Han Peacock was afraid that he would make a fool of himself if he continued to watch, so he walked up to help: "You go change your clothes and go to sea with us after dinner. You don't need to develop in Yangcheng anyway. It is a waste of time to record TV programs.
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"Han Peacock will suffer a lot if you go on TV like this. Be good, take off your clothes and come down to eat." Liu Xu also coaxed.
"Why do I sound so awkward?" Qin Mingyue said after knocking off Liu Xu's hand.
"I saw that there were only fish and shrimp in the refrigerator, so I made a pot of fish soup and put the shrimp in the oven. Check to see if they are cooked. I went up to change clothes. It's okay not to deal with those old perverts from the TV station.
" Qin Mingyue said after leaving the kitchen.
After the three of them had lunch, they took the car directly to the pier. Looking at Qin Mingyue, who was dressed in jeans, Han Peacock said with satisfaction: "Models nowadays are really getting more and more outrageous."
"Who are you talking about?" Qin Mingyue refused.
Han Kongque said with a smile: "Anyway, you are no longer a model, so it is no longer interesting to stand out at this time."
"My cousin is also a model!" Qin Mingyue said.
Liu Xu smiled and said: "Well, I don't know what surprises Han Peacock will bring us this time we go to sea."
Han Kongque said: "10% of the ships that once sailed on the sea are now lying on the seabed, so the surprises are endless. It is known that billions of dollars of treasures are buried under the sea.
With today's technology, finding sunken ships is no longer a problem. The only problem we need to solve is, how to salvage effectively and make more money? Treasure hunting requires patience, if you are not clamoring to go to the Magic City. We are sitting around on the Shenlong on the sea
For fun, you can fish whichever sunken ship you want."
Liu Xu smiled and said: "You must know that among the tens of thousands of sunken ships on the seabed, only a very small number, less than one percent, have tradable wealth, such as gold and jewelry.
Such a large project is not something that can be encountered casually. Many international salvage companies spent a lot of time when they found the first valuable sunken ship. For example, the sunken ship of the USS Republic. Odyssey Company. It took a whole
12 years.”
"Republic? A treasure ship?" Qin Mingyue asked.
Han Peacock said: "Of course it is a treasure ship. The Republic was just after the American Civil War. The Republic, loaded with cargo and coins, set out from New York and was going to New Orleans to support the post-war reconstruction of New Orleans.
This 210-foot-long ship in the steam era unfortunately encountered a rare hurricane five days after sailing out of New York. It sank into the icy seabed. Reports at the time said that the property on board the "Republic" exceeded 400,000 US dollars.
Gold and silver coins - more than 130 years later. Their value has far exceeded the face value of the year. A gold coin with a face value of US$10 has a market price ranging from US$3,000 to US$500,000.
But locating a sunken ship is difficult: Wave-ravaged ships like the Republic break into pieces as they sink and hit the seafloor at 100 miles per hour, leaving them in a tangled mess.
The bodies are also scattered everywhere on the seabed.
Since learning about its story in 1992, the two guys from Odyssey have been working hard with it, analyzing its wreckage from the literature and using computers to simulate the ship's line and speed. In the end, the wreckage was
Locked within a range of 1,500 miles - just using sonar to carefully comb through such a large area of the seafloor would be an extremely voluminous task.
In 2003, Odyssey Company finally successfully found the "Republic" under the ocean 100 miles off the coast of Georgia. The gold and silver coins recovered were sold for 75 million US dollars, and their initial investment cost was only 2 million yuan.
, I made a lot of money all of a sudden.
The two of them also put a salvaged gold coin in their wallets as a souvenir. It’s not too expensive, only 10,000 US dollars, but such a harvest is definitely exciting.”
"The net profit from one harvest exceeds 70 million US dollars. Such a harvest is really exciting. However, Han Kongque, do you gain as much as them?" Qin Mingyue said.
Liu Xu smiled and said: "There are definitely not as many as others. The founders of Odyssey, Greg Stim and John Morris, one is the boss of an advertising company in Florida, and the other is a real estate developer - they have nothing to do with shipwreck salvage.
The only thing they have in common is that they like to drive boats, so they became good friends.
In 1986, a boat broker told them that a Florida college was selling an 85-foot expedition boat, and they bought it for $100,000.
At first, the two of them just used the boat as a leisure tool, drinking gin and watching the sunset on the deck. Soon they discovered that the boat was also equipped with equipment for underwater exploration, so they started renting the boat out in their free time.
For some scientists who do underwater research and undersea treasure hunters.
After seeing too many treasure hunting stories from others, Stim and Morris decided to experience the fun of treasure hunting themselves. In the waters of Florida, these two guys actually found a sunken ship, but they were unlucky and there was almost nothing on the ship.
This success aroused their interest and decided to turn the search for sunken treasures into a business.
This is so different from other businesses that no one can be sure when the large sums of money invested will pay off, but Stim and Morris have determined a principle from the beginning: they hope that Odyssey will find the treasure.
, can become routine just like Exxon discovered oil.
Stim explained: When we can continue to find new sunken ships, the face of underwater shipwreck salvage will change. This is no different from oil companies discovering oil fields. It is also risky at the beginning, but as long as they find the first oil field
, and if they keep repeating their discovery, they will succeed.
So later on, there was the harvest of the Gelsoppa. This ship sank in Britain during World War II. It carried more than 200 tons of silver, with an estimated total value of up to 200 million US dollars. What did the Korean peacock pick up? It was all porcelain, which is comparable to
There’s a huge difference between gold and silver.”
Han Peacock just smiled and said nothing, while Liu Xu blinked at Han Peacock. Qin Mingyue noticed it and immediately attacked Liu Xu: "What are you two communicating secretly?"
Han Peacock said with a smile: "Treasure hunting sounds very exciting, but it is actually very boring. Therefore, it is okay to search for it once or twice. If you do it as work, it will be very boring."
Han Kongque told Qin Mingyue and Liu Xu some of the treasure hunting process of the Shenlong, letting the two women who originally thought that treasure hunting on the seabed should be an adventure full of hormones, mysterious maps and conspiracies know that treasure hunting actually involves everything from research and exploration to
The process of salvaging and treasure hunting is so rigorous that it is almost boring.
First, they collected logbooks, historical materials and stories passed down by fishermen orally to create a shipwreck database. Han Kongque currently has information on more than 15 shipwreck projects, and the estimated value of each ship’s belongings is at least US$50 million.
Then, Bai Xiaoyi and the others usually lock in a location, berth the exploration ship, and start searching and exploring the seabed from there.
The exploration ship is equipped with an A-type lifting frame, a crane, at least two undersea operating robots, side scan sonar refers to underwater towed measurement towed behind the ship, or detection instrument boxes and large monitoring equipment.
With sufficient information and thanks to the cooperation of scientific and technological equipment, treasure hunting has become a process with a clear purpose. Surveying and mapping the seabed terrain 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.
After eliminating hundreds of possible targets and finally confirming the target on the seabed, the Shenlong will dispatch a small seabed reconnaissance robot, which is a more sophisticated simulated fish, to shoot 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.
The greatest progress in modern treasure hunting is reflected in the mapping of the seabed. Han Kongque's Shenlong is equipped with a large number of underwater monitoring simulation fish. This sophisticated simulation fish specializing in seabed mapping and its monitoring equipment cost up to 250,000 US dollars.
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Such an investment is worthwhile. 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 seabed topography can be accurately drawn.
Optical fiber transmission technology has also greatly improved the accuracy of the Shenlong's confirmation of seabed targets. In the early days, after taking pictures, the underwater robot had to return to the ship before it could output the underwater video. Now, thanks to the advancement of optical fiber technology, the Shenlong
The robot can transmit the captured high-definition underwater video in real time back to the control room on the exploration ship.
Furthermore, there is the development of deep-sea operating robots. Thanks to the technology on Devil's Island, Han Peacock successfully manufactured an underwater robot worth 2.5 million US dollars, which can dive to 22,000 meters below the sea level. This depth is enough to explore the world.
98% of the 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.
The crew of the Shenlong worked hard and rarely rested. An exploration usually lasted 30 to 60 days. Due to the special nature of the profession, the crew on the ship could not go ashore for a long time. This became a problem for some young crew members.
huge challenge.
So years ago, Han Kongque began to request more female crew members. Now, more than one-third of the crew on the Shenlong are women, and they are equipped with a complete ecosystem.
Such as seawater desalination equipment, soilless cultivation greenhouses, indoor farms, forest farms and indoor breeding pastures. With these facilities, the crew can work and exercise, change the working environment, and relieve their depressed mood.
The most important thing is that agriculture, forestry and pasture can provide more fresh vegetables, fruits and meat to the crew who have been drifting at sea for a long time. In this way, coupled with the supporting entertainment facilities, even if the Shenlong has been drifting at sea for a year, even for some
For young people who are on land and stay at home, this is no longer a problem. (To be continued...)