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After Yang Jing and Gege arrived, David Patel, the person in charge of the private polar scientific research organization, and Andrei Milakinov, the captain of the Blue Whale, appeared at the port immediately, and met Yang Jing, the big gold The Lord had a meeting.

In Western developed capitalist countries, there are many private polar scientific research organizations like Ingram. The situation in these developed capitalist countries is different from that in China. In China, scientific research activities in the Antarctic and Arctic are often the power of the state. But in these developed countries, most of the scientific research activities are private. These private scientific research organizations accept the entrustment of government departments, universities and even other private organizations to make profits. At the same time, you can also start your own scientific research tasks and sell some results to some interested people or organizations.

In the last century, polar scientific research was still a very unpopular industry, and the competition was not so fierce. But as people pay more and more attention to the two poles, the competition in this industry is getting more and more fierce. Especially after entering the new century, many private polar scientific research organizations have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, which has brought the competition in this industry into an extremely cruel state.

Just like Ingram, it is a private polar scientific expedition organization based in North America. Its main service targets are universities and related government departments in North America. Polar scientific research organization, after more and more younger generations appear in this industry with a lot of money, its competitiveness has become weaker and weaker.

For this reason, Ingram's partners at the time spent 140 million US dollars to build the Graham Blue Whale more than ten years ago, trying to get out of the predicament by relying on this most advanced polar scientific research ship at the time.

When the Blue Whale was launched, it really caused quite a stir in the industry, and Ingram also got a lot of orders with the advanced Blue Whale. But it is a pity that whether the polar scientific research can produce results does not only depend on the advanced polar scientific research ships, but also depends more on the ability of the scientific research personnel.

Obviously, in this respect, Ingram is not stronger than those other top polar scientific research organizations, on the contrary, they are still weak in some aspects.

In this way, although Ingram added an extremely advanced Blue Whale, the actual business did not increase much, and because of the huge maintenance funds of the Blue Whale, Ingram became more and more difficult. If it weren't for the fact that the major shareholder behind Ingram is also considered a rich man, and he can still grit his teeth and persist, maybe this well-known polar scientific research organization will completely disband.

In the winter of last year, Ingram received a commission from the U.S. Department of Energy to conduct a detailed survey of the branches of several minerals in Antarctica. The Department of Energy has only given a budget of $3.58 million for this mission, but this mission will last up to four months, almost spanning the entire Antarctic warm season.

The task is not complicated, but such a long time span, the money given is only so small, and Ingram accepts this order at best to guarantee that he will not lose money. But even so, Ingram could only hold his nose and take the order.

No way, you don't take it, some people are queuing up behind to take this order.

Fortunately, before this mission was set off, Ingram received another commission, which was to deliver a batch of supplies to the Mike Odo station, an American polar scientific research station located along the Ross Ice Shelf.

This extra task made this trip to the Antarctic more or less profitable, but it is not as good as people's calculations. Just when the Blue Whale had just delivered supplies to Mike Odo Station and was about to start the mineral resource survey, the Blue Whale Unfortunately, I encountered a sudden cold snap.

The strong cold current rapidly expanded and thickened the sea ice of the Ross Ice Shelf, and finally trapped the Blue Whale in the Ross Ice Shelf, unable to advance or retreat. The most serious thing is that when the Blue Whale tried to forcefully break through the ice to leave the Ross sea area, the starboard hull was damaged. Although the hull did not break, the plan to forcefully break the ice again was completely ruined.

Not only that, the Blue Whale trapped in the Ross Ice Shelf had to send out a distress signal, and an Antarctic research ship from Germany finally rescued the Blue Whale after 12 days.

Although it was rescued, considering the time it was trapped, the Blue Whale was delayed for more than 20 days in the Ross Sea, and the hull was damaged, so it needed to return to the port for repairs. Now even the task assigned by the US Department of Energy is impossible.

No way, after the approval of the US Department of Energy, Ingram had to transfer this task to another polar research ship from the United States. Then the Blue Whale returned to Boston at a very slow speed, dragging the damaged hull.

This trip to Antarctica not only failed to complete the task entrusted by the US Department of Energy, but also injured the hull of the Blue Whale. Of course, the Germans did not save you for nothing. In order to rescue the Blue Whale from the Ross Ice Shelf, the British Graham paid the Germans as much as 1.45 million U.S. dollars; as for failing to complete the commission of the Ministry of Energy, Ingram also needs to pay the Department of Energy a liquidated damages of up to 800,000 U.S. dollars.

It can be said that last year's trip to Antarctica was a disaster. To use an old Chinese saying, it was a loss for the wife and a soldier!

Ingram, who was expecting to earn a sum of money, spent a total of more than four million US dollars on that trip to the South Pole. After including the cost of repairing the ship, Ingram lost a total of Nearly five million dollars.

This is undoubtedly worse for Ingram, who is already a little stretched.

What made Ingram's leader even more desperate was that because of the Blue Whale's accident in the Antarctic and the failure to complete the tasks entrusted by the U.S. Department of Energy, Ingram did not receive any entrusted tasks to go to the North Pole. ——Whether it is the government department or other institutions, they all have lingering fears about the failure of the Blue Whale to complete the tasks entrusted by the US Department of Energy. No one wants to hand over their entrustment to an organization that has not completed the task of scientific research.

In this way, Ingram immediately faced an extremely severe situation - if there is no entrustment, Ingram is very likely to close down!

But at this time, David Patel, the head of Ingram, learned that a Chinese from San Francisco was looking for a polar research ship that could go to the Arctic waters to perform missions, and said that money was not a problem.

Under such circumstances, David Patel naturally contacted Lin Dan immediately. Just like the rumors, this young Chinese man from San Francisco doesn't care about money at all. Even if David Patel offered a price of 240,000 US dollars for a week, this young man of Chinese descent would still A five-week, or $1.2 million, deposit was paid directly in advance.

Although this amount of money is not a lot, it is undoubtedly a life-saving money for Ingram, who is about to let go of the pot. In particular, this young Chinese surnamed Lin personally assured that once the ship goes to sea, five weeks will definitely not be enough. Eight weeks or even twelve weeks are possible, but how long will it last? The time depends on the specific situation of the sea trip this time.

Although this matter was not an entrusted task, it was simply a lease of the Blue Whale, but after David Patel learned that Lin Dan's boss behind the scenes had appeared, he immediately brought the newly appointed captain of the Blue Whale to meet Yang. Meet Jing.

Hello, Mr. Yang, I am David Patel, the person in charge of Ingram, and this is Andrei Milakinov, the captain of the Blue Whale. When you go out to sea, Andrei will I will be responsible for you all the way. Although David Patel is a white man who is nearly fifty years old, he still involuntarily lowered his posture when facing Yang Jing, the patron.

He can't lower his posture. Although the two people in front of him are Chinese, when David Patel saw the Patek Philippe Platinum World Time watch on Yang Jing's left hand, he immediately realized what was happening in front of him. These two Chinese young men are definitely rich and powerful.

A multi-million dollar watch is casually worn on the wrist. To be honest, even David Patel, who claims to be a well-informed person, has never seen such a luxurious guy. The watch on his wrist alone is enough to pay the rent of the Blue Whale for more than half a year.

Hello, Mr. Patel, you can just call me Albert. Yang Jing still feels good about this polite middle-aged man. Mr. Patel, the main purpose of leasing your Blue Whale this time is to take my fiancée to the Arctic waters. My fiancée and I just got engaged, and my fiancée yearns to go to the Arctic very much. , so this time we will go to the North Pole together. There is no need to keep some things secret.

Wow, Albert, congratulations on having such a beautiful fiancee. Patel timely sent his compliments, Please rest assured to take our Blue Whale. Although the Blue Whale has been launched for ten It has been many years, but this ship is still one of the top polar scientific research ships in the world. The facilities on board are guaranteed to make you and your fiancée a kind of enjoyment in the next trip to the North Pole. At the same time, the Blue Whale is also Have a good enough captain. Although our Mr. Andre has just become the captain of the Blue Whale, Andre has extremely rich sailing experience. When the Blue Whale was launched, he served as the captain of the Blue Whale The chief engineer later became the chief mate of the Blue Whale, and Mr. Andre did not become the helm of the Blue Whale until this year. It is no exaggeration to say that no one is more familiar with the Blue Whale than Andre.

Andrei on the side saluted and said in English with a strong Russian accent: Welcome aboard the Blue Whale. Andrei Milakinov will serve you wholeheartedly.

PS: Bow down and thank Jimen Lianmei and Qing Yiyi for their 500 rewards.