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Chapter 319 Salvage
Chapter 319 Salvage
Because their destination was near an island and reef in the South China Sea, apart from the Chinese scholars, there were only a few truly friendly people like Liang En on board.
Not long after the ship set out to sea, a moderator in the meeting room on the ship began to briefly introduce the specific situation of the underwater ruins to be surveyed today.
The underwater ruins are located in very shallow waters, but because they are located near a former military area, they have never been discovered before.
Recently, because of the expansion of artificial islands on these islands and reefs, these underwater remains hidden under a layer of sediment have only been discovered by people.
I have to say that the previous plane still saved a lot of distance, so after everyone had lunch on the boat, they came to a sea area, and not far away, a large sand pump was roaring. working.
Soon, the ship found a place to anchor. The reason why this area was chosen as the foundation of the island was because there were hidden reefs under the entire sea area. Anchored at 600 meters.
"This is already the closest place to the target. It is not impossible to go further, but once there is a bit of wind and waves, it is easy to collide with the surrounding reefs." The crew on the ship said.
Soon, those professional divers boarded a small boat and drove towards the target location. Unlike the similar records that Liang En saw before, this kind of official excavation work can naturally be carried out aboveboard.
This large salvage ship has a large cabin specially used by researchers. In addition to the space in the middle for scientific research and processing cultural relics, there is also a powerful air-conditioning system to ensure constant temperature and humidity in the room.
Next door to this cabin is a smaller cabin, which is also kept warm by air conditioning, and tables, chairs, benches, and computers are placed for researchers to use, and Liang En and the others are currently in this small cabin.
Soon, Liang En and his group of scholars on the big ship obtained the data uploaded by the sonar carried by those small boats and the first batch of photos taken by the underwater robot.
Judging from the photos, the ship should have sunk after hitting a reef, so the wreckage was scattered all over the reef, and through the area where those things were scattered, scholars quickly judged that it was an ancient sailing ship with a displacement of 500 to 600 tons .
"It's a pity that we can't make a further judgment without obtaining more detailed information, because there are too many ships of this tonnage, and even if we exclude some with particularly strong regional characteristics, there are dozens of remaining."
A scholar who studies ships said, and then everyone looked at the staff outside the porthole who were busy connecting the water pumps on the boat and preparing to clean up the scene below.
We have already planned the excavation plan before, because the local area is full of reefs, and ship wrecks are scattered everywhere, so it is definitely not possible to adopt the overall salvage technology used when the hull is well preserved on the sediment seabed.
Therefore, according to the plan, divers will gradually salvage all the valuable items that can be found from the seabed in this ruins, and then the important island-building work can continue here.
Just after the scholars waited on the boat for more than an hour, a small boat delivered several various containers, and then lifted them up with a crane and pushed them all the way into the cabin next to Liang En and the others with a cart.
After coming to the cabin next door, Liang En found that there were five or six large buckets filled with water in the center of the cabin. Obviously, the cultural relics inside were not suitable for leaving the water.
Although seawater is indeed very corrosive to various things, for those things that have been soaked underwater for a long time, it is not suitable to let those things out of seawater without treatment.
In addition to these water-filled containers, there are also some small square plastic boxes on the side table, and some odds and ends are placed inside.
"Most of these things were taken from the filter of the water pump over there." The staff member said. "The other part was fished out by the divers in the process of trying to salvage just now."
These were metallic objects, most of which were various ship's miscellaneous items, but there were also a few odd copper coins and a piece or two of blackened silver.
"This should be a container for senior crew to drink water." Looking at the largest lotus-petal silver cup inside, a gold and silverware appraisal expert said immediately.
It is well known that silver utensils have a slight bactericidal effect and can inhibit the regeneration of microorganisms. Although the ancients did not know the reason, many high-status people would choose silver utensils as their daily necessities as a result of practice.
Especially for those who need to sail long distances at sea, as long as they have money, they will prepare some silver containers as much as possible to increase their chances of surviving at sea.
And judging from the exquisiteness of this silver cup, this thing does not belong to ordinary people.It's a pity that other than this silver cup, everything else looks very ordinary.
However, the ship experts over there found more information from these things, such as judging from the style of the iron nails that this ship should come from China, and it was a ship after the Tang Dynasty.
After synthesizing the style of the previous silver cup, they roughly judged that this ship should be a ship from the Song and Yuan Dynasties, or the early Ming Dynasty.
As time goes by, all kinds of things have been sent into this cabin, most of which are all kinds of gadgets, such as the rusty knife with only half of it left, and the old box Common copper corners or pull rings.
For those treasure hunters, these things are the least valuable, but for archaeologists, they are very valuable.Because these daily necessities can restore the situation of those people back then.
"We found a very valuable thing." While everyone was sorting out these sundries, the crew outside sent a cart with a container full of water on it.
"What is this?" Liang En leaned his head over, only to see a very complete white porcelain statue soaked in the container.
"Could it be a statue of Mazu?" A scholar said after taking a look at the statue, because this statue is obviously a statue of a woman, and it does look a bit like the Dehua white porcelain statue of Mazu that is often fished out of the sea.
More importantly, as one of the most influential goddesses in China, Mazu is the god of the sea, and also the patron saint of fishing and sea navigation, so it is normal to find this from the wreck of a Chinese sailing ship.
"No, this is not Mazu." Another porcelain expert said after observing carefully through the transparent container wall, "This should be the Shuiyue Guanyin statue made of JDZ white porcelain."
Guanyin Bodhisattva is naturally also one of the traditional Chinese patron saints, so it is understandable for travelers to carry such a statue.
Judging from the location where this statue was found, it is unlikely that the Guanyin statue was the cargo carried by the ship.
However, considering that ancient people often took a statue of a god or similar things as their spiritual sustenance when they traveled far, especially across the oceans.So whether these things were enshrined on the ship or carried by the guests is not easy to say.
(End of this chapter)