Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 549 Salvage the Sunken Ship
Now the thick file of Incident A has been taken to the conference table.Gao Xiaosong, who was in charge of the matter at the time, coughed and began to introduce the whole story.The eight-member meeting heard details about the wreck.

After the inspection by Zhou Weisen and others, the executive committee passed the decision to salvage the sunken ship.A secret salvage team was formed, mainly composed of personnel from the Navy and long-distance survey teams, as well as those who had participated in the survey of the sunken ship.

In addition to salvaging items, the salvage team also has the task of establishing a temporary support base on Dongsha Island to prepare for subsequent salvage.Of course, in the public mission statement, the purpose of this mission is: "Examination of the feasibility of mining struvite and establishing a relay test base for voyages to Taiwan."

After a salvage team consisting of a motor sailboat, a large sailboat and several rowboats arrived at Dongsha Island, Gao Xiaosong, who was in charge of the salvage work, announced the real purpose of the trip to the participants.Some time travelers who were still kept in the dark were too shocked to speak.Everyone agrees: this group of people is a major threat to the time-traveling group, if they can't "abandon the dark and turn to the bright" in time, they will be eliminated resolutely!
However, everyone is also looking forward to the upcoming mission-a ship is a treasure trove for the Crossing Group.A ship is a small world, and even a fishing boat has a lot of useful tools and supplies on it.

And the mystery of this ship has aroused everyone's speculation.According to Lin Chuanqing, the ship was probably a smuggling ship doing black work, and the smuggled goods were either drugs or arms.

This guess made everyone's emotions high. If it is an arms smuggling ship, it will make a fortune! The SKS rifle is too ugly in the eyes of many people, let alone semi-automatic shooting.Everyone expected to find a lot of automatic rifles like AK47 or better machine guns in the boat.

Although Lin Chuanqing said that the clothes on the boat might also be drugs, everyone still agreed that the clothes on the boat were munitions.

The high-spirited "chiefs" bewildered the handpicked native naval personnel of the fleet, wondering what good this deserted island could do to make them so happy.

In the frenzy of being able to salvage weapons, the work proceeded quickly.Standardized light trestles were quickly built on the shore. A marine platoon searched the entire island, and after confirming that there was no one there, a temporary camp was built in the coconut grove sheltered from the wind on the island, and then they sent people to control the well. .

Fresh water is needed for salvage work and more than a hundred people living and working on the island, and the water in the wells on the island is not completely fresh water.Therefore, a temporary distillation station was set up beside the well for water desalination.

The salvage work went smoothly. Although there was a lack of professional salvage equipment and not enough diving equipment, there were only two qualified divers. However, under the stimulation of everyone's efforts and enthusiasm, more than ten days of salvage activities have been completed. Gradually, all the items, tools and equipment on board were picked up, and even the scrapped car tires on the side of the ship were removed.

The scooped things are first soaked in fresh water to remove the salt, and then air-dried in a special shade shed.The items are checked, registered and recorded by a special person and put into boxes for storage.

All kinds of items were fished out of the boat, but the thing that everyone wanted to find most-ammunition was still not found.

"Those compartments haven't been opened yet," Zhou Weisen said, "if there is anything there, it will be inside."

Although it was difficult to open the locked hatch with simple tools underwater, Zhou Weisen and Lin Chuanqing, who were in charge of diving and salvage, managed to open a cabin with tools.There are large green canvases piled up in the small cabin. Zhou Weisen unrolls the canvas, and there are long iron boxes stacked neatly underneath.

It took Zhou Weisen a lot of effort to drag out a small box from inside, which was very heavy.It took a lot of effort for the two men to bring the box out of the cabin and float to the surface.

There was cheering when the box was opened: Inside were 12 pistols in individual boxes, each holding four magazines.The box didn't get any water in, and the guns are in very good condition.

"It's SIGP226!" Someone among the onlookers shouted.

"It's a CZ99." Zhou Weisen recognized it immediately after shooting countless guns in the United States.

"Yugoslavia?" Everyone had little idea of ​​the weapons produced by this defunct country.

"This gun is not bad," Zhou Weisen skillfully loaded the magazine, "15 rounds of magazines, the firepower is very strong."

We found a weapon, but it wasn't the automatic weapon that everyone hoped for most, and everyone couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.Lin Chuanqing said: "Everyone, don't be discouraged! Since there are pistols, there will be other weapons. At least you can get a lot of 9mm Pilabelum bullets."

But getting the weapons crate out of the cabin is a difficult task.Wreck diving requires good diving skills, which most people cannot do.Even Lin Chuanqing, who has a little diving experience, can only make up the numbers.Not to mention having to bring heavy weapons boxes out through narrow passages and hatches.

Zhou Weisen and Lin Chuanqing completely exhausted their physical strength after diving several times in a row, and managed to pick up several other boxes, which contained some military supplies and bullets.One of the boxes was filled with NATO 7.62mm bombs.This gave everyone a lot of encouragement - most of the goods contained rifles using this ammunition.Zhou Weisen believes that there is likely to be a FAL automatic rifle or an M14.

After discussion, everyone thinks that it is too inefficient to rely on diving to retrieve the cargo—the light in the sunken ship is dark and the space is narrow, not only it is impossible to do a thorough search, but it is also dangerous——it is better to scoop up the entire ship in one go before searching.

Lin Chuanqing especially advocated that the boat should be picked up as soon as possible.He has been the captain of a fishing boat and knows the equipment on board very well.Some professional equipment on this ship has been damaged, and if they can be salvaged as soon as possible, they can recover a large part of the loss.Especially the equipment in the engine room, the longer it is soaked in seawater, the more serious the damage will be. When it is picked up again, it can only be used as scrap iron and steel.

"The erosion of seawater on the hull materials is also quite serious, especially since various sea creatures have begun to attach to the hull, and the boat will be useless after being soaked for a few months!" Lin Chuanqing warned.

Gao Xiaosong communicated with the Executive Committee via wireless telegram, requesting to salvage the ship as soon as possible.The Executive Committee conducted urgent consultations on this issue and finally decided to salvage the sunken ship.For this reason, a 8154 fishing boat was specially sent to assist,

The easiest way to salvage a ship with a water depth of less than 10 meters and a displacement of less than [-] tons is to use a crane to lift it. Unfortunately, the Crossing Group does not have such a large crane.Although the heavy-duty door cranes and booms used by ships are suitable, they are installed on the Fengcheng wheel and cannot be used.

Lin Chuanqing suggested the method of pumping out the water in the hull and blowing in compressed air after plugging the leak.When there is more air in the hull, the buoyancy increases and the boat can be floated directly.This salvage method requires underwater plugging technology. Of course, the Crossing Group does not have such technology, but this ship has opened the sea valve, and the hull and watertight hatches are intact. The tonnage of the ship itself is small, so it can be used. way
Finally decided to adopt this relatively simple salvage method.The equipment and spare diving equipment were urgently transported from Lingao.Lin Chuanqing and Zhou Weisen ventured into the depths of the cabin several times, and found and closed the sea valves one by one. Thanks to Lin Chuanqing's experience in working on American fishing boats, he knew the position of each valve and the closing method well.

After about a month of intense labor, the American fishing boat finally surfaced slowly amid the churning waves.It drew cheers from the onlookers.

Pumping slowed as the boat surfaced.There is a small boat leaning on one side and always pay attention to the changes in the draft conditions on both sides of the hull and at the fore and aft, so as to avoid the center of gravity being unstable and capsizing due to excessive pumping.After the hull was fully upright and then pulled to the side of the galleon, Lin Chuanqing boarded the sunken ship and lowered the anchor chain manually.

Everyone wanted to board this mysterious shipwreck to have a quick look, but Gao Xiaosong ordered that everyone except the search personnel not be allowed to board the ship to prevent someone from damaging the items on it.Everyone had to wait and see on the shore.

Under the leadership of Lin Chuanqing, several travelers conducted a sweeping search of the entire ship.A lot of materials and equipment that were not found in the diving were also found, and all the iron boxes in several locked cabins were also unloaded.

He opened several boxes in a row, and there were all kinds of things in them, except for the pistol he found just now, there were also bullets, magazines and the like.There is no AK that everyone is familiar with.Not only is there no AK, but even a rifle is not seen.When I was disappointed, I suddenly heard someone shouting:
"Have it!"

Everyone gathered around and found a rifle in a newly opened box.

"Is this AK?" someone asked.

This gun looks weird, similar to the AK47 gun with a straight magazine inserted.A little out of proportion.

"It should be some kind of derivative model of AK." Gao Xiaosong felt that this gun was very strange, but the shape of the gun should undoubtedly be AK, and the key components such as the receiver were very similar to AK.

Although Gao Xiaosong is a soldier, his actual knowledge of weapons is far inferior to that of an amateur.Very unfamiliar with any automatic rifle not of the AK and M16 series.What's more, Zhou Weisen and Lin Chuanqing are both firearm enthusiasts in the United States, the world's largest small arms market, and they are well-informed about light weapons.

"This is an M77B1 automatic rifle." Lin Chuanqing said, "It is actually an AKM automatic rifle using NATO7.62mm bullets." Zhou Weisen said, "It is also made in Yugoslavia."

"So it turns out that the arms dealers are reselling weapons from Yugoslavia. What a strange choice."

(End of this chapter)