When Chen Wenzhe wasn't paying attention, Gao Qijing had already dispatched a large number of underwater robots to surround Hatcher's four ships and began to show off their power.
That is to say, when Hatcher and the others were furious, the divers here began to enter the water.
As the high-power air pump was turned on, the sunken ship underwater was quickly exposed.
Through the simulation animation display, this ancient ship was confirmed to be from the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, and the water depth in the water area is 18-30 meters.
The hull is buried in 5.5 meters of mud and tilts horizontally to the left about 27°.
The remaining, or visible, part of the ancient ship is about 38.5 meters long and 7.8 meters wide. After a little calculation, it was found that there were 31 small cabins.
The structure of the upper part of the sunken ship, such as the pointed bow, the piles, the main mast, the left and right sides, and the upper deck, is complete.
Soon, the divers carried out a small-scale cleanup by selecting four cabins at the front and rear.
At this time, they all discovered that there were neatly stacked Dehua kiln porcelain and other exquisite cultural relics in the cabin.
In addition, a large number of cultural relics such as purple clay vessels, hookah cans produced in South Vietnam, wooden bucket fragments, masts, large hardwood ship materials, iron anchors, brown cables, pulleys, metal drill bits, drill pipes and black minerals were unearthed in and around the hull.
Because there were so many of them, when someone entered the cabin, someone cleaned up the ancient ship and the surrounding sediment.
Due to the large number of people, everything can be done quickly.
After an underwater investigation, part of the porcelain was quickly cleared.
Among them is a 60 cm high, complete large blue and white vase with bean green glaze.
There are many such large porcelains here.
In particular, the inscription "Daoguang Year System" on the bottom of some of the porcelain found in the ancient ship provides important basis for the dating of the ancient ship.
Seeing so many things, Chen Wenzhe knew that it would not be easy to salvage and relocate the ancient ship as a whole.
However, there were still people on the sea watching them, and they were not allowed to salvage slowly.
Therefore, at the first opportunity, they formulated a quick salvage plan.
In fact, the most convenient salvage method is to use a large number of submersibles, install them directly on porcelain underwater, and quickly transport them into the cabin.
Unfortunately, these underwater vehicles are all electric, and the current battery life is too weak to support long-term salvage operations.
If you want to use a submarine to carry porcelain for a long time, you need to find another way.
The simplest way is to connect underwater cables.
However, if too many underwater unmanned underwater vehicles are dispatched, the cables they carry may become entangled.
There is no way, this method is the fastest, so it depends on the technology and experience.
Fortunately, Chen Wenzhe is not short of money, and Gao Qijing and his friends have been going smoothly recently, so they have gained a lot every time they go to sea.
I get great results every time, so I am naturally willing to invest.
In addition, Chen Wenzhe once asked them to control an underwater robot and defeat the fishermen in South Vietnam.
Therefore, they are equipped with unmanned submarines, unmanned robots, and unmanned detectors in large quantities.
After all, these domestically produced machines are not too expensive, so naturally they can be equipped with as many machines as they can.
Especially unmanned submersibles, combined with suction pumps and robotic arms, can sometimes salvage sunken ships without people entering the water, which is really useful.
Of course, if you have useful things, you should equip them with more.
It is for these reasons that Chen Wenzhe and others were able to use a large number of submarines to successfully transport a large amount of porcelain this time.
Especially some larger-sized porcelains are generally more convenient to transport, because this time the porcelain seems to contain some small-sized porcelain inside.
If it is carried manually, there is a fear of breaking it due to its large size and heavy weight.
If you use a submersible to carry it, you don't have to worry about this. You can take away a lot of large and small porcelain directly at one time.
Now that we have an action plan, we naturally need to take action immediately.
Therefore, some of the fine porcelain that Chen Wenzhe saw next were salvaged first.
Just like the large Tsinghua vase with bean green glaze that we saw earlier, there are also some other porcelain with special glaze colors.
Chen Wenzhe was a little surprised. Didn't it mean that seawater is very corrosive?
Why does the porcelain that comes out of the water look so good every time?
For example, there is a green glaze cup with a mark on it. It is a bit unclear because of the adhesion of marine life, but these porcelains are all intact.
At this point it looks like the glaze is a little dull, but everything else is in good condition, but needs a good cleaning.
Now is definitely not the time to dispose of these porcelains, so the porcelains salvaged from the water were directly put into the desalination tank.
Maybe with proper handling, these porcelains from the sea can be preserved as they were before, and that would be great.
You must know that the biggest weakness of Hailao porcelain is the corrosion of sea water, which causes great damage to the glaze and decorative patterns.
After one batch of porcelain was processed, water came out of another batch again soon.
Submarines went back and forth one after another, constantly transporting back large quantities of porcelain.
In less than an hour, more than 600 pieces of porcelain were produced.
On the ship, in the command cabin, Chen Wenzhe and the others were checking underwater and surface videos while salvaging.
The video shows that on the endless sea, salvage ships are maneuvering frantically.
It's a pity that they only have one life and they don't dare to hit Chen Wenzhe's salvage boat.
Besides, he has more ships, more advanced equipment, and even more powerful weapons.
Whenever they get close, it's a water cannon.
After a few visits, several salvage boats did not dare to approach.
Ignoring the group of mad dogs, Chen Wenzhe shifted his attention to the monitor.
At this time, their salvage ship was conducting sea exploration.
The sonar scan clearly reflects the location and size of the ancient ship.
After being immersed for hundreds of years, the ancient ship has long been "eroded" by the silt on the seabed.
How can we accurately understand the status of ancient ships? The only way is to launch them into the water.
Fortunately, now that the equipment is advanced, many jobs no longer require people to go into the water in person. The machine goes into the water in the same way, and sometimes it can be done better than manual work.
Of course, sometimes divers are still needed to help.
For example, if a machine enters a sunken ship now, it may cause damage to the shipwreck and bury the machine in the shipwreck.
Therefore, to investigate the situation of a sunken ship, divers generally need to go into the water themselves.
Just like this time, when divers explored the ancient ship underwater, they found that although the wooden hull structure had been damaged, the porcelain was completely preserved in the mud.
Of course, the sunken ship is also preserved as if it had just sunk.
If the shipwreck and porcelain are well preserved, the value of the porcelain will be higher.
When some of the porcelain came out of the water, Chen Wenzhe discovered that the porcelain inside the sunken ship was better preserved because the different images and glaze colors painted on them were still bright.