"Bubble corals, box jellyfish, sea scorpions... How come there are so many poisonous creatures in this sea area?" Xiang Yang frowned and wondered in his heart why the diving fishing method was gradually eliminated by fishermen in the 1980s and 1990s.
The main reason why diving fishing has been eliminated is that it is like looking for a needle in a haystack to find a rich area of seabed in the vast seabed. However, the fact that the seabed is fascinating but full of dangers is also one of the important reasons for the elimination of diving fishing.
Xiang Yang smiled. These two difficulties that could stump fishermen for a century were not difficulties at all for Xiang Yang.
Xiang Yang, who can swim freely in the seabed, can easily identify areas of the seabed with rich resources.
With the vigorous development of modern science and technology, as early as the beginning of the 21st century, there were full-body diving equipment that allowed divers to ignore a large part of the threats posed by underwater creatures.
After remembering this location, Xiang Yang began to swim back, and soon returned to the flounder paradise with clear water and the seabed covered with sand.
Xiang Yang had excellent eyesight on the seabed and he could see at a glance all the crew members scattered on the seabed of this area, working hard to find and catch flounder.
The flounder resources in this sea area are very abundant, almost as numerous as shellfish. Xiang Yang saw that every crew member had a bulging net bag around his waist, and it was obvious that everyone had a huge harvest.
Xiang Yang caught more than ten flounders weighing more than two kilograms, filled his net bag, and swam towards the sea.
Back on the deck, Xiang Yang asked the four sweaty crew members on the deck: "How is it? How many flounders have you caught now?"
"Captain, where have you been? Why do we only see you now?" A crew member said excitedly, "We have found a large school of flounder. The total weight of flounder we caught in less than half an hour is probably more than 1,500 kilograms."
"One thousand five hundred kilograms?" Xiang Yang calculated carefully. On average, the crew members who went out to sea could catch a full net bag of flounder every ten minutes or so, which was similar to Xiang Yang's estimate.
"Swimming on the seabed consumes a lot of physical energy. When you see someone surfacing, call them and ask them to come on board to drink some fresh water and eat something to replenish their physical strength before going down again." Xiang Yang ordered.
"Yes, Captain!"
"Yeah." Xiang Yang nodded, and walked to the side of the boat and pretended to sit down and rest.
The oxygen tanks that Xiang Yang ordered for the fishing boats were all large compressed oxygen tanks. One tank of oxygen was enough for breathing for three or four hours on the seabed.
Xiang Yang certainly couldn't let the crew swim continuously on the seabed for three or four hours. Xiang Yang planned to let the crew rest on the deck every half an hour, and the diving operation could not accumulate work until the oxygen in the oxygen tank was completely consumed.
Three hours. Xiang Yang set a maximum time for underwater operations. Each diving and fishing operation must be completed within a maximum of three hours. After three hours, people go on board to rest and oxygen tanks are inflated.
Following Xiang Yang's order, the crew members climbed onto the deck from the sea one after another.
Everyone may not feel anything when they are in the sea, but once on the deck, the crew members feel exhausted and want to fall onto the deck without taking off their diving equipment.
"Ah, I'm so tired!"
"Why didn't I feel exhausted when I was in the sea, but as soon as I got on the boat, I felt exhausted all over?"
"Everyone, drink some fresh water." Uncle Xiang gulped down a large mouthful of fresh water before speaking, "This is a normal physiological phenomenon. People who stay in the sea for a long time will become dehydrated when they come ashore. Just drink some fresh water and rest for a few minutes and you'll be fine."
When everyone heard this, they quickly got up and ran to drink some fresh water.
After drinking the fresh water, Uncle Xiang lit a cigarette for himself, and walked up to Xiang Yang with a smile, "Xiao Yang, your luck is so good. Even if you can't catch any fish anywhere else this year, you will make a fortune just by fishing for flounders in this sea area. My God, there is a stretch of seabed beach with no end in sight, and it is full of flounders. You are simply picking up money!"
Xiang Yang rolled his eyes, "Uncle, please don't curse me. I want to catch some precious seafood every time I go out to sea!"
"They say it's a precious seafood, how can it be so easy to catch it?" Uncle Xiang sat down next to Xiang Yang, "As long as I can catch a little bit of fish every time I go out to sea, and occasionally catch a net of valuable seafood like puffer fish like today, I will wake up laughing in my dreams!"
"Hey, sea snail? Where did you find such a big sea snail?" Uncle Xiang glanced at Xiang Yang's hand and stood up, as if he had discovered something extremely extraordinary.
"I just picked it up from the seabed. There's only this one, and I didn't find a group of them." Xiang Yang knew that his uncle was wrong. Sea snails are also social creatures and are considered a relatively high-end seafood that can only be eaten in some big hotels.
It is worth mentioning that sea snails are full of parasites, which require professional techniques to kill. Residents living on the coast do not dare to eat this creature directly when they see it.
"Only one. What a pity." Uncle Xiang shook his head and said no more.
Xiang Yang was thinking about when to upgrade his diving equipment so he could go "hunting" in that underwater mountain range.
At this time, the crew members who were diving had also drunk fresh water and became active on the deck.
"Look at this flounder." A young crew member pointed at one of the flounders kept alone in a water tank and said proudly, "This is the largest flounder weighing more than ten kilograms. I caught it."
A flounder weighing more than ten pounds
Xiang Yang was slightly surprised when he heard this. The prices of many seafood are calculated by size. A flounder weighing two or three pounds is very cheap, but a flounder weighing ten pounds is not cheap at all.
The crew members on the deck were still bragging, "What's that? Look at this lobster. I caught it."
Xiang Yang looked towards the transparent water tank and saw a huge lobster about 10 to 20 centimeters long raising a pair of large claws in a ferocious manner.
I didn’t expect these unexpected surprises.
Xiang Yang smiled and put on his diving equipment again, and shouted to the deck: "Hurry up, we will go fishing a few more times and then return directly. It's a bit hard today, I will give everyone a day off tomorrow."
"Captain, there's no need to take a holiday. I want to come here to fish tomorrow. The deep sea is so much fun. Fish are just like catching them." A crew member immediately shouted.
"Yes, Captain, we don't need a holiday." Another crew member responded immediately.
"You don't need a holiday, but I do. There will be plenty of opportunities for sea diving in the future." Seeing that the crew members were more enthusiastic than himself, Xiang Yang laughed and dived into the seabed.
The crew members of Class A also hurriedly put on their diving suits and followed Xiang Yang, jumping to the bottom of the sea like dumplings.