Chapter 974: Drilling the Grove
The two of them walked and strolled, but they were actually surveying the situation of several docks. A lot of people means a lot of safety. Fan Keqin and Zhuang Xiaoman follow the flow of people every time, so naturally the safety will be higher.
There were several wharves in the port of Guangzhou in this era, and not many people could explain them clearly in later generations. The records of the information that can be found are also incomplete and not detailed.
Fan Keqin can be in it now, but he doesn't mean to count it clearly, because there are indeed many large and small docks. And there were too many small piers for some ships to stop near the sea, which made no sense to the purpose of his trip, and he didn't have time to count.
He and Zhuang Xiaoman are now mainly observing the deep-sea dock, or the cargo terminal. After all, his target is a warship, and it has a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, and it is impossible for this kind of ship to be parked on a small pier, and if it runs aground, it will be very laborious to be towed back into the sea.
Every time he sees a deep-sea wharf, or a large cargo wharf, Fan Keqin records the location of the wharf in detail in his mind. The surrounding environment and so on. He used the image memory method to be perfect, and now he can go to the field to see it, and the exaggerated statement is that the two eyes are like cameras, and after seeing them, they firmly imprint the actual situation in their minds. Unless he doesn't deliberately recall, he won't forget it even after a long time.
The specific topography of the wharf is basically relatively low, because of the sea level, so the surrounding area is a little mountainous or something, it will appear higher. This terrain is suitable for almost all marinas in the world.
After walking around the area, Fan Keqin and Zhuang Xiaoman had lunch at a small restaurant near the port. Then head straight to a higher terrain that has been well positioned in advance.
On the pier, it may be due to the flow of people, buildings and the like, and you can't see some of the higher terrain around you. But there must still be an open ground that allows people to see the situation in the distance. Fan Keqin and the two of them were like this, and when they were observing at the port, they also paid attention to the situation in the distance. In the end, a high ground with a grove of groves was chosen.
After arriving, Fan Keqin led Zhuang Xiaoman into the grove. The two men walked cautiously, came to the edge of the forest, and began to observe the situation in the harbor at a wide angle.
Zhuang Xiaoman doesn't understand this kind of observation too well. Therefore, he is mainly responsible for giving Fan Keqin the wind, and Fan Keqin will observe.
It is said that the appearance of Guangzhou Port is very different from the appearance of a few decades later, which is mainly due to the limitations of the times, and designers cannot exert such strong imagination and creativity. From Fan Keqin's current point of view, it seems that the port is not too big.
There is one deep-sea terminal and two cargo terminals. However, these places are on the left side of the entire port. This is also a normal phenomenon, and if it is designed by a layman, it will not be able to staggered the docks that can berth large ships with those ordinary small docks, which is really chaotic.
The cargo terminal is generally used for unloading some cargo ships of at least 1,000 tons, or thousands of tons, or even tens of thousands of tons. There is a flat land in front of the freight distribution, and when the work is done, the workers unload the goods on the ship to the flat ground first, and then there are trucks or something, and they are pulled away.
So the cargo terminal, although from the name, is for the transportation of goods. But in fact, there is no problem at all with a warship of 10,000 tons in size. It is even more convenient, after all, loading and unloading, what supplies are replenished for the warship, the closer, the faster the loading and unloading.
In fact, the deep-sea wharf was originally a passenger wharf, and at the beginning of the design and construction, it was used for the entire port to dock large passenger ships, cruise ships and other ocean-going ships. After all, people and goods must not be in one place, it is too messy.
But because of the limitations of the times, the cargo loading volume is not as vigorous as it was decades later, and how many tons or even tens of millions of tons are handled every day. Therefore, the deep-sea pier and the two cargo docks are not far apart, and they are less than 300 meters.
With all of this in mind, Fan Keqin began to observe the terrain on the left side of the farthest terminal. He's looking for a place that is hidden, safe, and inconspicuous.
You know, not everywhere is suitable for going to the sea. We are usually on the beach, watching the sea although there are waves, but we don't feel dangerous.
But you have to remember that it is already an artificially developed beach. But if you go swimming in an untouched area, it may be difficult to even get into the sea.
Why? For example, the reef, for example, the hard ground on the seaside, these things interact with the waves, and the impact force formed is not something that human beings can resist. You say how good your swimming skills are, but I tell you, it's useless, maybe you just jump into the water, and a wave comes over, and it can shoot you directly on the reef, which will break your bones and tendons, and even kill you instantly. So it doesn't matter how good you swim, it's just where you choose to enter the water.
Now Fan Keqin is far away, but he can also distinguish the general terrain and has a preliminary judgment. As far as the eye can see, there are all embankments, or black reefs, which are impossible to go. As soon as the frogmen team went down, they would be swept up by the sea and hit hard ground, causing a large number of injuries or even annihilation.
So Fan Keqin had to find a buffer place, just like an artificial beach, although the waves came, but there was a sand that slowly dissolved the force, so that the people above could play crazy without any scruples, or go into the water to swim, because even if the waves came, they would not let themselves hit the stones, you just had to keep swimming.
Sure enough, it is still difficult to choose a safe place to enter the water on the shore. At least within 500 meters of the pier, there was a black reef embankment. Fan Keqin could only look longer and start to observe farther away. But it's a pity, continue to look into the distance, a few hundred meters are still a patch of black.
Well? Fan Keqin observed carefully, and suddenly noticed that in a black undulating place, two people suddenly walked up in a black place that was concave to the mainland. Looking at the way they walked, they were more relaxed, obviously coming up from the gap in the black reef.
You know, if you can walk up like this, it must be somewhere like a beach down there......