Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 712 Tin Block
The underwater excavation work had a bad start, because the first batch of materials found had been completely turned into a large pile of garbage due to seawater erosion, at least from the perspective of salvage, it had no salvage value.

But this does not mean that everyone found nothing during this search, because from the current discovery here, there is no trace of human disturbance before this ship, which means that no one has salvaged it here before.

This has two advantages for Liang En. On the one hand, it means that there are probably some valuable things left in the boat, and he can take this opportunity to salvage them.

On the other hand, the untouched ship is a very good background, allowing Liang En to place the discovery of the golden Buddha in this place without anyone's suspicion.

Because it was getting dark, Liang En and the others stopped fishing and began to eat dinner. The main course was a sailfish that was just caught.

Just now when Liang En and the others were fishing underwater, the off-duty crew on the boat took out their fishing gear and started fishing, and this sailfish was one of their catches.

In addition, they also caught several other kinds of fish, so today's dinner is mostly a variety of seafood, and it is definitely the freshest kind.

It's just that when we were eating, we could find that the people on the boat were divided into two distinct groups, some of whom were crew members on the boat, and they mainly stared at the chicken, mutton and beef that we brought from the shore and put them in the freezer.

The other part was a group of people who boarded the ship temporarily, mainly Liang En and the others. They mainly ate the freshly fished seafood.

There are also reasons for this situation, because for these seafarers, they often go to sea for a long time as soon as they go to sea, so for them they prefer fresh food from land.

Liang En and the others are just the opposite. Whenever they come to a new sea area, they will naturally try the seafood in this place as soon as possible, especially fish that are not usually eaten like swordfish.

"What we found today should be the warehouse on the first floor near the deck." After eating, everyone cleaned up the dining room and started today's summary work, and Liang En was the first to speak at the summary meeting.

"According to the tradition, the ship will take into account the center of gravity of the balance and calculate the placement of items to avoid dangers caused by improper placement of items. That is to say, the heavy ones will be placed below, while the light ones will be placed on top."

"So if what we found on the upper layer is rubber, then there is a high probability that the lower layer is all kinds of metal blocks, and if we are lucky enough, those metals should be in good condition now, and we can probably sell a lot of them. money."

"Yes, boss, we guess the situation should be like this." Louis nodded at this time and said, "It's just that the lower deck of the hull is better preserved than the upper deck, so we may need to spend time on underwater cutting tomorrow. .”

Underwater cutting is not an easy task. Fortunately, Liang En and his colleagues work in a shallow sea, so although the next work is somewhat difficult, it is not too difficult for Liang En and his colleagues to solve it.

So the next day, the first thing Liang En and Joan of Arc did after they dived to the bottom of the sea was to check the scattered cargo boxes, and the divers took all kinds of cutting tools to start Cut the ship's bulkheads.

"It seems that the explosion that occurred below the waterline of the ship was indeed so serious that the remaining boxes could not be found in the fracture of the lower layer."

After a brief inspection, Liang En, who had a general understanding of the lower fracture, put his oxygen mask on Joan's mask and said.

"So we have to open those cabin compartments to check the situation inside?" Joan asked curiously, and then looked at the cutting sparks flickering on the side of the boat.

"No need." Liang En said as he took off a metal detector capable of underwater inspection from his waist, then pointed to the surrounding seabed and said. "I believe there are a few things that should be scattered around, and then we'll just have samples."

Soon, Liang En and Jeanne Cui began to inspect the surroundings with the breach as the core. Sure enough, they each found some interesting things from the bottom of the sea after a few minutes.

These items are metal blocks that look as big as palms, and because they have been underwater for a long time, rust has appeared on the surface, and they look black.

However, the overall preservation of the metal is not bad, at least much better than the pile of completely finished rubber blocks just now, except for the oxide layer on the surface, the overall appearance is very good.

At this time, the door of the first compartment was opened, and the inside was also the same as those rubber, but this time the boxes were all metal blocks.

After stepping forward to weigh it with his hands, Liang En found that the metal blocks in the cabin were the same as the metal blocks he found outside. It seemed that most of the warehouses on the bottom deck at that time should be filled with the same type of items.

Then everyone opened another cabin, which also contained metal blocks. It seems that what this ship wanted to transport to the mainland was raw materials such as rubber and metal.

This should be regarded as a relatively common item when Japanese ships transported from Southeast Asia to Japan in World War II. It can even be said that these items are the main materials transported from Southeast Asia to Japan.

According to history, Japan transported all kinds of troops, weapons and other war-related items to Southeast Asia at that time, and all kinds of raw materials were transported back.

Of course, this kind of transportation did not last long, at least after the Americans survived the first round of the Japanese attack, the large-scale war broke off the connection between the Japanese mainland and Southeast Asia smoothly.

Numerous ships were sunk along the route. These ships included ships transporting various supplies as well as troop carriers, so the ship that Liang En and the others found was one of those sunken ships.

After Liang En and the others returned to the boat again, several people used a cutting machine to cut up the metal blocks that were fished out, and then cut a few metal blocks into two pieces and looked at the section.

The cross-section glowed with a silver-gray light, which didn't look dazzling, but after a simple test, they determined that the metal was tin, and it was very pure tin refined in the industrial age.

"These things are more valuable than copper. The average price per ton is about 22000 US dollars." After holding a piece of metal with one hand and tapping it lightly, Liang En turned around and said to the people present.

"According to the situation we investigated just now, the cargo warehouse on the lower deck of the other party's ship should be full of these, so if there is no accident, these things may be hundreds of tons. The tin is likely to be hundreds of tons. Ton."

Talking about this, he was very happy, because he only wanted to find a legal source for the golden Buddha he had obtained before, and he really didn't expect that this excavation would yield something.

So a large number of metal blocks found like this one can be regarded as a windfall, so this time can also be regarded as a real treasure hunt, rather than simply placing some items in the previous plan.

(End of this chapter)