Pang Xiaonan got into the cockpit and asked Buenoski: "Have our course changed?"

"No?" Buenoski shook his head, pointing to the watch on the bridge, and pointing to a star in the sky. "I have been paying attention to the direction, which is consistent with the direction we came."

"Do you feel something is wrong?" Pang Xiaonan still felt something was wrong.

"I feel the weather is a bit depressing, and the storm is coming soon." Buenoski is an old captain who has sailed for many years, and the climate change at sea cannot escape his feelings.

"Yes, that's what it means!" Pang Xiaonan finally found something was wrong. This was a sign before the storm. "I'm afraid that this storm will be very big. Are you sure to avoid it?"

"I'll try my best." Buenosky also felt that the storm would be strong, the indescribable intensity, exactly the same as the feeling in New Bloss, that is, he could not judge how big the storm was. The unknown sense of danger was the most depressing.

"I guess the storm is coming soon. Do you want to take a break first?" Pang Xiaonan knew that Buenosky was also very tired.

"You say that the storm is coming, so how can I rest?" Buenoski stared in the direction ahead, "Don't worry, I can still withstand it."

As the two talked, the calm sea began to rise and fall, and the waves rippled towards the Flower of Bros.

Pang Xiaonan and Buenoski, who were standing in the cockpit, felt a slight shock in the hull. Pang Xiaonan frowned and said, "The storm is coming."

"Well, this is the prelude to the storm." Buenosky agreed deeply, while holding the steering wheel with both hands.

As time goes by, the hull's vibration becomes louder and louder. Gradually, Pang Xiaonan must grasp a pipe in the cockpit to ensure that he stands firm.

Pang Xiaonan was about to ask, "You won't capsize, right?", but suddenly he felt something was wrong and swallowed this sentence into his stomach. At this time, a big wave as high as four or five meters was rolled up in front of the Flower of Bloss.

"No, dangerous." Such a voice sounded in Pang Xiaonan's heart, and the big waves had reached the moment.

The Flower of Bloss was like a small boat climbing a hill, tilting at an angle of 45 degrees, lifting up everyone in the boat. Pang Xiaonan and Buenoski tightly grasped the fixed objects in the cockpit and kept them from falling backwards.

Those who entered the cabin to sleep were awakened by the big waves.

Someone rushed to the deck and was frightened by the scene in front of him. Pang Xiaonan saw Li Yis rushing on the deck and shouted loudly: "Go in quickly, it's dangerous on the deck! Notify everyone, don't come out!"

Li Yis nodded, turned around and entered the cabin, notified the other people of the specific situation, and stood at the door himself and refused to let others come out.

A huge wave of ten meters high hit him, and Buenosky shouted loudly: "Get firmly!"

Pang Xiaonan used force to grab a steel pipe next to him, thinking that such a big wave would definitely capsize.

Before the huge waves came, the flower of Bros had already swung high, which shocked everyone in the boat to his throat. As soon as the huge waves fell, the decks slammed, like hail hitting the steel plate.

The Flower of Bloss was like a floating leaf, swinging around wetly, and it was about to lose balance several times. Fortunately, different forces were tearing. When the hull was about to overturn, the Flower of Bloss turned over again.

A few people on the boat had been disgusted and felt very uncomfortable in their stomachs. They vomited all the crab meat they ate at night on the floor. A erosive smell floated in the cabin, making seasick people even more uncomfortable and vomited.

"It's so exciting!" Although Pang Xiaonan was very skilled, he was also swinging around the cockpit by the big waves. Buenosky was almost thrown out of the cockpit. Fortunately, Pang Xiaonan closed the hatch door in time, which made Buenosky knock out a big bag on his head.

"Captain, we may be here this time." Buenosky looked at the huge waves and suddenly lost confidence. It was the first time he encountered such bad weather on the sea.

"What do you mean? It's impossible. We will definitely spend it safely." Although Pang Xiaonan also knew that this time was a life-threatening death, he could never say the depressed words, otherwise it would really come true.

The power of nature is much more terrifying than the attack of any beast.

Because you play with beasts, at least you know who your opponent is, but when nature gets angry, you don’t even have the direction of exerting force.

This is why Pang Xiaonan has always felt uneasy even though he had not encountered any monsters along the way. Sure enough, a few waves made the boat full of trouble.

Suddenly, a burst of lightning and thunder appeared in front of the Flower of Bloss, and the sea surface was even more unpredictable, making people suspect that they had come to the demon world.

"This is the real storm." Pang Xiaonan exclaimed loudly. Compared with the scene in front of him, the previous big waves were at best pediatrics.

It's like riding a roller coaster and falling from a high place. You think you're safe, but you end up entering a cave where all kinds of monsters and monsters are waiting for your arrival.

"What should I do? Captain, our speed is too fast to avoid it." In fact, Buenosky had already turned off the power, because in front of the waves, no power could get rid of the natural speed of the sea water. Now, they were following the speed of the ocean current and were about to get into lightning and thunder.

"If you can't escape, forget it, just think it's coming to overcome the tribulation." Pang Xiaonan said it well at all. The scene in front of him was like a scene that a fellow Taoist had to experience before passing the tribulation, but it was even more powerful than the legendary tribulation.

Soon, the Flower of Bloss reached the center of the storm. Although the waves were not so high, the sea was fluctuating more frequently. The Flower of Bloss was thrown around by the sea, without any strength to resist.

The dark clouds above the head covered Ye Liang and the stars, and the lightning and thunder were like a torn universe, changing unpredictably. Suddenly, a flash of lightning hit the Flower of Bloss, extending from the lightning rod to the hull, and then transmitted from the hull to the sea.

"Ah..." Everyone on the boat felt a hint of numbness, as if there was a burnt smell in the air.

"Are we hit by lightning just now?" Pang Xiaonan grabbed the steel pipe tightly and asked Buenosky loudly.

Buenoski was also like Pang Xiaonan at this moment, grabbing a steel pipe beside him, but looking around in his eyes, he was looking at what losses were caused by the equipment on the ship.

Before the storm came, as an experienced sailor, Buenosky had put away his sails, because he knew that in the face of a powerful storm, the sails were likely to be torn, so the sails must be kept safe, otherwise it would be difficult for them to return to the island of Blos.

After confirming that the equipment on the ship was not lost, Buenoski looked at Pang Xiaonan and replied loudly: "Yes, captain, we were hit by lightning just now."

"But we all seem to be fine?" Pang Xiaonan felt strange. Shouldn't he feel very strong when he was fired? At least he would numb it, let alone the powerful lightning on the sea.

"We have lightning protection devices, captains, so there will be no trouble." Buenosky was calm because lightning could not defeat modern ships.

Modern ships are made of steel, and they are conductive and the sea water is a good conductor. The personnel on board should be very safe. What to prevent is electronic equipment lightning protection. As long as there are lightning protection devices at high places in electronic equipment, they can be well protected from lightning.

The traditional habit of lightning protection rods on land is to protect buildings and prevent lightning strikes from damage to buildings. Therefore, the inertia of thinking also believes that metal platforms are not afraid of lightning strikes.

In fact, the lightning rods for ships at sea are mainly targeted at electronic devices, such as radio stations, satellite positioning antennas, radars, etc.

From the concept of multi-level energy level lightning attenuation, lightning rods are not only lightning leakage, but more importantly, level A-level protection for lightning protection, preventing lightning strikes directly on satellites, radios, walkie-talkies, and digital antennas. After all, they are also good cutting-edge discharge media.

The electronic equipment of the Flower of Bloss has failed when entering the disc of the Bloss, so even if lightning breaks the electronic equipment on the ship, it will not have much impact on the Flower of Blosss.

But the impact of the waves has a great impact on the Flower of Bros.

The most important thing is whether the Flower of Bros can maintain balance on the sea so as not to capsize.

If the Flower of Bloss could not hold on to capsize in the storm, then even God would be unable to turn things around, and all the people would be buried at the bottom of the sea and become food for marine life.

Fortunately, for so long, the Flower of Bloss did not encounter any reefs or glaciers floating on the sea. Otherwise, the Flower of Bloss would have become a ruin, and people on the sea would fall into the sea, and life and death would be worrying.

Pang Xiaonan remembered the famous shipwreck of the Titanes.

100 years ago, the world's largest mail ship, the Titans Mai, began its first and last voyage.

The Titanes divides passengers into three levels. The third-class cabin is also the cheapest on the lower hull. Most of this type of passengers are immigrants who plan to create a new life on the other side of the Great East Ocean. The decoration of the second-class cabin and the general guest rooms is actually the same as that of other ordinary ships at that time. Many second-class passengers originally positioned first-class cabins on other ships, but because of the Titanes' sailing, they transferred coal energy to the Titanes. The first-class cabin is the most expensive and luxurious part of the entire ship. At that time, the richest celebrities in the world were on this journey.

At 7 p.m. that day, the Titanes arrived at Cherbourg Harbor. Another group of passengers and cargo boarded the Titanes on two special ferry boats, "Nomad" and "Transportation", including the rich Chinese nation Astor and Mrs. Margaret Brown - later called the "Never Sinking Madam Brown" by the newspaper. More than 20 passengers disembarked after a short journey and were lucky enough to pass by death.

At noon the next day, the Titanes Mai arrived in Kov, and a group of Irande immigrants who were full of longing and hope for the new world boarded the ship. A passenger got ashore here, and the photos he took later became out of print photos of the Titanes Mai, which are priceless in the eyes of collectors today.

According to the orders of Captain Smith, the Titanes accelerated its speed to 23 knots the next day. Along the way, nothing major happened to the Titanes. The telegrapher Philip on the ship was busy sending expensive private telegrams for the first-class passengers, mostly for safe orders to report the safe and stock trading and delivery.

On Sunday night, a calm night without even a wind. If anything, the crew would find the scattered light of the waves swaying on the iceberg. The Titans Mag is sailing at a speed of 22.3 knots (about 45 km/h) on this dark and cold ocean surface.

After receiving ice information reports from many nearby ships, Captain Smith ordered the lookout to observe carefully. This year was a warm winter, the iceberg drifted farther south than in previous years. However, the crew of the Titanes Mai failed to find the telescope because the only pair of binoculars on the ship was locked in the cabinet by the second pair, and the second pair who kept the keys of the cabinet did not board the ship in the end, so the lookout had to observe with the naked eye.

Observer Fleet found a black shadow "sized by two tables" in the distance, which grew at a rapid speed. He rang the alarm bell on the bridge three times and grabbed the phone: "There is an iceberg directly in front of you!" The sixth deputy Moody, who answered the phone, notified the eldest mate Murdoch next to him. Murdoch immediately ordered the driving clock: "All engines slow down! The left rudder is full! The third propeller reverses!" At the observationer, it only took 37 seconds to hit the iceberg from the starboard side of the ship. At that time, the Titanes Max was less than 400 meters away from the iceberg.

The first mate immediately ordered the left rudder to be fully ruddered, and the entire ship's thruster was urgently reversing two instructions. Later, it was confirmed that this order was a fatal mistake. Just 37 seconds after he ordered, the Titanes Max was too large, the rudder was too small, and the forward speed was too fast to stop moving forward and steering in time, and the ship crashed toward the side of the iceberg.

Due to the violent impact, the rivets at the bottom of the starboard bow were loosened and disconnected, and the waterproof partition partly cracked. Countless small but narrow cracks appeared in the front 5 bottom cabins, and there were small cracks at the front end of the sixth water-tight partition, and sea water continued to pour in. Then the waterproof gates closed in time, and all bottom cabins became 16 independent water-tight warehouses.

In the first 10 minutes after the hull hit the iceberg, the water level rose 14 feet from the keel. The first five cabins on the bow began to be flooded, and the No. 6 boiler room was covered by 8 feet of water. At this time, more than 4,000 tons of seawater had poured into the bow, but the seawater was blocked by waterproof plates. It seemed that everything was under control. Captain Smith walked in from the crew cab and asked the crew what had happened. After learning about the incident, the captain immediately ordered all engines in the ship to stop functioning. The Titansmer slowly stopped in the center of the quiet North Atlantic Ocean. The captain then summoned engineers to repair the damaged part.

The result of this collision was later known to people. However, the passengers and crew in the cabin responded differently at that time. Some passengers who were not sleeping well in the first and second class cabins were awakened by a slight metal-like scratching sound, and the hull was slightly shaken. Some thought they had encountered a big wave, some thought they had hit the reef, and some thought they had broken the propeller.

However, the passengers in the cabin below felt much more violent vibration. Some passengers saw the milky white iceberg passing through the starboard porthole. Some of the ice cubes hit by the ship and wiped off the side of the iceberg fell onto the right deck on the bow. The immigrant passengers in the cabin below were even more frightened to find that the cold and bone-blazing sea water was flowing through the crack of the door and pouring into the dormitory from somewhere, and the ship stopped quickly.

After some passengers in the cabin were familiar with the matter, they put on their coats, took their own things and left the cabin to the deck. Under the pitch-black sky, warm yellow lights were emitted from the windows of the Titanes. All the boilers in the ship were operated in a dead end. Four tall yellow and black smoke pipes and chimneys on the ship exhausted a lot, making a huge noise. Three of them suddenly made deafening roars and screams. Passengers who knew the steam engine knew that this was the boiler safety valve on the ship releasing excess overheated high-pressure steam. After a while, the passengers on the ship and on the ship continued their respective activities.

At this time, more than 7,000 tons of seawater had poured into the bow. The water had flooded a front pointed cabin, three bow cargo cabins and No. 6 boiler cabins. The seawater overflowed from the top of the flooded water-tight chamber exit and began to pour into the third class cabin, further covering the upper h-deck. The bow began to sink slowly, and the fate of sinking was actually destined, because at that time, the maximum water-tight chamber could be inleted in the water-tight chamber of the Titanes was 4 rooms, and the water-inlet section of the cabin was 5 rooms, which exceeded the bearing limit.

A large number of staff in the boiler No. 6 are working hard to remove the accumulated water. The crew reported to Captain Smith, who was in the control tower: the water had submerged the front cabin of the bow, the cargo compartments 1, 2, 3 and the boiler compartments 6. He immediately asked designer Thomas Andrew to evaluate the damage.

After some evaluation and calculation, Andrew then concluded that "the ship is out of rescue" in the captain's room and stated that the ship could only last for 1-2 hours. The captain asked all crew members to immediately release the lifeboat. At that time, the ship stopped at the north latitude and west longitude.

The sea water has submerged the 10-meter-high bow part, and all lifeboats on the ship can only be used by 1,178 people, while the total number of people on the ship reaches 2,224.

The crew members of the Titanes began to use the rockets to seek help. From the crew of the Californian in the Titanes, they could even see the lights on the chimney of her steam engine. They tried to contact them in Moss lights, but the Moss code lights failed and could not be contacted. Moreover, more than one crew member of the Californian witnessed the white rockets launched by the Titanes, but the Captain Rhodes believed that this was not a distress signal.

The Titanes Mai sent out a call for help in distress, and then used the latest "Sos" signal to continue asking for help. It was later confirmed that most ships receiving the signal only received the Soss distress signal, but the nearest Californian (Sscalifornian) failed to receive the distress telegram in time because the telegrapher turned off the telegraph machine.

Among all the ships that could receive the telegram was the Capacia, which then arrived at the Titanes at its fastest speed, but even so, it would take at least 4 hours to arrive. The crew members of the Titanes began preparing to release the lifeboat.

The band serving first-class passengers on the ship continued to play for passengers near the stairs towards the entrance of the lifeboat to avoid panic.

The seawater has been submerged in the 15-meter-high seafarer's room, the ship has sinked 6 meters, and two rows of portholes are submerged under the water, some of which are open, resulting in the continuous increase in the inlets. The water depth of the boiler room No. 6 exceeds 4 meters. The engineer has to give up here, and the pump still pumps the water with all his strength, but this can only slightly delay the speed of the bow sinking.

The captain ordered priority to allow women, children and children to board the lifeboat. At this time, the Capacia was located about 58 nautical miles southeast of the Titanes and was coming quickly.

The No. 6 boiler room and the entire No. 5 watertight chamber were submerged. The water had already flowed into the e-deck from the top of the No. 6 waterproofing board, and there was no waterproofing facility here. The water poured down from the top. The 6th partition water tank began to enter the water, and the hull gradually tilted. From the No. 5 boiler room, you can hear the terrifying and low sound of the waterproof board in front.

The crew members who were rescued by the mail room became the first victims of the Titans Mai. All lifeboat preparations were completed. The crew began to persuade first-class passengers to board the lifeboat. Boat No. 7 was the first lifeboat to be put down, but the lifeboat with a maximum passenger capacity of 65 people was only carried by more than a dozen passengers.

The waterproof plate between the boiler cabins of No. 6 and No. 5 was deformed due to the high temperature of a small fire a few days ago. Now the water pressure caused the water barrier to collapse suddenly, and the water rushed over like a wall. The bottom of the water barrier cabin of No. 6 was instantly filled with sea water, which became the first link of this devastating chain reaction. The first rocket was launched, and a shiny white Mars slowly fell.

The lower half of the bow walk deck of the Titanes Mai was already in the water. The work on the side of the lifeboat gradually fell into chaos. Although the virtue of women and children boarding the lifeboat first was obeyed, many lifeboats were put down in mid-air. The Lifeboat No. 6 carried only 28 people, but this could not be blamed for the crew. At that time, the sailing community believed that if the lifeboat was loaded with too many people and put down, it would cause damage to the lifeboat or even capsized.

The lifeboat of the Titanes Mai is actually very sturdy and can withstand the weight of 70 people, but the crew members don't know this. In fact, a lifeboat that could have carried a total of 1,178 people, but in the end only 651 people were on board, and some people were rescued after jumping into the sea.
Chapter completed!