Time passed day by day, and soon it was September 27th. Bai Yu and the others had been here for a week.
This period was very boring for Bai Yu and his friends. Basically, all they did each day was watch videos for a while and then go fishing.
The key point is that fishing should be selective, not indiscriminate, where you can fish for whatever you want.
After all, just from the perspective of fishing gear, a distance of 200 meters already limits his choice of fishing lines, so it's basically out of their reach to catch fish weighing over 100 kilograms.
It's also worth mentioning that the sea area where Bai Yu and his group are located has excellent resources.
Especially when it comes to big fish, the resources are excellent. The three brothers cut an average of ten fishing lines every day.
After a week, the three brothers had used up all the fishing lines weighing less than 100 kilograms that they had brought, and they were all ruined.
Dozens of fishing lines were all ruined, which alone is enough to show how good the resources are in this sea area.
After all, for a fish to break the fishing line used by Bai Yu and his crew, it must be a fish weighing at least several tens of kilograms. With such a high frequency of catching fish every day, the resource situation here is quite remarkable.
They've run out of shorter fishing lines, so if they want to continue fishing, they'll have to use lines that weigh over 100 pounds, but those lines are extremely long, exceeding 200 meters.
Using fishing line of this strength could pose a hazard to the divers' equipment, unless the three brothers go fishing in more distant places.
Just as they were preparing to go fishing in more distant places, Uncle Liao brought them some good news.
After seven days of work by two teams of divers, the first cargo hold containing supplies has been cut open and is ready for salvage.
This cabin contains porcelain. Compared to the other two cabins, this cabin is relatively easier to cut and lift.
Because of this news, Bai Yu and his two companions also suspended their fishing plans and instead prepared to wait on the deck for the boat to be hoisted up.
Although this cabin was filled with porcelain, Bai Yu and his team hadn't seen a single intact piece of porcelain based on the footage previously transmitted.
But there are still quite a few boxes in the ship's hold, and maybe there will be one or two intact pieces of porcelain, or at least pieces of porcelain with less damage.
Moreover, even those broken porcelain pieces are not entirely without value.
If you're lucky, you can piece these fragments together into a complete piece of porcelain, which will still have some value.
However, compared to a complete piece of porcelain, its value is greatly reduced.
Bai Yu refused to believe that all the porcelain in the entire cabin couldn't be pieced together into a complete piece of porcelain.
On the morning of the 27th, Bai Yu and his friends arrived on the deck early and watched the workers on the salvage ship busy at work.
At the same time, it's not just Bai Yu and her two companions who are looking forward to the results of this salvage operation; Bai Yu's huge fan base is also eagerly awaiting them.
Although Bai Yu is currently on the vast ocean, and although the salvage vessel is not equipped with a network signal base station, it is in a state of being out of contact at sea.
However, Bai Yu did not forget one thing: he is a public figure on the internet, and he still needs to be active on the internet. He also has a large number of fans online.
While not everyone is interested in the shipwreck salvage project, at least 70-80% of the fans are.
After all, no one has ever seen anything like this before, and everyone wants to see how the salvage operation is carried out.
Then Bai Yu filmed and edited the salvage operation. He couldn't do a live broadcast because he didn't have that much viewership.
However, opening a satellite data package and updating the salvage progress every day or two, and releasing a salvage video of about ten minutes, should not be a problem.
Although the videos he posted in the previous few days were all very boring and dull, or videos of Bai Yu and his two friends fishing.
But today is different. The night before, Bai Yu posted a video update explaining that the first cabin would be salvaged today.
So while Bai Yu and his two companions were waiting on the deck, a large number of netizens were also waiting online for Bai Yu's account to be updated.
Bai Yu and his two companions sat on the floor in a corner of the deck. The spot they chose was rather peculiar, ensuring that it wouldn't interfere with the other staff members' work while also keeping them in the shade.
Keep in mind that it's late September now. Although it's autumn in terms of seasons, the temperature in the South China Sea, especially in the tropics, is still very high every day.
In order to avoid being melted by the sun, they naturally had to find a spot where they wouldn't be exposed to the sun, which could be considered a benefit for themselves.
At that moment, the three brothers were huddled together, blocking the sunlight, and watching the screen.
At that moment, four divers were conducting underwater operations on the seabed in their area.
This time, they weren't going to cut up the shipwreck, but rather to secure the ship's compartments they had cut out over the past few days with chains.
The cut-out cabin this time is U-shaped, and the cabin door is the opening in that U-shape.
The divers' task now is to use the crane's ropes to secure the cabin while ensuring that the cabin door remains above ground during the lifting process.
Only in this way can we ensure that the materials inside the ship's hold do not spill out during the lifting process.
What? You're saying this cabin doesn't have a hatch?
Stop joking. This shipwreck is from the Song Dynasty, hundreds of years ago. Ships from that era used wooden doors, and they weren't even integrated with the ship itself.
The wood used for the cabin doors was far less sturdy than the wood used for the hull of the ship.
This shipwreck is hundreds of years old. After so many years of seawater erosion, the hatch of this cabin has long since fallen off and disappeared from the cabin.
When these divers were cutting the hull, they had already left plenty of space in the cabin for securing it; now all they had to do was run the chains through those areas.
The entire process lasted nearly an hour, after which the divers returned to the deck from the seabed.
During the lifting process, no one is allowed to be on the seabed. The reason is the same as that on land, no one is allowed to stand under the crane arm, which is to prevent accidents.
After the divers came aboard, Uncle Liao, who was in charge, checked everything and found no problems. He then picked up the walkie-talkie and said:
"Everything is ready, let's start fishing!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the crane on the deck immediately started operating, beginning to tow the sunken ship from the seabed to the surface.
It was dragged in, just like fishing, except the fish being caught was too big to be caught by manpower; only a crane could do it.
During this process, Bai Yu also stood up from the corner. He found a relatively good position, set up a video camera, and started filming the crane.
Throughout the entire lifting process, Bai Yu and the others stood on the deck and did not sense anything unusual about the salvage vessel beneath their feet.
From this perspective alone, lifting this one cabin would be virtually no burden for the salvage vessel.
Very quickly, in just a few minutes, Bai Yu spotted something unusual on the sea surface: a giant shadow had appeared.
Then the wooden cabin appeared on the sea, and the entire cabin was salvaged.
Of course, only part of the cabin was above the sea surface, and then the crane stopped, leaving the cabin suspended on the water.
At this moment, the cabin was quietly moored just a dozen meters away from the salvage ship.
"Brother Yu, we're up, we're up in the cabin! Let's take a lifeboat over there and see what's going on. We can go collect supplies now."
After seeing the water emerge from the cabin, Li Shuang spoke to Bai Yu beside him.
The cabin is now above water, but it's not being hoisted directly onto the deck because there's still a lot of seawater inside.
The seawater alone added several tons to the weight of this cabin.
Even with the added weight, the weight of this hull is still easily lifted by the salvage vessel's crane.
However, it is dangerous to spill this thing on the deck when there is water.
So it would be better to just clean out all the water from the ship's hold on the surface of the sea, then remove all the supplies, and finally just hoist an empty hull onto the ship.
These were all salvage plans that Uncle Liao had made a long time ago, and Bai Yu and the others were aware of them. That's why Li Shuang was planning to invite Bai Yu to go and collect the supplies together.
For Bai Yu and his two companions, this was one of the few opportunities they could participate in salvaging supplies.
If they don't step up now, then they'll be left out of the game, and they'll just become mere spectators.
Although being a spectator is easy, you don't have to do any work, you just have to wait for the result.
However, this is not what Bai Yu and his companions are looking for. If they were just waiting for a result, then there would be no need for them to go to the sea.
Therefore, in order to increase their own participation, they will definitely have to participate in this final cleanup process.
Whether or not they can find a complete piece of porcelain among the items they salvaged themselves, or piece together a complete porcelain set, at least they have made an effort.
Moreover, retrieving the porcelain fragments wasn't too difficult for them. After all, the crane had already dredged the ship's cabin, and all they needed to do was wait until the seawater inside was mostly pumped out before they could go back in their wading pants.
Afterwards, Bai Yu and the other two went to change their clothes. First, they put on a pair of wading pants, and then put on a life jacket on their upper bodies. That was about it.
The distance from the salvage vessel to the cabin seems quite short, only about ten meters, which can be crossed with a short swim.
However, for their own safety, Bai Yu and the other two boarded the lifeboat and then started the boat and drove over.
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