From the Island Owner to the King

In many legends today, this sea area is the largest concentration of pirate treasures, which have yet to be discovered.

Experts speculate that many treasures either sank to the bottom of the sea with pirate ships sunk by the navy, or lost gold and silver property due to infighting among pirates.

According to statistics, out of every 100 ships of gold and silver shipped from the American colonies to Spain, 45 were sunk to the bottom by pirates and storms.

Since Columbus arrived here on his third Atlantic crossing in 1498, at least thousands of ships of all kinds laden with gold and silver have been sunk by storms and pirates.

The Caribbean Sea is a place full of pirate treasures and shipwreck legends full of gold and silver riches.

Chen Rui locked the target of this underwater treasure hunt after the Caribbean Sea.

The next thing he needs to do is narrow down the scope of the treasure hunt.

You must know that the area of ​​the Caribbean Sea is 2,754,000 square kilometers, which is equivalent to more than one-third of China's land area. The average depth of water is 2,500 meters. It is no different to search for sunken ships sunk by storms and pirates from the Caribbean Sea. Looking for a needle in a haystack.

Therefore, Chen Rui wanted to reduce the scope of the treasure hunt to a certain sea area of ​​more than ten square kilometers.

Or the prosperous route that Spain transported gold and silver treasure ships through at that time, or a place where pirates often haunted, or a shipwreck location recorded in historical documents.

To this end, Chen Rui made a lot of careful preparations.

Within a month, I searched for a lot of literature on the Internet, read a lot of books and materials about the Spanish colonial era and navigation, treasures, pirates, shipwrecks, etc. in the local library, and finally inquired some news from the fishermen along the coast.

In the end, Chen Rui narrowed his target to a sea area southeast of Bermudez, Cuba.

In this sea area, a large number of Spanish merchant ships, gold-carrying ships and pirate ships have been sunk by storms or pirates, forming a world-famous underwater "treasure cemetery".

After half a month, a lot of careful preparations were made.

Chen Rui came to Bermudez, Cuba, and rented a yacht to drive to the sea.

The clues in the previously reviewed literature deduced that the most likely place where the wreck was moored.

During the Spanish colonial era, looting pirates sank several merchant ships that transported gold, silver, spices and jewelry back to Spain in this location with a radius of dozens of square kilometers.

This is clearly mentioned in the information searched on the Internet or in the information found in a few words in the library.

After mooring the yacht, Chen Rui jumped into the water.

Chen Rui's strange behavior is not surprising, because in this sea area, there are often such diving enthusiasts.

After jumping into the sea, perform the water-splitting trick, and the seawater will automatically separate.

Soon, Chen Rui dived to the bottom of the sea more than 100 meters deep.

The bottom of the sea is a little dark, and the sea is a little cold. However, you can still see your surroundings clearly.

You can see underwater beaches, reefs, swimming fish, and underwater creatures.

Chen Rui carried a metal detector with him.

Chen Rui began a carpet-like search on the seabed.

During the search process, Chen Rui also did not forget to collect all the seabed creatures that could be seen on the seabed into the pregnant sea pearl ocean.

Add the biological species of the pregnant Haizhu ocean.

The most common sea creatures are tuna, barracuda, lionfish, grouper and so on.

After searching for a long time, I searched the seabed several hundred meters nearby in a carpet style, but I didn't see the ghost of the sunken ship.

Just when Chen Rui wanted to go up to rest for a while, he suddenly found a fish over 1.5 meters long swimming towards him.

The fish has a long fusiform shape, a thick body, a large head, a wide mouth, and sharp teeth. The body is covered with large and thin oval round scales. The exposed part of the scales has many small crests or warts, and the body surface is rough.

Chen Rui almost immediately came up with a name, 'Spearfish'.

It is very recognizable because its tail fin is shaped like a spear-like trefoil, hence the name 'Spearfish. ’

This is a big guy, the length can reach 2 meters, and the weight can reach 90 pounds.

It is also a ferocious predator, with squid, squid, and other deep-bottomed fish, and even tiny sharks, on its diet.

What makes it famous is that it is the oldest 'living fossil' in the ocean and is the only living total fin fish, all other groups of total fin fish have all gone extinct on earth.

This fish, which lived from the end of the Permian to the early Cretaceous, was once thought to have gone extinct as early as 70 million years ago.

However, in December 1938, the first fish was caught in the deep sea near East London Island, off the southeastern coast of Africa, and the secret of catching the spearfish once came out, which aroused the attention of all walks of life around the world, and aroused biologists about The great debate on the traditional theory of biological evolution.

The second spearfish was caught in 1954, in the Comoros Islands in Africa.

In 1982, the Comoros government presented a precious dipped specimen of spearfish to China, which is now preserved in the China Paleontological Museum.

In 1998, a spearfish was caught off the coast of Indonesia.

Almost every spearfish catch attracts worldwide attention.

Chen Rui stood still, and when the speartail fish approached, Chen Rui suddenly activated and took the big fish into the pregnant sea pearl.

The spearfish entered the pregnant sea pearl ocean, and immediately became more energetic. It seemed to be extremely satisfied with this environment, and immediately began to chase and prey on the marine creatures that had just been put in.

After catching an unusually cherished spearfish, Chen Rui secretly said, 'It's finally not in vain today. "

He was going to get on the boat, leaving a mark, intending to search here for a long time.

The search range delineated before is not small, and it will take at least the first half of the year to search all of them.

seabed.

Chen Rui is scanning the seabed with a metal detector.

After searching on the seabed for more than half a month, I haven't even seen the shadow of the sunken ship, and I have gained nothing.

Fortunately, Chen Rui caught another spearfish. This spearfish is a female, and a male spearfish that was caught before, a male and a female, just matched a pair, which was a very unexpected surprise.

According to the usual practice, Chen Rui collected all the discovered undersea creatures into the Pregnant Sea Pearl, and supplemented a part of the ecosystem in the Pregnant Sea Pearl space, so that the ocean system in the Pregnant Sea Pearl space tended to circulate and stabilize.

Coral reefs, planktonic algae, benthic algae and marine seed plants, various marine organisms, marine bacteria and marine fungi, and inorganic substances involved in material cycling, such as carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, carbon dioxide, and water, constitute the entire pregnant sea pearl Space marine ecosystem.