Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 642 Salvage
When the time quietly reached the end of January, Liang En and the others finally completed all the preparations related to the salvage work, and then took the plane together to Florida, USA.

As one of the southernmost states in the United States, the climate here is warm, the soil is fertile, and the water source is abundant, which provides excellent conditions for agricultural development.

Citrus production accounts for 75% of the country's total production.Vegetable production is second only to California.Agriculture and tourism and manufacturing form the three pillars of the state's economy.The forest coverage rate is 60%.

At the same time, this place also has a high-tech side. For example, Florida's NASA launch center in Cape Canaveral (also known as Cape Kennedy) on the Atlantic coast represents the country's top aerospace industry.

When Liang En and the others took a passenger plane to their destination, I saw a rocket launch. Although the distance was so far that I could only see a white smoke column piercing through the clouds and stretching into the blue sky, I could feel the shock of the top human technology. .

Soon after the plane landed, Liang En and the others drove to their destination, Key West, which is also the southernmost city in the continental United States. The most famous attraction here is Hemingway's former residence, as well as the beautiful tropical scenery.

However, Liang En and the others didn't have much time and energy to appreciate these beautiful or important historical attractions, but went straight to the pier to see the ships used in this salvage activity.

Unlike the situation in movies, games or novels, these two salvage ships are not the kind of large salvage ships with various equipment, helicopter storage, and displacement of thousands or even tens of thousands of tons. A boat in the early 1000t.

Naturally, the performance of this kind of boat is limited to offshore salvage work, and it only has 20 days of self-sustaining ability at sea, and it is impossible to go too far away, let alone enter the deep sea.

But fortunately, as a professional salvage ship, the ship is equipped with all kinds of equipment, which can perfectly complete the salvage work in shallow sea areas, which can be regarded as meeting Liang En's needs.

In addition to inspecting the working parts of the ship, Liang En also inspected the cabins on the ship. Compared with the expedition cruise ships he had been on before, the accommodation conditions on this ship were obviously much simpler.

Each ordinary crew cabin is only ten square meters, and there are two bunk beds in it to accommodate the next four people. As for the most luxurious captain's dormitory, it is only seven or eight square meters in size, and there is only a small bathroom of its own.

After all, the space on this small special vessel is limited, and sometimes the comfort of living has to be sacrificed in order to ensure the reliability of the functions. Fortunately, this ship will dock every half a month, so the impact is not too great. .

More importantly, they have made comprehensive psychological preparations for this trip. At the same time, the things that may be salvaged and the bonuses after salvage have also attracted everyone's attention, so everyone does not feel that the situation on the ship is unbearable.

Because all the preparations before going to sea had been made, Liang En and his fleet of two small boats quickly left the pier and headed towards the sea after the crew arrived.

Because of the strengthening of the previous cards, Liang En has a special understanding of the sea, coupled with the memory of another world and combined with divination, he has roughly determined the approximate range of the ship's sinking.

The reason for saying this is probably because ocean currents are often related to the weather, and the weather is basically unpredictable, so it is difficult to determine the specific locations of these treasures located in shallow seas that are easily affected by ocean currents.

Fortunately, they had narrowed down the search area as much as possible, so after a few hours of searching that afternoon, the two ships quickly discovered an underwater anomaly through metal detectors.

So they immediately put the previously prepared underwater robot into the water through the winch on the ship, and then controlled the underwater robot to drive to the place where the abnormal situation was observed before.

Soon, the metal detector on the underwater robot felt a strong metal reaction in the sand not far away, and then started digging with the mechanical claws on the robot.

Because the sediment on the seabed is very loose, the excavation work went smoothly. After ten minutes, a nearly 3m long metal cylinder appeared in the dug hole.

"This is a Spanish cannon from the early 17th century. It should be a 24-pound gun. It is often used on the middle deck guns of those large warships, and it is also the main artillery of those large warships."

After directing the robot to circle the cannon, Liang En quickly figured out the age and model of the cannon from the videos and photos taken at close range.

After all, after entering the era of great navigation, the artillery of various countries, especially the artillery of the navy, has a certain unity in casting, so as long as you take a big look, you should be able to judge the condition of these artillery.

It is even possible to judge the situation of the sunken ship through this artillery, because according to tradition, the 24-pound gun was only used to arm capital ships in the 17th century, and being able to find this gun means that there should be more important sunken ships around.

Although the organic matter on those ships may rot or be taken away by the complicated ocean currents offshore, the possibility of those metal objects remaining in place is not small.

"This discovery is indeed of some value." Joan of Arc also saw the value of this cannon. "Can you determine which ship the gun came from?"

"Certainly not now, unless we can pull this cannon to the ship to deal with, otherwise the current level of rust on this cannon will make it impossible to see what's on it." Liang En looked helplessly at the thick layer of rust on the cannon. shook his head.

"Then what should we do next? Shall we fish this cannon up and examine it carefully?" Fan Meng asked looking at the cannon in the video.

It is not very easy to fish out this cannon, which may weigh several tons, from the water. After all, this thing is not very convenient to carry in terms of weight and size.

Not to mention that after so many years of soaking in seawater, there may be problems with the overall structure of the artillery. For example, when the water emerges, the fragile balance of the artillery is destroyed due to the instantaneous change of the force state, resulting in damage.

This is likely to be the case for metal objects in warm seawater, as those metals tend to rust easily in the oxygenated seawater of shallow seas.

"No, we don't need to fish this cannon now." Liang En shook his head and said, then turned his head and switched to French to give the robot operator next to him an order to let the other party's remote control robot inspect the surrounding seabed.

As the surrounding seawater is accelerated by the water pump on the robot, water flows to wash the sandy seabed, and layers of sediment on the seabed surface are washed away by the high-pressure water gun, exposing the things below.

"Stop." Less than 10 minutes after starting the flushing, Mr. Scudder, who had been staring at the camera lens, suddenly shouted, because some regular strips appeared in his field of vision.

"This may be a precious metal ingot." Liang En also stared at the monitor at this time and said, he probably guessed what it was from the appearance of this thing, "Can you fish one or two to see?"

"No problem." The operator nodded slightly, and then the two pliers on the operating robot picked up two metal bars and put them into the cage on the robot, and then let the robot carry the salvaged things slowly. surfaced.

(End of this chapter)