Since the late Tang Dynasty, for thousands of years, the Maritime Silk Road connecting the East and the West has never been extinguished or interrupted.
If there really were several ancient routes passing through here, then there must be some sunken ships hidden on the seabed in this sea area.
"I didn't expect that before I went to sea, I said I wanted to hunt for treasure, and I might actually encounter it." Han Peacock looked at the sea area he had mapped out with a smile, and he was so happy that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear.
I came here by accident and had no money, so I worked hard to make some money, but making money by fishing is not the life that Han Peacock pursues.
What he is most interested in is exploring treasure hunting. Now that it is possible, he does not have to look for a needle in a haystack, so he is naturally very happy.
After carefully studying the surrounding sea charts, combined with the undercurrents here, Han Peacock discovered that as long as a fishing boat passed by here, if they did not encounter a storm, even if they just entered the undercurrents he entered just now, it would be a disaster.
The large sailing ships of the ancients did not have strong power, so they could only rely on sails and ocean currents to propel them. When entering the ocean driven by undercurrents, they could only move with the undercurrents. If this were the case, this ship would have to
Entering the reef area.
Therefore, unless this boat is unlucky, it is likely to hit the rocks. If a wooden sailboat hits the rocks, Han Peacock can imagine the scene.
"As we all know, there are billions of dollars of treasure buried under the sea. With today's technology, finding the sunken ship is no longer a problem. The only problem that needs to be solved now is how to salvage it effectively and make more money." Han Peacock chuckled twice.
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Shipwrecks are easy to find, but shipwrecks with treasures are hard to find, and this is near an ancient route. If there are shipwrecks here, is it possible that a large amount of treasures will be found?
What does the Maritime Silk Road carry?
Ancient porcelain, silk, tea, spices. Among these things, only porcelain may be preserved, but buying and selling these things requires real gold and silver.
Therefore, even if it was carrying tea, there should still be some gold and silver left on the ship.
If it is a modern merchant ship, the harvest may be greater, because in modern times, the trading ships of Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and other colonists carried things that were more worthy of salvage.
There will certainly be no shortage of various precious metals. There will also be specialties from some places, such as gems, rosewood, ivory, and rhinoceros horns. These are all indispensable in the trade between the East and the West.
The possibility of ancient shipwrecks in this sea area is much greater than the possibility of modern shipwrecks.
Some people in ancient times were unlucky and sank to the bottom of the sea long ago, but modern people know that this place is dangerous. Most people can't come here, so Han Peacock doesn't mind basing his gains on the pain of ancient people.
Since Han Peacock has already prepared to go into the water, this boat is equipped with complete diving and adventure equipment.
Of course, the reason why Han Peacock asked Lao Wu to buy these was to chase schools of bluefin tuna in the water, but these devices can definitely be used for treasure hunting under the sea.
Therefore, the ship is also equipped with underwater exploration equipment. This was originally intended for Han Peacock to conduct some underwater research and undersea treasure hunters in his free time.
After hearing many treasure hunting stories from others, no one wants to experience the fun of treasure hunting.
But if you really want to hunt for treasure, you can't find it just by blindly entering the bottom of the sea.
Undersea treasure hunting should be an adventure full of hormones, mysterious maps and conspiracy. But in fact, from research, exploration to salvage, the treasure hunting process is so rigorous that it is almost boring.
First of all, to confirm that there is a sunken ship here, we need to collect sailing logs, historical materials and stories passed down by fishermen orally to create a sunken shipwreck database.
Han Kongque opened his laptop and directly logged into the domestic website through the proxy website. He opened the gossip forum, which was the database established by Bai Xiaoyi and the others.
Enter your account and password to search for routes in Southeast Asia, especially around Indonesia. Only when you are sure there is a shipwreck in this area will the Korean Peacock go to sea.
If there is no record of shipwrecks here, then even if the seabed here is dangerous, it is unlikely that there will be a shipwreck.
After logging into the website, Han Kongque found a lot of shipwreck records just by searching. And in this sea area, the information collected by Bai Xiaoyi and the others was quite comprehensive.
Opening the document, Han Kongque took a look and found that there were information on more than 15 sunken ships in this area of the sea. The estimated value of each ship's belongings was at least 50 million U.S. dollars. These projects had actually been approved and could be put into actual operation.
When Han Kongque looked at these documents, it looked like they were prepared for him, rather than for the salvage company under his name.
Generally, this kind of information is prepared for Han Kongque's salvage company. After the information is compiled, there will be a transfer analysis to determine the reliability. Only when it is confirmed, the project will be approved. At this time, the information will be passed to the salvage company.
Only the salvage company will execute it. At this time, they will often lock in a location, berth the exploration ship, and start seabed search and exploration around it.
But here, in this sea area, Han Kongque's salvage company obviously cannot come here to carry out treasure hunting operations, so Han Kongque thought that this was prepared for him.
Now that the information is ready, what about the salvage facilities?
Han Peacock turned off his computer and walked into the warehouse where fishing rods and fishing gear were placed. Sure enough, the equipment here was more advanced than he imagined. There were lifting frames, cranes, undersea operating robots, scanners and other treasure hunting equipment.
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"It seems Bai Xiaoyi and the others understand me." Seeing these equipment, Han Peacock laughed.
No wonder the cold storage on a 300-ton fishing trawler only has a capacity of less than 100 tons. It turns out that other parts have been modified.
This ship is equipped with an exploration ship equipped with an A-type lifting frame, a crane, at least two undersea operation robots, side scan sonar refers to underwater towed measurement towed behind the ship, or detection instrument boxes and large monitoring equipment.
With these devices, as long as the information is sufficient, and thanks to the cooperation of scientific and technological equipment, treasure hunting becomes a process with a clear purpose.
However, Bai Xiaoyi and the others probably wouldn't have thought that Han Kongque would sail a boat out to sea alone. In this case, he might not need the equipment on the boat.
Not to mention other things, just mapping the seabed topography usually takes several months and consumes an average of more than 5,000 US dollars per day. In addition, it also depends on the weather for help.
Only after hundreds of possible targets have been eliminated and the target on the seabed is finally confirmed, can the next step be taken.
At this time, a small undersea reconnaissance robot will be dispatched from the salvage ship to take underwater videos and obtain samples of cultural relics on the sunken ship.
After the archaeologists on board the ship identified the age and value, a large seabed excavation robot was used to salvage the sunken ship.
All of these require a lot of manual work, and Han Kongque only has one person. If he had to search step by step like this, he would not be able to complete it in a year, let alone a few months.
The biggest advancement in modern treasure hunting is reflected in the mapping of the seabed. Han Kongque's salvage company is equipped with several towfish manufactured by Edge Teh, each with equipment and monitoring equipment worth up to 250,000 US dollars.
But such an investment is worth it. Through the back-and-forth detection of sonar waves, it can cover a distance within 1,000 meters, scan out any foreign objects on the seabed as big as a chair, and the seafloor topography can be accurately drawn.
Optical fiber transmission technology has also greatly improved the accuracy of salvage ships in identifying seabed targets.
After early underwater robots took pictures, they needed to return to the ship before they could output underwater videos.
Nowadays, thanks to the advancement of optical fiber technology, robots on salvage ships can transmit high-definition underwater videos captured in real time back to the control room on the exploration ship.
Furthermore, the development of deep-sea operating robots has also made treasure hunting on the seabed much easier.
Thanks to government research funds and the application needs of the petroleum industry, as early as 8 years ago, an underwater robot worth 2.5 million US dollars was able to dive to a depth of more than 7,000 meters below the sea level. This depth is enough
Explore 98% of the world's underwater world.
This robot, originally designed to detect and repair oil pipeline leaks in the deep sea, can easily deal with fragile cultural relics on the seabed.
"Isn't there only a few hundred targets? With my own analysis, the target can be further lowered, so I can go and see for myself, maybe it will be faster." Han Kongque finally came to a conclusion.
No matter how advanced the equipment on the ship was, Han Kongque couldn't use it at this time, so he might as well go to sea himself!
As long as he goes to the sea, he is much more useful than a robot. As long as he finds a sunken ship, the advanced equipment on the ship will come into use.
However, if the harvest is not great, Han Kongque will not directly salvage the sunken ship, because it is too troublesome. Besides, it is impossible for him to salvage a complete treasure ship alone.
With an idea, Han Peacock drove a fishing boat to a safe place.
After parking the trawler and observing it for a while, Han Kongque didn't feel that the trawler was drifting with the current. Then he put down a small boat and the driver drove towards the dangerous place.
The boat is just a speedboat, very light and can be easily retracted and retracted using the crane on the fishing boat.
It is not dangerous for such a small boat to enter that dangerous area, because the small boat has a very shallow draft and is not easy to hit the rocks.
Of course, even if it hits the rocks, it will have no impact on Han Peacock.
Entering the undercurrent, Han Peacock immediately turned off the engine and let the boat move forward with the undercurrent.
Han Peacock felt that the speed of the boat was getting faster and faster, and he felt more and more happy. When the speed reached a rapid state, the speed of the boat began to gradually slow down.
Han Peacock knew that the boat had escaped the influence of the undercurrent on the seabed. The reason why the boat was still moving so fast was just due to the influence of inertia.
Knowing the general scope of influence of the undercurrent, Han Peacock once again drove the boat towards Huihui and continued testing in this sea area. (To be continued.)