The potential stalker was not caught, which made the three people feel a layer of gloom.
They hurriedly returned to the yacht from the museum. At this moment, the Sanbao was being replenished at the dock, and tons of fuel and fresh water were added to the yacht.
Even though he had seen it once, Song Wenbin couldn't help but feel a heavy feeling in his heart when he saw the thick pipes of the oil tanker squirming.
With such a huge cost investment, if he was discovered by some damn thieves and fell apart, he wouldn't know what he would do when he returned home.
It is not advisable to stay here for a long time. Song Wenbin thought to himself that no matter why someone was following him, he should leave the Surabaya area quickly.
"Didn't you say that Zheng He ran aground on atolls and barrier reefs? Go and mark all the atolls and barrier reefs around this area, and we will find them one by one." Song Wenbin couldn't wait to tell Su Tina.
"Eh? Did you find any clues?" Huo Yu asked in surprise.
"Yes, but I don't know if it's accurate." Sutina clasped her hands together and prayed: "Please, please let us gain something this time!"
When Su Tina and Huo Yu went to the boat to search for clues, Song Wenbin was not idle either. He went to the mall to purchase double the supplies and stuffed them into the cabin. He completely ignored the appearance and filled the sleeping cabin and guest cabin of the yacht. Food and water.
He didn't know how long it would take to go out to sea to search. In short, he didn't want to risk going ashore again before he found the location of where Zheng He ran aground.
After completing supplies in Surabaya, Song Wenbin set out again. This time he specially bought a high-power telescope and set it up in the daylight area of the bow of the yacht. If nothing happened, he would sit on the bow of the ship and look around the surrounding sea with the high-power telescope to prevent ships from following them. Followed to the sea.
After Sutina sent the mission requirements back to China, the domestic team soon sent a high-definition map information. The map clearly marked the locations of atolls in Surabaya and surrounding areas, with a total of three locations marked.
One day later, the Sanbao arrived at the No. 1 atoll area marked on the map.
Unlike those reefs close to the shore, this reef ring grows in the middle of the ocean, forming a system of reefs with a diameter ranging from a few kilometers to dozens of kilometers. Looking down from the scene captured by a high-altitude drone, these atolls are like a bouquet of garlands thrown on the blue sea, or like a string of white jade pearl necklaces scattered on the sea, gorgeous and colorful.
It's just that the moving scenery under the blue water can't make Song Wenbin feel any easier.
Due to the characteristics of atolls and barrier reefs, they are located far away from the shore, and their depths are also very scary. The shallowest place is 30 meters deep, and the deepest place is 70 meters deep. This depth has been greatly exceeded. The depth of Song Wenbin’s training when he was in diving school. In his training, the deepest dive was only twenty-eight meters.
The three of them looked at the map sent from China, and their expressions were not very good.
"The average water depth is 50 meters. Can you really do it at this depth?"
Sutina looked at the seabed map around the atoll and asked worriedly.
Song Wenbin shook his head: "Our diving instructor in China has warned us not to dive below thirty meters. Even when he was excavating Nanhai No. 1, the deepest dive was only thirty-eight meters. s position."
Huo Yu frowned and said softly: "It's not impossible. Haven't we also trained in saturation diving? Yang Xu taught us at the end of the course."
Song Wenbin's face changed and he said: "I don't want to do that, it's too torture. Moreover, even if we want to saturate dive, there is not enough equipment. All the equipment on my ship is within thirty meters, and there is no helium prepared at all." oxygen."
"I'm ready." Huo Yu said softly: "There are special helium, oxygen and life support systems on the Shenxing Taibao."
Su Tina looked at her two colleagues. Since they were assigned different tasks, she had no idea what Song Wenbin and Huo Yu were communicating with.
"Damn it, are you going to bring the Shenxing Taibao here!?" Song Wenbin said nervously: "Isn't it too showy? Your ship will be completely destroyed as long as it is inspected. That is the heart of the warship! !”
"How can you not take risks at times like this!?"
Huo Yu couldn't help but reprimanded: "If you drive the Shenxing Taibao here to take risks, why not take risks if you dive 70 meters?"
After a pause, Huo Yu added: "But don't worry. Before the show started, we spent a lot of money to deal with the relevant people in Indonesia, and then we were qualified for filming. I believe they will not search us easily."
Song Wenbin felt relieved when he heard Huo Yu say this.
Apparently he would rather believe in unspoken rules than in explicit rules.
He said: "Then let's explore the ordinary depth first. If we can find enough clues at the ordinary depth, we don't have to explore the deeper location. If we really can't find it, we will bring the Shenxing Taibao over."
After making the decision, the program team immediately started operations.
The photographers re-inflated the kayak and pushed it into the sea, while Song Wenbin and Huo Yu checked various diving equipment and put on diving suits. Since the zipper of the wetsuit was behind their backs, they had to zip each other's wetsuits up.
Every time he zipped up Huo Yu's zipper, he could see the vivid and exquisite dragon tattoo on Huo Yu's back. After living in the dragon farm for a month, Song Wenbin already knew that this dragon tattoo was the pride of Huo Yu's friend Qin Moqing. It took two years from design to production. Compared to the time in the Caribbean, this dragon tattoo is almost complete, and the scar underneath it has been covered up to the point where it is almost invisible.
However, the more this happened, the more confused Song Wenbin became about this colleague's previous experience.
Of course, these inner activities only occurred when he was zipping. After the zipper was zipped and the equipment was checked, the arduous diving work was enough to dispel all his confusion.
The kayak leaves the yacht and heads toward the atoll in the quiet waves. After a brief drizzle, the tropical weather returned to its normal state.
Sutina's endless instructions came from the earphones: "Thirty meters underwater, pressure 4bar, ten kilograms. This pressure is already very high. If you can't hold on, you must quit immediately."
Regarding Su Tina's concern, Huo Yu and Song Wenbin could only remain silent. They knew more about diving than Sutina, but they had no option to give up.
After the kayak stopped, Song Wenbin gestured to his colleagues. After receiving their thumbs-up, he leaned back and dropped into the sea with a splash.
Gududu's bubbles emerged from his mouth.
Song Wenbin came to the underwater world again. It was obviously different from when he explored the reef before. This time, the sea water where they were located was deeper and the underwater scenery was more majestic.
As the feet slowly paddled, patches of coral reefs came into view like mountains. Perhaps they haven't had time to be affected by global warming. The corals here are colorful, and I don't know how many kinds of marine life are slowing down among them. Swim slowly.
Just living on the reefs include sponges, hydrozoans, sea anemones, some polychaetes, bryozoans, cripipedes, and ascidians.
Diffused sunlight passes through the sea water, forming light spots one after another on these corals, reflecting the slight dancing of these underwater creatures under the ocean currents, like leaves whirling in the wind.
If you are going downstream, there are groups of colorful butterfly fish and tiger fish, among which occasionally one or two hawksbill turtles and sea turtles will pass by, swimming leisurely in front of Song Wenbin, neither afraid of him nor caring about him. .
The two photographers from the program team made a pause gesture to Song Wenbin, and Song Wenbin and Huo Yu stopped. Two photographers took underwater cameras and began to capture the surrounding scenes. The picture was transmitted to the yacht, and Su Tina sighed in Song Wenbin's ears.
"Oh my God, it's so beautiful..."
Looking at the scene in front of him, Song Wenbin could probably understand why those rich people wanted to go to places like Bali for vacation. Indeed, the seabed here is extremely beautiful. If he were born in such a place, I'm afraid he wouldn't think about working hard.
However, beauty is beautiful, but the pressure of more than twenty meters deep is not comfortable.
"Six hundred years have passed, and the growth of the coral reefs in six hundred years will be amazing." Sutina said in the earphone: "Even if there are traces of collision, they must have disappeared long ago, so this time we only need to look for scattered relics. "
However, Song Wenbin and Huo Yu stayed on the coral surface not to enjoy the beautiful scenery or to look for collision marks. They just let their bodies adapt to the huge pressure. After reaching a certain depth, the pressure on their bodies will double every time they descend. Increase.
After staying at a depth of twenty meters for a moment, Huo Yu pointed his thumb down at Song Wenbin and made a gesture to continue diving. Song Wenbin nodded.
The two of them continued to dive downwards. When they dived to a depth of 25 meters, the photographers had almost reached their limit. They had taken the OW certificate exam, which was one level lower than Song Wenbin and Huo Yu's certificates. Their physical fitness had not been repeatedly beaten by Huo Yu. Diving to 25 meters is already very difficult.
At this moment, they could only point the camera underwater and shoot from a bird's-eye view. Fortunately, Song Wenbin and Huo Yu both had cameras tied to their heads, so they could still shoot each other even if they dived to a depth of thirty meters.
Finally, thirty meters underwater, their feet slowly touched the delicate seabed sand. Even at a depth of thirty meters, the visibility here was still very high.
There are reefs everywhere, and in the gaps between the reefs, there are various sea cucumbers, snails, crabs and lobsters living. Song Wenbin could even see a lobster as big as his forearm retreating quickly after he arrived where the light shined. In addition to these large lobsters, there were also some transparent mantis shrimps that quickly escaped at his feet. Some fish that were spitting sand to build nests under the water stopped working and hid in their holes after seeing their arrival.
Although the scenery was extraordinary, the moment he landed, Song Wenbin felt a feeling of chest tightness and nausea, and his brain was also a little dizzy. At this moment, every corner of his body was bearing more than ten kilograms of pressure.
Seeing that Song Wenbin was uncomfortable, Huo Yu swam to him and touched his back. Song Wenbin took several deep breaths of oxygen in succession, and it took a while to recover from the uncomfortable state.
At this time, he could clearly feel the effect of Huo Yu's physical training on him. Twenty-five years ago, he never thought that he could dive to this depth, or even thought that he would work for the country in such a place.
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And all this is happening.
After making an OK gesture to Huo Yu, the two stepped on the sand on the seabed and slowly began to detect the surroundings with metal detectors.
After moving away from the coast, the amount of seabed garbage here has significantly decreased. The detector is like a machine that monitors electrocardiograms, making regular sounds.
drop...
drop...
drop...
Time passed minute by minute while searching the seabed. An hour later, Huo Yu and Song Wenbin walked five or six hundred meters around the thirty-meter area of the reef.
Didi...
Didi...
Didi...
The detector's sudden two beeps in succession made Song Wenbin's heart beat faster.
He quickly bent down, took out the small shovel he carried with him, and checked the place where the chirping occurred.
Shoveling the sand to a depth of about a foot, he could see a medium-sized hook buried under the sand. The hook had faint traces of industry and was badly corroded. It looked like it was old.
Song Wenbin put the rusty hook on the camera on his forehead. After a while, Su Tina's somewhat disappointed sound of electricity came to his ears: "This is not what we are looking for... This is a modern industrial ship hook. .....”
Song Wenbin and Huo Yu looked at each other. Even at the bottom of the sea, through thick masks, they could see the disappointment in each other's eyes.
