Volume 2, Xuanhai Immortal Mountain_Chapter 189, Diving
Seaplanes are such things, I used to have a glimpse on TV, today I actually sat in the real thing, then again, this seems to be the first time I took a plane to the sky, that feeling is also very cool, put my head out, the wind blowing in my face straight to my mouth. Luo Qiong next to me was more desperate than me, and I almost wanted to climb out but was pressed back by the fat man.
"What's that down there? What a big project, huh? I shouted at the driver.
"Here's one of the excavation sites, and where the wreckage of the Treading Wave may be found right now." The driver replied.
I calculated, from getting on the plane to this place, we had to fly for half an hour, of course, the speed of the seaplane is not as good as those large planes, but the speed is not slow, no matter what, it must be more than 150 kilometers per hour, that is to say, we have to fly for half an hour, it is almost 70 or 80 kilometers.
The enormity of the whole project made me secretly admire Sha Lao's ability, using a drilling platform, that is, the whole platform is a technical platform and engineering used to explore and extract oil on the water. There were a lot of people, I glanced in the air, and there were people everywhere. There was also a lot of equipment, and I even saw relatively large mining and lifting equipment, surrounded by three large ships, and I estimated that it must be a large ship of 10,000 tons.
After landing, a speedboat came to pick us up. After boarding, several men in black overalls hurriedly greeted him, and when he saw Sha Lao, he hurriedly nodded and said: "Sha Lao, the exploration is going well, our underwater sonar equipment has reacted, and some relatively large objects have been found about fifteen meters underwater, and it is inferred that it is not a reef or a coral group, it should be something similar to a shipwreck." Then we sent three teams of divers to a depth of about 15 meters, and we were very happy to find that it was indeed a wreck, and it was a wooden structure, with an iron skeleton wrapped in the middle, and this technology I believe should be similar to an ancient ship. ”
"Very well, when will the salvage begin?" Sha Lao's face was expressionless, and he didn't seem to have much reaction to the excitement of the few people in front of him.
"This, I encountered a little problem...... the person on the other side was stunned for a moment, showing an embarrassed expression. Sha Lao asked strangely, "What's the problem?" Is the equipment malfunctioning? ”
"No, it's because we found out that it's probably old, even the metal skeleton is rotten, and if we try to salvage the whole wreck, it's very difficult, and it might cause the whole wreck to collapse. Also, if we consider having an airbag to lift the wreck, this is fine, but it will seriously affect the progress. ”
"Oh......" Sha Lao hesitated for a moment, and then heard me say, "We are looking for logbooks and maps, there is no need to fish up the whole ship, go down and find the cabin where the logbooks and maps are kept, and salvage them." After all, the cabin can be lifted separately and sealed. ”
"Yes, that's what we mean." Several people were obviously worried about disappointing Sha Lao, and immediately nodded at me gratefully after I gave me a plan.
Sha Lao glanced at me and said, "Then there will be labor." ”
I smiled awkwardly, it was like lifting a stone to shoot myself in the foot, and the heavy work finally fell on me.
I've never trained to dive, so diving and swimming are two different things. First of all, the body should be good, the water pressure is not a joke, of course you dive down one or two meters, of course it's okay, dive down six or seven meters is a feeling, dive ten meters or so that normal people can't stand it. Secondly, the lung capacity should be good, of course, I can't hold my breath and rush down, and I still have to wear an oxygen cylinder. Then there is good eyesight, the water is muddy, especially near the sea, there is often some garbage under the water, it is not surprising, the water is muddy, dark, and there are often reefs, if you are pushed by the reef, it is no joke.
I sat on the edge of the speedboat, next to a few divers who were about to go down together, and a few of them looked at me with smiles and said, "How are you swimming?" ”。
I nodded truthfully and said, "It's not very good." ”
"Haha, then try not to fall behind, otherwise we will have to come back to save you." The guys had a wicked smile on their faces, and I glanced at them, but didn't say anything more.
I heard someone shouting: "The oxygen cylinder can only last for two hours, the pressure gauge and the capacity gauge are in your hands, remember your position when you go down, we have made a mark with a glow stick below, you can follow the light stick to reach the shipwreck location." Alright, ready, get in the water! ”
I leaned back, and an upside-down onion came and fell into the water.
Actually, I'm not good at water, and my palm opened immediately after going down, but I still know that if you want to control your body, you can't be nervous, the more nervous you are in the water, the easier it is to fall, and you can control your body by taking it easy. But I was really not a good swimmer, and after a while the other divers were out of the way and headed for the glowing spot ahead. I'm still scratching around, like a monkey that has fallen into the water.
"Damn, swim so fast one by one, if Lao Tzu can walk in the water......" I cursed in my heart, but I didn't expect to be stunned when my thoughts turned to this sentence.
I'm different from them, they have good water but Lao Tzu can use gas, in the water Lao Tzu uses the power of water to control the surroundings, isn't that the same as walking on flat ground?
After fumbling for a while, I wanted to pull out the knife and stab the surface of the wetsuit on my hand for a long time, the quality of this wetsuit is good, and it has not pierced the fiber surface for half a day. The palm of my hand doubled, and the breath began to pour out through the palm, and I could clearly see that the clothes on my hand were slightly bulging, and then the faint qi began to leak out, and the water flow around me changed slightly, as if there were two plates supporting the soles of my feet, driving me a little bit into the distance.
"Okay, that's the right time!" The two currents in the soles of my feet weren't very strong, but it wasn't a problem to hold me on. I started to make my way towards the glow stick, and I vaguely saw a couple of divers. One of them looked back at me and saw that I could actually walk in the water, and I could see his eyes through the diving goggles, as if he had seen a ghost.
I easily overtook it, and walked to the end of the underwater glow stick mark, in front of me it was a huge ship, I thought about the appearance of the Treading Wave, and I had seen a large cargo ship of 10,000 tons, but I have to say that when I saw this huge ship underwater, even though only the wreckage remained, I was still shocked by it!
"Fuck, it's huge!" I thought to myself.
I was standing next to the Treading Waves, and the hull was generally well preserved, but it was badly damaged in many places, and many areas were connected to the reef. Without Sha Lao's hull construction diagram, it would have been almost impossible to find a logbook.
I started to go inside the hull, where the logbook should be stored in the center of the ship, with displacement tanks on either side, in order to best protect the most important cargo holds.
I peeled open the wood, it was dark inside, I took two glow sticks from the package I was carrying, broke them in my hand, and threw them inside. The glow sticks shimmered green in the water, and the two light sources were wide enough that as I sank, I saw an incredible scene.
At the bottom of this huge ship of 500 meters, the green light illuminated a terrible hole, the diameter of which I measured by my eyes was more than twenty meters, and the whole hole seemed to have been pierced by someone with a conical hammer!
"Damn, what kind of monster did it, they didn't hit the reef so badly." I muttered to myself.
Walking down, the location of the cargo compartment on the design drawing should be near the middle, the third room, but in the green light, you can see that many places have been pierced holes, and the number of cabins cannot be distinguished, so you can only try your luck to find them one by one. As I started searching, a few divers behind me also arrived, and several people split up to search.
After about fifteen minutes or so, I suddenly saw a black shadow flash from the corner of my eye, and subconsciously looked back, but I saw nothing.
"Fish? Or is it a delusion" A question mark popped up in my mind.