Now the thick file of Incident A was brought to the conference table. Gao Xiaosong, who was in charge of the matter at the time, coughed and began to introduce the events. The eight-person meeting listened to a detailed introduction about the sunken ship.
After Zhou Weisen and others completed their inspection, the Executive Committee passed the decision to salvage items from the sunken ship. A secret salvage team was established, consisting mainly of personnel from the Navy and remote exploration teams, including those who had participated in the exploration 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 communiqué, the purpose of this mission is: "Extract struvite and
Feasibility study on establishing a navigation relay test base for Taiwan”
After the salvage team, which consisted of a sailboat, a large sailboat and several rowing boats, arrived at Dongsha Island, Gao Xiaosong, who was in charge of the salvage work, announced the true purpose of the trip to the participants. Some people who were still unaware of the trip were shocked.
I was speechless. Everyone agreed: This group of people is a major threat to the Time Travel Group. If they cannot "abandon the darkness and turn to the light" in time, they will be eliminated resolutely!
But everyone is also looking forward to the upcoming mission - a ship is a treasure trove for the Crossing Group. A seagoing ship is a small mobile world, and even a fishing boat has many very useful tools and supplies on it.
The mystery of this ship has aroused everyone's speculation. According to Lin Chuanqing, this ship is most likely a smuggling ship doing illegal work, and the smuggled goods are either drugs or arms.
This speculation has made everyone excited. 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 is looking forward to finding a large number of AK47 in the ship.
A class automatic rifle or better yet a machine gun.
Although Lin Chuanqing said that the items on the boat might be drugs, everyone still agreed that the items on the boat were weapons.
The highly emotional "chiefs" confused the carefully selected indigenous naval personnel in the fleet. They didn't know what benefits this deserted island had to make them so happy.
In the enthusiasm to obtain weapons, the work progressed quickly. A standardized lightweight trestle was quickly built on the shore. A marine platoon searched the entire island, and after confirming that no one was there, they took shelter in the coconut grove on the island.
A temporary camp was built there, and then people were sent to control the wells.
The salvage work and the life and work of more than a hundred people on the island require fresh water. The water in the wells on the island is not completely fresh water. Therefore, a temporary distillation station was set up next to the well specifically for water desalination.
The salvage work went very smoothly. Although there was a lack of professional salvage equipment and insufficient diving equipment. There were only two qualified divers. However, stimulated by everyone's efforts and fanaticism, the salvage activities had been completed in more than ten days.
Gradually, all the items, tools and equipment on the ship were picked up, and even the scrapped car tires used to protect against collisions were removed from the ship's side.
The fished-out items are first soaked in fresh water to remove salt, and then air-dried in a special shade shed. The items are inspected and registered by a dedicated person before being put into boxes for storage.
A wide variety of items were fished out of the boat, but the thing everyone wanted to find the most - ammunition was still not found.
"Those cabins haven't been opened yet," Zhou Weisen said, "If there's something, it's inside."
Although it was difficult to open a locked hatch with simple tools underwater, Zhou Weisen and Lin Chuanqing, who were in charge of diving and salvage, managed to use tools to open a cabin. There were large green canvases piled in the small cabin, and Zhou Weisen opened the canvas
, below are long iron boxes, piled neatly.
Zhou Weisen spent a lot of effort to pull out a small box from inside. The box was very heavy. It took two people a lot of effort to bring the box out of the cabin and use a floating bag to surface.
Everyone cheered as soon as the box was opened: Inside were 12 pistols in separate packaging boxes, each holding 4 magazines. No water entered the box at all, and the guns were well preserved.
"It's sigp226!" someone among the onlookers shouted.
"It's cz99," Zhou Weisen, who had shot countless guns in the United States, recognized it immediately. "It's from Yugoslavia!" He picked up one, pulled the sleeve, and confirmed again.
"Yugoslavia?" Everyone has no idea about the weapons produced by this country that no longer exists.
"This gun is good," Zhou Weisen loaded the magazine skillfully, "it has a 15-round magazine and has strong firepower."
We found a weapon, but it was not the automatic weapon that everyone hoped for. Everyone couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. Lin Chuanqing said: "Don't be discouraged! Since there are pistols, there will be other weapons. At least you can get a lot of 9mm Parabellums."
bomb."
But it is very difficult to take the weapon box out of the cabin. Wreck diving requires very good diving skills, which ordinary people cannot do. Even people like Lin Chuanqing who have some diving experience can only make up for it. Not to mention the need for more.
The heavy weapon box came out through the narrow passage and hatch.
After Zhou Weisen and Lin Chuanqing dived several times in a row, they completely exhausted their energy and reluctantly picked up a few other boxes, which contained some military supplies and bullets. One of the boxes contained nato7.62mm bullets. This gave everyone great encouragement.
——Most of the goods contain rifles using this kind of ammunition. Zhou Weisen thinks there are probably fal automatic rifles or m14s.
After discussion, everyone believed that it was too inefficient to retrieve the cargo by diving - the light in the sunken ship was dark and the space was narrow, which not only made it impossible to conduct a thorough search but was also dangerous - it would be better to lift the ship as a whole in one go and then conduct a search.
Lin Chuanqing especially advocated that the boat be fished out as soon as possible. He had been the captain of a fishing boat and knew the equipment on the boat very well. Some of the professional equipment on the boat had been damaged. If they could fish it out as soon as possible, they could recover a large part of the losses. Especially
The longer the equipment in the engine room is soaked in seawater, the more serious the damage will be. When the time comes, it can only be used as scrap steel for recycling.
"The erosion of the hull materials by sea water is also quite serious, especially since various marine organisms have begun to adhere to the hull. If it is soaked for a few months, the boat will be useless even if it is fished out!" Lin Chuanqing warned.
Gao Xiaosong communicated with the Executive Committee via wireless telegram and requested that the ship be salvaged as soon as possible. The Executive Committee held emergency consultations on this issue and finally decided to salvage the sunken ship. For this purpose, 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 100 tons is to lift it with a crane. Unfortunately, Chuanchuan Group does not have such a large crane. Although the heavy-duty gantry crane and lifting rod used on ships are suitable, they are installed on
It is on the Fengcheng Wheel and cannot be used.
Lin Chuanqing suggested that after plugging the leak, pump out the water in the hull and blow compressed air into it. When there is more air in the hull, the buoyancy increases and the ship can be floated directly. This salvage method requires underwater leak plugging technology.
Of course, the Crossing Group does not have such technology, but this ship has only opened the sea valve, the hull and watertight hatches are intact, and the tonnage of the ship itself is small, so this method can be used.
In the end, it was decided to use this relatively simple salvage method. The equipment and spare diving equipment were urgently transported from Lingao. Lin Chuanqing and Zhou Weisen took the risk of diving into the depths of the cabin several times and found and closed the sea valves one by one. Fortunately, Lin Chuanqing
With experience working on American fishing boats, I know the positions and closing methods of each valve very well.
After almost a month of intense labor, the American fishing boat finally surfaced slowly amid the rolling waves, drawing cheers from onlookers.
After the ship surfaced, the speed of pumping water slowed down. When a small boat was leaning aside, always pay attention to the changes in the draft conditions on both sides of the ship's hull and at the bow and stern to avoid pumping water too fast, causing the center of gravity to become unstable and capsize. Wait until the ship's hull is completely righted before being towed to the big ship.
Next to the sailboat, Lin Chuanqing boarded the sunken ship and lowered the anchor chain manually.
Everyone wanted to board the mysterious sunken ship to have a look, but Gao Xiaosong ordered that no one except the search personnel be allowed to board the ship to prevent someone from damaging the objects on it. Everyone had to continue to watch on the shore.
Under the leadership of Lin Chuanqing, several members of the crew conducted a carpet-like search of the entire ship. They also found a lot of materials and equipment that had not been found during the dive, and all the iron boxes in several locked cabins were also recovered.
Removed.
Several boxes were opened in succession, and there were all kinds of things inside. In addition to the pistol I just found, there were also bullets, magazines, etc. But there was no familiar AK. Not only was there no AK, I didn't even see a rifle.
When I was disappointed, I suddenly heard someone shouting:
"Yes!"
Everyone gathered around to take a look and found the rifle in a newly opened box.
"Is this ak?" someone asked.
This gun looks quite weird. It looks like an AK47 with a straight magazine inserted into the gun. It's a bit 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 parts such as the receiver are very similar to AK.
Although Gao Xiaosong is a soldier, his actual understanding of weapons is far less than that of amateurs. He is very unfamiliar with any automatic rifles other than AK and M16 series. What's more, Zhou Weisen and Lin Chuanqing are both firearms enthusiasts in the United States, the world's largest small arms market.
He is very knowledgeable about small arms.
"This is an M77B1 automatic rifle." Lin Chuanqing said, "It's actually an AKM automatic rifle using nato7.62mm ammunition." Zhou Weisen said, "It's also made in Yugoslavia."
"So what the arms dealers are selling are weapons from Yugoslavia. It's really a strange choice."