14. Pick up garbage
The next morning, after a dozen hours of travel, the Sambo arrived in Surabaya, East Java Province, one of Indonesia's largest ports, where you can see passing ships from time to time.
Fortunately, there weren't many ships in the locations Sutina marked on the map, as these were all reef locations. Similarly, due to the presence of the reef, the Treasure cannot get too close. Otherwise, if the treasure is not found, it will be worth the loss if the ship is put in.
After getting up early in the morning, Song Wenbin and the crew opened the yacht's water platform and pushed the inflatable kayak into the water with full air, while Huo Yu carried two metal detectors from the boat.
At this moment, they have all changed into black wetsuits, carrying gas cylinders, and their expressions are serious.
Since Song Wenbin and Huo Yu learned AOW, which was one level higher than the OW of the photographers, Huo Yu stood on the water platform and arranged the shooting tasks with the photographers at this moment.
"The photographers were divided into two shifts, two people under the water followed us, two people on the water watched the boat, and the director and Sutina stayed on the yacht and kept in touch with us at all times."
As she spoke, she tucked her waterproof communication headphones into her ears.
Song Wenbin also put on the headphones, and soon, Sutina's voice came from the headphones, she said: "The water depth of the No. 1 reef is about ten meters, the pressure is 0.1mpa, and the oxygen is about enough for you to explore for an hour, don't stay for a long time." ”
"You don't need to remind me."
Song Wenbin said.
He had been learning to dive for two months, so naturally he didn't need Sutina, who couldn't swim, to remind him.
"Wait a minute." Sutina said in Song Wenbin's ear: "Even so, I still have to remind you that Surumayi means shark and crocodile in Indonesian. ”
Song Wenbin was stunned for a moment, and then became annoyed: "Why are you telling me this!?" Knowing that there are sharks and crocodiles, can I still not go into the water!? ”
After speaking, he put on a mask unhappily, and Huo Yu and four photographers boarded the rubber boat, and under the impetus of a small motor, drove towards the raised position of the reef.
After coming to the top of the reef, Song Wenbin held the respirator in his mouth and made a gesture to Huo Yu, the two nodded, and then leaned back.
Accompanied by the sound of rumbling into the water.
All real-world sounds faded in this moment.
All that was left was the rustling of water and the dull sound of vibrations, and the No. 1 reef was very far from the port, a full dozen kilometers, and the water was quite clear. Not long after entering the water, Song Wenbin saw some swimming fish fleeing from under him.
He turned his head to look at Huo Yu and the two photographers, Huo Yu was holding two metal detectors, one photographer was carrying an underwater camera, and the other photographer was holding a small underwater thruster with many cameras installed on the thruster.
Song Wenbin gave them a thumbs down, which meant to continue diving.
The three of them nodded, and slowly dived in silence.
As the depth decreased, Song Wenbin felt that his eardrum was being subjected to water pressure in all directions. He pinched his nose and tightened his eardrum slightly, allowing the pressure inside and outside to be relatively neutralized, and then slowly fell to the seabed at a depth of ten meters.
Huo Yu shook his feet, swam to his side, and gave him a metal detector in his hand.
Song Wenbin took the detector and slowly moved along the sediment on the bottom of the sea.
Drip...
Drip...
Drip...
I can't hear anything in my ears.
Only the headphones connected to the detector in the ear make a regular sound called a chirp. It's not that the sound of metal is found, it's just that it's working.
Although it can cost more than 10 million dollars to buy a yacht, in the end, the most traditional human search can only be used to implement the exploration plan.
Following the sand on the seabed, the group of four swam to the site of Reef No. 1, which is still very large, with a small hillside rising from the seabed and overgrown with various coral reefs. Those coral reefs grow like bare branches in the sea, with no leaf veins, and there are many marine life living in them.
When Song Wenbin's probe swept over a patch of sand, an octopus that was completely camouflage and stealthy as the color of the sand and gravel quickly retreated, skimmed the seawater, and disappeared from sight.
The scenery here is extremely fantastic and quiet, if it is not for treasure hunting, just for tourism, maybe Song Wenbin will enjoy this fantastic journey, but it has been ten minutes since he entered the water.
The metal detector still only makes a regular operating sound, and does not detect any metal at all.
"Go up there and see if you can find any signs of impact."
There was the sound of Sutina in my ears.
The footage captured by the photographer with the booster is transmitted to the yacht in real time, and Sutina is also observing the scene under the sea at the moment.
Song Wenbin got the instruction and made a thumbs-up gesture to the accompanying photographer, and the photographer received the instruction, made an OK, shook his feet, and slowly went upstream.
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The atmospheric pressure gradually decreased, and Song Wenbin came to the surface of Reef No. 1, which was only about a meter above the surface of the sea, and it was about 20 meters long, and the surface was very sharp, which would indeed pose a threat to the ships that hit it.
Didi...
Didi...
Didi...
When they reached the surface of the reef, the metal detector, which had been unresponsive underwater, rang out.
Song Wenbin took a closer look and was disappointed.
What made the detector chirp was nothing more than a small worn-out Coke bottle cap.
But he didn't let it go either, but put it in the salvage bag he carried with him.
When the treasure hunt is not successful, it took tens of millions to come to Indonesia to do charity to pick up submarine garbage, Song Wenbin thought to himself, after charity in the Caribbean, he will charity Indonesia again.
After shooting around the reef, Song Wenbin didn't know if Su Tina had seen any traces of impact on it, to be honest, he didn't think it was strange even if there were, it was 600 years, and I didn't know how many thousand years there were before 600, even if Zheng He really accidentally bumped into this unlucky thing back then, there would still be countless boats hitting this unlucky thing later.
In fact, as long as the time is long enough, every reef on the earth will encounter the ship that belongs to it, and Song Wenbin does not feel that this data has any reference value.
After a few more circles around the reef, Sutina said, "Okay, now you're done, let's go down and have a look." ”
Song Wenbin spit out bubbles as he said and dived with the photographer. When she sneaked to Huo Yu's side, she picked up something and shook it at Song Wenbin, Song Wenbin took it and took a look, it turned out to be an old-fashioned broken camera, and she didn't know how many years she had been lying underwater.
Song Wenbin stretched out his hand and signaled that he was also helpless. At this time, the photographer behind him suddenly spit out a large number of bubbles, and the sound of bubbles made Huo Yu and Song Wenbin turn their heads, and the little brother carrying the camera pointed not far away in a little panic.
Song Wenbin followed his finger and looked, it turned out to be a white shark swimming slowly, it was one meter long, its eyes were a little dull, and it slowly swam over the heads of several people, not knowing what it was doing.
Song Wenbin watched it swim by, and Sutina's nervous voice came from his ears: "Be careful, that's the Black Seal True Shark, it's still a little fierce." ”
The strange thing is that when he saw the shark swimming by so closely under the water, Song Wenbin's heart was unusually calm, and he didn't know if it was because Huo Yu was next to him or because the shark was smaller, he clearly remembered that when he was in the Caribbean Sea, those sharks grew to two or three meters long at every turn, which was not much smaller than the one in front of him.
He glanced at Huo Yu, Huo Yu shook his head steadily, raised his palm and pointed forward, and made a gesture to continue searching.
The four of them ignored the wandering shark and continued to search around the bottom of the sea, but they swam all the way around the reef and found nothing, only some worn-out fishing nets, discarded ship nails, and plastic bottles that they could see everywhere in the world.
After an hour of submersion, the oxygen gradually ran out.
The four had to abandon the search and return to the surface. Although I have practiced countless times at the diving school in Guangzhou, every time I leave the deep water and return to the surface, I always feel lightheaded because of the pressure difference.
Huo Yu took off the respirator and gasped, "Where can I find this... I don't think there's hope..."
Song Wenbin was silent, but he also felt that the treasure chest was unlikely to be in this kind of place, after all, this place was not biased, and it was near the port, if there really was a treasure chest, I was afraid that it would not have been fished away hundreds of years ago.
"Let's go up and refuel first, but we can't go to the next reef."
Song Wenbin said.
The six people returned to the yacht's water platform as kayaks, and because the No. 2 reef and the No. 1 reef were not far apart, Song Wenbin and Huo Yu did not take off their clothes. Just sat in the cockpit and drank an energy drink and refueled it.
Su tina hurriedly came down from the upper deck with a laptop, squatting beside Song Wenbin and Huo Yu to look at the rags they had salvaged, her face a little disappointed.
"You don't have to find metal, you can find any porcelain, or a broken wooden board with an age mark, you can find it, I will take pictures and send it back to China immediately, and there is a team over there to identify the things we salvaged."
"Whew."
Song Wenbin sighed, straightened his wet hair, and didn't say a word.
Soon, the ship came to the No. 2 reef area. Song Wenbin and Huo Yu went into the water again, but as before, they searched the entire reef, and in the end they only found some tattered garbage, and the most exciting thing for them was only the non-stop screaming of the detector. However, after Song Wenbin dug up the sediment on the bottom of the sea, he found that it was just a piece of dilapidated iron sheet that had been soaked in the seabed for an unknown amount of time.
In this way, the film crew ran to more than a dozen reefs around Surabaya in three days, and searched almost all the reefs.
Not to mention the cultural relics of the Qing Dynasty, there are no cultural relics of the Qing Dynasty, the most ancient thing they found is just a shell shell shell from World War II, and when they found that thing, Song Wenbin was startled, and quickly threw it back into the sea, for fear that there would be some biochemical leaks and other toxins in it.
As time passes, the excitement and excitement at the beginning fade into day after day diving. Instead, there was skepticism and confusion, and the atmosphere in the team became more and more solemn day by day.
If you can't find the treasure chest, forget it, but you can't even find the clues, which is undoubtedly a major test of the confidence of all those involved in the production of the show.