The two of them were walking and shopping, but they were actually surveying the conditions of several piers. A lot of people flow, which means high safety. Fan Keqin and Zhuang Xiaoman follow the flow of people every time, so the safety will naturally be higher.
There were several wharves in Guangzhou Port in this era, but not many people in later generations can explain them clearly. The records that can be found are not comprehensive or detailed.
Fan Keqin can now be among them, but he has no intention of counting them clearly, because there are indeed many large and small docks. There were too many small piers for ships near the sea, and they were meaningless to the purpose of his trip, so he didn't have time to count them.
He and Zhuang Xiaoman are now mainly observing the deep-sea terminal or the cargo terminal. After all, his target is a warship, and it has a displacement of over 10,000 tons. It is impossible for such a ship to be parked on a small pier. If it runs aground, it will be very laborious to tow it into the sea again.
Every time he sees a deep-sea terminal or a large cargo terminal, Fan Keqin records the location of the terminal in detail in his mind. The surrounding environment and so on. He is very proficient in using the image memory method. Now he can go to the field to take a look. To exaggerate, his eyes are like cameras. After seeing it, the situation on the ground is firmly imprinted in his mind. . Unless he doesn't deliberately recall it, he will never forget it even after a long time.
The specific topography of the pier is basically relatively low. Because of the sea level, if there are slight hills or something around it, it will appear higher. This terrain height difference applies to almost all docks around the world.
After walking around the area, Fan Keqin and Zhuang Xiaoman had lunch at a small restaurant near the port. Then go directly to a higher terrain that was promising in advance.
On the pier, maybe because of the flow of people, buildings and other obstructions, we can't see some of the higher terrain around us. But there must still be open ground where people can clearly see the situation in the distance. Fan Keqin was like this. When observing at the port, they also paid attention to the situation further away. Finally, we chose a high ground with a small forest.
After waiting, Fan Keqin led Zhuang Xiaoman into the woods. The two people walked carefully and came to the edge of the forest, and began to use a wide angle to observe the situation in the port.
Zhuang Xiaoman doesn't quite understand this observation. Therefore, he is mainly responsible for keeping a lookout for Fan Keqin, who will conduct the observation.
It is said that the appearance of Guangzhou Port is very different from what it will look like in a few decades. This is mainly due to the limitations of the times, and designers cannot use such strong imagination and creativity. Therefore, from Fan Keqin's current perspective, the port does not appear to be too big.
There is one deep-sea terminal and two cargo terminals. But these places are all on the left side of the entire port. This is also a normal phenomenon. Even if it is designed by a layman, it will not stagger the piers that can park large ships with those ordinary small piers and mix them together, which is really confusing.
Freight terminals are generally used for unloading cargo ships of at least a thousand tons, or large ships of several thousand tons, or even tens of thousands of tons. Therefore, there is a flat ground for freight distribution in front. When working, workers first unload the goods on the ship onto the flat ground, and then trucks and other things will pull them away.
So the cargo terminal, although it seems from the name, is for transporting cargo. But in fact, there is no problem at all for docking warships of any size up to 10,000 tons. It is even more convenient. After all, loading and unloading, and replenishing supplies for warships, are closer and the loading and unloading speed is faster.
The Deep Sea Terminal was actually originally a passenger terminal. When it was originally designed and built, it was designed to allow the entire port to dock large passenger ships, cruise ships and other ocean-going vessels. After all, people and goods can't just go up and down in the same place, it would be too messy.
But also because of the limitations of the times, the cargo loading capacity is not as vigorous as it would be a few decades later, with tens of thousands of tons, even tens or millions of tons, being handled every day. Therefore, the deep-sea terminal and the two cargo terminals are not far apart, only less than 300 meters.
After Fan Keqin remembered all this in his mind, he began to observe the terrain at the far end, the left side of the passenger terminal. He was looking for a place that was secluded, safe, and inconspicuous.
You know, not every place is suitable for going to the sea. We usually go to the beach and see waves in the water, but we don’t feel any danger.
But you have to remember that it is an artificially developed beach. But if you go swimming in a place that has not been artificially developed, you may not even be able to get into the sea.
Why? For example, rocks, such as hard ground on the seaside, these things interact with the waves, and the impact force formed is not something that human beings can resist. You say how good your swimming skills are, but let me tell you, it’s of no use at all. With that kind of strength, maybe you just jumped into the water, and a wave came and hit you directly on the reef, which will break your bones and muscles. It can even kill you instantly. So it has nothing to do with your swimming skills, it just depends on where you choose to enter the water.
Now Fan Keqin is far away, but he can still distinguish the general terrain and make a preliminary judgment. At a glance, everything is a bank or a black rocky place, which is absolutely forbidden. The frogman team may be washed to the hard ground by the sea water as soon as they get out, causing a large number of injuries, or even the entire army being destroyed.
So Fan Keqin had to find a place with a buffer, just like an artificial beach. Although the waves come, the beach will slowly dissolve the force, so the people above can have fun without any scruples, or swim in the water, because even if the waves are high If you come here, you won't hit yourself against the rocks. You just have to keep swimming forward.
Sure enough, it is still difficult to choose a safe place to launch the water on the shore. At least within 500 meters of the dock, there is a black reef bank. Fan Keqin could only take a longer view and start observing farther away. But it is a pity that if I continue to look into the distance, there is still a continuous black patch for several hundred meters.
Um? Under Fan Keqin's careful observation, he suddenly noticed that in a black undulating area, two people suddenly walked up on a black place that was concave toward the mainland. Judging from the way they walked, they looked relatively calm. They obviously walked up through the gaps in the black reef.
You know, if you can walk up like this, there must be a beach or something like that below...
