Treasure Hunt: I Can Possess Infinitely

Chapter 75
Leaving the Indonesian waters, Chu Wen and the others continued to head south.

When approaching the Antarctic Circle, the temperature gradually dropped, and everyone began to put on their coats.

"Have icebergs started to appear in this kind of place?" Liu Lixian and others ran to the deck to look curiously.

I've always heard about icebergs, but I've never seen them!

In front of him was a drifting ice floe, only the part exposed to the sea was as big as the fishing boat where Chu Wen was on.Predictably, the part below the surface of the sea is larger.

That's how the so-called "tip of the iceberg" came about.

Faced with this kind of iceberg, not to mention fishing boats, warships dare not hit it.

The iceberg was first discovered by Liu Lihui with a telescope.I have to say that the kid's things are still useful, and he has been the first to discover abnormal phenomena several times.

"It stands to reason that there will be no icebergs in this dimension. But the icebergs in Antarctica are not easy to melt, and it is not impossible to accidentally float here." Professor Yun said.

Chu Wen smiled: "It's not easy to completely melt such a big iceberg? Isn't there a rich man in the oil country who wants to drag the iceberg back from Antarctica to solve their water shortage problem?"

This is not a joke.

The situation of oil countries is well known to the whole world. There is more oil than fresh water.Their fresh water supply is basically desalinated by sea water.However, the cost of seawater desalination is relatively high.

Therefore, some ghosts figured out a way to go directly to Antarctica to snatch icebergs.

"Does anyone really do this?" Someone was surprised.

Is it too expensive to drag an iceberg from Antarctica back to your country?It will melt in the middle, how much will be left after dragging it back?
In fact, if it were that dry, no more than a third of the iceberg would melt.

And some people have calculated that the cost of doing so is lower than the cost of seawater desalination.Otherwise, no one would be interested in this project.

"This project was proposed, and even the funds were prepared, but some obstacles have been encountered! It has not been implemented yet." Before, Chu Wen was also very curious about this matter, and even went to investigate it.

For example, the underwater part of an iceberg is [-] meters high, but the territorial waters of oil countries are very shallow, only tens of meters in some places.Then, when the iceberg returns to these sea areas, it will be stranded and stuck, and there is no way to pull it back to the coast directly.

Bypassing the iceberg of self-indulgence, Chu Wen and the others moved on.

Soon after, they came across a deserted island.The deserted island is small and uninhabited, but there are also plants on the island. Tall coconut trees grow obliquely in one direction.

On the island, a dilapidated ship is particularly conspicuous.

"That's a sunken ship, do you want to take a look?" Liu Lihui saw it most clearly, who knew that he had equipment in hand?
"That's not a shipwreck, right?" The person next to him rolled his eyes.

Only a ship at the bottom of the water can be called a shipwreck, and a ship that is stranded on an island can only be called a shipwreck.Judging by the style of that ship, it should be a bit old.

It can be seen from the tall mast that it was originally a sailing ship, and the scale was not small.

Perhaps, the ship encountered bad weather during the voyage and was washed ashore directly on the island.

"This island is not shown on the map, so no one has discovered it yet?" Someone said whimsically.

For the unowned island, the general rule is that whoever discovers it first will own it and can declare sovereignty.If this is an island without an owner, it is equivalent to picking up a piece of territory for nothing!

"Don't dream, now that satellites are so developed, it is basically impossible for any fish to slip through the net. This is the closest to Australia, and there is a high probability that it is an island in Australia." Some people also expressed.

Australia has a vast land and sparsely populated areas, and large areas of land are uninhabited, so many islands are uninhabited islands, which is a normal phenomenon.

"It can't be so absolute. Satellites are not omnipotent. It is impossible to scan any place on the earth." Chu Wen laughed.

In fact, no one or country will use satellites to find uninhabited islands on the earth.

As mentioned earlier, human beings have explored less than 5.00% of the ocean.This 5.00% refers not only to the bottom of the sea, but to the entire ocean, including the sea surface.

If the satellite is really that powerful, the United States would not have to spend so long looking for Laden.

"Come on, you two go over with me to have a look." Chu Wen called two guys.

The large fishing boat lowered a lifeboat and headed towards the island.

Chu Wen had expected this island.In the memory of Albatross, there is the existence of that island, and there are some discoveries.Just like this, Chu Wen slightly shifted the course here, creating this chance encounter.

After landing on the island, I finally saw the whole picture of the ship clearly. Although it was dilapidated, the outline was still there.

"It's a little bigger than the Zheng He treasure ship we found before." One of the guys said.

The person next to him said: "There are bigger Zheng He treasure ships, and the one we found is only of medium size."

have to!This guy is an angry youth, and he can't see others saying that things in his country are not good.

"This is a typical Carrack sailing ship, a type of ocean-going sailing ship that was very popular in Europe during the Great Voyage Period." Chu Wen observed it for a while and said.

The carrack sailboat is a modified multi-masted sailing ship based on the Kirk ship, with three or four masts and a curved stern.

Because of the addition of the fore-sprit and the mizzen, it is equipped with several square sails on the fore-mast and the tom-mast, and the mizzen is a triangular sail, coupled with a wider hull, which makes the Karak sailboat no matter how fast it is. In terms of weight and firepower, it became the best sailing boat in Europe at that time.

In addition, the Carrack sailing ship is the first ship in Europe officially used for long-distance voyages. At the same time, it is also an important turning point in the history of navigation from bow and crossbow-based ship battles to real gunboats. It opened the magnificent curtain of the era of great navigation. It was also the beginning of Spain becoming the overlord of the sea.

The Santa Maria, the flagship of the great navigator Columbus, was a carrack.

"Go, go in and have a look, maybe you can find something." One of the guys joked.

"Well! Be careful." Chu Wen reminded.

Inside the cabin, many places were rotten and collapsed. After Chu Wen and the others entered, a few seabirds were frightened and flew out, scaring a buddy.He accidentally tripped and fell to the ground.

"Don't make a fuss, a big man, just such a little guts?"

Chu Wen rolled his eyes: "When you say this, can you stop holding my hand?"

have to!Two cowards.

In fact, Chu Wen was not very courageous before, but since he has a clone, he has seen more and has no fear.After all, the seabed at a depth of several hundred meters or more is even more eerie.

Suddenly, two strange voices came from inside.

"Ghost!" The two unreliable guys left Chu Wen directly and fled out in a panic.

"Damn it! Come back to me."

Chu Wen was so angry that he cursed behind him.

Mistake, with two unreliable bastards.

　The previous chapter was sealed again and cannot be changed.Friends who are interested, look through the pirated version, brothers who find it troublesome are fine, the chapter is missing, and reading will not be affected.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)