N-M Chapter 373 Nether
Chapter 373 Nether
Chapter 373 Nether
The discovery of parts on the ship greatly boosted everyone's morale, and as everyone searched the area, more things appeared in front of them, including but not limited to ship nails, planks and some metal fasteners on the ship .
"Did you notice that these things are all distributed along the coast of this bay, which means that at least one of the two boats will sink in this place." Liang En said with a pen pointing at the marks made on the map, and finally in the A circle is drawn on a bay.
After marking the location of the found things on the map, almost everyone can see that these things are distributed near a bay, which means that the probability of the ship being in the bay is the highest.
"Yes, but it may take three days to search all over the bay." Mr. Scudder nodded beside him. "Because you can't go too fast with a sonar boat."
So for the next three days, everyone squatted on the boat and looked at the sonar display to search for clues of the sunken ship on the bottom of the sea.
Because he had mastered some of the skills of the ancient Viking navigators, Liang En quickly further narrowed the search area based on factors such as water currents and terrain, reducing the space required for ships to scan by 30%.
Fortunately, their wait didn't last too long. Just a day and a half after they started scanning the bottom of the bay, the sonar display showed the outline of a ship on the bottom of the sea.
Because the local water depth is less than 9m and less than 10m, Mr. Skold immediately directed his crew to put a diving robot with a cable into the sea, and then began to observe the wreckage of the ship at close range.
"Very complete, the ship is well preserved." Scudder said while looking at the wreck on the screen. As the diving robot gradually approached the wreckage, a lot of details appeared on the screen.
As Mr. Skold said, the wreck of the ship is very well preserved, and at the same time it is above the surface of the sea bed, so the wreck of the ship can be seen very clearly.
The sails, rigging and part of the deck are gone, and there is a large hole in the bow that was apparently caused by a collision, but that's not bad for a wooden boat that has been underwater for more than 100 years.
"Look at the scattered things around first." Liang En said beside him, "We are not particularly professional, so it's best not to get close to the main body of the shipwreck, so as not to cause irreparable damage."
"No problem, I'll listen to you." Skold was very willing to listen to the reasonable advice of professionals in this regard, so he immediately asked his subordinates to control the robot and start searching around the wreckage.
Unlike the turbid seawater in the coastal areas of China, the seawater in the Arctic is very clear. In addition, the water depth of this shipwreck is relatively shallow, so it is easy to see the bottom of the sea with the probe carried by the robot.
Under such circumstances, underwater archeology is obviously not that difficult, at least not like our colleagues in China who need to dig by hand when the visibility is less than 50cm most of the time.
"Wait a minute, can you let the robot turn to the left a little bit?" Just as everyone was staring at those screens, Liang En saw something on the edge of the screen, so he asked.
After hearing Liang En's voice, the operator immediately adjusted the camera on the robot, only to find a man-made object lying quietly on the seabed.
"This thing looks like a bell!" After manipulating the robot to approach, everyone found that this should be the ship's ship's bell, which is usually on the deck, and it is likely that it fell to the side when the ship sank.
"It would be great if this thing could be fished out." Scudder looked at the things on the screen with an excited expression, because each ship of this kind of ship clock will have a corresponding ship bell, and there will be a ship bell on the copper bell. Cast the name of the ship directly.
"Can't your underwater robot be fished out?" After hearing this, Liang En looked at Mr. Scudder with surprise and asked. "I remember you saying it was a salvage robot."
"But this is a small salvage robot I bought. Some small gadgets are okay. This kind of copper bell weighing tens of kilograms can't be picked up even under the water." Scudder showed embarrassment on his face. expression.
"You know my boat is actually a yacht. The so-called expedition yacht is just a gimmick. So compared with the real expedition boat, there will always be obvious defects in many places."
However, because this place is only 9m deep, it is far from deep water, and because the various ocean currents in the bay are very simple, it can be salvaged manually.
In this regard, Skold has a great advantage, because he is a Swede himself, and he has made a decision to travel to the North Pole before, so the two divers on board have received polar diving training.
So more than an hour later, with the help of the airbag, the two divers on board successfully fished the ship bell from the bottom of the sea and put it into a container filled with seawater.
"That's right, this ship is the Nether." After carefully cleaning off the attachments on the bronze bell under the watchful eyes of a large group of people and two cameras, Liang En had a smile on his face.
Just outside the lower part of the bell with his finger, a line of text appeared in front of everyone: HMS Erebus, which means the British Royal Navy, Nether.
As soon as Liang En's words fell, everyone in the cabin cheered, because none of them expected to find the sinking place of one of the ships in such a short period of time.
You know, the number of people who sank and lost in order to find this ship back then even exceeded the size of this Franklin expedition, and the most famous of them was the Perseverance.
This expedition ship was also trapped on the ice that year, so that the captain had to abandon the ship and flee. Fortunately, there were several ships in the fleet at the time, and one of them was not trapped, so most of the people escaped at last. back.
Fortunately, the ship did not suffer much damage, so it was brought back to the United States by several American whaling ships after the ice melted, and then it was repaired by the Americans and returned to the British in 1856.
Then after another 20 years, the ship was decommissioned and dismantled, and at this time, Queen Victoria of England used the keel to make two tables as a sign of friendship between the two countries.
One of them was left in Buckingham Palace, and the other was given to President Rutherford Birchard Hayes. Later, almost all American presidents used this desk, which is the one in the Oval Office of the White House. Resolute desk.
Considering that so many people paid a terrible price and failed to find their destination, everyone even felt a little unreal when they were excited.
Because they really couldn't believe that the expedition team that they had paid so much and failed to find was actually found by themselves. It sounded like a fairy tale.
"This should be related to global warming." Liang En said to the Discovery Channel reporter who sometimes interviewed him, "Because of global warming, the continental ice near these islands will melt in summer, so we can find this Missing ship."
"And even 30 years ago, this place would have been covered by a layer of ice in summer, and that's why all previous explorers hadn't discovered it."
(End of this chapter)