Chapter 118: Operation Penglai No. 1, Torpedo Mining? (Ask for a subscription!) )
"One hundred and seventeen deep, in good condition!"
"Depth two hundred and three, in good condition!"
Zhao Hongyi listened to the people on the side and nodded with satisfaction, "Release the fourth batch of robots!" ”
"Yes!"
"Release the fourth batch of robots!"
On the other side of the cargo ship, the container is opened.
One by one, the marine robots came out.
Walk to the side of the cargo ship, jump off the ship, and enter the sea.
Not far away, the huge Penglai No. 1 was erected there, and five robotic arms operated one piece of equipment to be put into the sea.
Several small tugboats stabilize the equipment and release it accurately to the bottom of the sea.
In another place, a huge conveyor belt carries iron ore with seawater to the cargo ship.
A steady stream of ore is extracted from the seabed and then transported on a conveyor belt to the Penglai No. 1 warehouse, where it is transferred to cargo ships.
"How many batches are there?"
"Manager, it's the fourth batch, and the Ministry of Transportation has increased the number of cargo ships, so we can only say that the amount of ore is too much beyond our imagination!"
"Hmm" Zhao Hongyi did not deny this.
Zhao Hongyi has been to this iron mine several times to confirm its storage.
This iron ore vein is mined at a depth of 150 meters and belongs to the surface ore, which is the existence of an open-pit vein.
There is only a layer of silt on the surface, so the mining progress is very fast.
At present, more than 300,000 tons have been transported back.
And more and more ore is still being mined.
It seems like a lot, but 300,000 tons can be refined into two tons.
The purity of the ore on the surface is too poor, and the extracted iron will have a very large amount of moisture.
Therefore, now Zhao Hongyi ordered to add a few more mining points and mine a mine hole.
Direct mining of iron ore with higher purity.
And these impure iron ores will be transported back to be refined.
Most of them can't be refined, yes, but now the Blue Company needs a lot of stone materials.
These impure materials, after refining the iron element, can provide a huge amount of stone materials for the construction of the blue sea mouth of the blue company.
A protective embankment is currently being built at the Canglan Sea, which requires a very large stone material to isolate it.
Although there are in Fucheng County, many of them do not meet the needs of protective embankments.
And the associated rocks of these iron ores are, to a certain extent, to meet this demand.
Therefore, although the purity of the iron ore mined now is not high, it still costs to pull it back.
On the seabed 150 to 280 meters below the seabed, there are 50 marine robots at work, and now a fourth batch of 20 is being released.
And there are six miniature unmanned submarines to monitor the surroundings.
The Penglai No. 1 mining site is exactly the center of Xisha Island, Dongsha and Huangyan Island, and it is not very long from the border.
However, it is rarely visited here, after all, there are many trenches in this area, and there are no abundant marine resources, even fish rarely live in this area.
For a few weeks of working here, only six ships have passed by, and two of them are the two 052C destroyers of the South China Sea Fleet, which came to take a special look!
The remaining four boats, all fishing boats, rushed to the Dongsha waters to fish.
"Manager, you have dug something, come and see!"
Zhao Hongyi frowned, "I know, I'll be there soon!" ”
Came to the warehouse of Penglai No. 1.
When I saw the strange thing I said, I was stunned.
"This ......"
"Call Luo Yu over immediately!"
"Yes!"
Luo Yu, the person in charge of the accompanying Blue Security, is part of the Third Combat Brigade of the Blue Security.
"I'll go ......" Luo Yu came here, and when he saw something, he was directly startled.
"You're a professional, you have to deal with it, if it detonates, it may ......" Zhao Hongyi didn't know what to say.
Ordinary employees don't understand, but Zhao Hongyi can't understand that this is special, it's a torpedo of more than 500 mm.
On the surface, it is likely to be a product of the last century.
"This is? Mk48 wire-guided torpedo? ”
Luo Yu is a retired member of the Navy, and it is precisely for this reason that he served as the person in charge this time.
"Is it dangerous?"
Luo Yu didn't speak, squatted down, and examined carefully.
Suddenly, Luo Yu found something and frowned, "Bring the device!" ”
"It's the captain!"
It rang out.
Luo Yu's face changed greatly.
"What's wrong?" Zhao Hongyi had a bad feeling.
"This torpedo is still operating, you see here, maybe it was stuck by something when it was dropped, so it couldn't be detonated, but now we have dug it out, and we have removed this hurdle, to put it simply, this torpedo may explode at any time!"
"What? No, Penglai No. 1 is a very important existence of the company, and this hidden danger must be solved! ”
Luo Yu didn't understand this.
"Now that the device has been activated, any touch may detonate the torpedo, and the torpedo can only be diverted by the towing device!" ”
After Luo Wei finished speaking, he immediately asked his people to bring the traction device.
The huge traction device is a kind of magnetic levitation, which causes a floating situation, and then realizes the traction work through micro-** advancement.
It is mainly used for equipment transportation.
"Be careful!"
"Slow down, slow down!"
Successfully levitated the torpedo.
Luo Yu and Zhao Hongyi both breathed a sigh of relief.
Rumble......
Suddenly, an explosion rang out.
The entire Penglai platform was a sensation.
"Not good!" Luo Chen's face changed, and he looked at the torpedo nervously.
Fortunately, the torpedo did not fall.
"Quick, let people check what's going on, and transfer the torpedo out immediately!"
"Manager, the radar has found a huge thermal energy response underground, which may be a symptom of an underground volcanic eruption!"
Before I could go out to investigate, someone had already run in to report.
"Leave him alone for now, get the torpedo out first!"
Zhao Hongyi listened to Luo Wei's words and nodded.
"A few more people, take a hand, and get me the torpedo out!"
"Yes!"
During this period, there were several underwater explosions, and the Penglai platform shook very much.
Fortunately, when the Penglai platform was designed, the transmission of large rocks was considered.
Even if it is a pipeline channel, it can also be one meter and five wide.
The transport corridor is five meters wide.
Four micro-UAVs are suspended in mid-air.
The tightrope fell.
Several people hurriedly fixed the steel cables and torpedoes.
Then the operator in the distance slowly raised the torpedo.
During this period, everyone was worried, but fortunately, there were no accidents with the torpedo.
Smooth lift-off.
"The explosion of the Mk48 wire-guided torpedo is very powerful, transport the torpedo to 20 nautical miles away and then drop it to ensure that it will be detonated!"
"Yes!"
Four micro-drones carefully transported the torpedo to a distance of twenty nautical miles.
"How can a torpedo get sucked up? Do I remember having recognition? Solve the problem of torpedoes, Zhao Hongyi immediately asked.
"Manager, we don't know the specifics, we are currently investigating the specific situation, and we have taken pictures of all the robots underwater, and I believe it will be ...... soon."
Before the words were finished, an even bigger explosion rang out.
A small tsunami was formed, impacting Penglai No. 1.
The people above shook up.
A few people were unstable and were thrown out of the platform and fell into the sea.
"Hurry up and save people, let the unmanned submarine go over and check the situation, what happened!"
Zhao Hongyi felt that there was something wrong, it was impossible to explode continuously.
The two unmanned submarines, having received the order, began to accelerate and move towards the explosion zone.
"The drone is on standby, dispatch the third team, and go to the place of the incident!"
"How?" Zhao Hongyi looked at Luo Yu suspiciously.
"Torpedoes may still be useful!"
"Let's go, let's go see the situation!"
Zhao Hongyi nodded, and walked back to the control center of Penglai No. 1 with Luo Yu.
More than 50 pictures clearly show the situation on the bottom of the sea.
"Link to the Third Flying Squad screen!"
"Yes!"
After a few operations, there are twelve more on the screen.
At a very high speed, it is heading northeast, and there is a presence close to the national border.
"Hyperbaric life response detected, individual organism, mass half a million?" The man in charge of the vital detection device suddenly screamed.
"What?" Luo Wei's face changed drastically and walked over.
Seeing the data, the quality of life is indeed 500,000.
Quality of life to assess the size and strength of a life.
Generally speaking, there is only three or five hundred mass.
And now, there is the existence of an individual mass of half a million.
How not to shock Luo Chen?
"The underwater temperature has reached at least one hundred and twenty degrees, and there are no fish schools around, and the depth of the water is about seven hundred meters, and the presence of ultra-high temperatures is detected, which is suspected to be a sign of volcanic activity!"
"Close!" Luo Yu gave the order directly.
The two nodded, operating the unmanned submarine to approach.
"Captain Luo, look ......" Zhao Hongyi pointed to the big screen and was stunned.
In the control center, everyone looked at the picture in shock.
The third team arrives at the target area.
Look down from the air.
The entire surface of the sea seems to be dyed red.
You can see that under the sea, there is a red mass.
That's magma.
"How is that possible? The plates in this area are very stable, and the only submarine volcano is near the Zhongsha Islands, and this area is completely the existence of a seabed? How can there be a volcano? ”
Now, judging from the picture, this shows that this is the case of an undersea volcano eruption.
However, the equivalent of the outbreak is obviously not that large.
Despite this, at a depth of 700 meters, the magma at the bottom of the ocean can still be seen from the surface.
A huge red dot is expanding.
"Calculate the diffusion velocity immediately, will it have any impact on Penglai No. 1?"
"Yes!"
More than a dozen people hurriedly began to calculate the speed of the magma.
"That's?" Luo Yu looked at the picture and suddenly saw a huge black shadow move.
"Am I dazzled?"
"After the calculation is completed, the magma velocity moves to the northeast, and it does not have any impact on Penglai No. 1, but if it spreads at the current speed, in 39 hours, the magma will spread to the Philippine waters, and may even spread directly into the land, and then it will ......."
"Hey, so this could be a catastrophe?"