Collecting kelp is not a task that can be completed in a short time and it takes a lot of time.
Xiang Yang returned to the boat and had a brief discussion with He Mingde to determine the distribution of benefits. Then Chen Qingsheng began to arrange people to collect samples from the seabed.
Xiang Yang watched Chen Qingsheng and his men going up and down the sea, dragging bundles of kelp onto the boat as busy as ants looking for food, but he himself did not join the ranks of those collecting.
"Chen Qingsheng, you take some people to the deck to respond, and the rest of the people will be divided into two teams. One team will be responsible for going into the sea to collect kelp, and the other team will place two rubber boats under the fishing boat as a transfer. This way the collection efficiency will be much higher." Xiang Yang shouted after watching for a while.
Chen Qingsheng immediately took the order. In fact, he also found that it was not very efficient for everyone to go down together to collect kelp, and the diving equipment had a limited usage time. If they collected kelp using the original method, the effective working time would only be a few hours a day.
After Xiang Yang's suggestion, the efficiency of collecting kelp was immediately greatly improved.
"There are so many kelp in this sea area." Fang Youqun was arranged on the rubber boat by Chen Qingsheng. He tied a bundle of kelp to a rope so that the crew on the deck could pull the kelp onto the deck, while talking to the crew next to him.
"What's the use of having more? These kelps are worthless." said another crew member.
"Nonsense." He Mingde was also on the rubber boat. He smoked a cigarette leisurely, his eyes smiling into crescent shapes. "These kelps can be worth five yuan per pound if you take them back. You can calculate how many pounds this bundle is and how long it takes for the brothers down there to deliver a bundle of kelp."
"A bundle weighs about 20 to 30 kilograms. If we calculate it based on 25 kilograms, it would be 125 yuan. The brothers below can bring up a bundle every ten minutes or so..."
"Fuck, Boss He, you and the captain have both become rich!"
You don’t know until you calculate it, and you’ll be shocked when you do.
He Mingde said proudly: "It's not that I'm getting rich, but now you know how valuable these kelps are, right?"
Everyone looked at He Mingde eagerly.
He Mingde looked up at the deck and said, "Look, your captain is going to the sea."
Xiang Yang put on his diving equipment and jumped off the side of the ship.
"What is Brother Yang going to do down there?" Fang Youqun asked.
He Mingde smiled and said, "I think they are also going to collect kelp."
In fact, after Xiang Yang entered the water, he only swam around in the kelp and then swam towards the deep sea.
As Xiang Yang swam along, he discovered that the kelp in this sea area was not as vast as he had imagined. The entire kelp patch probably covered only a few thousand acres.
However, Xiang Yang also discovered that there was not only kelp growing in this kelp patch. He roughly circled the entire kelp patch and found several populations of marine life along the way, and they were all relatively precious populations of marine life. However, the number of those populations of marine life was not large, and their distribution was relatively scattered, so Xiang Yang did not intend to catch them.
At this time, a huge sea turtle swam towards Xiang Yang.
The target of this turtle seemed to be Xiang Yang. It circled around Xiang Yang several times. Although it did not attack Xiang Yang, it did not show any fear of Xiang Yang. It kept stretching its neck and leaning towards Xiang Yang.
"This is a two-faced turtle, one of the most common sea turtles in the sea." Xiang Yang smiled and touched the hard bony shell of the sea turtle, then pushed the sea turtle away.
This kind of sea turtle seems to be a protected animal, but the protection level is not high. It is sold in some vegetable markets along the coast.
But Xiang Yang would not catch marine creatures such as sea turtles. It had nothing to do with the price. It was simply because Xiang Yang was born and raised by the sea. Fishermen of this type generally believed that sea turtles were primates and had spiritual beings.
However, this turtle seemed to have a bad temper. When Xiang Yang pushed it, it stretched out its neck and bit Xiang Yang's wrist.
"Shit!" Xiang Yang was shocked. The neck of this turtle was too long, almost as long as that of a soft-shell turtle. Xiang Yang was almost bitten by the turtle when he was not paying attention.
Sea turtle bites are not uncommon.
Two years ago, there was news that a sea turtle bit a tourist's finger in an ocean theme park. The news was widely reported at the time. However, after surveillance investigation, it was found that the sea turtle did not bite people on its own initiative. It was the tourist who reached into the pool and held the turtle's mouth to take a photo. The turtle fought back angrily after breaking free.
But Xiang Yang did not provoke this turtle. When it approached him, Xiang Yang just pushed it away. Xiang Yang was almost bitten for no reason. He immediately became angry and raised his hand to slap the turtle on its shell.
After the slap, Xiang Yang felt a slight pain in his palm.
But the turtle was fine. It stretched its neck and looked at Xiang Yang, seeming a little proud.
Xiang Yang was speechless immediately. Well, the guy was wearing armor, why was he getting angry with a turtle
Turning around, Xiang Yang slowly swam towards another sea area. He wanted to see if he could find some rarer catches.
As a result, the unlucky turtle actually followed again and continued to move closer to Xiang Yang.
Xiang Yang couldn't help but push the turtle again.
As a result, the turtle opened its mouth and bit Xiang Yang's arm before Xiang Yang could reach out his hand.
Xiang Yang raised his eyebrows, took out the bio-electric gun and pressed it.
Suddenly, Xiang Yang saw the turtle's limbs suddenly stretched out, then suddenly stiffened, and then suddenly bounced up on the spot, with its mouth wide open.
Xiang Yang quickly let go of the bio-electric gun. He wanted the turtle not to disturb his work, not to electrocute the turtle to death.
The bioelectric gun stopped discharging, and the turtle looked at Xiang Yang with great fear. Then it suddenly turned around and swam away for a long distance with its limbs sliding like propellers, and finally disappeared into the kelp bush.
However, Xiang Yang knew that the turtle was still hiding in the water grass and secretly watching him.
Xiang Yang shook his head and ignored the turtle, continuing to sink towards the kelp.
Xiang Yang certainly did not go to the kelp thicket to collect kelp. Although kelp is valuable, no one knows whether Xiang Yang will collect it himself. His main goal is to see if he can find good-looking and valuable ornamental fish in the kelp thicket, or see if he can catch a big lobster or something. Catching one of those things is worth at least hundreds of kilograms of kelp, so it is worth Xiang Yang's trip.
The result did not disappoint Xiang Yang. He found a good thing immediately after he went down into the kelp bush.