Chapter 157 Seabed Detection
According to the current United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, areas within 12 nautical miles offshore are considered as the country's territorial waters, and areas within 200 nautical miles offshore are considered as exclusive economic zones.
Therefore, the position that Yuan Shichen just calculated is still within the jurisdiction of the Dubai government.
"Well, is this location the place where alien technology is hidden?"
Although Yang Zhonglin, Huang Zizhu, Yao Cheng and others have not kept up with Yuan Shichen's rhythm, they will definitely understand what these three intersection points of different sizes mean.
What they didn't expect was that things would go so smoothly.
After only less than an hour of arrival, Yuan Shichen quickly determined the target.
“Happiness comes too suddenly”
"It turns out that everything is ready, only the east wind is not allowed. Once the east wind arrives, the problem will be solved."
Looking at Yuan Shichen's determined expression, everyone looked happy, and the doubts in their hearts naturally all faded away.
Obviously, Yuan Shichen came prepared!
From his performance just now, we can see that this is definitely not a place he pointed out by just slapping his head.
"Haha, I was thinking that as long as Dr. Yuan can circle a small area for us on the map, our search work will be much easier." Captain Yao Cheng couldn't hide his excitement and laughed loudly, "I never expected that Dr. Yuan would actually mark the coordinates directly for us."
"This is nothing, it's just that I have the key information." Yuan Shichen explained disapprovingly.
"However, this position is only initially determined based on the clues I got. If you want to be sure, you have to take a helicopter to surround the entire bay area as Director Yang said. Otherwise, I can directly determine this position for you when I am on Mars."
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. We can first search based on this location. At the same time, you can also make further judgments based on the actual situation."
Seeing Yuan Shichen's rigorous attitude, Yang Zhonglin immediately expressed his support.
"In addition, if my judgment is accurate, there may be a certain range of errors in this position. If it is not expected, the error range should be within one kilometer." Yuan Shichen added.
"It's enough. Not to mention one kilometer, even if the error is 10 kilometers, it will save us a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources!"
Hearing this, Yang Zhonglin and Huang Zizhu had already expressed their excitement.
"That's good." Yuan Shichen nodded with a smile.
"I can't wait anymore, let's set out to find out now."
"Agree! Agree!"
It seems that the search project team has indeed waited too long before, and the league's top leaders have also put a lot of pressure on them.
So, when Yuan Shichen locked the target area, everyone was like a fire under the chair, burning their butts and burning their hearts, wishing they could go to that place right away.
The distance between fifty and sixty nautical miles is not far.
The three ghosts, at a speed of 40 knots, arrived at the area locked by Yuan Shichen in just over an hour.
Henry Hayashi did not take a ride on the Ghost, but used the time during the Ghost's navigation to take a helicopter and observe it back and forth several times in the nearby bay area.
Shortly after the three ghost ships arrived, the helicopter that Haraki was riding slowly landed on the deck of Ghost 1.
"How is it, are there any gains?" Yang Zhonglin asked with anticipation.
"According to the on-site observation, my previous judgment should be fine. I also want to know the water depth here." Yuan Hashichen said calmly.
"Hurry up, detect the water depth and the surrounding hydrological conditions." Because they are all Chinese, Yang Zhonglin said it directly in Chinese.
“Average water depth is 96 meters.”
Ghost 1 soon obtained preliminary measurements.
Yuan Shichen thought in his heart that the depth of the water was consistent with the depth of the area he reached with Genesis 8. This further verified his judgment, and it should be almost the same.
"Dr. Yuan, what do you think?"
"Now I can basically conclude that the target should be buried nearly 100 deep under the seabed in this nearby sea area."
Yuan Shichen reminded Yang Zhonglin and others with great certainty.
"It's great. With the division of labor and coordination of three marine exploration ships, the first round of searching for the target area will be within a range of 5 kilometers near the point determined by the former doctor."
Chief Engineer Huang Zizhu immediately formulated a search plan for Yuan Shichen's judgment.
After discussion, like Ghost 1, the captains of Ghost 2 and 3 quickly began to direct their respective marine exploration ships to carry out submarine exploration operations in the division of labor areas.
Similar to the principles of exploration of submarine oil and natural gas, as well as some submarine sedimentary deposit structures, if you want to find the [Source of Creation] hidden under the seabed, you can use marine geophysical survey method to search.
Marine geophysical survey methods include: marine gravity, marine magnetic measurement and marine earthquake (high-pressure air gun groups can "shot" high-pressure air into the water in a very short time, stir up bubbles, and oscillate again, resulting in artificial earthquakes).
The observations of marine geophysical exploration include the inherent geophysical fields of the earth itself, such as gravity, magnetism, heat flow and natural earthquakes, as well as geophysical fields stimulated by artificial methods, such as artificial earthquakes and electrical methods.
Its working principle is the same as that of the ground physical survey method, but because the former workplace is at sea, there are special requirements for instruments and equipment and working methods. The survey ship needs to be loaded with special ship string gravity instruments, marine nuclear induction magnetometers, marine seismic detectors and other instruments.
The exploration of the three Ghost marine exploration ships was carried out very carefully.
One hour later, the first batch of detection data was collected.
After data collection, various follow-up work such as analysis and modeling of the data is required. Of course, these work are all handed over to the supercomputer.
After repeated calculations, the supercomputer quickly simulated a 3D model of a seabed and underground geotechnical layer based on the data detected by the Ghost.
"The seabed terrain in this area is not complicated, it is very flat."
"It's a pity that from the 3D model, the geotechnical layers within 200 meters below the seabed in this area are dense, and the target should not be in this area."
Although we did not discover the target as soon as possible, everyone was not disappointed.
After all, this part of the data is only a small part of the error range of the original locked area, and there are still many places waiting for them to investigate.
"We continue to explore the next target area."
Chief Engineer Huang Zizhu is the technical person in charge of this operation. Judging from his previous work experience, he naturally does not think that he would be so lucky to find the target for the first time.
The search continued, just as the evening approached, and suddenly the exciting news came from Ghost II.
"Find a suspected target, find a suspected target."
"Very good!"
"Transfer the relevant information immediately!"
Chapter completed!