Chapter 296: Shipwreck
How about Henry Morgan? Jiang Hai doesn't care, he is too lazy to care. Anyway, he has been dead for almost four hundred years....しw0.
But Jiang Hai was still very interested in his treasure. The shipwreck he targeted this time was called the Capital of Sin.
Of course, this name is written on the chart, and it is not clear whether it is true or not.
In fact, many people know about this ship, and even the British government knows it, because it was very famous when it sank. The United States was not as powerful as it is now. At the beginning, it was also a colony of European countries.
It was only after 1773 that Britain alone gained the upper hand.
Before this, this was a common colony between Britain, France, the Netherlands, the West, and Germany.
When Britain and Spain were in dire straits, Henry Morgan naturally focused not only on South America, but also on North America, especially Florida, which is the estuary of the Caribbean Sea.
Usually, when you hit a rabbit, you will always have to attack once or twice.
This ship was blocked by the Spanish fleet after robbing Spain's colonies in North America. After a great war, although Henry Morgan escaped, he also threw down several warships.
Some of the more subdivided ones have long been divided by Britain and Spain, and some of them have been salvaged one after another after entering the later technological era. However, only the ship with the most jewelry has never been caught, because this ship is really unlucky, and there are almost trenches in this sea area.
But by chance, there was only one, with the deepest depth of more than 3,700 meters. This ship happened to be stuck at about 1,760 meters.
People will definitely not be able to get down at this depth. If you send a submarine or something, you will be afraid that the ship will fall to more than 3,000 meters directly, and it will be even more impossible to catch it. So even though you know that the ship is here, there is no way for each country to do so.
They were reluctant to let it go. They couldn't get it up, but they couldn't get it, even the things inside. So in the end, whether it was the United States or the United Kingdom, they decided to keep this thing here, and they wouldn't lose it anyway.
Later, when the fisherman sold these treasure maps, some people found this place, but after taking a look, they were about to go back and beat that guy up. Such a boat was simply impossible to catch.
But if others can't make it up, it doesn't mean that Jiang Hai is not good. At least now, Jiang Hai is working hard for this.
The engine speed is not slow. Jiang Hai also drove the fastest, about twenty nautical miles per hour, more than one hundred nautical miles away. Jiang Hai ran in the water for nearly six hours. By the time he reached the trench, it was already midnight.
After looking at his Rolex watch, Jiang Hai turned on the headlight, but as soon as he turned it on, he was startled.
As soon as he blew his headlight, he saw a huge fish swimming quickly from his face.
Subconsciously he wanted to get a spear. But when he looked at it, the fish was not a shark. It was a bluefin tuna that was more valuable than any shark, looking at the blue lines behind it, plus the streamlined body.
Jiang Hai breathed a sigh of relief. As long as it was not a shark, this kind of fish could not attack him.
After the fish swam rapidly, Jiang Hai also looked around. The bluefin gold spear was actually a group fish.
With the headlight sweeping, Jiang Hai also discovered that in the vicinity, in addition to the bluefin tuna he saw just now, there were many other tunas, but there were a few species, most of which were bluefin, but some were yellowfin.
After raising fish for so many years, Jiang Hai still has the ability to watch fish. According to Jiang Hai's preliminary estimate, if it is not considered the name of the fish king's hype, this tuna will be worth about 2 million US dollars.
This made Jiang Hai smack his lips. This is much more profitable than raising cattle. Salmon and American red fish are really not inferior to this fish. But unfortunately, these fish cannot be raised because they swim around all year round. The area of their own fish farm is still too small, and there are no ones selling these fish seedlings.
There are not even *, let alone artificial breeding. This is to see, if Jiang Hai came from a boat, he could get a few of them, as long as he could not be discovered by others. You should know that tuna fishing is time-limited.
Tuna can be caught from August to October every year, and fishing is not allowed after this time.
So Jiang Hai could only sigh with a pity and plunged into the deep sea.
As numbers kept jumping on Jiang Hai's GPS, Jiang Hai was getting farther and farther away from the sea level.
Along the way, Jiang Hai saw many creatures, most of them were fish, and of course there were some other things occasionally.
For example, jellyfish and the like, and even Jiang Hai saw several sharks from afar.
But unfortunately, they are all small sharks, either cat sharks or mako sharks. These sharks are not big in size. When they see the light source, they will come over to take a look, but after a glance, they will leave immediately.
Obviously, the sharks here have seen humans and suffered losses in their hands, so they are unwilling to meet Jiang Hai.
As the water became deeper and deeper, Jiang Hai also felt the water temperature became colder and colder. Even though he was wearing fluffy clothes, Jiang Hai felt a little chill and couldn't help but shrink his neck. The temperature of the sea water changes all year round.
The temperature at sea level is related to the local temperature, but 350 meters below the sea surface, basically the temperature in the whole world is similar except for the Arctic and Antarctic. This layer is also called the constant temperature layer. Under the constant temperature layer, the more one thousand meters go down, it will be a few degrees colder. Take the Atlantic Ocean as an example. The average temperature of the Atlantic Ocean is 16.9 degrees. One thousand meters below the water surface, the water temperature is about four to five degrees, and one thousand meters down, two to three degrees, and one thousand meters down, which is more than one degree.
Although Jiang Hai is extremely resistant now, he is not afraid of the cold and heat. However, as long as it is less than minus 20 degrees Celsius, Jiang Hai still has no problem. As the seabed becomes deeper and deeper, after a thousand meters, the fish around Jiang Hai completely disappeared.
Originally, one thousand meters ago, he occasionally saw a very ugly fish, lantern fish, scientifically called deep-sea squid, which was similar to squid fish, but there was a small lamp on his head, which attracted other small fish to come and check it, and then it ate the fish.
This kind of fish basically lives between 700 and 900 meters. After a thousand meters, there is no such fish.
It seemed as if in an instant, Jiang Hai was the only one in the world. Except for the place where the headlights shone, the rest of the place was pitch black.
To be honest, such a scene is really scary. After all, there is nothing around me. Jiang Hai unconsciously imagined whether he was swimming in front of me, was he like some sea monsters, who were behind me, preparing to prey on himself.
Fortunately, he knew that these were just his own imagination.
While giving yourself courage, keep focusing and continue to go downstream.
At about two o'clock in the middle of the night, Jiang Hai, a headlight that could illuminate 200 meters, finally discovered his target, the Capital of Sin.
This is a very old medieval sailing ship. The entire length is about thirty meters, about half the length, about fifteen meters.
Although the sinking time was longer than the time when Jiang Hai saw the last time, it may have been in the deep sea. There was no oxygen or sunlight here, so the natural corrosion level was much lower. Oh? How could Jiang Hai live without oxygen?
Well, Jiang Hai didn't know how he lived here, anyway, he didn't feel bored.
At this time, the ship was like an I-shaped shape. The bow and stern were just stuck on both sides of the sea and hung there in the air. The sails on the ship had long been rotten, and some boat boards and the like were broken.
In the empty ship warehouse, some passing kelp and the like were at this time, which had roots and sprouted there, and floated around with the current under the water, as if saying "Come on, come on!", but who knows what the result will be after going?
On the bow of the ship, the Virgin Mary, originally made of metal, could not see its original appearance at this time.
I can only see a lot of shellfish, parasitic there, and some plants that Jiang Hai cannot name, settling down there.
Looking at the ship, Jiang Hai felt that the cold wind in his mind seemed to be getting stronger and stronger.
The whole ship gives people the feeling of a ghost ship. Well, this is originally a ghost ship.
Jiang Hai looked at it when he was descending. The ship was just on the edge of the cliff. Although he was not sure whether the ship could hold on to the impact of his fall, Jiang Hai was not ready to try it. If he couldn't hold on and fell down, wouldn't he have to stay on for more than two thousand meters downstream? This would be too tiring.
So he planned to lie on the cliffs on both sides first, and then slowly get on the boat. However, when Jiang Hai shone the headlights on the cliffs on both sides, his scalp seemed to explode, and the hair on his body tightened in an instant, setting up all the hairs.
The whole back gave people a feeling of disgust, and the engine in his hand almost couldn't hold it.
Fortunately, he was still brave and grabbed the engine and turned it off. This way, he did not let the thing fall down. He spitted on another spit. Jiang Hai suppressed his disgust and looked at the cliffs on both sides.
Under the illumination of his headlight, countless insects were lying on the cliffs on both sides.
Looking at these bugs, Jiang Hai subconsciously stopped in the middle, and he didn't know what to do. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!