In order to save space, the stairs on the ship are generally very steep, the floor height of the rooms is only two meters, and pipelines, cables and insulation materials must be laid on the top.
After setting up the beds, tables, and chairs, the room was basically filled.
Bifang passed through the seat and wooden table and sat beside the bed. The entire bed was a standard single bed, and it was narrower.
It is not unreasonable for the bed to be small. When sailing on the sea, the bed should be narrow enough to fit your body.
Experienced sailors will stuff pillows and blankets at the head of the bed early, so that if there is a storm, they can hold the edge of the bed with both hands and push the wall at the end of the bed with their feet, so as not to be thrown to the ground.
Outside the room, the corridor on the ship barely meets the minimum standard stipulated in international conventions - 0.7 meters.
Two people meet across from each other in the corridor. One of them has to lean against the wall for the other to pass.
As for entertainment, there are almost no other public places except restaurants.
It’s no wonder that as a cruise ship, the fare is so cheap.
Bi Fang sighed inwardly. This was the only condition for converting a fishing boat into a cruise ship.
If it were before, the crew would have to stay in such an environment for a full two or three years. It would be much easier to become a cruise ship, and the income would be relatively stable.
Most people imagine life at sea as a long vacation: eating raw fish, blowing the sea breeze, sunbathing, and feeling like they are in Hawaii every day.
The previous ones are indeed true, and it is also the biggest selling point of this "cruise ship". As a modified fishing boat, the cruise ship retains some fishing functions.
In the Arctic Ocean, there is almost no industrial pollution. You can catch fresh seafood and eat the best sashimi, which is soft and sweet without any seasoning.
Not long after boarding the boat, Bifang had an unprecedented bumper harvest - a catch of 120 kilograms.
He has never eaten such delicious Arctic shrimp sashimi, which melts in your mouth and has a sweet and glutinous texture.
However, once you eat three meals a day like this, it will continue for several years...
Thinking about it this way, the captain who decided to refit the ship in the first place was indeed very courageous and turned into a cruise ship, and all he enjoyed was the wonderful things.
Bi Fang took out his backpack, took out the two certificates from the innermost compartment, and looked at them over and over.
What he produced were two certificates.
One is a hunting quota for polar bears, and the other is a hunting license for seals.
This was given to him by the scientific researchers at the Yellow River Station.
Bi Fang recalled the night before yesterday when the front desk of the hotel suddenly called him, saying that someone was looking for him. At that time, Bi Fang was still curious about who would come to such a remote city to find him.
It turned out that they were compatriots from the Yellow River Station.
The purpose of coming to him was to bring the two permission certificates in front of me.
Judging from the literal meaning, it is very simple. You can hunt polar bears and seals now, and it is a formal and legal way.
Greenland is also one of the base areas for polar bears, and Bi Fang is very likely to encounter them. They are very curious animals, especially in the autumn when they are trying to accumulate fat.
Once a conflict breaks out, no one can predict the outcome.
As for seals, the same is true. A seal may be able to save a person's life at a critical moment. Whether it is its warm fur or its fat seal meat, it provides extremely huge amounts of heat and help.
Don't underestimate mankind's determination to protect the North and South Poles. Its determination is so firm that it is even shocking.
There is such a regulation in the Antarctic Treaty.
"If you have not obtained a "permit to kill a seal" before going to Antarctica, if you are about to starve to death after being in distress, can you kill a seal to satisfy your hunger?"
The answer - which will surprise everyone: "You cannot kill seals to satisfy your hunger."
Unbelievable?
Yes, anyone would find it incredible.
With the regulations already detailed to this extent, do you still think that mankind’s determination to protect the Antarctic ecology is a child’s play?
If you feel that these contents are as empty as strange advice from a distant planet, then perhaps it is because your world has not yet expanded to the ends of the earth.
Of course, that was the Antarctic Treaty, and what Bi Fang is going to now is the Arctic. Even if the Arctic Treaty is already being formulated, at least there are no such strict regulations at present, except that ordinary people are prohibited from hunting.
Apart from Canada, the only people who can obtain hunting permits are various research centers and the local indigenous Inuit people.
Hunting polar bears and seals is a means of survival for the Inuit people and is a link in the natural and normal food chain. Just like polar bears hunting seals, it is natural and no one will stop them. Even so, the annual quota is fixed.
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No matter how the polar bear dies, the quota will be consumed.
This time it was the Yellow River Station that gave Bi Fang the quota of one polar bear and three seals as a helping hand.
All in all, it helped a lot.
Bi Fang solemnly put the two certificates into the compartment in his backpack. This was a big favor. Although he might not use it, he kept it in mind.
Sure enough, you still have to rely on your own people when you go out.
In the next few days, Bi Fang stayed on the ship, getting closer and closer to Greenland.
After the tourists on the ship got over the initial novelty, they began to regard Bifang's several hours of live broadcast every day as a regular program activity.
When the time is almost up every day, we will all appear on the deck together and listen to Bi Fang's explanation of human history and anecdotes about Arctic explorers of past generations.
Everyone felt like they were back in the classroom when they were teenagers, except that this class was more interesting and more beautiful.
During the days on the ship, probably the most profound impact on Bi Fang was going to the toilet.
When I walked into the bathroom, the boat shook and I couldn't even squat down.
In the end, Bi Fang concluded that you should choose a calm day when going to the toilet, otherwise you will most likely become constipated.
After passing through the Fram Strait, the effect of the warm current in the North Atlantic has been minimal, and the temperature is dropping almost every day. This is not because it is approaching winter, but just because of the change in geographical location.
From around zero degrees on Svalbard to minus 20 degrees in the strait, it is now as low as minus 30 degrees.
Bi Fang has no doubt that the temperature will drop below 35 degrees after landing on the island. By the end of the eternal night, there may be ultra-low temperatures below 60 degrees.
After several days of sailing, the captain sent a sailor to knock on Bifang's door in the morning to inform him.
The northernmost tip of Greenland has arrived.
Bi Fang stood up and looked out the dark porthole.
Although it was only the morning at normal time, the sky was still dark, and there was a deep aqua color band in the sky, floating slowly like dreamy bubbles.
It's the Aurora.
Today is a good day for the arrival of the aurora, and it will not be dawn for another two hours, but at this time, the silent icebergs in the dark night have already received their first ray of natural light, and the entire sky is reflected in an indelible aquatic green.