Han Peacock was afraid that he would make a fool of himself if he watched it, so he walked up directly to help: "You go to change your clothes, and go to sea with us as soon as you finish eating, anyway, you don't have to develop in Yangcheng, it's a waste of time to record a TV show." ”

"You are on TV like this, Han Peacock is very disadvantaged, be good, go and take off and come down to eat." The catkins also coaxed.

"Why do I sound so awkward?" Qin Mingyue said only after knocking off Liu Wu's hand.

"I saw that there was only fish and scare in the refrigerator, so I made a pot of fish soup, and put the shrimp in the oven, you see if it is cooked, I went up to change my clothes, and those old perverts on the TV station can not deal with it." Qin Mingyue said after leaving the kitchen.

After the three of them had lunch, they went directly to the dock by car, looking at Qin Mingyue, who was dressed as a cowboy, Han Peacock said with satisfaction: "The current models are really getting more and more unpleasant." ”

"Who are you talking about?" Qin Mingyue didn't follow.

Han Peacock smiled and said, "Anyway, you don't want to be a model now, so it's boring to come out at this time." ”

"My cousin is also a model!" Qin Mingyue said.

Liu Fu smiled and said: "Okay, this time I went to sea, I don't know what surprise Han Peacock brought us." ”

"10% of the ships that used to sail on the surface of the sea are now lying on the bottom of the sea, so the surprises are endless, and as we all know, billions of dollars of treasure are buried under the sea.

With today's technology, finding a wreck is no longer a problem, the only problem we need to solve is, how to effectively salvage and make more money? Treasure hunting requires patience if you're not clamoring to meet the magic capital. We rode around the sea on the Shenlong, and we could catch any wreck if we wanted. ”

Liu Fu said with a smile: "You must know that among the tens of thousands of shipwrecks on the seabed, only a very few, less than one percent of the shipwrecks have circulating wealth, such as gold and jewelry.

Such a big project is not something that can be encountered casually, and many international salvage companies spend a lot of time finding the first valuable wreck, such as the Republic wreck. Odyssey Inc. It took 12 years. ”

"The Republic? A treasure ship? Qin Mingyue asked.

Han Peacock said: "Of course, it is a treasure ship, the Republic is just after the end of the American Civil War, the Republic loaded with goods and coins set off from New York, ready to go to New Orleans. to support the post-war reconstruction of New Orleans.

The 210-foot-long steam-age ship sailed out of New York five days later. Unfortunately, a rare hurricane was encountered. It sank to the icy bottom of the sea, and it was reported at the time that the fortunes of the "Republic" exceeded $400,000 in gold and silver coins - more than 130 years later. Their value has far exceeded the face value of the year, with a $10 gold coin having a market price ranging from $3,000 to $500,000.

However, it was difficult to locate the wreck: a ship like the Republic, which had been damaged by wind and waves, had broken in the process of sinking and had struck the ocean floor at speeds of 100 miles per hour, leaving it in a mess and its hull scattered all over the seabed.

Since learning its story in 1992, the two Odyssey guys have been working with it, analyzing its shipwreck in detail from the literature, using computers to simulate the line and speed of the ship, and finally, the wreck was locked within 1,500 miles - just using sonar to comb through such a large area of the ocean floor would have been a huge task.

In 2003, Odyssey finally succeeded in finding the "Republic" under the ocean 100 miles off the coast of Georgia, and the salvaged gold and silver coins were sold for 75 million US dollars, while their initial investment was only 2 million yuan, and they made a lot of money at once.

The two of them also put a salvaged gold coin in their wallets as a souvenir, which is not too expensive, only 10,000 US dollars, but such a harvest is absolutely exciting. ”

"The net profit of one harvest is more than 70 million US dollars, such a harvest is really exciting, but Han Peacock, do you have more than they gained?" Qin Mingyue said.

Liu Fu smiled and said, "There are definitely not as many people as there are, Greg Murphy, the founder of Odyssey Corporation. Stim and John. Morris, the owner of an advertising agency in Florida and a real estate developer, had nothing to do with salvage shipwrecks. The only thing they had in common was that they liked to sail boats, so they became good friends.

In 1986, a boat broker told them that a Florida college was going to sell an 85-foot expedition boat for $100,000, and they bought it.

At first, the two of them just used the boat as a leisure tool, drinking gin on the deck and watching the sunset, but it didn't take long for them to discover that the boat was also equipped with underwater exploration equipment, so they also began to rent the boat to some scientists and underwater treasure hunters who did underwater research.

Seeing the stories of other people's treasure hunts, Stim and Morris decided to experience the fun of treasure hunting themselves. In the waters of Florida, the two guys actually found a shipwreck, but they were unlucky and had little money on board, and this success piqued their interest and decided to make the search for the treasure of the shipwreck under the sea a business.

It's so different from other businesses that no one can be sure when the big money will pay off, but Stim and Morris have one principle in mind from the start: they want Odyssey to find its treasure to be as regular as Exxon is to find oil.

Stim explains: "When we can keep finding new wrecks, the face of submarine shipwreck salvage changes, it's no different from oil companies discovering oil fields, it's risky at first, but as long as they find the first oil field and keep repeating their findings, it's a success."

So then came the harvest of the Gelsopa, a ship that sank in Britain during World War II, carrying more than 200 tons of silver, with an estimated total value of up to $200 million. It's all porcelain, which is far worse than gold and silver. ”

Han Peacock just smiled and said nothing, while Liu Fu blinked at Han Peacock, Qin Mingyue noticed it and immediately attacked Liu Wu: "What are you two secretly communicating?" ”

Han Peacock smiled and said: "Treasure hunting sounds very exciting, but it's actually very boring, so it's okay to look for it once or twice, but if you do it as a job, it's very boring." ”

Han Peacock told Qin Mingyue and Liu Wu some of the treasure hunting process of the Shenlong, so that the two girls who originally thought that the treasure hunt under the sea should be an adventure full of hormones, mysterious maps and conspiracies knew that the treasure hunt was actually rigorous and almost boring from research, exploration to salvage.

First, they collected logbooks, historical materials, and stories passed down by fishermen to compile a library of shipwrecks, and Han Peacock currently has information on more than 15 shipwrecks, each with an estimated value of at least $50 million.

Then, Bai Xiaoyi's usual practice is to lock a location, moor an exploration ship, and start the search and exploration of the seabed with this as the center.

The survey vessel is equipped with an A-type crane frame, a crane, at least two subsea work rigs, a side-scan sonar that refers to an underwater towed survey towed behind the ship, or a detection instrument box, and large monitoring equipment.

With the data and the help of technology, the treasure hunt becomes a purposeful process, mapping the topography of the seabed, often taking months, averaging more than $5,000 a day, and relying on the weather to help.

After eliminating hundreds of possible targets and finally confirming the locking of the submarine target, the Shenlong will send a small submarine reconnaissance aircraft, that is, a more sophisticated artificial fish, to shoot underwater videos and obtain samples of cultural relics on the shipwreck.

After the ship's archaeologists identified the age and value, the shipwreck was salvaged by a large submarine excavator.

The biggest progress of modern treasure hunting is in the drawing of the seabed map, Han Peacock's Shenlong is equipped with a large number of underwater monitoring fish, this precision, specialized in seabed mapping of the simulated fish, and its monitoring equipment equipment up to 250,000 US dollars.

The investment is well worth it, as the back-and-forth detection of sonar waves can cover distances of up to 1,000 meters, and can scan for any foreign object as large as a chair, and the topography of the seabed can be accurately mapped.

Optical fiber transmission technology has also greatly improved the Shenlong, the confirmation accuracy of the seabed target is very high, the early underwater machine qì people take pictures, need to return to the ship before the output of underwater video, now, thanks to the progress of optical fiber technology, the Shenlong machine, can be real-time to shoot the high-definition seabed video, transmitted back to the exploration ship control room.

Thanks to the technology on Devil's Island, Han Peacock has successfully built an underwater machine worth $2.5 million, which has been able to dive to 22,000 meters below sea level, a depth that is enough to explore 98% of the world's underwater world.

Originally designed to detect and repair pipeline leaks in the deep sea, this machine can easily deal with vulnerable artifacts on the seabed.

The crew of the Shenlong worked hard and rarely rested, and an exploration usually lasted 30 to 60 days, and because of the special nature of the profession, the ship's crew could not go ashore for a long time, which became a huge challenge for some young crew members.

So years ago, Han Peacock began to ask for more female crews, and now, more than one-third of the crew on the Shenlong are women, and they are equipped with a complete ecosystem.

Like seawater desalination equipment, soilless cultivation greenhouses, indoor farms, forest farms and indoor breeding ranches, with these facilities, the crew can still work and exercise, but also change the working environment, and relieve the depressed mood.

The most important thing is that the agriculture, forestry and ranches can provide more fresh vegetables, fruits and meat for the crew who have been adrift at sea for a long time, so that with the supporting entertainment facilities, even if the Shenlong is adrift at sea for a year, it is not a problem at all for some young people who stay at home even if they are on land. (To be continued......)