From the Island Owner to the King

After completing the "Water Escape", Chen Rui felt that he was a fish in the sea. Swimming was just like his natural instinct. As long as the arm is gently stroked, the figure is like an arrow out of a bow, and the person has appeared dozens of meters away.

Swimming back to the shore, standing on the reef, Chen Rui looked at the boundless sea in front of him, and suddenly an idea emerged in Chen Rui's mind.

I remember watching a documentary about the treasures of sunken ships on the Internet.

According to Unesco, there are about 3 million undiscovered shipwrecks in the world's oceans, although most of them are of limited value.

However, according to Zeng experts, there are more than 3,000 sunken ships carrying gold and silver treasures on the seabed, and there are many more sunken ships. Although they are not loaded with gold and silver treasures, their goods are also extremely precious today, including ivory and porcelain. .

The wreck was kept in the airless environment of the ocean, and some of the cargo lying in the deep water was very well preserved.

For example, in the coastal waters of China and the waters of the South China Sea, during the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, my country's maritime trade was very prosperous. At that time, the main items of trade between China and the West were silk, tea and porcelain. It is estimated that there are 2,000 to 3,000 shipwrecks, most of which are fine ancient Chinese porcelain, experts say that these shipwrecks constitute a 'undersea porcelain capital'.

In the Persian Gulf, from the 8th century AD to the Age of Great Navigation, during this period, prosperous maritime trade brought endless wealth to the Arabs, and also left countless shipwrecks in the Persian Gulf.

Because the Arabs were good at changing hands at that time, selling luxury goods from the West to the East, and then selling spices and porcelain from the East to the West, there were many treasures on the wreck, including porcelain from the East and gold from the West. Silver artwork, ivory, etc.

In addition to the South China Sea and the Persian Gulf, there are also the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean off the Iberian Peninsula, the British Sea, the Baltic Sea, and the Caribbean Sea, where a large number of shipwrecks sank.

These wrecks include merchant ships, treasure ships and pirate ships.

The treasures in the wreck include gold, silver, jewelry, gold and silver art, ivory, porcelain and so on.

Only a small part of these mysterious treasures have been discovered by explorers, and most of them remain in a corner of the seabed, attracting treasure hunters, archaeologists and more.

Most of the time, shipwreck treasures look like legends until explorers scoop up these myths from the bottom of the ocean and turn them into real, mountains of gold.

Not only pirates and marine exploration companies, but also individuals, families and even whole families are looking for treasures all over the world.

For example, the 'treasure hunter' Mel Fisher and his family went into the water to search. On July 20, 1985, they found the "Mrs. Atoka". This sunken ship, known as the largest treasure under the sea, has 40 tons of treasure, including gold. 8 tons, there are also 500 kilograms of gems, worth 400 million US dollars.

Of course, the Mel Fisher family is a very lucky family, and most treasure hunters or marine exploration companies have found nothing.

An underwater treasure hunt was supposed to be an adventure full of hormones, mysterious maps and intrigue.

It is very difficult to find the location of the wreck, from research to exploration, it is a huge amount of work.

For example, when Odyssey searched for the Republic, it first collected documentation, then analyzed the wreck of the Republic in detail, and used a computer to simulate the ship's line and speed.

Ultimately, the wreck was locked within 1,500 miles.

1,500 miles - just using sonar to comb through such a huge seabed would be a lot of work.

For Chen Rui, it is relatively simple to find the location of the sunken ship on the seabed with the determination to separate the water and escape from the water.

Moreover, from research, search, exploration to salvage, the most difficult and costly step in submarine treasure hunting is salvage.

One of the simplest examples, Jason II, a deep-sea working robot, costs 2.5 million US dollars, and the price of more advanced deep-sea working robots has doubled.

There are also large submarine excavation robots that are more expensive.

After all, machines are not people. During the salvage process, some valuable and fragile items, such as porcelain and works of art, will be accidentally damaged.

There is another point, no matter what kind of texture, immersion in seawater for a long time will generally have an adverse effect on its protection. In addition to the corrosion resistance of gold products, generally silver, copper, iron, tin and other materials will be seriously affected. Many metal cultural relics are bright and new when they are just out of water, but they are quickly oxidized after contact with air, and eventually become powder.

In addition, once the porcelain itself is separated from the environment surrounded by sea water, after being exposed to the air for a long time and dried, the salt that has penetrated into the body will continue to precipitate from it, causing the glaze layer to crack and cause peeling from the carcass.

However, when Chen Rui has the Pregnant Haizhu, these are not a problem, and the treasure is directly stored in the Pregnant Haizhu.

Fen Shui Jue + Shui Dun gave Chen Rui great convenience in searching for sunken ships.

Pregnant sea pearls brought great convenience to Chen Rui to salvage and preserve his treasures.

Think here! Chen Rui's idea of ​​underwater treasure hunt is even more urgent.

The next day, Chen Rui stayed in the rented hotel and did not go out.

The underwater treasure hunt is divided into three steps.

Research, search, prospect, salvage.

Chen Rui wants to search for underwater treasures first from research.

Search for some information on shipwrecks, fishermen's word-of-mouth stories, and logbooks.

In fact, there is no need to search for it deliberately. Now that Zixun is so developed, as long as you search and enter submarine treasures + Caribbean, or submarine wreck + South China Sea on the computer, you can find countless pieces of information about this aspect.

But it is only limited to this, and more detailed information cannot be obtained with Chen Rui's current ability.

After a search on the Internet, Chen Rui quickly locked onto the Caribbean Sea.

When it comes to legends of treasures from the sea, the first thing that comes to people's minds is the Caribbean Sea.

In the colonial era, the gold plundered by Spain and Portugal from Central and South America needed to be returned to Europe through the Baltic Sea, so this area was also one of the busiest at that time. In addition to the merchant ships and official ships, there are also a large number of pirate ships that rob treasures. This also makes the Caribbean the region with the most human-caused shipwrecks.