Chapter 9: Navigation Taboos (Part II)
Over time, it has become a deep-rooted habit, whether it is at sea, even if you return home, you don't mention these words, simply when there are never these words in the world, and when you sail, you also avoid whistling, which is a common taboo for fishermen and egg people, and fishermen and salvage teams are also taboo on the deck with their hands behind their backs, because the back hand portents "hit the back net", is a sign of no harvest, the "big master" on the ship can not sit, the bow can not sit, in short, there are many names and rules to count. Full // Ben // Small // Say // Net //
When I was in Fujian, the fat man and I also went out to sea with the boat a few times, and expressed full understanding and respect for these rules, but I didn't pay much attention to it, while the boss of the boat did not pay attention, I and the fat man deliberately sat on the big master, the big lord was the stake on the nail board, and there was no accident, but there were no rules, it was difficult to make a square circle, these nautical taboos, probably similar to the "rooster cries and lights do not touch gold" rules, in order to increase the safety factor, not deliberately harm people.
Shinley Yang also has a set of superstitious rules that she learned in the United States Navy, all of which say that the United States is advanced in science and technology, but in fact, when it comes to superstition, it is no more vague than that of fishermen and egg people, and their rules are even more bizarre, and even how to place the water cylinder for washing nails has a reputation.
Because of the different cultural backgrounds of the seas, the rules of similar maritime sailing are also very different, which really corresponds to that sentence, the seven of us are from all over the world, for a common goal to come together, for this common purpose, we have to make compromises with each other, otherwise the customs and taboos in the southeast and northwest are put in the same boat, this operation will have to be restricted by these many rules and regulations.
But some things don't believe in evil, and some taboos have existed on the ship for so many years, there must be a reason and value for it, and you can't care about anything. Worship "Mazu" as a god, and the rest of the taboos can be avoided, which is already very difficult, especially when we are used to saying that we are inverted, and we can only use the rules of moving mountains and reclamation to the sea.
At Shinley Yang's suggestion, I made Ruan Hei the captain of the ship, and he and Uncle Ming replaced each other to take charge of the boat, and this part of the voyage before approaching the Coral Spiral Sea. Will take the traditional and reliable way of sailing, the use of charts, compasses, theodolite, speedometers and other ancient tools, try to avoid the use of modern electronic equipment that is easily disturbed, Uncle Ming and Ruan Hei can judge the general route according to the direction of the current, experienced sea wolves know that the current in the sea is naturally divided into several strands due to different terrain, and the underwater aquarium also occupies its own environment to which it adapts, bounded by the direction of the deep and shallow current, and rarely crosses each other. By throwing a buoy, you can observe the direction of the current. The difficulty is not great, plus the weather at sea is very ideal, and the wind and waves are not alarmed. There should be nothing to worry about the first few days of the voyage, after the compass began to malfunction, and the sun, moon and stars were lost, it was Shinley Yang who moved mountains and reclaimed the sea where this technique came into play.
Everyone has the experience of going to sea, and has seen a lot of strong winds and waves, even if the waves are turbulent and the boat is undulating, there are no signs of seasickness and vomiting, but the sea is boundless, and after entering the deep sea, there are endless blue waters all around. Even a seabird is rare to see, although the sea willow ship Trident is not big, it is also divided into three layers, the middle layer is divided into five cabins in the front, middle and rear, the rear cabin is the largest, filled with a whole box of various supplies and water, the front cabin of the middle cabin is divided into two cabins on the left and right, the largest of which is used as a dining restaurant, usually everyone in addition to the armor on the breath. Most of the time to spend time here, the two sides of the Jin Pilu water cannon is also located in this cabin, this old-fashioned ship cannon is not used to deal with the bandits, but can be used to bombard and repel the big fish that suddenly emerge in the sea, so as not to be swallowed by the boat fish top overturned on the boat, the three layers of each cabin are equipped with a clairvoyant microphone, it is a kind of copper pipe connecting all the cabins, you can use it to quickly communicate with each other, the rest of the ships in addition to fuel is supplies, full of no space in the local area, Spending a long time on the cramped decks and cabins of a ship can be boring.
The only solution is to drink, there are few sea wolves who run the boat do not drink, Uncle Ming easily does not drink, but when it is his turn to take the helm, he must hold a bottle of liquor in his hand, which is a habit developed over the years, and he is high when he drinks, and after he is high, he talks a lot, as if he has changed a person, even if he talks about the success or failure of the world, the words are quite impassioned, from the sky to the bottom of the sea, but every time he comes to the end, he has to boast about how many times he escaped death in the wind and waves when he went to the South Seas, saying that he himself could not fight and could not afford to lose"Old sea wolf".
On this day, I was really impatient to listen to Uncle Ming's boasting, but I didn't want to go back to the cabin to sleep, and saw the fat man holding a telescope in the bow of the boat, looking at the place where the sky and the sea meet, I thought there was a lively thing to see, and asked him if he had found anything new, but the fat man was stunned, and he didn't care about answering, I also picked up my own binoculars and looked in the direction he was looking at.
I adjusted the focus of the telescope, the vision in the lens gradually changed from blur to clear, it turned out that the sea surface in the extreme distance was rolling in the waves, and the huge whale salamanders were emerging from the sea in groups, far away from each other, and they were all only barebacked, like black reefs in the sea, I had heard fishermen say that the bottom of the sea is big, not less than 100 meters, and the big coral trees are more than dozens of meters high, but that is all heard, we are the first time to see the rare whale salamander out of the water, we can't help but see God.
First, the hill-like fish were far away from us, and secondly, the Trident was not only fast, but also equipped with a water cannon that would swallow the boat, so we didn't have to worry about the giant whale drumming and capsizing, and it didn't take long for the fish ridge that was exposed to the sea to disappear.
The sea area we are sailing now, the sea is blue, it is said that the bottom is an unfathomable sea rift valley, the position is almost close to the coral spiral, one end of the trench is the "sixteen characters of yin and yang secret technique" described in the "southern dragon" into the sea vein, this trench is where the sea air breeds, how deep it is, with the current science and technology can not be explored at all, the degree that can be detected now is only about a few thousand meters, some people speculate that its deepest depth is not less than 10,000 meters, and it has not been confirmed until now, However, the world is still recognized as one of the "underwater abysses", and there are often incomprehensible mysterious phenomena, and the monsters of the aquarium form that can live under the deep seabed are so large that if they are not seen with their own eyes, it is absolutely unimaginable that those really vicious sea monsters in the sea are lurking in the area of thousands of meters below the deep sea, and sometimes they occasionally surface to prey, but they will immediately dive into the deep sea after a short time, otherwise they will be besieged by evil fish close to the surface of the sea.
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