On the tranquil sea, almost everyone was staring at the sea with bated breath.
This is the first time the new company has gone to sea to salvage since its establishment, and the boss is still watching from the yacht nearby. Whether it can perform well depends on this.
Jingle bells, jingle bells...
Suddenly, the bell hanging on the boom of the floating crane rang rapidly.
Attracting everyone's attention, Han Yangzhou's eyes narrowed and he immediately ordered loudly: "Pull up the crane arm and hoist!"
At the same time, he ordered the boatmen who were watching just now: "Stop looking, start the air pump and inflate the pontoon!"
The buoy, as the name suggests, uses the buoyancy of the air.
When sinking, the diver fills the buoy with water and sinks to the bottom of the sea. After loading the items, he uses a pipe connected to the buoy to drain the seawater in the buoy through an air pump. The buoy will start to rise when it has buoyancy.
The cable of the floating crane's boom slowly rises, and the hanging basket filled with hundreds of pieces of porcelain on the sea floor also rises to the surface of the water.
However, divers cannot pull the basket back to the surface together, although this will save a little effort and be much faster.
This is because during deep diving, the diver's body stays in a high-pressure environment for too long, and when it suddenly enters a low-pressure environment, the body cannot quickly adapt to the pressure change.
Especially their lungs, be wary of the risk of exploding them.
So even though the buoys began to rise slowly, Leng Zhiwen still led the team members to maintain the rising speed and float to the water surface slowly.
The first thing to come out of the water was the hanging basket, which was filled with all kinds of porcelain utensils.
The floating crane lifted them out of the water, and the excess seawater flowed out along the gaps in the hanging basket, like a huge shower, spraying water from all directions.
When the workers saw this scene, they also let out a warm cheer, as if they were praising this wonderful scene and celebrating the harvest.
Han Yangzhou used the intercom to direct the crane master to move the basket to the Broken Leaf.
I repeatedly told you to do it slowly and not to let the porcelain inside get even the slightest damage.
When the gondola finally landed firmly on the deck of the Broken Leaf, Han Yangzhou breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he began to instruct the boatmen to unload the cargo, again asking them to be slower and handle them more gently, even more gently than they would with a little girl.
And the workers also know that these are valuable antiques, porcelain treasures lost at the bottom of the sea hundreds of years ago.
Any item taken out is far higher than their monthly salary.
Naturally, he will be very careful.
After a while, the pontoons containing the porcelain bowls or plates also floated to the surface, and several boatmen driving electric rubber boats fished them out one by one.
Finally, the divers led by Leng Zhiwen saw the long-lost sky and breathed in the salty fresh air.
The sea began to become noisy. Under the command of Han Yangzhou, the workers performed their respective duties and cooperated.
The Khotan supply ship also came over, supplying Suiye with a steady stream of fresh water.
These salvaged porcelains, which have been soaked in seawater for hundreds of years, need to be desalted immediately.
"Everyone, please work slowly, don't be in a hurry!"
On the deck of Broken Leaf, Han Yangzhou put on a big speaker and emphasized again to the busy boatmen: "It's better to go slower than to rush."
“Haste makes waste!”
"I know, Captain!" A worker responded with a smile: "I heard that there are hundreds of thousands of such porcelain treasures under the water, which is enough for us to work for several months."
"You have a beautiful idea..." Han Yangzhou said angrily: "This is the typhoon area of the Pacific Ocean,"
"We will have to go back in half a month at most. We must finish the work before the next typhoon comes."
The climate of the ocean is complex and changeable. Although it is calm now, no one can guarantee whether there will be violent storms at the next moment.
After a short rest, Leng Zhiwen and other divers drank some water and ate some high-calorie chocolate bars to replenish their strength, then replaced the oxygen bottles and prepared to work in the water again.
Now all the pressure falls on their divers. Time is tight and the task is heavy.
More than 100,000 pieces of porcelain required these divers to transport them one by one from the sunken ship, and then fish them out of the water using floating cranes and buoys.
The most leisurely person in the entire fleet belongs to Tang Song and Yuan, but in fact he only looks leisurely on the surface.
Seeing that the fleet was already busy in an orderly manner, he re-selected twenty sea fish and continued to search for the remains of sunken ships on the seabed in the high seas area of the Pacific Ocean.
Every valuable underwater ruin is a treasure.
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On the first day, Leng Zhiwen and other divers went up and down seven or eight times and fished out six to seven thousand complete pieces of porcelain.
But this amount is still not enough for the huge number of sunken treasures that still exist on the seabed.
At nine o'clock in the evening, the supply ship prepared a sumptuous dinner for all the workers, including braised pork ribs, boiled beef, a large plate of chicken, etc. The beer was also ice-cold.
Seasonal fruits are also open to eat.
Tang, Song and Yuan also came to the Broken Leaf and personally expressed condolences to the workers and masters who had worked hard all day.
He was surrounded in the middle, picked up a bottle of beer, and said loudly: "Everyone has worked hard today, especially the hard work of the diving team. I can see it all."
"After we go back, everyone's bonus will be doubled this month and will be paid together with everyone's salary."
"But our task is still very heavy. Everyone, eat well, drink well today, and then relax and go to bed early."
As he spoke, he drank from the bottle and drank all the 750ml bottle of beer in a few seconds.
"Okay~!"
Tang, Song and Yuan's actions attracted fierce applause.
Han Yangzhou took the lead in applauding, while Leng Zhiwen shouted for him to do it again.
He also said that he didn't see it clearly just now, and he was ready to take out his mobile phone to take a picture and post it on Douyin.
Tang Songyuan laughed without minding it at all, and said: "That's almost enough. After we complete the salvage trip and return to the country, we can have a good meal."
Replying to the Pipi Shrimp, Li Qingying looked at Tang Songyuan and said:
"I have sent the photos and some data of the first batch of products from the sea back to Yang Sijia so that she can start preparing for sales."
Tang Songyuan hummed and said, "It's done well, but I'm a little worried. If the quantity of this batch of porcelain is too large, will it affect their sales price?"
Li Qingying said: "It will definitely have an impact. After all, things are more valuable when they are rare. If there are more, they will definitely not be that valuable."
"But with so many porcelains, you probably can't break them and raise the price..."
Tang Songyuan laughed and said: "That is absolutely impossible!"
"If you can sell it, sell it. If you really can't sell it, the worst I can do is build a shipwreck museum and charge tickets for everyone to visit..."
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