1428. The first bomb to pass the help
Another reason why the king crabs are not a crab are the ones. The real crabs are all fast-moving people. Once they move on the seabed, they run very quickly. Different king crabs are walkers, walking leisurely, and they have a very good smell of gentlemen under the sea.
But if anyone really thinks they are gentlemen, he can only be blind. King crabs have a strong temperament and a greedy appetite!
These guys with small shells with small pot lids like to live in groups and will also go to bed when they are preyed. If they are targeted, even the little sharks will have to kneel down. Once they are surrounded, they will wait for dismemberment.
In addition, you can tell the appearance of the king crabs that are fierce. These guys' carapaces and legs are covered with sharp hooks. They are naturally wearing soft hedgehog armor and have few natural enemies in the seas of the North and South Poles.
On the deck, Qin Shiou conveyed the fishing mission, and the fisherman in the twenty-something became busy.
"Old Geng, I'll be optimistic about your four people later. Don't do it first. Let Shaq lead the team in the first two rounds of work. You can just take a good look. Do you understand?" Qin Shiou specifically reminded.
As mentioned earlier, catching king crabs is a very dangerous job. Death is not uncommon, and injury is even more common. If a crab boat is in the crab fishing season, if all the staff are healthy and uninjured, it can be said that God is blessed.
This is not an exaggeration. The king crab fishing season of each season often only has four or five days. During these four or five days, the work of crab boats is tense and heavy, and the fishermen have no more than five hours of rest every day.
Exhaustion and sleepiness result in difficulty in concentration and easy problems.
From the moment I walked onto the crab boat, the fishermen were in danger at all times.
The fishermen who bid farewell to the town are all such veterans, and they have heard of them even if they have never done such work. Therefore, Qin Shiou nodded and said that after the formal start of construction, everyone cheered up.
King crabs live in the deep sea. To catch them, they need a more powerful existence than other fishing equipment, that is, the super crab cage.
This type of crab cage is flat and cylindrical, with a diameter of about two and a half meters. It is made of solid steel bars, with a total of 300 kilograms, otherwise it would not sink into the deep sea and sea bottom.
In order to make reasonable use of the space of the fishing boat, these crab cages were stacked high, and steel monsters more than ten meters high were piled up together. They were tied very firmly and tightly, with double imprisonment of iron chains thick with fingers and thick cables on their arms.
Geng Junjie took four Chinese soldiers to look curiously, and Qin Shiou said: "If you have any questions, just ask them. I need you to be the best fisherman in the shortest time. Do you understand?"
A young man said, "Boss, I want to ask, are these crab cages tied so tightly?"
Shaq, who was next to Qin Shiou, answered the question: "Man, you have to know that the North Atlantic is a girl with a weird temper. October to December is the time of the greatest wind and waves every year. Once January enters, its wind and waves will be much smaller. We have not encountered particularly large waves along the way. This is God bless us."
"But normally, biologists set fishing limits every year based on the growth of king crabs, and the government gives a crab hunting period. This period is in October, which means that the crab boats must go to sea when the wind is at the highest."
"Have you ever encountered the sea breeze at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour? Have you ever traveled through the huge waves of ten meters high?"
Geng Junjie shook his head. The other four nodded and said naturally: "When I was in the fleet, such sea breezes and huge waves were very common."
Except for Geng Junjie, the other four were retired navy. This was the first thing Qin Shiou considered when recruiting, except for his personality. There is an advantage of naval soldiers, that is, they can work on the boat immediately and not be seasick.
For fishermen, the most deadly thing is seasickness. If they are seasick, let alone work, it is a bit of a word to go back alive when traveling to the far sea.
After hearing what they said, Shaq laughed: "Then you understand, right? When a ship passes through the waves ten meters high, it is not too much to tie the things on it."
The sea monster directed the two calm fishermen to untie the ropes, and then the crane started, and the crab cages were put down one by one.
There is inevitably strong wind at sea, and the Melon Princess is shaking rhythmically. After these crab cages are released, they seem to become beasts that escape from the cage under the push of the waves, full of lethality.
"When putting these big guys weighing 300 kilograms into the sea, you must be extra careful to avoid being caught in the crab cage and preventing them from falling into the cage. I think you will not be willing to be the first big crab here, right?" Shaq said instructing.
Several people burst into laughter, and the sea monster heard the laughter and pointed at them and warned: "Don't laugh, do you think Shaq is joking? Farke! Just seven years ago, my cousin Bruno was caught by the damn crab cage. Do you know what the result is? When we fished the crab cage again, his heart was covered with ice!"
A fisherman next to him patted the sea monster on the shoulder and whispered: "Bruno lives well in heaven, don't think about it."
Geng Junjie was silent for a moment, and went up to hug the sea monster's shoulder and said in not fluent English: "Sorry, man, we will take this job seriously. It's terrible, isn't it?"
The sea monster smiled reluctantly and said, "But don't be afraid of it."
As long as you deal with it carefully, fishing for king crabs is not that dangerous. Qin Shiou now has no need to take risks. This is one of the reasons why he decided to go to Greenland in January. The sea climate in November and December is too harsh.
Crab cages lined up and fell into the ocean, filled with delicious mackerel, herring and crumbled cod meat. This is a delicious dish for the greedy king crabs, and they absolutely cannot resist such temptation.
After the crab cage was put down, Shaq and the sea monster each took a team of people to start the second task, which was to carefully dry the deck with a mop and every part of the stern of the boat.
It's noon now, but the outdoor temperature of the ship is still around minus ten degrees. If it is at night, the temperature will drop to minus twenty degrees.
What does this mean? It means that the whistling waves roll onto the boat, and as long as the waves fall, there will be an extra layer of ice on the boat!
The ice layer will not only cause smoothness, but will also increase the load on the ship, which will easily lead to the overturning of the crab boat.
"I think you see that the waves come from one direction. Once a thick layer of ice is hung on one side of the hull, our only hope is the Coast Guard, who is responsible for maritime rescue work." Shaq explained while taking the lead in working.
Qin Shiou also went into battle. It was not that he wanted to lead the way, but that he had to exercise. In this environment, it was not enough to rely on the air conditioner to keep warm. He had to exercise more to promote blood circulation. (To be continued...)
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Chapter completed!