Chapter 232: The Walrus at the Yellow River Station, the Diving in the Arctic Ocean
On the way, we also saw the 10,000-year-old glacier, which was really white.
There was also a small island nearby, and the captain asked Su Ming if they wanted to play kayaking?
Looking at the dark water, Hu Liping didn't dare to get off the kayak, and just wanted to stay on the cruise ship.
However, Lao Su is different, he does not admit defeat, he is already eager to try, and he can't wait to play.
Mainly this is different from driving, kayaking is still very interesting, but he is a little embarrassed to leave Hu Liping on the cruise ship.
So, he tried to convince the latter to give her a try.
Anyway, it's all out, wouldn't it be a waste if you don't give it a try? Besides, after this village, there is no such shop in the back.
Hu Liping, who was entangled and couldn't help it, finally agreed.
Kayaking is still very interesting, and the sea breeze is not very big, as long as you do a good job of keeping warm from the cold, pay attention to safety, etc., basically it is not a big problem.
Several Nordic chefs and Lao Ye and other bodyguards were all dispatched, and each got on a kayak, not far from Su Ming's neighborhood, ready to rescue at any time.
In the afternoon, there are blue skies and white clouds, the weather is good, except for the sea breeze is a bit strong, everything is fine.
A few strokes on the surface of the sea require a lot of force, the water is cold and there is a lot of resistance.
Mo Weiyu and other little girls are very fun-loving, smiling and playing one by one, only Hu Liping is calling on the side, asking everyone to pay attention to safety.
While Su Ming wasn't paying attention, Mo Weiyu's cold little hand game reached into his back, which immediately made him tremble.
Cold!
Then the moment she turned around, it was a silver bell-like laughter, Ji Siyao and Su Mengmeng all looked at this side with a smile.
Of course, Su Ming fought back, and for a while, the sea was full of their laughter.
After playing for about half an hour, everyone took a lot of photos, and then everyone returned to the cruise ship and continued to set off.
The target, of course, is Barentsburg!
Barents Fort was named in honor of Barents. It is the second largest settlement in Svalbard and is second only to Longyearbyen's in population.
It is populated by militants and Ukrainians, and the nearby mountains are rich in coal mines. It's just that because it's far from the mainland, it has less political influence.
The island is small, with only one main street, mainly for mining trucks, and the streets are lined with former battle clan buildings.
Barentsburg's docks are very small, with a broken dock crane already in Dala's head, with a visual lifting capacity estimated to weigh no more than 30 tons, and a few idle rusty containers.
All of this means that this place is really very desolate.
Su Ming and his party just walked around the island, then returned to the cruise ship for the night, and returned to Longyearbyen City the next day.
Since the next step is to go to the polar regions, the climate in the polar regions is much harsher than Barents Castle, Longyearbyen, etc., so Su Ming and the others will only play nearby for a day or two before going to the polar regions.
Otherwise, it is easy to cause discomfort.
After resting, on the third day, the Arctic adventure finally began.
The North Pole refers to the northern end of the Earth's axis of rotation, and in general, the Arctic region refers to the area within the Arctic Circle at 66 degrees north latitude.
It's like a world of ice and snow in a fairy tale, with a white expanse everywhere.
Of course, the ice-covered areas are concentrated in Greenland, and the Arctic Ocean sees only a small number of glaciers, and only as you go towards the North Pole, there are more and more glaciers.
It was another boring sea voyage, and it was only the next day that the cruise ship arrived and landed in Nova-Ålsund.
The area around is covered in snow and ice, and even though it's the end of May, it's still covered in snow and ice.
The mountains in the distance are basically wrapped in ice and snow, and the white expanse is also quite beautiful.
New Ålsund is home to the International Centre for Arctic Studies, home to fifteen international Arctic observatories.
Since there is not much contact with the outside world all year round, the arrival of Su Ming and his party has added a lot of vitality to this place.
Huaguo's observation station here is called the Yellow River Station, and the stationmaster warmly received Su Ming and his party and introduced the basic situation here in the polar regions.
The members of the expedition team were not there, and they all went to the glacier to conduct polar scientific research, which made Su Ming a little regretful.
The conditions here are really very difficult, not to mention the rest, you can't take a bath every day.
According to the stationmaster, they often take a shower once every ten days and a half months, and even sometimes, when the scientific research task is tight, they don't take a bath for several months.
When Hu Liping and the others heard this, they were dumbfounded, they haven't taken a bath for a few months?
It's terrifying!
After chatting with the stationmaster for more than half an hour, Su Ming and his party went out to wave again, mainly to take pictures.
After all, this area is deserted, and even the animals and plants are pitifully few and boring.
Of course, in places covered with ice and snow, building snowmen, having snowball fights, etc. are quite interesting, especially southerners like Su Ming, who have rarely seen snow.
Among the group, even Ji Siyao, a northerner, was very interested in snow.
Everyone was wearing bloated jackets, shoes and everything was velveted, and the warm hats were not taken off for a moment, and it was really cold outside.
After playing for more than an hour, everyone finally couldn't stand the cold outside, and they were about to rush to the cruise ship.
Just like before landing in the polar regions, everyone once again went through the work of disinfection and dusting, and all the clothes including shoes, cameras, etc., had to be cleaned up, so as not to bring any species that do not belong to the polar regions to the Arctic continent, or to avoid bringing Arctic species to places that do not belong to him, and disrupting the balance of the biological chain.
Everyone thinks it's amazing, it's too strict to do that.
If you hadn't been to any of these places, you wouldn't have known there were such rules.
Therefore, everyone actively cooperated and did not cause trouble to the captain!
During the trip, in addition to watching the scenery, fishing and taking pictures, the life on the cruise ship is also very rich, and it will not make everyone bored.
During the trip, Ji Siyao told everyone some popular science knowledge from time to time, and the experts and tour guides invited by Mo Shiying will also explain the geology, biology, history and birds of the polar regions.
If you are really bored, you can also play landlord fighting, etc., in short, Mo Shiying arranged the whole itinerary very clearly.
Although a lot of knowledge is not used in daily life, it is the so-called reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles.
Isn't it just to increase knowledge?
, it's about increasing knowledge, but in fact, most of the time spent on the trip is spent in boredom.
On the Arctic Ocean, Su Ming and they landed on an ordinary island in a rubber boat on this day, because there are wild walruses on this island.
The fangs of this animal are very long and look very fierce, but when they don't show their fangs, they look cute and silly, and they are also a little cute.
Everyone stepped on the ice chips and excitedly took out their mobile phones or cameras to shoot, and even the experts couldn't help but take a selfie.
Mo Weiyu held her Canon SLR camera and recorded the walrus lying on the ice and lazily enjoying life.
Su Ming is taking pictures of his parents, and the second elder likes this kind of travel photo the most.
The sea walrus didn't care that they were photographed by humans, and they were completely disdainful of the arrival of Su Ming and their group.
It's just that Mo Shiying, who is very bold, actually leaned forward to shoot, and her style of not being afraid of death scared everyone a lot.
Mo Shiying, who was scolded back by Su Ming, was a little aggrieved, and immediately shared the photos she took with the former.
Mo Weiyu looked at this scene with a smile, then raised the camera again and continued to take pictures.
However, Su Ming was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat!
Mo Weiyu's gaze was too sharp, he was playing with fire, although he had no unsavory relationship with Mo Shiying.
But he was inexplicably flustered, especially Mo Shiying's flirting from time to time, which made him regret it even more, he knew that he shouldn't have taken her on this trip, but Lin Huizhu.
After keeping a distance from Mo Shiying, Su Ming couldn't care about the former's resentful gaze, and concentrated on taking pictures of Mo Weiyu.
Their small actions all fell in the eyes of Su Mengmeng, some people gloated, some people were envious, and some people watched coldly.
It's all adults, everyone understands, it's just that everyone is silent and pretends to be stupid, as if they didn't see it.
Hu Liping and Su Zhenguo naturally didn't think they didn't see it, and even suggested to Su Ming, why don't you get rid of this assistant?
The latter is speechless, it is impossible to open it, if it is really opened, isn't it three hundred taels of silver here?
Besides, if you recruit another assistant to come back, won't Mo Weiyu doubt it?
If you recruit a male assistant, he Su Ming is not crooked, why should he wronged himself?
If Mo Weiyu really suspected him Su Ming because of this, then she was too stingy, right?
Such a girlfriend, no matter how beautiful she is, don't want it!
After leaving from the island, someone proposed to dive, this proposal was approved by many people, and Su Ming also wanted to sign up, but unfortunately he was stopped by Hu Liping and Su Zhenguo.
The temperature is now minus three or four degrees, and the sun in the sky is fierce and a little dazzling, but it does not bring much warmth.
The temperature of the sea is very low, about minus four or five degrees, and it already takes a lot of courage to swim in winter, let alone dive in the Arctic Ocean!
Lao Ye and several other bodyguards were eager to try, while Mo Weiyu and other girls stood aside and watched.
A total of three bodyguards, two experts and several Nordic chefs participated in the dive, all with a rope tied to their bodies.
In the midst of the wolf howling and ghost howling, the sound of falling water is so lively.
This icy sea, where there is no sound except the sound of the wind, finally ushered in the long-lost cheers of human beings.
Su Ming looked very hot, and he was anxious, and he also wanted to participate.
The Queen Mother and Lao Su grabbed him to death, and even Su Mengmeng next to him was watching, and even Ji Siyao was reluctant to let him go into the water.
Mo Weiyu didn't think it was anything, if it wasn't for the wrong occasion, it was estimated that she would have gone into the water.
After all, she still has a little bit of an adventurous spirit, not to mention that she loves sports so much.
Finally waited for the first person to jump into the water to come up, and after the other party rinsed it with hot water, Su Ming hurriedly ran over to interview the other party, what did he feel.
The bodyguard had purple lips and a pale face, and the two bodyguards next to him were drying him with a high-powered hair dryer, but he still felt cold.
"When I first jumped in, I felt that there were tens of thousands of silver needles piercing my skin all over my body, and it was cold and biting, I was completely supported by perseverance, and after swimming for a while, I felt that I had no strength in my body....."
Hearing this, Su Ming was not frightened, although the other party said that it was very painful, but such an experience is rare.
Life is about experiencing something different.
It's like in a playground, some people like to play roller coasters, swing machines and other thrills, but there are also people who like carousels and other emotional items.
Hu Liping chased after her, pointed to a bodyguard who had just come up from the blue blackened water, and said:
"Naruko, look at it, these lips are purple like this, it seems that she can't speak, don't scare your mother, okay?
I asked your assistant just now, and the assistant translated the captain's words, what is it? ”
At this time, Ji Siyao's voice came:
"A hero who has lost his basic judgment and has a water in his brain!"
"Yes, yes, yes!" Hu Liping praised again and again, exclaimed, and then continued to pull Su Ming's arm, bitterly:
"Naruko, don't go into the water, okay?"
The latter was speechless, and went out to play with his mother, that's it, many projects can't be played at all.
"Mom, don't worry, I will definitely protect myself, only go into the water for half a minute, okay?"
"No, no!"
The Queen Mother shook her head, like a rattle, there was only one purpose, that is, not to be allowed to go into the water.
It's just that it didn't take long for the two mothers and sons to bargain back and forth, and it became a topic of launching time.
By the time the Queen Mother reacted, Su Ming had already stripped herself naked, leaving only a pair of shorts, trembling slightly on the rubber boat.
After all, he is everyone's boss, boyfriend, son, and the person everyone cares about the most.
Therefore, as soon as he appeared, everyone immediately became nervous.
Lao Ye hurriedly cheered up the remaining bodyguards who had not dived and were ready to rescue at any time.
At the same time, Ye Shuchen personally tied a rope to Su Ming, and did not allow others to step forward, becoming extremely cautious.
The two female bodyguards were even sent by Lao Ye to prepare hot water, towels, etc., in short, their job was to ensure the safety of the boss.
This excitement also attracted other people on the ship to watch, and several Nordic cooks and captains also became melon eaters with great interest.
For the Nordics, they are very familiar with the waters of the Arctic Ocean and often dive when they are young.
But the older captain didn't have that idea, and only a few younger Nordic chefs would think about diving for fun.
Mo Weiyu's eyes lit up slightly, and she also wanted to come over and dive together, but unfortunately Su Ming stopped her.
How can a girlfriend get into the water?
No way!
Double standard man, hum!
Despite this, the corners of Mo Weiyu's mouth curled up, and she stood aside and waited for Su Ming to dive.
Poof!
There was a sound, a splash, and then everyone only saw the figure of a white flower under the water.
The moment he got into the water, Su Ming's brain was dizzy, it was really cold!
The bodyguard before was not wrong, it was really too cold and biting. Su Ming felt that there were more than tens of thousands of silver needles, at least hundreds of thousands!
It's horrible!
However, Su Ming's willpower is not bad, he opened his eyes, paddled his hands and legs vigorously, and swam quickly.
The sea is dark and deep, and you can't see far at all.
There are a small number of fish and shrimp in the water, which are crystal clear and colorful, and they are quite beautiful.
Su Ming didn't snorkel in the water for long, and soon surfaced and swam on the surface of the sea.
His body's energy was rapidly draining, and he could feel his arms heavy.
It's only been a short ten or twenty seconds, and the erosion of people by the icy sea is really very fast.
Just after he came to the two butterfly strokes, all his strength was drained all at once, which was too terrifying.
He had no choice but to end this short Arctic Ocean diving trip, slowly swim back to the rubber boat, and then be wrapped in a towel.
I wanted to speak, I opened my mouth, uh, I couldn't make a sound.
The waters of the Arctic Ocean, which are four or five degrees below zero, have been cold for tens of thousands of years, and they are really strong.