Chapter 1023 – Salvage (I)

The matter of Zhuang Rui taking out a pearl worth hundreds of millions of RMB from a big sea mussel spread throughout the entire cruise ship in a very short period of time, and this time, no matter where Zhuang Rui went, the eyes of the people looking at him were filled with envy.

Fortunately, the security guards on this ship are all Li Zhen’s people, plus the former crew members have been replaced with sailors, if those Portuguese ruffians crew members are still there, they may have to come up with bad ideas to kidnap Zhuang Rui.

“Boss, you are really lucky, I think, if we go to the Pacific Ocean, we will definitely be able to salvage countless treasures as well.”

Captain Clyde didn’t know where he got the news, he also ran out from the captain’s room to congratulate Zhuang Rui, and started to encourage Zhuang Rui to go to the Pacific Ocean to salvage the treasure.

Zhuang Rui once gave him a promise, in the sea salvaged treasure, Clyde can share one percent.

Don’t underestimate this one percent, to know, the value of many shipwrecked treasures are billions of dollars to calculate, this one percent also has tens of millions of dollars, is why the bearded captain will constantly remind Zhuang Rui.

After Zhuang Rui heard Clyde’s words, he suddenly remembered that the bearded sultry captain hid in the monitoring room to watch adult action movies, he couldn’t help but smile and said: “Clyde, there will be a chance for you to cross the sea in the future, that said, what do you need so much money for? Could it be that you want to find a captain’s wife?”

“Oh Chuang, you are insulting me, I want to duel with you.”

Clyde put on an angry look, but immediately changed his smile and said, “But boss, if you are willing to let me realize my ideal as early as possible, I can forgive you.”

“Step aside, it’s almost winter, if you want to carry out salvage, you’ll have to wait until next year as well.”

Zhuang Rui shook his head, China’s national essence of face changing has been learned by foreigners ah? This face becomes faster than the book.

“Okay, no more bullshit with you, the following is going to start working.”

Zhuang Rui saw from the window of the captain’s room that the floating crane cantilever on the deck had been raised high, and hurriedly left the captain’s room and rushed towards the deck.

“Bullshit? What do you mean? How does this thing rip?”

Although the bearded captain was a Chinese, he still didn’t understand Zhuang Rui’s words, and after Zhuang Rui went out, he carefully pulled out a handful of crotch, which hurt the old man with an “ow-wow”, and then protected it tightly.

“Mr. Zhuang, the preparations have been completed, I just finished speaking to the comrades, do you have anything to add?” After Zhuang Rui arrived on the deck, Director Wu had just finished his speech.

“Well, I don’t have anything to say, if we can have a good opening today, we’ll have an extra meal in the evening.”

Zhuang Rui smiled and shouted, but let the boat crowd cheered, now the whole boat people know that Zhuang Rui from a big sea mussel inside, take out tens of millions of dollars worth of pearls, each is envious.

Although they can not get the pearl, but can eat the meat of the sea mussels, later can brag a few words to people, how much is also considered to dip a little bit of immortal gas!

Zhuang Rui saw the crowd’s happy appearance, smiled and turned his head to Director Wu and said, “Director Wu, you can start.”

This system in the people most pay attention to the order, usually attend the event, who walks in front of who walks in the back, are very careful, which issued the order to start salvage, naturally to be promulgated by the Secretary Wu, Zhuang Rui is not going to steal the limelight.

“Good, all units pay attention, start implementing salvage program number one.”

Looking at the camera in front of him, Director Wu was filled with a serious expression, waved his hand with vigor and gave the order into the microphone.

Over there, the CCTV special report team of reporters, such as picking a few close-up shots, began to go up to the director of Wu, Zhuang Rui look at this situation, hastily pulled Professor Meng to the drilling platform.

Although the salvage of shipwrecks in the sea is not very deep, but because after a while when the tide goes out, the silt washed down from the coast, will also be cleaned out to fill the place.

So the technicians after investigation and discussion, decided to use the drilling platform and floating crane cantilever together, as soon as possible to clean up the silt around the wreckage.

At the top of the dozens of meters long floating crane cantilever, a dredging bucket was temporarily installed, which is a supporting facility in itself, and on top of the dredging bucket, an underwater camera was placed, which can maximize the guarantee that the wreckage will not suffer further damage.

After Wu’s order, the huge floating crane cantilever like a Transformer general stretched out, and then the bucket took the lead like water, under the operation of skilled technicians, like the wreckage address extended over.

At this time, Zhuang Rui and Prof. Meng, both stood in the floating crane operation room, eyes firmly staring at the display screen that was specially placed here, watching that the digging bucket was constantly approaching the wreckage.

“Gently, more gently, slow down ……”

From the digging bucket constantly trembling camera screen to see, the digging bucket has been in contact with the seabed silt, Professor Meng can not help but tense up, in case the bottom if the fossilized Pekingese skull, that can not be prohibited by the digging bucket shovel force.

You know, fossil is also a stone, and the iron guy collision will be broken, although there is no certainty that the object underneath in the end is what, but Professor Meng is still very nervous.

“Chief Commander Meng, don’t worry! I’ll give him a big unveiling, I’m sure it won’t hurt the objects underneath.”

This open floating crane technician quite talkative, and actually know a few archaeological terminology, is to listen to Professor Meng laughed, nervousness also relieved some.

This buddy is really not blowing, that technology is really great, under his operation, the dugout seems to be alive in general, tightly rubbing the silt surface layer slipped through, the action of the gentle, even the seawater is not stirred turbid, or as before the clarity of the sea.

When the bucket slid over the survey object, the front teeth, seemed to drive the broken fishing net, a large piece of silt was lifted, the picture became blurred.

“Pull away, pull away a little, and continue when the sea is clear.”

Onlookers couldn’t see the situation on the bottom of the sea, but Zhuang Rui could feel it, and he found that this digging bucket went down, and actually ripped away the silt on top of the wreckage as well as the fishing nets.

It is likely that the wreckage of the wreckage below, pulling the fishermen’s nets, long down the accumulation of a lot of silt, digging bucket an inadvertent action, but the whole net was lifted, so that the wreckage of the wreckage below was revealed.

The technician who operated the floating crane extended the floating crane, after about seven or eight minutes, the sea water slowly cleared up, through the camera can be seen, in the front of the dredging bucket, hanging a mountain of silt and seabed sediments.

“Clean this up and let the divers go down to the sea.”

After seeing this situation, Zhuang Rui gave an order into the walkie-talkie, as for Director Wu, it was estimated that this would not have finished the interview yet!

“Xiao Zhuang, do you want to wait and see the situation?”

Prof. Meng felt that Zhuang Rui was a bit anxious, this digging only brought up some fishing nets, who knows how deep the silt below is?

Zhuang Rui shook his head and said, “Teacher, anyway, the floating crane can’t do a secondary operation until it clears this debris, let the divers go down and take a look first!”

“Well, it makes sense, this practice just adds to the experience ah! Zhuang Rui, you’ve only experienced marine salvage once, and your knowledge in this area already exceeds that of a teacher.”

Being rejected by Zhuang Rui’s own suggestion, Professor Meng did not get angry, but was very pleased, there is a specialization in the art, Zhuang Rui can break through in marine archaeology, being a teacher’s heart is only happy.

The screen switched to the diver’s dive camera, after about seven or eight minutes, the four divers have come to the piece of seabed that has just been cleaned.

The seawater had become clear by now, and through the camera’s sensing screen, a warped ship’s plate was visible on the display in the floating crane’s operation room.

“It’s the Awa Maru, it must be the wreckage of the Awa Maru.”

After seeing the rusty ship plate, Professor Meng shouted out of breath, he had checked the shipwrecks in Fujian waters from the early liberation period to these years, and there was only the fact that the Awa Maru was such an iron ship that sank.

“Immediately survey the volume of the wreckage, attention of all units, based on the data sent back by the divers, formulate a salvage plan.”

In the absence of Director Wu, Zhuang Rui became the first deputy commander, the previous salvage of the Song Dynasty shipwreck did allow him to accumulate some experience, and now he was in command in a well-organized manner.

“Mr. Zhuang, Professor Meng, have you found anything yet?”

In the following to accept the interview of the director Wu heard the news of the discovery of the wreckage, immediately rushed to the floating crane maneuvering room, followed by a photojournalist, fortunately this maneuvering room is large enough, otherwise it really can not stand so many people.

“Has found the wreckage, is surveying the wreckage volume as well as weight, wait a while specific parameters out, can prepare for salvage.”

Professor Meng face nervous also with a trace of excitement in the color, perhaps in half a century ago that mystery, will be revealed today it!

Zhuang Rui laughed bitterly from the side, the discovery of the seabed was indeed a big gain for Director Wu, but for Prof. Meng and him, it was of little relevance.

After more than an hour of intense investigation, the technicians came to the conclusion that the wreckage on the seabed, the volume should be about fifteen meters, with a floating crane is estimated to not be able to pull it out of the sea, there can only have the power of the drilling platform, to hoist it up.

Since most of the wreckage has been revealed, the program was quickly formulated, the other four divers with ropes also went down to the bottom of the sea.

Eight divers worked alternately, and under the command of the relevant technicians on board, after more than two hours of hustle and bustle, the work of tying up and reinforcing the wreckage was finally completed.

The huge drilling platform moved out of the deck and crossed above that side of the sea, at this time, no matter on the platform or on the ship, everyone was busy, several technicians had whistles in their mouths, directing the operation of the machinery.