Chapter Ninety-Five: Diving for Flaw Detection
Early the next morning, a considerable number of veterans and naturalized people gathered near the port, and most of them had come to watch when they heard that underwater flaw detection was going to be carried out today. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
At this time, the three masts were poking on the road to the entrance and exit of the Oriental Port, and there were many sail ropes and sails hanging crookedly on them. This was none other than the Medeno Navy's Overlord battleship, and two of the other three warships surrendered directly to the Senate because they were blocked in the harbor; The bottom of the other battleship, the Vincennes, was seriously leaking, and the captain had no choice but to direct the battleship to rush to the beach, and by this time it had run aground on the beach about a kilometer south of the port of Vostochny.
At this time, there was no dry dock in Vostochny Harbor, so the battleship could only be allowed to run aground on the beach like a hatching hen, and the traces of the day of the battle were still vivid, either the ship's planks that had been blasted by spring guns, or the bulwarks full of holes by machine guns, and in some places even coagulated and blackened blood and broken cloth.
"Why don't you deal with that ship now?" Li Yuan began to put on a diving suit while curiously asking Lin Chuanqing, who was also in the diving suit of the boat.
The veteran sniper team shined in the defense of Champa Port, and Li Yuan, as the veteran with the most effective shooting in the sniper team, received a Senate commendation, but other than that, he didn't get any prizes. Before he could protest, he was transferred back to Orient Harbor by a paper order.
This veteran participated in the shooting team at a university in the old time and space, and he was quite talented in shooting live targets, and he also participated in the shooting report performance of military training. But he also has a few skills that others don't know - he is a strong swimmer, and he loves diving so much that he even goes to diving training while working, and he also obtains a PADI junior diver license, which can work at a depth of 18 meters.
Of course, no one in this plane cares about diving licenses or anything, but a veteran with a diving license is definitely better than a "brave man" who jumps into the sea with a black eye. Of course, Lin Chuanqing, who went into the water with Li Yuan, is also a veteran with a PADI license, because he grew up and lived in a heinous US imperialist country, so he has received more systematic training, and he has a rescue diver's license at this time, so this seabed survey operation was commanded by Lin Chuanqing.
Lin Chuanqing is a legendary veteran, born in the United States and living on the West Coast since he was a child. Unlike his parents, he did not choose the path of opening a restaurant or becoming a gangster, but joined the army after graduating from high school and served in the Coast Guard. During his service he was assigned several times to serve on the Coast Guard's sailboats, and since then he has fallen in love with sailing ships uncontrollably. Of course, he was in service with clippers, not the sail warships they were going to scout now. After retiring from the army, Lin Chuanqing flexibly began to use the rich sailing experience he had cultivated in the Coast Guard - organizing smugglers to cross the Pacific Ocean so many times that Xue Ziliang and Sarina recognized at a glance this guy who was also smuggling arms while organizing smuggling, and there were countless criminal records in them.
Later, he met Lin Shenhe by chance at a fellow villagers' meeting, and learned that he could participate in an expedition to open up a new world, so he participated in this crossing operation without hesitation. He has extensive naval experience since participating in the crossing, serving in the Navy and commanding Cruiser III. He has always missed the pleasure of battling the wind and waves on the flying clipper ship, so he has always advocated the Senate Navy's flying shear patrol ship plan. However, because the infrastructure of the entire Dongfang Port is being rolled out in an all-round way, there is neither manpower nor material resources to carry out shipbuilding work, and the captured ship, whether it is the Chunxiao or the five-masted sand ship that has been eaten by the Ministry of Commerce, is not a warship at all in his eyes at this time, so he did not participate in the election of the commander of the sailing ship at this time, so that Yang Junbo became the first sailing captain.
However, after the end of the defense of the Oriental Port, his mind suddenly became active, four sail warships were sent to the door to be captured and sunk, and there were absolutely few people in the Senate Navy who had experience in commanding sail warships, and he said that he was second in line, and he would definitely not be able to find the first. Even Yang Junbo, the first captain of a sailing ship, could only be blind when he got on this large sail battleship at this time, so he would definitely be able to command one of these warships.
At this time, he was stuffing the respirator into his mouth and trying it, everything was normal, and after communicating with Li Yuan and waiting for the survey route, the two boarded the small rowing boat.
The rowing boat was captured directly from the Medeno Navy, and at this time rowing on the dinghy were several naturalized soldiers of the Senate Navy, and two other veterans of the Navy were in charge of command and coordination.
In order to familiarize himself with the underwater shipwreck, Lin Chuanqing took Li Yuan to walk around the captured battleship a few times and had a detailed understanding of the situation inside the ship, so as to avoid danger due to the situation of getting lost in the ship. In order to prevent poor communication on the surface and underwater, they also brought a mobile phone in a waterproof bag, which can be contacted underwater by typing or taking pictures, so that they can communicate in real time.
But at this time, the ship sank into the sea at a depth of 12 meters, and the two thought that they might not be able to see clearly about 10 meters below the surface of the water, but according to the silhouette of the wreck in the clear water that could be seen from the small rowing boat at this time, they could even use lights to work underwater.
"I'll go," Li Yuan stretched out his hand and patted it gently in the seawater, "The environment here is really good, you see that there is no pollution in this water at all, it is simply crystal clear." ”
"Yes, look," the patriarch pointed to the fish that were still swimming freely under the water. "Remember the first day we landed here, right?"
Lin Chuanqing laughed, "Of course I remember, there are sharks." Li Jieqi was directly slapped from the boat with the butt of a gun, if it wasn't for the timely rescue of the motorboat, I am afraid that he would have been bitten by a shark as a fast food. ”
The four elders laughed together, and Li Yuan even caught a glimpse of Li Jieqi in the distance who was waiting with a telescope in his head, he had no idea what was being said about him here.
"According to the prisoner's confession, it was a bullet that was damaged and sunk in the waterline of the port side of the shipwreck, so we will go directly to the port side of the sunken ship later, and first go around the ship to check whether there are any other wounds." Lin Chuanqing discussed with Li Yuan.
"No problem, wait a minute, are the two of us together or apart?"
"Let's act together, if something happens, we can help each other, if we are separated, there is no way to shout under the water." Lin Chuanqing smiled and made a decision.
In the distance, there are two or three people on small rowboats who are sprinkling shark repellent drugs into the water in the distance, this is not the old time and space, although 8154 has been patrolling and fishing vigorously since the crossing, but in recent months, there have been several shark attacks in the Oriental Port, injuring a few naturalized people who accidentally fell into the water, and an unlucky person who didn't know where he came from was bitten so that he couldn't even recognize his mother.
In order to guard against sharks, the two finally chose to bring spearguns and daggers fired underwater, which turned out to be absolutely unfounded.
"Look! Those two chiefs are in the water! In the exclamation of the naturalized people who were onlookers, Lin Chuanqing and Li Yuan fell backwards into the sea and disappeared directly into the water.
Li Yuan, who entered the water, was still a little uncomfortable with the cold sea water for a while, but he had already moved his hands and feet before diving, so he was not afraid of cramps or something. He looked around underwater, the water was quite clear, and the wreck in the water was very clear. The waves drove the plankton to float at will close to the surface, and a few jellyfish probably sensed something approaching and drifted away.
He followed Lin Chuanqing to swim down to a depth of six or seven meters, which was already the side of the ship, although this was the seaside, there were still many sea fish swimming in schools among the wreck, and he even saw a squid probing his head peeking out of a cannon window.
Li Yuan thought this scene was quite interesting, took out a camera wrapped in a waterproof bag from the shoulder bag on his waist, and was about to take a picture of the squid, Lin Chuanqing patted him on the shoulder and made a gesture to continue diving.
They quickly found the broken place in full light, and Lin Chuanqing took out a long rope with knots every other meter. He grabbed one end and made a gesture for Li Yuan to grab the other. Li Yuan grabbed the other end, and the two immediately began to measure the size of the broken point.
After a while, the joint salvage headquarters received the photos and materials from the water, and Liu Yeqiang looked at the laptop screen on the desktop and read: "A broken point has been found, three meters long and two meters wide, okay." He hurriedly sent a message to the people underwater, "Please check whether there are other damaged positions on the bottom of the ship, and you also need to check whether the keel of the ship is damaged and whether there is a need to repair it." ”
Li Yuan received the news and patted Lin Chuanqing on the shoulder, Lin Chuanqing looked down, shrugged helplessly, made a gesture, and took the lead around the sunken ship and began to cruise.
The two men carried twelve-litre bottles of compressed air, which generally lasted twenty to thirty minutes of breathing time underwater. It's been ten minutes since they've been in the water, and to be on the safe side, they're going to float up and replace the cylinders after going around the boat to check for other gaps.
It took them about twelve minutes to circle the wreck, and when they were sure they found no other gaps, they prepared to float. At this time, Li Yuan stumbled upon the only gap in the wreck, and a colorful-looking fish poked its head out to look this way. He felt sorry that he hadn't taken a picture of the squid that probed his brain before, so he didn't care about it at this time, and directly took out his camera and pressed the shutter on the fish with this probe.
The flash on the camera shone under the water, startling the fish, and it quickly turned around to escape, when suddenly a bloody mouth came out of it and swallowed the fish directly into its mouth. At this time, the two could not see more clearly, this is the nightmare of underwater divers - sharks.