Chapter 15. Nautical Taboos (below)

Over time, has become a deep-rooted habit, no matter in the sea, even if you return home also do not mention these words, simply as if the world has never been these words, in addition to the time of rowing, but also avoid whistling, which is a common taboo fishermen and egg people, and fishermen and salvage teams are also taboo on deck with their hands behind their backs, because the back of the hand omen “hit the back of the net”, is a sign of no harvest, the ship “master” can not sit, the bow can not sit, in short, a variety of names and rules are too many to count. The reason is that the back of the hand is an omen of no harvest, the “master” of the boat can not sit, the bow of the boat can not sit, in short, a variety of names and rules are too many to count.

I and fat man in fujian time also with the boat out of the sea a few times, to these rules expressed a full understanding and respect, but not too much on the heart, while the captain does not pay attention to the fat man and I deliberately in the big master sat on the big main, the big main refers to the deck piles, and did not see any accidents, but there are no rules, it is difficult to make a circle, these sailing taboos, probably with the “chicken lights out do not feel the These sailing taboos are probably similar to the rule of “don’t touch the gold when the lights go out”, which is to increase the safety factor, not to deliberately harm people.

Shirley Yang also has a set of superstitious rules she learned in the U.S. Navy, said the U.S. science and technology is advanced, in fact, on the superstitious than the fishermen and egg people are not ambiguous, and their rules are even more strange and bizarre, and even how to wash the deck of the water barrel should be placed have a name.

Because of the different cultural backgrounds of the various seas, similar sea boating rules are also very different, this can really should be the words, we are from all over the world, the seven people from all over the world, in order to a common goal to come together, in order to achieve this common purpose, have to make compromises with each other, or else to the southeast, northwest and north of the customs and taboos of the various parts of the world are placed on a boat, the action will have to be the death of this many rules and regulations to limit.

But some things do not believe in evil can not, some taboos in the ship has existed for so many years, there must be its reasons and value, can not care about anything, and finally after consultation, can only give one step, agreed not to say turn, down, buckle a kind of inauspicious words, respect for the Dragon King, worship the “A-Ma Zu” as a god, the rest of the taboos can be exempted from, on this are already! We are used to saying “pouring”, but when we go to the sea, we can only generalize the rules of moving mountains and reclaiming the sea.

At Shirley Yang’s suggestion, I let Ruan Hei be the captain of the ship, and he and Uncle Ming replaced each other to take charge of the ship, before approaching the Coral Spiral Sea, we will adopt the traditional but reliable navigation method, using charts, compasses, latitude and longitude instruments, tachymeters and other ancient tools, and avoiding the use of modern electronic devices that are easy to be interfered with as much as possible, and Uncle Ming and Ruan Hei can judge the approximate route according to the direction of the ocean currents, and experienced sea wolves are all experienced in this field. Experienced sea wolves know that the sea currents are naturally divided into several strands due to the different topography, and the underwater aquatic species also occupy their own environment to which they are adapted, with the deep and shallow currents as the boundaries, and seldom cross each other, and the direction of the ocean currents can be observed by throwing buoys, which is not very difficult, coupled with the weather on the sea is very ideal, and the winds and waves are not shocking, so there should not be anything to worry about for the first few days of the voyage, but after the compass began to fail, and the day and night are lost, the ocean currents can be observed. In the first few days of the voyage, there should be nothing to worry about, after the compass began to malfunction, as well as lost the sun, moon and stars, it is Shirley Yang’s skill of moving mountains and reclaiming the sea.

All people have sea experience, big wind and big waves have seen a lot, even if the waves are rough boat ups and downs, but also not to someone appear signs of seasickness and vomiting, but the sea is boundless, into the deep sea, surrounded by endless turquoise blue sea water, and even a seabird is also rare to see, this sea willow ship trident ship is not big, but also divided into three layers, in the middle of the deck of the boat below the total of a total of before, in, after the five compartments, after the cabin is the largest, loaded with a Whole box whole box of various supplies and water, in the cabin before the cabin is divided into left and right two cabin, which the largest one in the cabin is used as a dining room, usually in addition to the guys on the deck air, most of the time on here to kill things light, the two sides of the gold Vishnu water god gun is also located in this cabin, this old-fashioned gun is not used to deal with the sea bandits, but it can be used to bombard to repel the sea suddenly emerged in the sea of the big fish, lest it be swallowed by the boat fish! Top over the boat, three layers of each cabin are equipped with a thousand miles between the sound transmission tube, is a kind of copper pipe connecting all the cabins, you can use it to quickly talk to contact, the rest of the cabins, in addition to fuel is supplies, full of no space, in the ship’s narrow decks and cabins for a long time, but also inevitably people feel boring.

The only solution is to drink, running the ship of the sea wolf few people are not addicted to drink, Uncle Ming easily do not drink, but when it comes to his turn at the helm when the hand must take a bottle of white wine, this is a habit developed over the years, and he drank on the high, high after the words will be more, like a changed man, discussing the world’s success and failure, the words are quite impassioned from the sky to the bottom of the sea, but every time he said in the end, he will have to boast about when he went down to the South China Sea, how many times? But every time at the end of his speech, he had to brag about how many times he had escaped from death in big storms and waves when he went to the South China Sea, calling himself the “old sea wolf” who could not die and could not afford to lose.

This day I was really impatient to listen to Uncle Ming bragging, but do not want to go back to the cabin to sleep, see the fat man in the bow of the boat is holding up binoculars, looking at the sky and sea to see the input, I thought there is a lot of fun to see, and went over to ask him if he found something new, but the fat man looked at the dumb, can not answer, I also picked up his own binoculars, along the direction of the direction that he was looking at the past, I want to see the sea is not a fucking mermaid bathing? I want to see if there is a fucking mermaid bathing in the sea?

I adjusted the focus of the binoculars, the lens of the line of sight from fuzzy gradually turned clear, the original far away from the surface of the sea waves rolling, huge whale salamanders of the genus is floating out of the sea in groups, the distance between each other is very far, and all are only exposed back, as a black reef in the sea, I used to listen to the fishermen said that the bottom of the sea of the ichthyosaurus of the big, not less than a hundred meters, large coral trees are also more than dozens of meters high, but that was heard, we are still the first time to see a rare The first time to see the rare whale salamander out of the water spectacle, can not help but look out of focus.

A mountain of fish is far away from us, two to the trident ship not only fast, and the ship is equipped with a shock swallowed the boat fish of the water god cannon, so we do not have to worry about the giant whale drumming waves overboard, not long, exposed to the surface of the fish spine did not enter the sea disappeared.

We are now sailing in the sea, the sea water blue, it is said that the bottom is an unfathomable sea in the Rift Valley, the location has been close to the coral spiral, one end of the trench is the “sixteen words of yin and yang secret art” described in the “South Dragon” into the sea of the remaining veins, the trench is the place where the sea gas is born, and it is exactly how deep, by virtue of the present Science and technology simply can not be detected, now can be detected to the extent of only a few thousand meters or so, some people speculate that its deepest depth of not less than 10,000 meters, straight to the present has not been confirmed, but the world is still recognized here as one of the “undersea abyss”, often occurring incomprehensible and mysterious phenomena can live in the deep sea underneath the water in the form of strange, the body is large, if it is not for the “South Dragon” into the sea, this trench is the place where sea air is born. The body of the large, if not witnessed, absolutely unimaginable, the sea those really vicious sea monsters, are in the deep sea below the region of several thousand meters lurking, and sometimes will occasionally float to the surface of the sea to prey on, but the dimensions of time is very short will be immediately submerged into the deep sea, otherwise it will be close to the surface of the sea of the vicious fish siege.