The next morning, after more than ten hours of driving, the Sambo arrived in Surabaya, East Java. As one of the largest ports in Indonesia, ships passing by can be seen from time to time.
Fortunately, there are not many ships at the locations Sutina marked on the map, because these are locations where there are reefs. Similarly, due to the existence of reefs, the Sambo cannot get too close. Otherwise, if the treasure is not found and the boat is put in instead, the gain will outweigh the loss.
After getting up in the morning, Song Wenbin and the crew opened the yacht's water-friendly platform, filled up the inflatable kayak and pushed it into the water, while Huo Yu came over from the boat carrying two metal detectors.
At this moment, they had all put on black diving suits, carrying gas bottles on their backs, and looked serious.
Since Song Wenbin and Huo Yu studied AOW, which was one level higher than the OW they took as photographers, Huo Yu stood by the waterfront platform and arranged the shooting tasks with the photographers.
"The photographers were divided into two shifts. Two people were following us underwater, and two people were watching the boat on the water. The director and Sutina stayed on the yacht to keep in touch with us at all times."
As she spoke, she put the waterproof earphones used for communication in her ears.
Song Wenbin also put on the headphones, and soon, Su Tina's voice came from the headphones. She said: "The water depth of Reef No. 1 is about ten meters, the pressure is 0.1 MPa, and the oxygen is probably enough for you to explore for an hour. Don't stay too long. Yes."
"You don't need to remind me."
Song Wenbin said.
He had already learned to dive for two months, and naturally he didn't need Sutina, who couldn't swim, to remind him.
"Wait a minute." Sutina said in Song Wenbin's ears: "Even so, I still have to remind you that Sulumayi means shark and crocodile in Indonesian."
Song Wenbin was stunned for a moment, and then became very angry: "Why are you telling me this!? How can I not go into the water knowing that there are sharks and crocodiles!?"
After saying that, he put on his mask unhappily, and boarded the rubber boat with Huo Yu and four photographers. Driven by a small motor, they sailed towards the bulge of the reef.
After reaching the top of the reef, Song Wenbin held the respirator in his mouth and made a gesture to Huo Yu. The two nodded and then leaned back.
Accompanied by the sound of roaring into the water.
All real world sounds disappeared at this moment.
All that was left in my ears was the rustling water and dull vibrations. Reef No. 1 was very far away from the port, more than ten kilometers away, and the water was quite clear. Not long after entering the water, Song Wenbin saw some swimming fish escaping from under him.
He turned to look at Huo Yu and the two photographers. Huo Yu was holding two metal detectors, one photographer was carrying an underwater camera, and the other photographer was holding a small underwater propeller. There are many cameras installed on it.
Song Wenbin gave them a thumbs down sign, which meant they should continue diving.
The three of them nodded and dived slowly in silence.
As the depth decreased, Song Wenbin felt that his eardrums were bearing water pressure from all directions. He pinched his nose and tightened his eardrums slightly to offset the internal and external pressure, and then slowly fell to the seabed ten meters deep.
Huo Yu shook his feet, swam to him, and gave him one of the metal detectors in his hand.
Song Wenbin took the detector and slowly moved forward along the mud and sand on the seabed.
drop...
drop...
drop...
I can't hear anything.
Only the earphones connected to the detectors in the ears make a regular chirping sound. This is not the sound of finding metal, it just means it is working properly.
Although you can spend more than 10 million US dollars to buy a yacht, in the end, you can only use the most traditional manual search to implement the detection plan.
Following the sand on the bottom of the sea, a group of four people swam to the location of Reef No. 1. This reef was quite large. It raised from the seabed like a hillside and was covered with various coral reefs. Those coral reefs grow in the sea like bare branches without veins, and there are many marine life living in them.
When Song Wenbin's detector swept across a patch of sand, an octopus that was completely camouflaged and invisible in the same color as the sand quickly retreated, swept across the water, and disappeared from sight.
The scenery here is extremely magical and quiet. If he is not here to hunt for treasures, but just for sightseeing, maybe Song Wenbin will enjoy this fantastic journey. However, it has been ten minutes since he entered the water.
The metal detector still only made regular working sounds and did not detect any metal at all.
"Go take a look above and see if you can find any traces of the impact."
Sutina's sizzling sound of electricity came to her ears.
The images captured by the photographer holding the booster were transmitted to the yacht in real time, and Sutina was also observing the scene on the seabed at this moment.
Song Wenbin received the instruction and made a thumbs-up gesture to the accompanying photographer. The photographer received the instruction, gestured OK, shook his feet, and slowly swam up the river.
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As the atmospheric pressure gradually decreased, Song Wenbin came to the surface of Reef No. 1, which is less than one meter away from the sea. It is about 20 meters long and has a sharp surface, which will indeed pose a threat to ships that hit it.
Didi...
Didi...
Didi...
After arriving at the surface of the reef, the metal detector, which had been unresponsive underwater, started ringing.
Song Wenbin took a closer look and was disappointed.
All that made the detector chirp was a small, worn-out Coke bottle cap.
But he did not let it go, but put it in the salvage bag he carried with him.
If the treasure hunt failed, he would have spent tens of millions to do charity work in Indonesia to pick up garbage on the seabed. Song Wenbin thought to himself that after charity in the Caribbean, he would charity in Indonesia again.
After taking pictures around the reef, Song Wenbin didn't know whether Su Tina saw any impact marks on it. To be honest, he wouldn't be surprised if there were any. It's been 600 years, and he didn't know how many thousands of years there were before 600 years. , even if Zheng He accidentally bumped into this unlucky thing, countless ships would still hit this unlucky thing later.
In fact, as long as time stretches long enough, every reef on the earth will encounter its own ship. Song Wenbin does not think this data has any reference value.
After circling the reef again, Sutina said: "Okay, the photo is finished, you can go down and take a look."
Song Wenbin puffed out bubbles and dived with the photographer. When she dived next to Huo Yu, she picked up something and shook it at Song Wenbin. Song Wenbin took it and took a look. It turned out to be an old-fashioned broken camera that had been lying underwater for who knows how many years.
Song Wenbin spread his hands, indicating that he was also helpless. At this time, the photographer behind him suddenly spit out a lot of bubbles. The sound of bubbles made Huo Yu and Song Wenbin turn their heads. The guy carrying the camera pointed in a panic and pointed not far away.
Song Wenbin followed his finger and saw that it was a white shark slowly swimming over. It was one meter long and had dull eyes. It slowly swam past the heads of several people, not knowing what it was doing.
Song Wenbin watched it swim by, and Su Tina's nervous voice came to his ears: "Be careful, that's a black seal shark, and it's a bit fierce."
The strange thing is that Song Wenbin felt extremely calm when he saw a shark swimming by at such a close distance under the water. He didn't know whether it was because Huo Yu was next to him or because the shark was smaller. He clearly remembered that when he was in the Caribbean, Those sharks often grow to two or three meters long, which is much bigger than the little one in front of them.
He glanced at Huo Yu, who shook his head calmly, raised his palms and pointed forward, making a gesture to continue searching.
The four people ignored the wandering shark and continued to search around the seabed. However, a few people swam around the reef and found nothing. They only saw some old fishing nets, abandoned ship nails, and their Plastic bottles can be seen everywhere in the world.
After an hour of diving underwater, the oxygen gradually ran out.
The four had to give up the search and return to the water. Although I have practiced countless times at the diving school in Guangzhou, every time I leave deep water and return to the surface, I always feel top-heavy due to the pressure difference.
Huo Yu took off his respirator and gasped: "Where can I find it... I think there is no hope..."
Song Wenbin remained silent, but he also felt that it was unlikely that the treasure chest would be in such a place. After all, this place was not far off, and it was near the port. If there was a treasure chest, it might not have been given away by someone hundreds of years ago. Take it away.
"Go up first and get some gas. If it doesn't work, go to the next rock."
Song Wenbin said.
The six people kayaked back to the waterfront platform of the yacht. Since the No. 2 reef was not far from the No. 1 reef, Song Wenbin and Huo Yu did not take off their clothes. I just sat on the cockpit and drank an energy drink to get some gas.
Su Tina hurriedly came down from the upper deck with a laptop, squatted next to Song Wenbin and Huo Yu, and looked through the rags they had salvaged, with a little disappointment on her face.
"It's not necessary to find metal. You can find any porcelain or broken wooden boards with age marks. The main thing is that if you find it, I will take pictures and send them back to China immediately. There will also be a team over there to identify the things we salvaged."
"call."
Song Wenbin sighed, straightened his wet hair, and said nothing.
Soon, the boat arrived at the No. 2 reef area. Song Wenbin and Huo Yu went into the water again. However, just like before, they searched the entire reef and finally found only some junk. The most exciting thing for them was that the detector kept beeping. However, when Song Wenbin dug up the sand on the seabed, he found that it was just a piece of old iron sheet that had been soaked on the seabed for an unknown length of time.
In this way, the film crew visited more than a dozen reefs around Surabaya within three days and searched almost all the reefs.
Not to mention the cultural relics of the Ming Dynasty, there were not even the cultural relics of the Qing Dynasty. The most ancient thing they found was just an artillery shell from World War II. Song Wenbin was shocked when they found it, and he quickly took it away. I threw it back into the sea, for fear that there might be some toxins in it such as biochemical leakage.
As time goes by, the initial excitement and passion gradually disappear in the day after day of diving. Instead, there was doubt and confusion, and the atmosphere in the team became more solemn day by day.
It would be fine if the treasure chest cannot be found, but even the clues cannot be found. This will undoubtedly be a major test of the confidence of everyone involved in the production of the program.
