Wang Tu Baye

Chapter 163

The days at sea will make you forget everything. What career, love, business war, intrigue, will become completely unimportant, and you will not remember it at all.

The most basic and instinctive survival pressure in biological evolution will completely stimulate all the wildness in your bones, and there is always endless work waiting for you on board every day.

Clean hundreds of crab cages, add bait, tie buoy balls and wire ropes, clean the deck, remove frost and reduce the load on the hull. Excessive mass may cause the hull to capsize.

In the stormy and icy arctic ocean currents, any land creature that fell into the water would definitely not survive for more than an hour.

The more you struggle swimming in icy water, the faster your body temperature will drop, and hypothermia can be more terrifying than any terminal illness.

Unknown seabirds shuttled through the storm. Verus, Joe, Larry, Little Henry and other crew members laid down wire crab cages one after another in a regular order. .

Therefore, people who seek life at sea are generally more trustworthy. For example, they cannot bring female crew members, decorate their favorite boat with a beautiful figurehead, and wear the same sailor suit every time they sail, etc.

In the extremely harsh environment of the Arctic Ocean, no matter how good a ship is, there will be problems of one kind or another. If your ship cannot be repaired, then you can only swim back by yourself, but this is obviously impossible.

Almost every crew member is a generalist. The hurricane with a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour makes it impossible for you to communicate with your partner at all. You can only communicate with your partners with fixed and simple gestures.

Verus, Joe and Larry have sailed together many times, and they have traveled all over the five oceans and seven continents. The tacit understanding between each other no longer requires too many gestures, and one look often understands each other's meaning.

Only sailors with extremely tough and strong nerves can survive in the worst storms and extreme environments. After working for a few hours, they often just find a corner and fall down.

But the conditional firing that has been carved into the nerves will forcefully wake myself up for half an hour when the body is the most tired and weak.

If you can't finish your own work, it means that you will cause trouble to others, and the crew members who are drifting at sea hate trouble the most.

So in the almost polar night environment for the next two days, everyone on board had bloodshot eyes, thick frost on their faces, and even eyelashes were frozen together as hard as steel wire.

Captain Henry said that the Alaska radio station issued an emergency weather forecast. There will be a super storm around 24:[-] in the evening, which will cover a wide area. Unfortunately, this unexpected natural attack affected their Spirit.

Verus no longer had the time to think about the cages that had been put down, so he quickly checked the hull of the Valor and the fixation of all the facilities again, then hid in the cabin, everyone prayed together, and everything was resigned to fate.

The crabbing boat works in the polar night environment all year round. The most indispensable thing is a variety of spotlights and searchlights, which can be used in the most terrible storms above level 12.

Verus collapsed in a corner of the cabin, took a small bottle of warm water handed over by little Henry, and drank slowly.

The sailors on the ship are actually not as ordinary people think, drinking alcohol every day, bearded, wearing blindfolds and doing evil everywhere, that is the movie Pirates of the Caribbean.

Today's sea-going ships are equipped with high-tech equipment, and illiterates can no longer stay there. Of course, the tradition of not eating bananas, peeing on the bow, or turning fish over is still preserved.

Verus glanced around and asked loudly, "Hey, Larry, Joe, have you seen Doug?"

Larry turned his head to look at it, and replied: "I saw it in front of me, why did he disappear after a while?"

One of the crew interjected: "The guy who came with you? He seems to have gone to the bow."

Verus jumped up immediately when he heard the words. The wind speed outside in the middle of the night was getting stronger and stronger. This point is still on the outer deck. Isn't that asking for trouble?
Verus quickly put on the rubber suit for the extravehicular work, turned up his hat and rushed out, Larry, Joe, Little Henry and others quickly put on their clothes to keep up.

After getting out of the cabin, the strong wind could not stand people at all. The strong wind was mixed with the torrential rain, and it was impossible to see the situation outside.

Huge waves of more than 12 meters hit one after another, and even the specially reinforced Courage made an ear-piercing and unpleasant creaking sound. Verus could only pull forward step by step along the iron rod on the bulkhead, otherwise he would not be able to stand at all. living people.

With several daily spotlights on the bow of the ship, Verus finally saw the bow clearly, and Doug was indeed there.

Although Verus was extremely angry and worried, he knew that getting angry now would not help.

And in such a strong wind, no matter how much he yelled and broke his throat, no one who was more than 3 meters away would hear the slightest sound.

At this moment, the bow of the entire ship of Courage under Verus's feet suddenly tilted high. Verus secretly thought that something was wrong, and quickly pulled the iron rod tightly, and his feet were completely off the deck.

The ensuing sinking wave caused the entire huge bow of the Spirit to be completely submerged by the sea water, and then tilted up and sailed to the top of a huge wave, but Doug, who was originally on the bow, was nowhere to be seen.

Verlus was startled and angry at the same time. He slammed the glass on the emergency device on the bulkhead of the ship. Suddenly, the siren and fog bell of the entire ship Spirit rang loudly. their respective positions.

Verus has moved to the cabin closest to the bow. He holds the iron rod with one hand and the rotating rope drum with the other, so that he can use his strength to stand higher and have a wider view.

The most feared thing for crabbers in Alaska happened. 99% of the casualties of crabbing boats were caused by falling into the water, and 99% of the crew members who fell into the water ended up with no bones left.

All the people on the watchtower and those who ran out of the cabin are trying their best to search, now we will see who can find the person who fell into the water with his eyesight at the first time, and immediately locate and rescue him.

Once the huge waves turn over one after another, people in the bone-piercing sea will be driven into a depth of tens of meters underwater even if they are wearing life jackets, and they will disappear without a trace.

"There!" said the ship's tweeter.

With several powerful turning searchlight long-range lights focused, Verus finally saw Doug not far from the boat.

Now Spirit is on the crest of one big wave, and Doug is in the center of the next big wave, and he floats there dancing and proving that he is still alive.

Saving people in a storm is almost a fantasy. It is almost impossible for your boat to turn around in huge waves. The result of facing the waves sideways is basically to break the fragile hull of the ship by huge waves.

Taking ten thousand steps back, even if you lean over, the huge hull of a 12-meter wave will crush a living person, which is easier than an elephant trampling an ant to death.

What's more, in this violent and bad weather, you can't control your boat to be obedient.

Before Verus had time to think about it, he got in and put the cage rope on himself and tied a tight knot, then desperately broke off a piece of cage slipper and held it in his hand.

Joe, Larry, Little Henry and other crew members who rushed over were equally difficult in the storm, but they exerted all their strength to move forward.

Verus was sure that Joe and Larry saw his gesture clearly, turned his head, Verus confirmed the position, and threw the spacer in his hand.

Amidst the sharp exclamation, Verus himself didn't hear it, and he stepped on the boat and jumped onto the spacer accurately.

Everyone stared at Verus dumbfounded. Like a surfer, he bent over and stood on the pad, and swooped towards Doug at the bottom of the wave.

All the large and small searchlights on the Spirit that can be turned on and turned on are turned on to the maximum power, and they are fixed on Verus and Doug.

(End of this chapter)