On the sea, a bag with small lights flashing was swaying with the waves. Yuan Bing used a large net to fish it out on the boat. When Professor Yu saw the "Seven Treasures Gilded Relic Tower", he almost cried.
It fell. Just for this important treasure, one and a half million dollars was spent. It was worth it.
The equipment on the ship was not complete, so Professor Yu was not in a hurry to open the small tower to take a look. He just placed it in the incubator and continued to soak it in sea water. This thing had been soaked in the sea for six to seven hundred years, and no one could judge that it suddenly broke away.
If you are not sure what changes will occur in the original environment, it is safest to continue to soak it in sea water for preservation.
Ling Hao and Tian Yong were not idle either. After walking around the sunken ship, they roughly opened the bottom board of the sunken ship and began to rummage inside the cabin. Professor Yu's eyelids twitched when he saw this ship.
The sunken ship itself is a cultural relic, but now it has been so poisoned. Professor Yu quietly stuffed a few Jiuxin pills into his mouth and comforted himself. This is also a method of rescue excavation.
After a while, Tian Yong poked his head out of the hole in the ship's board and made a downward gesture to the camera. This was what was agreed before going into the water. If there were any large items that needed to be salvaged from the water, cables and cranes would be placed on the ship.
Basket down.
Professor Yu was so excited that he almost jumped up. He quickly followed Yuan Bing to place the hanging basket. This hanging basket was completely made of welded steel bars. It was no problem for one person to sit on it. There was a counterweight inside, so it would be useless even if it dropped to the sunken ship.
Within minutes, a two-meter-long ivory as thick as a bowl was lifted out of the cabin by Tian Yong. This time, not only the archaeological team members, but also Shi Si and the others had their eyes opened, and none of them could bear it.
I imagined that there were gold, gems, and white jade bottles in the cabin...
Before everyone could wake up from the shock, Ling Hao also came out of the big hole in the bottom of the boat. He was holding a stack of square ceramic plates in his hand. Some writings on them could be faintly seen under the high-definition lens of the camera robot.
Ling Haoke has a master's degree, so he naturally understands that to archaeologists, these pottery plates with characters are much more valuable than boxes of gold.
The two put the pottery plates and ivory into the hanging basket. Tian Yong looked at the cylinder pressure gauge, and then gestured to Ling Hao, meaning that the time was almost up, and he would go and put the two items that had just been placed in the hole in the bottom of the boat.
After getting the things, they can go back and let him wait for him in the hanging basket.
Tian Yong slowly returned to the sunken ship, lay down on the bottom of the ship and reached into the big hole. Who would have thought that the wooden boards of the sunken ship had been soaked in sea water for six to seven hundred years, and were already in a state of decay. In addition, they were still turned over many times on the bottom of the sea.
After somersaulting, he was knocked down here. How could he withstand Tian Yong's fall?
There was a surge of mud and sand, and Tian Yong sank violently. A big hole was broken in the sunken ship, and then it slowly broke into two parts, and the front part began to slide downward again.
This scene shocked everyone, but in Ling Hao's eyes, it didn't matter how the ship sank. What he cared about most was whether his brother Tian Yong was injured. At this moment, in the sand like a cloud of yellow smoke, a cattail leaf fan appeared.
The tail of a fish the size of the fish was exposed, and it was still tumbling and swinging.
"Damn, it's a shark!" Someone shouted in front of the screen, and everyone was a little confused. How could there be a shark under this sunken ship?
As soon as Ling Hao saw the shark's tail, he took out his diving knife and swam over without hesitation. However, he had just swam less than a meter away when he saw a string of bubbles emerging from the sand, a mako shark more than two meters long.
Biting Tian Yong's breathing tube, he forcefully tore him off the seabed.
The mako shark is one of the most ferocious sharks you can see in the South China Sea. It can grow up to 5-7 meters in length and swim very fast. It often attacks people. It must be that this mako shark is looking for food on the seabed.
, it was an inexplicable coincidence that they were caught below by the rolling sunken ship. Ling Hao and the others were moving in the bottom cabin just now, so naturally they did not encounter this guy, but Tian Yong accidentally completely collapsed the sunken ship, but he saved this beast.
One life.
The mako shark, which had been "imprisoned" for more than ten days, was not only hungry, but also extremely angry, and of course it would attack Tian Yong.
However, the latter is not a fuel-efficient lamp. He is a retired "frogman" from a certain foreign special forces, and he is very skilled. Without hesitation, he drew out his diving knife and stabbed the shark in the belly with his backhand.
Black blood burst out, and the mako shark went crazy and began to shake its head desperately. Tian Yong's oxygen tube was torn off by it, and the latter had to shrink his arms and even take off the tank and backpack, and then
He turned around and grabbed the dorsal fin of the mako shark, held the diving knife behind his back, and stabbed the shark's spine behind the head with a very sharp knife.
As if the power of some machine was suddenly cut off, the mako shark immediately stopped moving. At this time, Ling Hao also came to Tian Yong and handed over the scuba air nozzle. Tian Yong took two breaths calmly, and then
He put a "rhino horn cup" in his hand into the hanging basket and made an upward gesture toward the camera as if nothing was wrong.
Shi Siru woke up from his dream and shouted to Yuan Bing outside: "Take the hanging basket! They are getting ready to float."
In deep diving activities, ascent is definitely a long and arduous task. The two put on spare cylinders and began the slow process of floating for five meters before stopping for three minutes. Even the five meters of ascent was very slow.
, international practice is that you must not exceed the buoyancy speed of the smallest bubble you exhale. These series of practices are to prevent the biggest threat to divers - decompression sickness.
These two underwater divers are considered to be the world's top divers. They are naturally measured and experienced. What they have to worry about is not decompression sickness, but hypothermia. The water temperature of 13° to 21° sounds like nothing.
But if you try to soak for three or four hours, you will definitely die of hypothermia. So the two of them wore the thickest cold-proof diving suits when they went into the water.
It didn't take long for the hanging basket to come out of the water. The ivory and rhinoceros horn cups were taken away by the students to preserve. Professor Yu was shaking with excitement when he looked at the pottery boards. They were in Sanskrit. Needless to say, he knew that they must be Buddhist scriptures imported from India.
, which was of extremely special significance and great value to the study of religious history in Southeast Asia at that era. The research fund of 1.5 million yuan spent on diving and salvage is really worth it.
More than two hours later, Ling Hao and Tian Yong finally got on the boat. Their lips were purple and they were shivering from the cold. Doctor Jiang Mingyu quickly helped them take off their heavy diving suits, wrapped them in bath towels and blankets, and then
A hot ginger soup was served. Professor Yu looked on and was speechless. He made a lot of money, but it was just money to risk his life. Not to mention the cold sea water, the mako shark just now was enough for him.
I had nightmares at night.
Under the high seas of the Yellow Sea, a C-country "Romeo"-class diesel-electric attack submarine with hull number 751 is cruising. In peacetime, whether it is a warship or a submarine, its daily tasks include combat readiness patrols and training.
At this moment, the warning lights in the submarine were flashing silently, and the crew members were quickly shuttled inside the submarine, conducting actual combat exercises.
Captain Quan Darong took the communicator and calmly gave the order: "Start the two vehicles, reduce the speed by one, dive to 200 meters, pressurize the No. 1 and No. 3 torpedo tubes, and prepare to launch!" This is a live torpedo target practice
, the target ship was only 10 nautical miles away. For Country C’s old-fashioned torpedoes, this distance was definitely a challenge. Quan Darong was still a little nervous.
"Target enemy destroyer, sail southeast, speed 20 knots, turn on torpedo autonomous guidance." Quan Darong ordered while staring at the sonar screen.
"Torpedo tube No. 1 is ready for launch!"
"Torpedo tube No. 3 is ready for launch!" came the response from the torpedo room on the communicator.
Quan Darong put his hand on the sonar soldier's shoulder and said: "You only have 15 seconds to turn on your sonar. You only have one chance. You will shut it down immediately after locking on the enemy ship. Do you understand?" The sonar soldier nodded, looking a little nervous.
"Start!" Quan Darong ordered, and the sonar soldier immediately turned on the sonar. With a "boom" sound, a sound wave was emitted. Quan Darong pressed the button of the stopwatch on his chest at the same time. After 13 seconds, the sonar received a "boom"
"With a sound, a light spot flashed on the screen immediately. The sonar soldier made a "crackling" input on the computer, and then turned off the sonar immediately.
"The enemy ship has been locked!" the sonar soldier reported.
Quan Darong's face was filled with joy: "Torpedo cabin, No. 1, No. 3 torpedo tubes, two salvos, fire!"
With a "squeak" sound, a torpedo was launched from the bow of the submarine, but the second torpedo made no movement.
"Report, the pressure valve of the No. 3 torpedo tube has ruptured and the torpedo launch failed!" The anxious voice of the soldier came from the torpedo cabin.
Quan Darong's face suddenly turned green. The torpedo fuse had been turned on. If it couldn't be launched, wouldn't it mean that he would blow up his submarine? "Reset the torpedo launch code and use self-propelled launch!" Quan Darong roared.
"Reset failed! The torpedo thruster cannot be started!" The torpedo soldier's voice was filled with tears.
However, Quan Darong is a senior submarine captain after all. Although he was nervous, he did not panic. He quickly ordered: "Keep the torpedo tube open, increase the submarine's speed by two, and dive quickly!" There is no other way.
, when the submarine dives rapidly, the bow will naturally be downward and the stern will be upward. He hopes that in this posture, the torpedo can be "inverted" out of the launch tube.
Submarine 751 suddenly dived, and the torpedo finally slid out of the launch tube as expected. However, Quan Darong's face did not become pretty. He stared at the stopwatch in his hand, and there were only 10 seconds left before the torpedo exploded.
"Emergency surface!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. Just now, the submarine was diving rapidly, and now it needs to emerge urgently. This is a submarine with a displacement of more than 1,700 tons. How can it be said that it can surface immediately if it surfaces?
Before the bow of the ship could be pulled up, there was a loud "bang" and the torpedo exploded. Because it was too close to the bow of the ship, a large hole with a diameter of more than two meters was instantly blown out, and seawater immediately poured into the submarine.
Enter. "Enclose the torpedo room! Emergency resurface!" Quan Darong roared, but after all, this is an old submarine that has been in service for nearly 40 years. The explosion just now has also cracked the "water storage tank" of the submarine, regardless of the air.
No matter how pressurized the pump was, it could not discharge enough seawater to allow the submarine to float. The No. 751 submarine fell straight to the bottom of the sea like a stone. The only thing they could do was to send out a distress signal and send the coordinates of their crash site back to