The blue sea surrounded the Blue Whale, which had left the dock. Driven by the 360-degree all-round propeller, it slowly headed towards the deep sea.
The huge deck is crowded with people, and everyone is busy preparing for various preparations for the trial. In just twenty days, thousands of tests of various sizes will be carried out, and everyone's schedule is very tight.
There are almost no free events.
Feng Chenyi, Zhou Yan and Yang Zonghan, who proposed the double drill tower structure, are also busy. Although their tasks are not as complicated as the technical staff, they still need to cooperate with the technical staff to check the project drawings they are responsible for. Once something happens,
If so, they can find the problem in the shortest time, after all, they are most familiar with these structures.
Although there have been many joint inspections, small problems of one kind or another inevitably occurred during the sea trial. Fortunately, they were all innocuous little things, and with everyone's full cooperation, they were perfectly solved.
This made Zhang Yujie, the commander-in-chief of the construction of the Blue Whale, slightly relieved. This sea trial was not only related to the reputation of Fuhai Group, but also an all-round test of the Blue Whale. He had already received the news that the Blue Whale's The emergence not only breaks the restriction of international offshore engineering equipment on my country's high-end equipment, but also uses this to elevate the country's new energy survey in the South China Sea and is about to launch a large-scale scientific survey operation with energy resources as the main direction.
Zhang Yujie once took a look at the notice, which can only be read but not recorded. Every unit on it is very famous. Fuhai Group is basically unknown in it. These units are combined to win China Energy Development.
A new road.
The performance of the Blue Whale also made him, an old sea worker, highly respected. Professors from many scientific research units came to express their gratitude to him. With the Blue Whale, it was like a knight got a magic weapon, which was finally useful.
The land can add strength to the energy industry of the motherland.
As the sea trial schedule progresses little by little, the high-quality performance of the Blue Whale has been fully recognized. The rigorous construction attitude has also created excellent quality standards. The Blue Whale has achieved excellent results in various tests.
This not only makes offshore workers like Zhang Yujie happy, but also the owners are more satisfied. They can have the best quality at the most economical price, which no one will give up.
After more than ten days of various tests day and night, the Blue Whale has withstood numerous rigorous verifications, and the performance of tens of thousands of sets of equipment has been fully verified. These are to ensure that the Blue Whale can operate smoothly at every moment in the future.
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When more than 2,700 test items were to be completed, and the certificates of confirmation of passing were placed in front of him, Zhang Yujie still had no joy of success on his face. Even Zhou Yan, Feng Chenyi and others who had completed their respective projects
Humans don’t have this kind of joy either.
This is because the last test project of the Blue Whale has not yet started. This is the most dangerous, or the most deadly, of the sea trial projects of the Blue Whale.
They are all waiting anxiously for the start of this important test project.
In order to ensure the safety of hundreds of people on board the Blue Whale and the safety of the Blue Whale itself, this test project was arranged to the end. If the Blue Whale successfully passes this test, it means that the Blue Whale is fully capable of delivery.
condition.
This test project is known as the most deadly "dead ship restart" test.
The Blue Whale is not only a semi-submersible deepwater drilling platform, but also a maritime giant that can move at will.
This behemoth weighing more than 40,000 tons relies on eight 360-degree all-round propellers at the bottom to be able to move at sea. These eight propellers can not only allow the Blue Whale to travel at a speed of ten knots per hour.
It can make great strides forward, and can also firmly lock the Blue Whale in place and keep it stable during drilling work, without fear of rough seas.
And all of this requires a steady stream of powerful power to ensure that without power maintenance, all thrusters will stop working, which will be fatal and dangerous for such a sea giant.
Once the Blue Whale loses power, the entire platform will be completely out of control. Although the Blue Whale is so huge, with an area the size of a football field, compared to the endless sea, it is like a leaf in the forest.
Power can only drift with the tide on the sea, and a small storm is enough to make it face life and death.
In order to prevent the Blue Whale from facing this situation in the future, designers and engineers have established a complete set of power closed-loop systems for the Blue Whale. This system can allow the Blue Whale to survive even the most extreme failure.
It can isolate faulty equipment in the shortest time and restore power quickly.
The "dead ship restart" test is to verify whether the system can operate normally.
This requires testers to actively cut off the main power supply system of the Blue Whale, which is extremely dangerous for the Blue Whale that is still wandering at sea.
This is an experiment that makes every sea worker tremble with fear. It is equivalent to actively summoning the God of Death and performing a good show of resurrection from the dead in front of it. If the performance goes wrong, it will bring disastrous consequences.
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However, Fuhai people must do this step. Only if this test is successful will the Blue Whale have extremely strong survivability in the most dangerous times.
The test was conducted at night. This was also the last of the more than 2,000 tests in the entire sea trial. All staff received this notice.
"Everyone on the ship, please pay attention. I am the commander-in-chief of the test. We will conduct a power-off test in the engine room in half an hour. Please pay attention to safety, don't panic, and don't make any dangerous moves!"
"Attention everyone on the ship, prepare for the power-off test for fifteen minutes, and all unrelated personnel should immediately enter a safe position!"
"Attention everyone, get ready in five minutes!"
With the countdown of preparations for each time period, almost all the staff on the Blue Whale entered a still state, wearing life jackets and waiting for the arrival of the most dangerous moment.
Emergency rescue personnel are also ready to rescue at any time.
Following the test commander's order, the staff in the cabin immediately cut off the host switch, and the power supply to more than 20,000 devices on the Blue Whale was cut off. Only the safety channel flashed with green fluorescence, and the brightly lit Blue Whale
The ship immediately turned into a ghost on the sea.
There was no sound on the ship, it was completely silent, and no one dared to breathe. There was only the low noise coming from the communication system, and some people could even feel the rocking of the Blue Whale.
But everyone also knows that this is impossible. On this carefully selected calm night, the 40,000-ton Blue Whale will not be in this situation.
This is just the kind of fear that people have.
Time passed little by little, and everyone was waiting anxiously.
Forty-five seconds later, the lights came on. The Blue Whale used this amazing speed to activate the backup power supply and automatically restored all power supplies, allowing the Blue Whale to regain its working capabilities.
The whole ship burst into cheers of victory. The success of this test signified that the Blue Whale has achieved full system automatic control.
The brightly lit Blue Whale is like a city on the sea, reflecting the endless sea.
Thousands of people have overcome countless unprecedented engineering problems, spent millions of man-hours, and nearly three years of hard work are finally about to be rewarded at this moment.
This maritime giant can finally embark on its first journey to protect the motherland’s energy industry.