Chapter 665: Lifting the bar to cure seasickness
"Hahahaha, that's right, he's a woman, very strong, Sister Cavill!" The big-bellied Philip sat next to Cavill, and as soon as he heard Hong Tao's words, he reached out and touched Cavill's chest, and made a very enjoyable appearance.
"You damn pervert! Let me touch it too, or I'll break your arm!" "Cavill was molested, and Hong Tao was too far away from him to reach him, so he could only take revenge on the big-bellied Philip.
The meal lasted until more than 10 o'clock, and then everyone returned to the lavender farm from the city, because there was a game the next day, so everyone did not talk more, and took a shower and changed clothes to sleep.
On the second day of the race, the weather changed, with light rain falling in the port area and much stronger winds on the sea than on the first day. However, according to the sea conditions and sea conditions provided by the Sydney Meteorological Observatory, the competition was decided to go ahead as usual, so the 29 fishing boats set off again against light rain and strong waves, and two of the three fishing boats that broke down yesterday have withdrawn from the competition.
As soon as the fishing boat sailed out of Storm Bay, Hong Tao knew that it might not be better today. The sea ahead was almost united with the overcast sky, and the waves were at least 2 or 3 meters high, and although Captain Babu had tried to keep the bow of the ship against the waves, the boat was still swaying from side to side.
There is a saying in the sea that if you are not afraid of the waves, you are afraid of the swell, the waves just make the boat sway, but the swell can make the boat swing up and down, back and forth, so that the people on the boat are like a roller coaster, the three-dimensional axis is changing, the brain can't be counted at all, so dizziness, nausea, vomiting are all coming.
The first one who couldn't bear it was the big-bellied Philip, who hadn't come out of the toilet yet, and Arrbrough hadn't made it, and then the two bathrooms in the main cabin and the bottom cabin began to line up. After breakfast, Hong Tao took an anti-motion sickness medicine made in Australia, and his performance was not bad, and he carried it until the last one before running to the back deck and spraying it into the sea.
Of course. Captain Babu is not counted, although he is old, but after all, he has been rolling on the sea for so many years, and the comfort of a warship is worse than that of a civilian ship, he can even adapt to a warship, and this kind of small wind and waves must be no problem.
What to do if you get seasick?
No trick! Or you can hurry back and get back to shore. Either you just endure it, and you can't just drink water and not eat in order not to vomit, you have to eat when you should eat, and you have to drink when you should drink. Otherwise, it is more troublesome for the body to become dehydrated.
"Babu, will this storm last forever?" Hong Tao didn't want to stay in the main cabin, because it was uncomfortable to see others vomit in his stomach, although the flybridge shook even more, but he preferred to stay here, first, to smoke casually, and second, to chat with Babu.
"It should last more than 10 hours, and here is close to the westerly wind belt, and there is a tropical cyclone just south of us." The Báb saw Hong Tao smoking. He couldn't help but stuff some tobacco into his pipe.
"What is a cyclone?" Hong Tao is still not too uncomfortable, and he still has kung fu knowledge.
"It's also called a hurricane or a tropical storm, don't be afraid, it's still far away. And it won't go north. "The Báb is familiar with the knowledge of the seas.
"When you were in the Navy, did you encounter such a cyclone?" Hong Tao felt that chatting could really be a distraction, and his stomach was not so uncomfortable.
"It has been encountered many times that this westerly wind belt extends all the way to South America. The winds are strongest in the summer, and I once caught a force 11 wind with a wind speed of 30 meters per second. No one can stand on the deck. "Babu leaned back on the dashboard in a comfortable position, swaying as the boat swayed as if enjoying a rocking chair.
"I know a Canadian Navy Colonel, he also drives a warship, what kind of warship do you drive?"
"Did he serve on the East Coast or on the West Coast? If it's on the East Coast, I'm sure I know him, what's his name? When the Báb heard this, he was intrigued.
"He served on the West Coast."
"Oh, then I don't know, I've never been to the West Coast, I've driven a lot of warships, I worked on submarines before I became captain, have you heard of the Ali Burke-class destroyer?"
"I've heard of it, it's a missile destroyer, and it has an Aegis radar." Hong Tao is a military fan, to be precise, a pseudo-military fan, that is, he is interested in seeing any military equipment, but he resolutely does not want to study it in detail.
"That's right, it's the best fleet air defense destroyer in the world, and it's not weak in both ground and sea attacks." Babu finally had a topic he was good at talking about, and stuffed a bucket of tobacco into it.
"Not necessarily, Russia's modern-class destroyers may not be able to beat the Ali Burke class, it has SS-N-22 supersonic anti-ship missiles, your Ali Burke class is just a subsonic Harpoon, it should be the modern class is more powerful." Although Hong Tao did not like Russia either, he was even more disgusted with the bragging of US imperialism in front of him, and immediately began to raise the bar.
"It can't be compared like this, the Ali Burke class is dominated by fleet air defense, and the modern class is dominated by sea control, and it cannot be compared separately." Of course, Babu could not say that his warships were worse than the Russian ones, and immediately brought out naval expertise to refute Hong Tao.
"If you want to compare, you have to compare one-on-one, you can't follow an aircraft carrier formation behind you and deal with someone else's modern class, right? Let's assume that without satellite support, without fleet support, a Hyundai-class and an Ali-Burke-class meet in this sea area, who do you say can beat whom? "Hong Tao didn't talk to him about any naval expertise, it was purely looking for abuse.
"This kind of assumption basically does not exist, you are not hypothetical, this is a fantasy, will you use a ground attack aircraft to compete with an air supremacy fighter to fight for air supremacy? A fool would do that, and Australia is an ally of the United States, and Russian warships have no chance of winning in these waters, and it will not choose to fight us here. Babu didn't take Hong Tao's role and directly rejected Hong Tao's assumptions.
"Well, let's stop fighting here, let's switch to the Bering Sea, that's the border between you and Russia, you met there, who can beat whom?" Hong Tao continued to dig a pit for Babu.
"In this way, it is likely that the same will be the end, the radar of the Ali Burke class is more advanced, the electronic jamming equipment is more powerful, and the anti-jamming ability is stronger, but the modern class of anti-ship missiles is more powerful, the most reasonable situation is that we first discovered the modern class, and then launched the Harpoon missile, and soon the modern class also discovered us, and then launched the SS-N-22, and the two sides hit each other, boom! It's all over. Babu was still fooled, and began to say along with Hongtao's assumptions.
"That's not necessarily, there are also short-range anti-aircraft missiles on the modern class, it's the SS-N-20, right?" As soon as Hong Tao heard that Babu had been fooled, he immediately began to mess around.
"It's the SS-N-12, and the 630 close defense system, but that doesn't guarantee 100% destruction of all Harpoon missiles." Babu disdainfully helped Hong Tao correct the missile model, and by the way, he first denied what Hong Tao was going to say later.
"You can't say that, a Harpoon in the modern class is estimated to be seriously injured at best, the Ali Burke class can't defend against the SS-N-22 at all, and one of them will have to be crippled, and besides, it will definitely not launch one, your warship is 100% finished, and the opponent's warship still has a chance of survival, and the possibility is relatively large." Hong Tao ignores his mistakes at all, he is afraid of people like Hong Tao, he knows everything, you can't ask him a sentence or two, once he lets you lead you crookedly, he will drown you with ever-changing questions.
"Short-range air defense weapons are not so effective, you haven't seen the exercise, so you don't understand, you see, for example, this is your warship, this is my warship, and now I found you in advance, then I can have several options, I can launch the Harpoon......" Babu asked Hong Tao to seduce the real fire, sat up straight, and began to explain to Hong Tao the way of naval operations, but as soon as he started, he was interrupted by Hong Tao.
"Wait, don't fire any harpoons yet, do you see if these are schools of fish?" Hong Tao was originally facing away from the bridge, but now he asked Babu to demonstrate, but instead of facing the bridge, he didn't look at Babu on the GPS, but first glanced at the fish finder on the right.
"It should be, this school of fish is huge, it can't be that the probe was damaged by the waves, right? How can there be so many large-sized fish? Babu followed Hong Tao's hand to look at the fish finder, and didn't care about the Harpoon missile, he lay on the fish finder several times to debug it, and even turned it on and off again, and the fish were still moving at a speed of 15 knots in front of the right.
"Bad bad bad, we hit the jackpot! Paul! Paul! Don't vomit, the big fish are coming, go to the back deck! Hong Tao yelled at the staircase leading from the flybridge to the main cabin, and then ran down the ramp at the back, because they had just been out to sea for less than 50 minutes, most of them vomited profusely, and they didn't have time to prepare to take the bait.
Hong Tao's movements were very fast, and when Paul and Cavill staggered out, he had already hung up his float and was helping Philip take the bait, and the big man vomited so much that he probably couldn't get out.
"What school of fish? Will there be fish in this kind of ghost weather? Paul's Caucasian face was almost like a Chinese, but he was stronger than Philip and could stand up and walk around.
"It's called before the wind and after the rain, and the fish is not enough to understand, right? You two don't have to worry about anything else, just help me keep an eye on the point, in case I get on the big guy, I won't be able to do it alone. Hong Tao looked at the appearance of the two of them, and knew that he couldn't count on it, but one more person is considered a person, it is better than one person.
"We can't help here, so I'll go up and make the boat for Babu, and let him come down to help you." Paul also knew how much effort he still had to save, so he barely climbed onto the flybridge and replaced Babu. (To be continued......)