Now the thick file of incident A was brought to the conference table. Gao Xiaosong, who was in charge of the matter at the time, coughed and began to introduce the whole story. The eight-person meeting heard a detailed account of the wreck.
After Zhou Weisen and others completed their inspection, the executive committee passed the decision to salvage items from the sunken ship. A secret salvage team was established, consisting mainly of personnel from the Navy and remote exploration teams, as well as personnel who had participated in the exploration of the sunken ship.
In addition to salvaging items, the salvage team also has the task of establishing a temporary support base on Dongsha Island to prepare for subsequent salvage. Of course, in the public mission bulletin, the purpose of this mission is: "Excavation of struvite and feasibility study of establishing a navigation relay test base for Taiwan."
After the salvage team consisting of a motor sailboat, a large sailboat and several rowing boats arrived at Dongsha Island, Gao Xiaosong, who was in charge of the salvage work, announced the true purpose of the trip to the participants. Some of the people who were still in the dark were so shocked that they could not speak. Everyone agreed: This group of people is a major threat to the Time Travel Group. If they cannot "abandon the darkness and turn to the light" in time, they will be eliminated resolutely!
But everyone is also looking forward to the upcoming mission - a ship is a treasure trove for the Crossing Group. A seagoing ship is a small mobile world, and even a fishing boat has many very useful tools and supplies on it.
The mystery of this ship has aroused everyone's speculation. According to Lin Chuanqing, this ship was most likely a smuggling ship doing illegal work, and the smuggled goods were either drugs or arms.
This speculation made everyone's emotions rise. If it was an arms smuggling ship, it would make a lot of money! The SKS rifle is too ugly in the minds of many people, not to mention it is semi-automatic. Everyone expects to find a large number of automatic rifles such as AK47 or better machine guns in the ship.
Although Lin Chuanqing said that the clothes on the boat might be drugs, everyone still agreed that the clothes on the boat were arms.
The high-spirited "chiefs" confused the carefully selected indigenous naval personnel in the fleet. They didn't know what benefits this deserted island had to make them so happy.
In the excitement of getting the weapons, the work went quickly. A standardized lightweight trestle was quickly built on the shore. A platoon of marines searched the entire island. After confirming that no one was there, a temporary camp was built in a coconut grove sheltered from the wind. Then people were sent to control the wells. .
Fresh water is needed for the salvage work and the life and work of more than a hundred people on the island. The water in the wells on the island is not completely fresh water. Therefore, a temporary distillation station was set up next to the well specifically for water desalination.
The salvage work went smoothly. Although there was a lack of professional salvage equipment and insufficient diving equipment. There were only two qualified divers. However, under the stimulation of everyone's efforts and fanaticism, the salvage activities had been completed in more than ten days. Gradually, all the items, tools and equipment on the ship were picked up, and even the scrapped car tires used to protect against collisions were removed from the ship's side.
The fished-out items are first soaked in fresh water to remove salt, and then air-dried in special shade sheds. Items will be checked and registered by a dedicated person and then put into boxes for storage.
A wide variety of items were fished out of the boat, but the thing everyone wanted to find the most - ammunition was still not found.
"Those cabins haven't been opened yet," Zhou Weisen said. "If there is something, it's inside."
Although it was difficult to open a locked hatch with simple tools underwater, Zhou Weisen and Lin Chuanqing, who were responsible for the diving and salvage, managed to use tools to open a cabin. There were large green canvases piled in the small cabin. Zhou Weisen opened the canvas and found long iron boxes underneath, piled neatly.
Zhou Weisen spent a lot of effort to pull out a small box from inside. The box was very heavy. It took two people a lot of effort to bring the box out of the cabin and use a floating bag to surface.
Everyone cheered as soon as the box was opened: Inside were 12 pistols in separate boxes, each holding 4 magazines. No water has entered the box at all, and the gun is in very good condition.
"It's sigp226!" someone among the onlookers shouted.
"It's cz99," Zhou Weisen, who had shot countless guns in the United States, recognized it immediately. "It's from Yugoslavia!" He picked up one, pulled the sleeve, and confirmed again.
"Yugoslavia?" Everyone has no idea about the weapons produced by this country that no longer exists.
"This gun is good," Zhou Weisen loaded the magazine skillfully, "15 magazines, strong firepower."
Weapons were found, but they were not the automatic weapons that everyone hoped for. Everyone couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. Lin Chuanqing said: "Don't be discouraged, everyone! Since there are pistols, there will be other weapons. At least you can get a lot of 9mm Parabellum bullets."
But getting the weapon box out of the cabin was difficult. Wreck diving requires good diving skills and is beyond the capabilities of ordinary people. Even people like Lin Chuanqing who have some diving experience can only make up the numbers. Not to mention having to carry heavy weapons boxes through narrow corridors and hatches.
After Zhou Weisen and Lin Chuanqing dived several times in a row, they completely exhausted their energy and reluctantly picked up a few more boxes, which contained some military supplies and bullets. One of the boxes contained ammunition. This gives everyone great encouragement - most of the goods contain rifles using this kind of ammunition. Zhou Weisen believes that there may be a fal automatic rifle or m14.
After discussion, everyone believed that it was too inefficient to retrieve the cargo by diving. The light in the sunken ship was dark and the space was narrow. Not only was it impossible to conduct a thorough search, but it was also dangerous. It was better to pick up the whole ship in one go and then search.
Lin Chuanqing specifically advocated raising the boat as soon as possible. He had been the captain of a fishing boat and was familiar with the equipment on board. Some of the specialized equipment on this ship has been damaged, and if it can be fished out as soon as possible, they can recover a large part of the loss. Especially the equipment in the engine room. The longer it is soaked in sea water, the more serious the damage will be. When the time comes, it can only be used as scrap steel for recycling.
"Seawater erosion of the hull materials is also quite serious, especially since various marine organisms have begun to adhere to the hull. If it soaks for a few months, the boat will be useless even if it is fished out!" Lin Chuanqing warned.
Gao Xiaosong communicated with the Executive Committee via wireless telegram and requested that the ship be salvaged as soon as possible. The Executive Committee held emergency consultations on this issue and finally decided to salvage the sunken ship. For this purpose, a fishing boat 8154 was specially dispatched to assist.
The easiest way to salvage a ship with a water depth of less than 10 meters and a displacement of less than 100 tons is to lift it with a crane. Unfortunately, the Crossing Group does not have such a large crane. Although the ship's heavy-duty door crane and lifting rod are suitable, they are mounted on the Fengcheng wheel and cannot be used.
Lin Chuanqing suggested the method of plugging the leak and then pumping out the water in the hull while blowing in compressed air. When there is more air in the hull, the buoyancy increases, which can directly float the ship. This salvage method requires underwater plugging technology. Of course, the Crossing Group does not have such technology, but this ship has only opened the sea valve, the hull and watertight hatches are intact, and the tonnage of the ship itself is small, so this can be used method
Finally decided to use this relatively simple salvage method. Equipment and spare diving equipment were urgently transported from Lingao. Lin Chuanqing and Zhou Weisen took risks and dived deep into the cabin several times, finding and closing the sea valves one by one. Thanks to Lin Chuanqing's experience working on an American fishing boat, he knew the location and closing methods of each valve well.
After almost a month of intense work, the American fishing boat finally surfaced slowly amid the rolling waves. It drew cheers from the onlookers.
After the boat surfaced, the pumping speed slowed down. When a small boat is leaning to the side, always pay attention to changes in the draft conditions on both sides of the hull and stern to avoid pumping water too fast, causing the center of gravity to become unstable and capsize. After the hull was completely righted and then towed to the large sailing ship, Lin Chuanqing boarded the sunken ship and lowered the anchor chain manually.
Everyone wanted to board the mysterious sunken ship to take a look, but Gao Xiaosong ordered that no one except the search personnel be allowed to board the ship to prevent anyone from damaging the objects on it. Everyone had no choice but to continue watching on the shore.
Under the leadership of Lin Chuanqing, several members of the crew conducted a blanket search of the entire ship. A lot of supplies and equipment that were not found during the dive were found, and all the iron boxes in several locked cabins were unloaded.
Several boxes were opened in succession, and there were all kinds of things inside. In addition to the pistols found just now, there were also bullets, magazines, and the like. There is just no ak that everyone is familiar with. Not only were there no aks, I didn't even see a rifle. When I was disappointed, I suddenly heard someone shouting:
"Yes!"
Everyone gathered around to take a look and found the rifle in a newly opened box.
"Is this ak?" someone asked.
This gun looks quite weird. It looks like an AK47 with a straight magazine inserted into the gun. A bit out of proportion.
"It should be some kind of derivative model of AK." Gao Xiaosong felt that this gun was very strange, but the shape of the gun should undoubtedly be AK, and the key components such as the receiver were very similar to AK.
Although Gao Xiaosong is a soldier, his actual understanding of weapons is far less than that of an amateur. I am very unfamiliar with any non-AK and M16 series automatic rifles. What's more, Zhou Weisen and Lin Chuanqing are both firearms enthusiasts in the United States, the world's largest small arms market, and they are well-informed about small arms.
"This is an M77B1 automatic rifle." Lin Chuanqing said, "It's actually an Akm automatic rifle that uses bullets." Zhou Weisen said, "It's also made in Yugoslavia."
"So what the arms dealers are selling are Yugoslav weapons. What a strange choice." v! ~!
