Chapter 1,335 The whole body is salvaged and brought out of the water
It is not easy to turn a sunken ship into a box and salvage it from the water as a whole.
Let’s not talk about whether an ancient ship caisson like this can be made up to standard. Even if it is made, you still need to salvage it out of the water.
The 10,000-ton sunken ship still needs to be transported after it is salvaged and brought out of the water.
All of this requires strong financial support.
What Chen Wenzhe does not lack most is money. Coupled with the strong domestic shipbuilding capabilities, his entire salvage fleet can naturally do whatever he wants on the sea.
Of course, the most important thing is that for underwater operations, overall salvage is the simplest method.
In this way, there is no need to drill into the ancient sunken ship or destroy the ancient sunken ship, and the whole thing can be salvaged from the water at once.
Just like this ancient shipwreck, less than 200,000 pieces of porcelain can be seen from the outside and can be easily salvaged from the water.
If Chen Wenzhe's calculation is correct, there are at least 700,000 to 800,000 pieces of porcelain hidden in the sunken ship, not to mention there must be other things.
An ancient merchant ship like this would have to carry at least tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver. Sometimes, there could be a hundred or a thousand gold bars and countless silver bricks.
Such a sunken ship is still very difficult to salvage if you don't want to destroy it.
But once the water was released, all the problems were solved.
Now Chen Wenzhe has a very professional salvage fleet. If there is no interference from outsiders, he can salvage the entire sunken ship out of the water if he spends some time.
But now, he doesn't know if he can get enough time.
Soon, Chen Wenzhe made a decision. Regardless of whether he had enough time, he needed to make preparations first.
No matter how many salvage plans there are, none can be as fast as salvaging the sunken ship out of the water at once.
After all, he didn't want to destroy this sunken ship on the seabed. As for how the ancient ship would be transported out of the water, that was another question.
In order to ensure that the ancient ship can be salvaged as a whole and transported safely to its "new home", Chen Wenzhe specially set aside a ship.
This is a salvage ship specially designed and built for salvaging ancient ships.
Even among the specialized salvage engineering ships with an opening in the middle, only they can transport an ancient sunken ship.
Chen Wenzhe knows very well that the special engineering ship is equipped with 46 sets of hydraulic lifting systems. Through synchronous lifting technology, the caisson wrapping the ancient ship is lifted into the central opening.
After that, it was directly transported by sea, and the whole thing was driven into the dock to sit on the bottom. Finally, the ancient ship caisson was unloaded and safely moved into its "new home".
This kind of professional salvage ship can complete the lifting, transportation, docking, unloading and other tasks of a ship.
For these traditional tasks, without this professional engineering ship, four other professional ships would be needed to complete the entire salvage process.
With this kind of professional ship, the risk of damaging cultural relics due to repeated lifting of ancient ships can be avoided.
Chen Wenzhe had previously realized that sunken ships are the most precious cultural relics.
As for the porcelain in the sunken ship, some are enough for display, but every time a sunken ship is salvaged, there is only one ancient sunken ship.
Compared with countless porcelains, this ancient sunken ship is naturally more precious.
Not to mention anything else, after the ancient ship is salvaged as a whole, if you are willing to do research, some professionals can conduct research on the formation process of the ancient ship ruins, construction technology, routes and other topics based on the ancient ship and cultural relics.
In this way, the scientific, historical, artistic, social and cultural value of ancient ships can be explored to the greatest extent.
For Chen Wenzhe, perhaps through this kind of research, he can find more ancient shipwrecks on this route.
Now that you have made a decision, the next steps will be easier.
One aspect is to drive away all those with bad intentions around, and the other is to conduct underwater operations.
Underwater diver, split in two.
One part is cleaning up the surrounding sea area, trying to find all the porcelain and other treasures wandering on the seabed, and salvage them from the water.
The other part is preparing for the complete salvage of the sunken ship.
This is more professional. It mainly involves encapsulating the sunken ship. To put it simply, it means packing it into boxes.
Let the entire sunken ship form a whole, and then slowly drag it out of the water with the help of countless supports.
At that time, the seawater will be lost and the sunken ship will become lighter. At this time, it can be loaded into a professional engineering ship and transported back to the country.
This process is of course not simple.
As time went by, in this sea area, there were not only some fishermen and pirates, but also law enforcement vessels from some surrounding small countries.
Unfortunately, these law enforcement ships cannot compare with Chen Wenzhe's fleet in terms of tonnage and force.
And their warships would never dare to be easily pulled out to bully Chen Wenzhe.
Because their current situation is very similar to that in China in the 1990s.
Although they knew that there were foreign thieves, they did not dare to offend easily. They could only watch helplessly as others did whatever they wanted at their doorstep.
Of course, this must be because I didn't see enough Lilan.
All these are the reasons why Chen Wenzhe and Gao Qijing made a decisive decision at the beginning.
When the sunken ship was first discovered, only the people on Hatcher's fleet and Chen Wenzhe saw the sight of a treasure trove on the seabed.
Others have not discovered anything. The most they can do now is control the unmanned robot and go into the water to take a look at the sunken ship.
But now, everything on the sunken ship that is easier to salvage has been salvaged.
The remaining items are hidden inside the cabin and cannot be easily seen.
We can only see a sunken ship but no treasures. Who is willing to take the risk to provoke Chen Wenzhe and the others?
It is in this environment that time passes day by day.
After half a month, the entire sunken ship on the seabed was wrapped in layers of boxes and surrounded by countless cables.
With the completion of the salvage preparations, when the sea became calm that day, the lifting equipment on the four salvage ships was turned on at the same time.
Following Gao Qijing's orders, four giant salvage ships worked simultaneously.
As time went by, the cable was rolled up little by little, and the underwater sunken ship slowly emerged from the water.
After all, the water depth is only less than twenty meters. If it were not for the fear of damaging the underwater shipwreck, it would only take a few seconds to be dragged out of the water at such a short distance.
But now, it took more than an hour for the sunken ship to slowly appear on the sea.
At this time, the professional engineering ship that had been prepared immediately went over to connect.
This professional engineering ship slowly swallowed the sunken ship that had turned into a square box into its own belly.
At this point, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's a bit strange, why didn't those guys come over to cause trouble?"
When the overall salvage was completed, Chen Wenzhe breathed a sigh of relief.
"Really, these guys' recent troublemaking seems a bit perfunctory!" Gao Qijing also said.
"No, are they really trying to deal with us?" Chen Wenzhe immediately felt a little bad.
Gao Qijing was stunned, why not just come over and cause trouble?