Chapter 312: Drowned Turtle

And this blanket shark is just one of the many dangers at the bottom of the sea.

Another example is next to a cluster of coral not far from him now, Li Xiaofeng saw a well-camouflaged stonefish with a row of poisonous stingers on its back quietly hiding there through the map.

A little farther away, Li Xiaofeng knew that behind a coral reef, there was a huge manta ray, dragging its long tail to swim......

Carefully avoiding these dangers, it took Li Xiaofeng several more minutes to swim to the juvenile hawks' roost.

Li Xiaofeng didn't intend to disturb it, but just searched around its lair.

It's a pity that although Li Xiaofeng searched all around, he didn't find other tortoiseshells.

Although it was a bit regrettable, but fortunately, he also expected this situation, after all, according to the long life of the tortoiseshell, it is a needle in a haystack to find a tortoiseshell that died of old age here.

After one last glance at the juvenile tortoiseshell sleeping soundly under the coral reef, Li Xiaofeng swam towards the place where the next tortoiseshell roosted.

The little tortoiseshell, who was sleeping soundly, seemed to feel something, opened his small mung bean-sized eyes and turned his head, looked around the dark seabed around him suspiciously, and after confirming that there was no danger, he continued to sleep sweetly.

It didn't take long for Li Xiaofeng to swim to the place where the second tortoiseshell roosted.

This tortoiseshell is much larger than the first tortoiseshell, with a body length of about one meter and a half, and it is obvious that this is an adult tortoiseshell.

Next to the nearby coral reef where the hawkshead roost is scattered, there are also broken shells of shellfish and conch that it eats.

Although the main food of hawks is sponges, they sometimes feed on invertebrates such as jellyfish, anemones, shrimps, crabs and shellfish.

It's a pity that after searching here, in addition to finding a few shells with beautiful patterns, Li Xiaofeng still didn't find a piece of tortoise shells, but he caught several crabs and lobsters.

However, Li Xiaofeng did not intend to give up so easily, and with the harvest, he continued to swim towards the place where the next tortoiseshell roosted.

That's it, the third, the fourth......

In the blink of an eye, Li Xiaofeng had already searched for the ninth tortoiseshell, but still did not find the target he was looking for.

You must know that in this large area of coral, there are a total of fourteen hawks, and he can be said to have searched for more than half of them.

No matter how strong his heart is, he now has to suspect that he is likely to be disappointed today.

Of course, in addition to the tortoise shell to be found, there are also a lot of other harvests, tiger crabs and pike crabs caught seven or eight, rock lobsters also caught five or six, and even used spearguns to shoot three small groupers, and the big net pocket with him was already half full!

It's a pity that after searching here, he still hasn't found a target. Li Xiaofeng could only target the tenth tortoiseshell again, and until the last moment, he was not a person who would give up easily.

Carefully avoiding the corals around him that were as sharp as knives, Li Xiaofeng dragged most of the catch in his net pocket and swam towards the place where the tenth hawk was roosting.

When he swam past a large area of coral, the headlamp on his head inadvertently swept over a cluster of corals next to him, and in the mold lake, Li Xiaofeng seemed to see a broken fishing net with a large area hanging there.

However, he didn't pay much attention to it, after all, there are fishermen from all over the world who go to this public sea to fish, and it is normal for some fishing boats to accidentally get entangled in the corals on the bottom of the sea, and it is normal for them to be cut by these sharp corals.

As Li Xiaofeng searched for the habitat of the last hawks, he still did not find his target. At this time, he had to admit that his search for the tortoiseshell had completely failed.

Fortunately, it was not all for nothing, and the large net he carried with him was almost full of crabs, lobsters, conches and groupers.

Carrying something almost slowly, he activated the thrusters and prepared to swim back in the direction of the fishing boat.

But at this time, for some reason, he suddenly remembered the fishing net hanging on the coral. Otherwise, if you go back and take a look, maybe there will be some unexpected gains?

Thinking of this, Li Xiaofeng immediately changed the direction of travel and swam back in the direction of the fishing net he saw before.

This time it was quite a long way, and even with the help of thrusters, it took him more than twenty minutes to swim back to the coral reef with fishing nets.

Since the fishing net hung on the top of the reef, Li Xiaofeng took off the net pocket on his body, tied it and put it on the ground, before he activated the thruster and swam towards the top of the reef.

The reason why he put the net bag down was mainly to prevent the net bag on his body from accidentally hanging on the coral.

You must know that these corals are sometimes as sharp as a knife, and if you hang this net, it is very likely to be cut.

If all the fish that he had been working hard for a long time had escaped and he hadn't found the tortoiseshells, he would have lost a lot!

Soon he swam to the side of the fishing net, and when he looked into the net, he couldn't help but be startled!

I saw that part of the net was tightly attached to a cluster of coral, and the other part was tightly wrapped around a white bone.

Seeing this white bone at first glance at the bottom of this dark seabed, even though it is not a human corpse, this moment still can't help but make people feel a little creepy.

He carefully identified it, and could only confirm that it was the skeleton of a turtle, and as for whether it was the skeleton of the tortoiseshell he was looking for, he still needed to turn it over and carefully identify it.

Looking at the twisted bones, Li Xiaofeng guessed that it was most likely left by a drowned sea turtle.

Some people may be surprised to hear about drowned sea turtles.

Sea turtles are not fish, they cannot breathe underwater.

Before sea turtles enter the water, they need to take a breath before diving in, just like us humans.

Unlike us, turtles consume very little oxygen, which is usually enough to keep them on the ocean floor for hours.

This is true even when the turtles are sleeping, and every once in a while, they have to come to the surface to breathe.

It was clear that the turtle was caught in a fishing net, which in turn hung on the coral, causing the turtle to drown at the bottom of the sea because it was unable to surface to breathe.

This is not an isolated example, as more and more discarded fishing nets are being thrown into the sea by irresponsible fishermen, this tragedy is happening to many sea creatures like this turtle who cannot breathe on their own on the bottom of the sea, including some of the largest whales!

That's why more and more responsible fishermen insist on bringing back their tattered nets.

A small act of human inadvertent behavior can cause the destruction of these sea creatures!