deltrittennovels Chapter 378 Discovering the Terror
Chapter 378 Discovering the Terror
Chapter 378 Discovering the Terror
"Then do it in this way. From now on, we will add a night shift to search at night." After obtaining the approval of the professionals on board for the night action plan, Mr. Scudder nodded.
Everyone, including Mr. Scudder himself, knows that this will increase expenses in addition to increasing the amount of labor for everyone.But such expenditures are not a problem for those who own yachts.
Especially at this juncture of searching for the Terror, the cost of using the ship is even less of a thing. Although the honor of finding Franklin's missing expedition this time mainly belongs to Liang En, now Scudder has the opportunity to win the title of discoverer of the Terror .
This is very important to him. As a lover of exploration and archaeology, it is very valuable to discover some important historical relics, so Mr. Skold will naturally strive for it with all his strength.
So two hours later, everyone began to implement a new action plan, and everyone was automatically divided into several groups, and then began to prepare for a 24-hour circular search.
"Wake up, wake up!" Just as Liang En finished his work and fell asleep soundly, the door was opened, and then Pierce came in and shook him awake.
"Please, it's 4 o'clock in the morning." After rubbing his eyes and looking at the watch by the bed, Liang En said helplessly while getting dressed. "Can't we tell tomorrow if we find something?"
"No way, you are the only professional on board. We have to make sure that the thing I found is what we were looking for." Pierce said when he went out with Liang En.
"If it is, we can rest tonight and wait until tomorrow to continue our operations. If not, we need to continue searching. So you can rest assured after going to see it."
After entering the sonar control room, Liang En immediately looked at the screen, and there was a relic on the bottom of the sea, which indeed looked like a ship.
"It should be this place." After comparing with the known information, Liang En quickly came to a conclusion, "This is a three-masted steam sailing ship, and in terms of size, it is indeed very close to the missing Terror."
"That's good." After receiving Liang En's confirmation, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Although judging from the current situation, this ship is indeed very similar to the horror of disappearance, but no one dared to talk about it until they were confirmed by professionals. Undergo verification.
After hearing Liang En's conclusion, everyone felt a sense of relief, so except for a few people on duty, everyone else went to rest.
After a hasty breakfast the next morning, all the off-duty staff members on the ship gathered in the monitoring room, and then the underwater robot was hoisted from the stern by a crane, and drove towards the wreck discovered yesterday.
Because there were not many ships passing by this place in the past, it is basically possible to determine the identity of the ship when seeing wreckage of similar size.
It's just that this cannot be used as a reason to put it on the table in archaeological work, so now they must obtain further detailed information to determine the identity of the ship.
For example, the ship's bell of the Nether was an ironclad proof, but it was very lucky to find the ship's bell. Liang En never expected such good luck this time.
The fact is also the same. After the underwater robot circled the ship, it found that there were only some broken planks and rotten ropes around, and there was nothing of value.
Compared with the previous Nether, the wreckage of the Horror was more completely preserved. Even when the underwater robot turned to the stern of the ship, it was found that most of the glass on the tail building was completely preserved.
Peering through the cracks in the boat revealed a thick layer of silt that had accumulated inside the boat, but other than that, the interior didn't appear to have suffered much damage.
The small robot also has the benefits of a small robot. Although it is difficult to bring things up from the water, it can also drill in from those small gaps to check the interior of the ship.
Now the robot enters a storage room in Captain Francis Crozier's cabin. The shelves in the storage room are still full of plates, glass bottles, tripods and a pair of thermometers. They look much the same as they did 170 years ago.
After looking in through the other gaps, they found that not only did the furniture and cabinets remain unchanged, but even the drawers were completely closed, and the integrity of the items and documents was well preserved under the heavy mud cover. sex.
Considering that the wreck of the Terror located at 42m underwater has been in extremely low temperature, darkness and light, this low temperature, anoxic and dark environment is extremely conducive to the preservation of fragile organic cultural relics.
That is to say, it is very likely that there are written materials surviving in this place, and these materials will play an irreplaceable role in studying what that expedition experienced.
In the next two days, they used underwater robots to check the wreck repeatedly, but because they were worried about damaging the cultural relics, they only went a little deeper into the hull each time before withdrawing.
In fact, if you use artificial means, you should explore more than this, but whether it is more than 40 meters deep or muddy seabed, there are some dangers, so they do not plan to send divers into the water for safety reasons.
Of course, the lack of training of the divers on board is also a serious problem, because the underwater monuments that have been there for more than 100 years are relatively fragile, so it is difficult for people without special training to ensure the safety of the cultural relics during the exploration process. Safety.
It was like this when Liang En and the others were investigating the Nether. The divers only dared to move around the ship, but did not dare to enter the interior of the ship.
To be honest, if the underwater robot of Mr. Scudder was not small enough, they would not let the robot enter the ship to explore. After all, the crime of destroying cultural relics is really unbearable.
Although they did not find anything that could directly prove the identity of the ship like the ship's clock during the entire search process, they still determined the identity of the ship by mapping the entire ship and comparing the information about the Terror.
"Friends, we have found the second ship in Franklin's expedition, the Terror. Let us congratulate Mr. Scudder." After making the final confirmation through repeated comparisons, Liang En announced when everyone was having dinner the good news.
This is not because he is flattering Skold, because the specific clues are obtained from the local aborigines, and the reason why those aboriginals are willing to say this news is directly related to Skold's timely decision to rescue the wounded.
Therefore, according to the archaeological tradition, the honor of the discoverer of this ship should indeed belong to Mr. Skold.
In an instant, the restaurant was filled with cheers, and the group of people who cheered the loudest were all Mr. Skold's subordinates. After all, his boss always wanted to express himself as a subordinate after winning an honor.
Of course, Liang En and the others applauded and cheered from the bottom of their hearts. After all, the other party was the sponsor of this adventure work, and they had declared in advance that they would not take any money from this expedition.
(End of this chapter)