The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

One of the robotic arms of the submersible was seen opening the robotic arm with a thin rubber layer, grabbing a gold nugget, and stirring up a faint stream of sediment.

Slightly adjusted the angle of the submersible, and put the gold nuggets into a deep sea salvage basket nearby.

Then readjust the posture, continue to pick up the gold nugget, and adjust the posture to the salvage basket...

The complicated operation, after a long time, made everyone in the command room find it a bit boring.

The pixels of the video picture are limited, and the color saturation is even worse. The operation of the submersible submersible will make the viewer feel visually stimulating, which is abnormal.

but!

It's only visually. If you consider what those things are clamped up, it feels different.

After watching this for a while, the upper gold nuggets that were exposed before have been loaded into the salvage basket, and there are obviously still underneath them, but the guys in the submersible did not intend to continue digging, but had to deal with the side first. On that pile of gold coins.

Resolve it layer by layer, in a hurry, this will be a time-consuming task.

Before Zhang Nan got on the ship, he knew that this wave of salvage would take at least a few weeks, or even months, not necessarily, and the possible stormy days were not counted during the period.

There is a big wind and waves, and there is no problem with the seabed, but the salvage ship is not easy to locate. If it encounters a summer hurricane, you have to stay away from the wind.

"Central America" ​​is an iron-ribbed wooden hull ship, and now the board is basically rotten, and although the iron ribs are deformed, the outline of the underwater wreck can be seen basically.

The ship did not break or fall apart when it sank, and it was still a standard "sit sinking". The purpose of this salvage is to thoroughly clean the wreckage of the sunken ship!

Get rid of worthless areas such as coal bunker and boiler room, and clean it from head to toe.

It can be done. The organic matter is almost completely rotten, and the iron ribs are also severely rusted. Many of them can be cleaned up with a light touch with a robotic arm, and they are basically rotten.

Even if the remaining treasury is found first, there should be many discoveries in the original passenger area of ​​the shipwreck, which needs to be cleaned up on a large scale.

During the salvage period, the cost of the "Deep Diver" is counted in millions of dollars per month, but it is still worth working on for a few months!

In the previous "Royal Cruise Line Republic", the two locations of "military and loan cabin" are worthy of effort. Except for the wines found by chance, the rest of the region has no value at all for further exploration.

But this gold ship below is a genuine gold ship. In addition to the official 9.1 tons of gold reserves, the amount of gold carried by hundreds of wealthy passengers is also extremely large. Most of these golds have cultural relics value bonuses, which are worthwhile. Take more time.

At this time, Zhang Nan said to the people on the side: "It seems to be more troublesome than dealing with the Royal Republic before. When using the submersible, it is not convenient to use an armored diving suit."

As soon as the captain Philip Morrill heard this, he smiled and said: "There is no way, boss, there is no diving armor that can work at depths below 1,000 meters, and deep dives can only be done with submersibles.

Fortunately, we are using a manned submersible. It would be even more troublesome to operate an unmanned submersible on a ship.

I heard about the searcher’s salvage of the Republic’s shipwreck this time, but the gold on the sunken ship is not as much as that on the Mesoamerican, and the added value may not be as good as Mesoamerica. It’s better to spend more time here. Comparative value. "

The captain was telling the truth. Judging from the gold and silver coins that he picked up earlier, the added value of the treasures on the Mesoamerica has completely exploded from the batch on the Royal Cruise Line Republic.

However, when Captain Philip and others arrived at this meeting, they only knew that the "Searcher" had returned to New York. They estimated that their salvage operation had been a success, but for the time being, they did not know how much they had gained.

Zhang Nan didn't mention it, they wouldn't know about it.

Before the company disclosed the information, most people on the "Searcher" could not know the general information, not to mention the people on other ships with the company, even the people who salvaged the company for statistics and cleanup, most of them would not know the specific data.

As for the final detailed statistics, even Louis Trentz and Vita Bruno will not be actively informed.

Rules, procedures, confidentiality principles...

If it weren't, it would be a sieve to salvage the company's interior!

This underwater operation will continue. Unlike before, the two robotic arms of the submersible are moving together: the front on the left is a member like a large shovel, which is sent under the pile of gold coins, and the other is coordinated with a stroke...

This scoops up a pile of gold coins, like a bucket and a broom when sweeping garbage, clean and neat.

The salvage basket on the side is divided into two grids, and on one side are the gold nuggets that were previously clamped in, and the gold coins that will be shoveled out are poured into the next grid.

The method of inverting is very fast. The front section of the robotic arm can control the rotation. When the bucket-shaped shovel turns the angle on the salvage basket, the gold coins go down.

Such a slight operation will not damage the appearance of the gold coins too much, not to mention that many gold coins can be seen until the moment they are poured into the fishing box, they are still tightly stuck together.

It is not that gold is corroded and rusted together. These gold coins contain 90% of the gold, which is not so easy to rust.

It is that the various organic matter, packing boxes, and iron elements on the sunken ship have mixed and condensed over the course of more than a hundred years, and they have stuck to the gold.

At first glance, the gold bricks seem to be rusty. As for these gold coins, due to the adhesion of complex compounds, many of them can still maintain their mutual position when the ship sinks.

The salvage basket can safely lift the gold counted in tons at a time. After lifting, until the salvage basket returns to a fixed position on the bottom of the sea, the deep submersible is not needed, and there is no need to work.

In order to improve efficiency, "Deep Diving No. 1" has to be busy for a long time before the salvage basket will be lifted.

Zhang Nan didn't need to stay in the command room all the time. Philip and Kunca asked the boss to look at the gold bricks and coins they had fished before.

Everything is clearing the cabin. When I entered, I saw that many gold coins were still soaking in the water basin~www.readwn.com~ This is not to worry about the gold oxidizing after contact with the air, but to stabilize the mixture on the gold coins. Stain, it is more difficult to remove when it is available.

Zhang Nan noticed that the dozen or so gold coins in one of the basins were very special, weird in appearance, and quite big.

Picked up one and looked at it, "Pioneer gold coin, a bit interesting"

I have collected countless gold coins, and the varieties are all-encompassing, but this kind of gold coins made in the United States seems to have only two or three before.

No way, this is an informal gold coin. After the 20th century, no national bank would use it as a formal gold reserve.

The result is that almost none of it is in the treasures of the German Mustache or the treasures plundered by the little devils in Southeast Asia.

Hearing what Zhang Nan said, Kunkka said: "Boss, this kind of" 1851 Humbert octagonal gold coin was discovered yesterday. There are eight gold coins here. It is estimated that there are still in the sunken ship, and the number is definitely quite large. "

Gold coins are basically round, but this one is a strange octagon.