain, "It is definitely not possible to build a dry dock with soil and cement, but I heard from friends in the tea house that the equipment of the cement plant has been transported to the vicinity of the limestone mine and should be put into operation in the next year, so I don't think this is too much of a problem." In addition, the shipwreck can still float on the water after repair, if you don't worry, you can also put the boat on the beach, although it may damage the keel, but it will definitely not block the port and cause us trouble. ”
"But we don't have so many steel cables," Cheng Jun interrupted Paradigm's speech, "The steel cable is one less than one, especially if you soak in the sea, it is easy to be damaged after being corroded by seawater." In addition, there is a steel beam construction platform, we can use the steel at hand is really not much, the quality of the steel produced by the Oriental Iron and Steel Plant is almost every time, it is difficult to find so many steel products with the same performance to build a platform that can salvage the shipwreck. ”
"So?" The example was stunned, but immediately regained his confident posture, "Then the only way to do this is to use a more primitive method, salvage with an iron bucket." ”
"I've only heard of iron drum transportation, and iron drums can still be used for salvage?" Wu Yong, the representative sent by the army to the meeting, muttered to himself.
"Yes, the drums can be used for salvage, first fill the drums with water and fix them around the hull, and then fill the drums with compressed air so that the water in the drums will be drained. Empty iron buckets can float on the water, so the entire wreck will be lifted directly out of the water. ”
"And how many drums do you need?" Cheng Jun paused, and hurriedly asked, "And what kind of bucket are you talking about, the kind of liquefied gas tank that needs to withstand pressure or an ordinary gasoline barrel?" ”
"As long as there are large quantities, pig urine bubbles can also do it, hehe." Paradigm smiled, "Actually, there are no big requirements, as long as there is no gas leakage, ordinary gasoline barrels are enough." However, the quantity has to be calculated. ”
Cheng Jun breathed a sigh of relief, "We still have hundreds of gasoline barrels, and we have been consuming a lot of various fuel every day since we landed, and there are more and more empty oil barrels, which can be supplied to you openly." ”
Paradigm nodded, but someone next to him asked, "Compressed air?" Where are we going to get compressed air? ”
"Compressed air isn't a big deal." It was Liu Yeqiang who answered, "We still have an air pump, right?" He said and looked at Cheng Jun.
Cheng Jun opened his mobile phone and looked at the inventory information, "Yes, there are six air pumps, but one is broken." ”
"Broken air pump?" Zhang Yuan was stunned and asked, "How come?" ”
"How so?" Cheng Jun said that he was angry, "I don't know who borrowed it to blow soot for the car last time, and I actually took a new air pump that was not opened to use, and there was no lubricating fluid in it, probably because I found it broken and secretly sent it back to me, and when I found it, it had burned out the connecting rod and crankshaft, and you know that no one in our place can overhaul this thing, so it was just over." ”
Zhang Yuan was stunned, this air pump cylinder is useless as soon as it is broken, and there is no place to buy it at this time, so he has to sigh and say, "Don't worry about this now, first find a veteran who can dive to go into the water to photograph the damage to the sinking ship." ”