The most economical way to salvage a World War II shipwreck is to dismantle the steel on it. The copper parts on the ship are also valuable. However, Xia Yu has changed from a copper smelting addict to an alchemy addict, and he desires gold more.
"Squeak~~"
The sniff in front made a discovery and dug out a piece of bright silver from a pile of mud.
It's a portable wine flask, and the material seems to be silver!
Xia Yu took the wine jug from Xiu Xiu's hand and held it in front of the searchlight to look at it. There was the James Dixon Son logo on it.
James Dixon and his son?
The mechanical logo probably didn’t belong to the owner of the wine jug. Xia Yu took out his cell phone, took a photo, and sent it to his personal sommelier.
Live treasure appraisal is very popular now. Many "treasure lovers" go to teachers to appraise the treasures as soon as they dig them out of the ground. What can the teachers say? They can only say that this thing is not suitable to be carried around!
"Boss, this HipFlask is a brand from England. The factory was founded in 1806 and closed in 1976. They're famous for their sterling silver hip flasks. This one should be worth $3,000 on the market."
The expert sent an appraisal report. It seems that the owner of the wine jug was a wealthy man, perhaps the captain of a merchant ship. Unfortunately, he was buried at the bottom of the sea, and only the wine jug was left.
Xia Yu casually put it into his space. This was a good start. It felt like opening a blind box. You never know what you will get next.
It took an hour and a half to search all the cabins, both enterable and inenterable, and the man and the beast prepared to surface and leave.
The entire loot of the merchant ship named Williams was as follows: an antique silver wine jug, a watertight Jaeger-LeCoultre old diamond-studded pocket watch, 27 pounds 35 pence, 43 dollars and 75 cents in coins, and 8 Prussian gold marks, all of which were worth 20 marks.
Xia Yu also sought off-market assistance. Each gold mark weighed 8 grams and was in good condition. Each could be sold for several hundred dollars, which was about 30% to 40% more expensive than the price of gold.
The harvest was good, not as good as rummaging through a safe in a vault, but fortunately they were all ownerless items, so I didn't feel any psychological burden in taking them.
After putting the Sniff back into the Master Ball, Xia Yu prepared to surface, as there were more than a dozen ships waiting for his visit!
"Senior, have you found the treasure?"
After helping to pull Xia Yu onto the boat and seeing that he was intact, Jiang Baiying asked about the treasure hunt.
"They're all here. See if there's anything you like and take it home as a souvenir."
"No, I'll just take a look."
Jiang Baiying is more interested in the treasure hunting process than the treasure itself.
The Polaris set off again. Xia Yu and Xiao Jiang told the stories behind these objects, and soon they arrived at a new ship cemetery.
Five merchant ships and one destroyer were sunk in this area, which is large enough to form a tomb complex.
Xia Yu did not dive this time. After all, the average depth of the sea water here is more than 2,000 meters. Even if he dived, he could not explain it. In this case, he had to use high technology.
The stern of the ship released an unmanned submarine into the sea. Xia Yu's display could clearly show the diving scene, which was used to confirm the sunken ship and detect the condition of the sunken ship.
In a place that the camera cannot see, Xiu Xiu is lying on the back of the submarine and diving together. With the blessing of Poseidon, it can withstand the deadly water pressure and search for treasures on the seabed.
You can see the shipwreck, but you don't know what's inside. For example, the Williams can only make a profit by selling the steel and copper parts in a package. Xia Yu's gains are only worth tens of thousands of dollars at most, which is only enough for the gas money for this trip.
I hope this time I can reap a big harvest. The joy of treasure hunting is based on actually finding the treasure. It's like saying that what you're catching isn't fish, but loneliness, life, etc., even though you've caught nothing.
The unmanned submarine quickly descended to a depth of 2,100 meters, and the underwater laser radar instantly locked onto two targets, two suspected targets.
It was suspected that it was because of the size difference. When they got closer, they found that the destroyer was blown into two parts, about a hundred meters apart.
No hope. Xia Yu passed over these two targets and focused his attention on the other two identified targets.
On the screen, the submarine was searching for three other targets. The projection in his sunglasses was from the perspective of the sniff, who was seen using his hands and feet to swim towards the first two targets.
We picked a close one and went in, and after a sweep, we only found some fragments. The situation was similar to that of the Williams.
Xiu Xiu stuffed all the harvest into the pouch, and then tirelessly rushed towards the next boat.
This is the power of money. Things engraved in genes cannot be changed. Xia Yu was happy about this, but he soon discovered something unusual.
“Squeak~squeak~~”
Sniff became excited. It seemed to smell the scent of money, lots and lots of money.
"Xiao Jiang, how's the situation over there?"
Xia Yu asked into the radio.
"Ready to release at any time."
"Okay, Hannah, head to the coordinates I sent you. We're going to go online."
The three parties worked together and arrived right above the shipwreck. They began to release a circulating crawler on the port side of the bow, with a giant bucket connected to the end. It could dive to the seabed at a depth of 3,000 meters, violently dig up the shipwreck there, and bring back any treasures that might be inside.
Technology changes our lives. This technology has existed as early as the 1970s. At that time, the Chinese developed a deep-sea mining ship specifically to salvage the wreckage of the Soviet nuclear submarine. And because it focuses on seabed salvage and mining, the operating water depth has also increased to 5,000 meters.
After all, the Polar Star is a polar icebreaker exploration vessel, and underwater salvage is just an amateur project. Being able to reach 3,000 meters is already very good, and Xia Yu does not expect it to go deeper.
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