Zheng Xuan and Sun Fen stayed in Xingzhou Island until the afternoon and then left. Li Yaolin had no time to see them off because he had to receive a senior engineer who had just come from the Hui City Sea Turtle Conservation Area.
This senior engineer has very rich experience in related fields. This time she not only brought an assistant but also brought more professional equipment, preparing to do a more in-depth research and investigation here.
For this purpose, Li Yaolin built two more mobile cabins near the hatchery as their temporary work place.
Senior engineer Wan Min asked Li Yaolin: "Mr. Li, I would like to collect some biological samples from the waters of Xingzhou Island to investigate and analyze the pollution situation in the nearby waters. Is it possible?"
"Sure." Li Yaolin nodded. "It just so happens that the fishery department is also preparing materials for applying for a protected area. They need to evaluate the ecology and water quality of Xingzhou Island and the surrounding waters. Your survey results will be another document that can actively promote the establishment of a protected area for us."
Wan Min and Long Feng looked at each other and laughed, "It sounds like we are at a disadvantage!"
Li Yaolin climbed up the pole and said, "After our protected area is established, you can come and guide the protection work. This way it won't be a disadvantage."
Wan Min joked with her, "You have a good plan."
Suddenly, Wan Min paused and asked, "By the way, I heard that you are going to develop a diving project. Will this damage the environment or endanger sea turtles?"
"The reserve is not close to the diving spot, and we have been carrying out ecological protection work. We will not violate the original intention of applying for the establishment of the reserve for the sake of pursuing profits. We will also monitor diving activities. Once we find any behavior that damages the environment, we will report it and punish it severely. We will never tolerate it."
Hu Bingchang, who was the last one to pull seaweed, has received a lawyer's letter and has also been investigated by the fishery department. After hearing that fishing has started, he dared not even go out to sea.
Speaking of fishing, there are indeed more fishing boats going out to sea recently, and a considerable number of fishing boats will openly invade the waters of Xingzhou Island. Sometimes patrol personnel will drive them away if they see them, but there are always thick-skinned ones.
With the automatic avoidance of fishing in the [No Fishing Zone], Li Yaolin was not worried about what fish they could catch, but Longfeng and his friends were inevitably heartbroken, thinking that their behavior could easily harm the sea turtles living in this sea area.
Li Yaolin also felt that they could not just leave it alone, so he gave the little mermaid a task: once a fishing boat was found to have invaded, they should immediately call the fishery department and ask law enforcement officers to drive them away.
After three or four times, the fishing boats that illegally invaded the waters of Xingzhou Island were no longer driven away by law enforcement officers.
They thought they had won, but then something very strange happened - every time they pulled in the net, they felt that they had made a big catch, but as the net got tighter, more and more garbage was caught with the net. In the end, they found that there was not a single fish in it, only garbage!
There was plastic, glass, and various scrap metals in the net, which filled the big net. The fishing boat suddenly became a garbage cleaning boat.
The crew kept muttering in their hearts that it might be more profitable to switch to cleaning marine garbage in the future, and the captain was so angry that his face turned green.
At this time, the fishing industry department received a report that someone was going to dump garbage in the waters of Xingzhou Island.
The patrol officers arrived soon and saw with their own eyes that the fishing boat was about to dump the garbage back into the sea. This time, they got both the advantage and the disadvantage, and were directly prosecuted by the procuratorate for the crime of "illegal dumping". If sentenced, the fine is estimated to be more than the 6,000 yuan fine for "illegal fishing".
The two bloody lessons have completely put an end to the nearby fishermen's thoughts of going to Xingzhou Island to try their luck or to make trouble for revenge. No ship dared to approach the area designated as a protected area.
Li Yaolin did not expect things to develop like this. She asked the little mermaid: "Did you throw those marine garbage?"
The little mermaid blinked innocently: "How could people throw garbage randomly? These garbage are the work of human beings themselves." It just took this opportunity to let the fishing boat clean up.
Li Yaolin: "...That makes sense."
She stopped worrying about it, as long as these fishing boats would not invade the waters of Xingzhou Island again.
While the little mermaid was fighting wits and courage with the fishing boats, the diving center was finally renovated!
The appearance of the diving center is built like a Holiday Inn. On the left side of the door is a huge custom-made wall, three meters long, five meters high, and only ten centimeters wide. It is like a large fish tank, and you can see the landscape plants and the moving fake fish and fake jellyfish inside from both inside and outside.
After entering the door is the lobby. There is a small area on the right with a sofa and tea table. On the wall behind are various certificates, diving photos and posters taken by diving coaches, etc. To the left is the area for displaying and selling diving equipment.
Behind the front desk is a 70-square-meter office area separated by a glass partition. To the left is the training pool on the second floor. The huge glass allows you to clearly see the situation in the pool.
Going up from the corridor here is the terrace on the second floor. To the left is the swimming pool, and to the right are the rest area, locker room and conference room. There is a bar in the rest area, but Li Yaolin does not plan to sell alcohol, for fear that someone will drink and go diving.
The conference room is used for diving coaches to give lessons and take exams.
The decoration style of the diving center is cool, but the light is warm, giving people a bright and warm feeling.
On the day of acceptance, Liang Ying also came over. She looked at Li Yaolin nervously and asked, "Manager, how is it?"
Li Yaolin smiled slightly: "Don't be nervous, I was the one who decided on this plan at the beginning, and of course I was very satisfied with the decoration effect. You are a designer who has designed independently and completed many works. You must have confidence in yourself."
"I will, thank you, manager!"
Seeing the manager of the diving center looking at her frequently, Li Yaolin smiled and said, "You may want to change your words. I am not the manager of this store."
Liang Ying then reacted. The manager probably thought she was calling him, so he looked at her frequently. She smiled awkwardly and went over to greet the real manager.
When a tourist went to the convenience store to buy something, he saw that the store was open, so he walked over and asked, "Is the diving center open?"
Li Yaolin said, "It will open next week. You are welcome to come and experience diving and enjoy the fun of diving."
Li Yaolin asked the store manager to put up a notice that the diving center would open next week, and then he had to spend some money on promotion. She asked Zhou Yingying and others to record several videos of them diving under the sea for promotion. Once the videos were released, they immediately attracted many complaints from colleagues:
1L: "Isn't the filter of this promotional video of Xingzhou Island a bit too much? You told me this is the bottom of the sea? It looks like a fish tank to me."
2L: "This video is so fake, do you think I have never dived? The world-class diving spot Sipadan Island is not so beautiful. How can an island that is severely polluted by industrial sewage have such water quality?"
3L: "The above person is just talking about the matter at hand. I dare not say anything else, but the water quality of Xingzhou Island is indeed good. It seems that it has been nominated for some kind of ecological civilization demonstration area. If the environment is not good and the pollution control ability is not outstanding, there is no chance of being nominated."
4L: "What a joke, just check the geographical location of Xingzhou Island and you will know. There is an industrial port nearby, and there is industrial wastewater discharged by the ethylene plant. Oh, by the way, the villagers living there often discharge domestic sewage into the sea, not to mention the pollution caused by the aquaculture area there. How good can the water of Xingzhou Island be?"
5L: "The person above said, those are news from many years ago. In recent years, the government has been controlling sewage discharge and managing the environment, and the water quality there has improved a lot. Moreover, Xingzhou Island is separated by several sea miles, and those sewage have not affected Xingzhou Island at all. If you pay attention to the news, you will know that the authorities have taken the lead in praising Xingzhou Island's pollution control results, and the official media have also reported it!"
6L: "Why are there so many Xingzhou Island navy?"
7L: "They are navy just by talking about the facts?"
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Tourists who have been to Xingzhou Island and those netizens who questioned and belittled Xingzhou Island started a round of verbal battles on the Internet, which completely pushed Xingzhou Island to the forefront.
As time passed, the voices of doubt prevailed.
Just as the wind was gradually turning in a bad direction, the results of the sampling and research analysis that Long Feng and his team had conducted to investigate why green sea turtles chose to live here came out.
After preliminary analysis, the waters of Xingzhou Island are rich in seaweed resources, which attracted green sea turtles. At the same time, there are reef-building corals living on the seabed. Given that corals have very high requirements for the marine environment, it can be seen that the water quality here is not as bad as rumored.
The water quality of the waters of Xingzhou Island fully meets the national Class I seawater quality standards, and even many values (such as pollution concentration) are far lower than the standard, which is much better than the results of two large-scale sampling tests conducted by the Ocean University more than a decade ago.
Although the research work will take a long time, the preliminary evaluation is enough to show that the sewage has not affected the waters of Xingzhou Island.
As for how this was done, there are many different opinions on the Internet. Local fishermen say this is a miracle and that Xingzhou Island is blessed by gods.
Some tourists who don't know the reason say this is because Xingzhou Island has been collecting marine garbage. The evidence is that one day, they saw a fishing boat collecting garbage, and finally the fishing boat took the garbage away.
- Fortunately, these fishermen who were charged with "illegal dumping" did not know about the rumors on the Internet, otherwise they would be so angry that they would beat their chests and stamp their feet. Not only would they be fined, but they were also rumored to be cleaning boats for Xingzhou Island to clean up garbage. How frustrating! Regardless
of which statement is correct, everyone has a consensus that this may be the mystery of Xingzhou Island, and it is also the place that oceanographers want to study.
Li Yaolin directly had this analysis and evaluation released. She knew that no matter how she explained, the voices of doubt would not disappear easily. However, now was a sensitive period for applying for the establishment of a protected area. If these negative public opinions were allowed to continue to ferment, she was worried that the relevant departments would cancel the application qualification in order to reduce the negative impact, and then the efforts made by her and Long Feng and others would be in vain.
As expected, this evaluation was a bit professional, and not many people could understand it. Moreover, they did not believe it, and stubbornly believed that Li Yaolin had paid these scholars and experts who were seeking fame.
Only a few people raised questions:
1L: "Back to diving itself, even if the weather on Xingzhou Island was good and the visibility was high, how could the seabed emit such light? Who can explain it scientifically?"
2L: "Could it be the luminous plankton in the sea, such as Noctiluca scintillans, dinoflagellates, krill, etc."
3L: "There are indeed many luminous plankton in the ocean, but it is difficult for a few plankton to emit such a dazzling light. The brightness visible to the naked eye can only produce this effect when they gather in large groups. And although it looks beautiful, it actually has a very negative impact on marine life. In short, this area of water is not suitable for diving at all."
4L: “To be honest, do you think the visibility looks like there is a large amount of plankton gathering? Also, it’s daytime now.”
Netizens: “…”
This is indeed a difficult point to understand.
Li Yaolin took the opportunity to advertise and posted a V-blog on the official account of Xingzhou Island: "Want to know whether the water quality is really clear? Do you want to know the truth about the glow of the seabed? Instead of hearing about it, it is better to experience it yourself and find the answer... Poseidon Holiday Diving Center is waiting for you! Forward this V-blog and draw five friends for free One-day diving experience (including relaxing snorkeling worth 108 yuan, romantic experience diving worth 598 yuan)! "
As soon as this advertisement came out, no matter what the netizens said, they only saw the "lottery" and "free experience" and immediately forwarded it: "Pump me, pump me hard, I can do it!"
Apart from V-Bo, other tourists are still hesitant to wait and see, while divers with diving experience and researchers in related research fields have already taken action.
Several scholars in the fields of oceanography and aquaculture called Li Yaolin, all wanting to come to her for a large-scale sampling survey.
Wan Min, who had seized the opportunity, also said to Li Yaolin: "Well, now it seems that one sample must not only analyze the pollution situation, but also conduct a survey on the distribution of zooplankton."
In fact, Wan Min did not think that the situation here was as bad as it was said on the Internet. She could see with her naked eyes that the water quality here was good, not to mention that there was specific data to support it.
Li Yaolin did not stop the experts from investigating the water quality of the sea area because she knew they would not be able to find out anything. Moreover, she let them adapt first so that they would not be too shocked when she launched the "Sea Fire" in the future.
As more and more people focus on the diving project at Xingzhou Island, August 24th is coming soon.
On this day, Poseidon Holiday Diving Center officially opens!
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