In addition to some pottery, this sunken ship from the Ptolemaic Dynasty of ancient Egypt may also have contained some cotton and linen cloth and other goods.
But more than two thousand years have passed, and the wooden hull has been corroded, let alone the fabric.
Tang, Song and Yuan also saw only some fragments in the cabin, which were basically of no value.
However, some of the pottery in the cabin is still intact.
Moreover, two of the clay pots also contained thousands of large gold coins, which were Arsinoe gold coins minted 2,200 years ago.
This time, Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties were prepared and prepared hooks and ropes in advance.
After fishing all the valuable pottery out of the water, he manipulated a fish in the same way and asked Squidward to stuff all the gold coins into the fish's belly.
Then hook the fish head with a hook, tie it with a rope, and drag it behind the small yacht.
After salvaging most of the intact pottery, Tang, Song and Yuan led the fleet to the third shipwreck site.
The distance between the two sunken ships was less than 20 kilometers, and it took the fleet about an hour to reach the location of the sunken ship.
This is a sunken ship from the Alexander Empire period, and the marble statues carried on it were a gift from the ancient Egypt-Thebes region to Alexander the Great.
Unfortunately, during transportation, the entire ship encountered storms and sank to the bottom of the sea.
And due to the load, when the ship sank, it plunged directly into the sand on the seabed.
Coupled with factors such as changes in seafloor currents, more and more sediment is deposited.
Therefore, the hull is less corroded by seawater and is relatively intact, making it suitable for salvage as a whole.
At this time, Deputy Director Macaulay of the Navigation Administration was leading two assistants on the Harvest Horn, admiring a Padfoot amphorae.
He said with emotion: "It's incredible. More than 2,200 years ago, France was still an uncivilized land, and they began to dominate the Mediterranean."
The Ptolemaic dynasty was the last kingdom in ancient Egypt after the split of Alexander's empire.
Their capital, Alexandria, was the capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the most important and prosperous trade hub in the Mediterranean at that time.
Macaulay's implication seems to be that all the powerful city-states in ancient times have disappeared, and the mainstream of the world today was often unknown in ancient times.
Tang Songyuan on the side had a different opinion. He said calmly:
"Although some history has disappeared, objectively it still exists forever and cannot be denied or blasphemed."
Macaulay quickly shook his head and said: "Oh, I don't mean anything else, I just felt emotional for a while."
Tang Songyuan didn't bother to argue with him, and instead said: "We've arrived, I'm going to get ready to go into the water."
After saying that, he put on the scuba gear again, and with the help of the crew's eyes, he jumped into the sea again.
Since it was a complete salvage, what Tang, Song and Yuan brought into the water this time was a large bundle of high-strength lifting ropes.
Reaching the bottom of the sea, Tang, Song and Yuan repeated their old tricks, making the super octopus that had followed them wave their tentacles.
Sweep away some of the sediment covering the sunken ship, revealing the basic outline of the sunken ship.
Then, we continued digging along the contours of the hull, with the goal of exposing the entire hull to the seabed.
The ship is about thirty meters long, five meters wide, and about four to five meters high.
The super octopus worked for nearly an hour and finally dug out the sunken ship from the thick mud.
Then one person and one fish began to tie the rope together, and they worked hard for nearly half an hour. The oxygen carried by Tang Songyuan was almost exhausted, and then the sunken ship was tied tightly.
Hanging up the fishing hook lowered by the floating gondola, Tang, Song and Yuan pulled the signal rope.
Two minutes later, the hook began to rise and the lifting ropes tied to the hull began to tighten.
Then under the huge pulling force of the floating crane, the sunken ship began to slowly break away from the seabed.
Success! ! !
Tang, Song and Yuan felt excited, and removed the enhancement of the super octopus, letting it stick to the bottom of the sunken ship.
He stood on the bow of the ship, rising toward the water with the pull of the floating crane.
Two hundred meters...one hundred meters...fifty meters...
Finally, Tang Songyuan broke through the water and stood on the bow of the sunken ship in a standing posture. He was lifted out of the water by the floating crane along with the sunken ship.
What greeted him was the cheers and applause of everyone on the five surrounding ships.
Although I don’t know how he did it, he completed the ultimate deep dive to a depth of more than 300 meters alone.
And to tie up a sunken ship that was more than 2,300 years ago alone, this is something that they dare not even think about.
Tang Songyuan smiled proudly and shouted towards the harvest horn: "Come here, a few people, come and clean up the sand!"
Although Super Octopus has cleaned it once, there is still a lot of seabed sediment on the sunken ship.
Even the inside of the cabin has accumulated a lot of sediment due to time and water flow.
This ship must be towed back to the harbor and must be cleaned on site to reduce the burden on the fleet.
Following Julian's order, more than a dozen boatmen armed with high-pressure water guns roared onto the deck of the sunken ship.
At the end of the day, they basically didn't do much work and just stared at it.
Now they finally have a place to use, can they stop squealing?
Tang, Song and Yuan returned to the Harvest Horn and unloaded the scuba gear with the help of several sailors.
Macaulay came up and was about to say a few words when a noisy exclamation came from the direction of the sunken ship.
"Captain, there is a statue in the cabin, a statue made of marble!"
"What a big statue!"
What? Marble statue!
Macaulay was stunned for a moment, and then his body shook involuntarily.
He glanced at Tang Songyuan with a questioning look, but Tang Songyuan pretended not to know and said:
"I don't know what's in the cabin, how about we go over and take a look now?"
So Macaulay, Julian, Tang Songyuan and Li Qingying took a small boat and returned to the deck of the sunken ship hanging on the water.
With his feet on the solid shipboard, Tang Songyuan said:
"This ship should have been a new ship when it was launched. In addition, it was protected by the sediment on the seabed, so there was almost no damage..."
McCauley responded: "I think so too. If this ship is towed back to the Port of Marseille, the city should build a museum for it."
"You have to know that this is a sea ship from more than 2,300 years ago, and it is still so completely preserved..."
While they were talking, several people had arrived at the huge entrance to the sunken ship's cabin.
From the entrance, you can see a huge marble statue lying quietly at the bottom of the cabin, fixed by many thick logs.
Even though it is surrounded by mud and sand, its majesty and solemnity can still be hidden.
Macaulay had a look of obsession on his face and praised:
"Exquisite, simply... a perfect work of art..."
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