When Zhuang Rui drove the bearded captain out, he said that he would evaluate the work of the ship's employees based on surveillance to see if he was a competent captain. Clyde was so frightened that he ran back to the captain's cabin and used the internal communication to warn the crew.
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After closing the door, Zhuang Rui turned off all the dozen or so monitors that were flashing in front of him, and sat quietly by the window with his eyes slightly closed.
Invisible and colorless spiritual energy overflowed from Zhuang Rui's eyes and extended downward through the deck. After a while, Zhuang Rui felt his eyes go cold, but the spiritual energy had entered the sea water.
"Huh? Shark? No..."
Zhuang Rui suddenly sensed several swimming creatures within the range of the spiritual energy, all of which were over one meter in size. He was stunned for a moment and quickly wrapped them up with spiritual energy.
"Khan, so he is a diver?"
After "seeing" the situation in the aura group clearly, Zhuang Rui burst into laughter. This was because several divers from the Maritime Safety Administration had gone down to the sea and were using propellers to travel to the seabed tens of meters deep.
The spiritual energy bypassed several people and continued to seep into the seabed. Groups of swimming fish seemed to be able to sense Zhuang Rui's presence and kept wandering around the spiritual energy. However, Zhuang Rui controlled the spiritual energy to prevent it from leaking out, and those fish couldn't.
What benefits are gained.
Several divers following behind saw the colorful fish gathering together, showing an extremely beautiful scene under the sunlight, and couldn't help but take pictures with underwater cameras.
Not to mention these divers who were not doing their jobs properly, Zhuang Rui's spiritual energy had already touched the bottom of the sea. However, he could not directly see the situation on the seabed. He could only focus on the cruise ship and overflow his spiritual energy in all directions.
"There is something..."
As soon as Zhuang Rui saw the sensing range spread, he felt a burst of spiritual energy. However, the thing was not big, only the size of a small fingernail. Although there was plenty of spiritual energy, it was probably not a sunken shipwreck.
"Is this a pearl?"
Zhuang Rui was stunned for a moment, and slightly let out the spiritual energy wrapped around the object. He suddenly felt that the spiritual energy was missing a little, and he understood in his heart that this should be a sea pearl inside a sea clam.
"If you have time later, dig it out..."
The current task was to find the wreckage of the sunken ship. Zhuang Rui could only put the pearl aside. After remembering its location, he continued to search along the seabed.
"Ten meters...thirty meters...fifty meters..."
Since the shipwreck was disintegrated and sank by an explosion at that time, the objects on the ship were probably scattered, so Zhuang Rui searched very carefully. Any place that felt a little aura would be carefully surveyed.
There are endless treasures in the ocean. This is not just the sunken ships that have existed for thousands of years. The pearls contained in the sea clams are also of great collection value.
"Huh? Found it..."
When Zhuang Rui detected a place more than two hundred meters away from the cruise ship, he suddenly sensed a strong spiritual energy in front of his eyes. Zhuang Rui was overjoyed and retracted the spiritual energy scattered in all directions to wrap up the objects at that location.
"This...should be a box of gold, right?"
The object was about one meter long and wide, and Zhuang Rui was familiar with the aura inside it. He had sensed it in a gold mine in Myanmar not long ago, and there was absolutely nothing wrong with it.
"According to records at the time, there should be at least forty tons of gold on board the Awa Maru, and there must be more than just this box..."
After Zhuang Rui remembered the location of the box of gold, he spread his spiritual energy and surveyed around the gold. If there was any more, it should not be far from here. After all, these objects were placed together at that time.
Zhuang Rui's guess was correct. More than ten minutes later, he found sixteen or seven more boxes scattered around, but many of the boxes seemed to be rotten, and chunks of gold diamonds were scattered on the seabed.
Fortunately, these boxes were settled under the mud of the seabed. Otherwise, it would be difficult to preserve the gold, and it would have been washed away by the ebb and flow of the tide.
"Where's the skull? Is it really not on the Awa Maru?"
What makes Zhuang Rui depressed is that although he found more than ten boxes, and not all of them were gold, some boxes contained some ceramics, gold and silverware. Although they were antiques, Zhuang Rui did not find any.
Fossil skull of Peking Man.
Now Zhuang Rui's search area has expanded to more than two kilometers, and basically no wreckage has been found. This shows that the hope of finding the skull fossil of Peking Man is becoming increasingly slim.
"Xiaozhuang, where are you? Come down for a moment..."
Just when Zhuang Rui wanted to expand the search scope, the intercom on the table rang, and Professor Meng's voice came from it.
"Teacher, I'll go down right away..."
Zhuang Rui agreed and reopened all the screens in the monitoring room. He found that several divers had returned to the deck and were removing their equipment.
This made Zhuang Rui a little surprised. His search time was only more than an hour. Could it be that these divers had already discovered something?
"Teacher, have you found anything?"
Zhuang Rui came to the deck. A group of people were recording in front of the temporary monitor. When they saw Zhuang Rui, the deputy commander-in-chief, arriving, everyone made way.
"Xiao Zhuang, come and take a look..."
Professor Meng waved to Zhuang Rui, pointed to the picture on the monitor and said: "It seems that it is impossible to find the wreckage of the Awa Maru manually..."
Zhuang Rui looked at the screen after hearing this. The scene that appeared on the screen made him a little dumbfounded. Where is the bottom of the sea? It looked like a garbage dump.
The picture taken under the strong light was very clear. The first things that were revealed were all aquatic plants. Zhuang Rui observed carefully and realized that the aquatic plants were growing on fishing nets.
In the middle of the fishing net, there were countless gravel and silt. What shocked everyone the most was that there were many disposable lunch boxes mixed in. They didn’t know how these things were swept into the seabed and entered the fishing net?
Under such circumstances, it was naturally impossible for the divers to make any discoveries, so they could only take pictures of the scenes on the seabed and bring them to the ship.
"Old...teacher, what...is going on? Why did the seabed become like this?"
Zhuang Rui really couldn't understand that in this place not very far from the coastline, the rising and falling tides would usually be enough to wash away the garbage, but the facts overturned his understanding.
"This...I don't know what the reason is..."
Professor Meng was also puzzled. He was an archaeologist, not a marine expert, and could not answer the questions Zhuang Rui raised.
"Ahem... Xiaozhuang, let me explain this problem..."
The person standing next to him spoke. Zhuang Rui turned around and saw that it was Director Wu of the Maritime Safety Administration. Like himself, he was the deputy commander-in-chief of the shipwreck salvage. However, the other person had more real power than him and was also more professional.
The person is the highest representative of the Ministry of Transport on board the ship.
"This is not yet an open sea. Fishermen from Fujian usually fish in this sea area, so over time, it became like this..."
After listening to Director Wu's explanation, everyone realized that all these were caused by man-made disasters.
Nowadays, fishing boats are no longer small sampans and wooden boats. They are all extremely modern fishing boats, and generally there are more than two fishing boats at sea.
The two fishing boats opened a distance of hundreds of meters, spread out the two nets, and then moved forward in parallel. After pulling out a certain distance, they used the hoisting system on the ship to pull the fishing nets out of the water.
In this way, the huge dragnet can basically catch all the fish in this area of water. However, there are special situations where the water is not deep enough and the fishing net is entangled in the seabed reefs or shipwrecks. In this case, the fishing boat can only
The fishing net can be discarded.
This kind of thing is not uncommon. People who go fishing often encounter it. Year after year, day after day, the fishing nets on the seabed have accumulated many thick layers. Together with the silt, the nets on the seabed have become
The environment is getting worse and worse, and not even the low tide can take it away.
As for those disposable lunch boxes, Director Wu's explanation left Zhuang Rui and others speechless. They were thrown into the sea by the crew members on the ship while the trawl was in progress.
"Ahem, Director Wu, you should pay attention to publicity regarding the protection of the marine environment..."
Professor Meng did not expect that the culprits who obstructed the salvage were actually the fishermen along the coast. He could not help but complain a few times to the leader of the Maritime Safety Administration in front of him.
After hearing Professor Meng's accusation, Director Wu smiled bitterly and said: "Well, Professor Meng, we don't pay attention to it, but... it is too difficult to supervise. Now that fishing has been banned, maybe something can be done."
Let’s get better…”
"It's still the quality of Chinese people..."
Professor Meng shook his head, looked at Zhuang Rui, and said, "Xiao Zhuang, is there anything else you can do?"
Zhuang Rui was stunned when he heard this, scratched his head and said: "Teacher, it doesn't matter if there are fishing nets covering it. This metal detector can detect a depth of seven or eight meters. If there is a sunken shipwreck, it can still be found..."
The metal detector Zhuang Rui mentioned was what those divers just took off their backs. This is a diving metal detector specially used for ocean salvage. It was first used on the battlefield. To put it bluntly, it is
Used for digging mines.
Later, metal detectors were used in battlefield archeology. In battlefield archeology, most of the evidence is metal, such as musket warheads, cartridges, bullets, cannons and shells, shrapnel and swords, etc. What are they specifically?
The evidence depends on the historical period in which the battle occurred.
Therefore, the most important tool for battlefield archaeologists is a simple metal detector. In the following decades, metal detectors became the "weapons" of tomb robbers.
