In fact, Xiang Yang didn't expect these three people to be able to fish anything out from the bottom of the sea.
For marine fish like turbot, one still has to rely on one’s own crew.
The rest of the more valuable catches had to be caught by Xiang Yang himself.
When they arrived at the sea area rich in turbot, Xiang Yang told the crew that the old rules still apply: those who are willing to go to sea can do so voluntarily, and he will give them a bonus later.
The crew members all knew that Xiang Yang was generous, so naturally they all scrambled to go down.
But the boat cannot be left empty, without leaving anyone behind.
In the end, including Xiang Yang and Chen Qingsheng, a total of seven people went down, and the remaining few people were led by Xu Fang on the deck, who was responsible for the support.
After confirming the number of people going into the sea, Chen Qingsheng led his men into the cabin and took out a total of ten sets of diving equipment.
Zhuo Shao and others had never seen such advanced diving equipment.
As soon as he saw the cold metallic luster of the diving equipment, his eyes lit up.
Zhuo Shao couldn't wait to pick up a diving suit and put it on himself, and said excitedly: "Boss Xiang, these diving equipments of yours are a little different from what I know. They should be expensive, right?"
"Yes." Xiang Yang nodded gently, "When you go down later, take the gangway down, don't damage your diving suit."
In fact, this kind of diving suit is made of alloy metal and rubber, and even sharks may not be able to bite it. The reason for saying this is mainly because we are afraid that these people will do something wrong.
Zhuo Shao and his companions took it seriously and climbed down to the deck carefully via the gangway.
After reaching the bottom of the sea, Xiang Yang did not dive immediately. He stayed with Chen Qingsheng, paying attention to the actions of Zhuo Shao and the other two after they went into the sea.
The reactions of the three of them were pretty much what Xiang Yang had expected. They first stood there in a daze, then looked around, opened their arms as if hugging the sea water, and finally, like little children, the three of them chased after a colorful little sea fish that looked beautiful but was actually not worth much.
After a long while, Zhuo Shao and the other two gradually calmed down their excitement and began to swim towards the direction where Xiang Yang was.
Looking at Xiang Yang floating in the water, they all felt embarrassed.
Xiang Yang stayed here at this time, obviously to protect them, because the other crew members had disappeared, apparently going to the bottom of the sea to fish for seafood.
Xiang Yang smiled and waved to the three people, then dived towards the bottom of the sea first.
In fact, the reactions of these three people are quite good.
The bizarre underwater world is really attractive to people.
Not to mention the three of them.
Many crew members on ocean-going fishing vessels have lost count of how many times they have gone diving, and yet they still yearn for the underwater world.
He brought Zhuo Shao and the other two to the bottom of the sea.
Here, Chen Qingsheng is leading people to catch turbot.
Xiang Yang made a few gestures to Chen Qingsheng, indicating that Chen Qingsheng should take good care of the three people, and then he swam in one direction.
Although there are a lot of turbot in this sea area, they hide under the sand and are difficult to find. Although the crew members stay together, there is a little distance between each of them. Therefore, Xiang Yang swimming towards the distance did not make the crew feel inappropriate.
Xiang Yang didn’t actually plan to swim very far. He just wanted to look around to see if he could find some larger turbot.
At this time, Xiang Yang saw a group of sea turtles as big as millstones swimming slowly in front of him.
Xiang Yang had no intention of disturbing the group of turtles. The meat of turtles was rough and not tasty. It was said that the nutritional value was very high and drinking the soup made from it could prolong life. However, people who grew up by the sea believed that turtles were spiritual marine creatures. Few fishermen would catch turtles. Even if they were caught by mistake, they would generally release them.
Xiang Yang turned around on the seabed.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of turbots on this beach, but only a few of them are particularly large.
Xiang Yang picked out a few relatively large ones and began to swim towards the sea.
"Captain, you're up." Chen Qingsheng and others were already on the deck, and Zhuo Shao and others were also there. This was a rule set by Xiang Yang himself. Every certain period of time during diving, they had to go on board to rest for a while, and Zhuo Shao and others had to abide by it.
"Yeah." Xiang Yang took the net bag from his waist and handed it to the crew member beside him. Then he looked at Zhuo Shao beside him with a smile and asked, "How is it, did you get anything down there?"
"Of course." Zhuo Shao proudly pointed at a basin and said, "Look, these are all the things we three fished out from the bottom of the sea."
Xiang Yang lowered his head to take a look into the wooden basin and was speechless again.
Seeing Zhuo Shao's proud look, Xiang Yang thought they had caught some rare seafood.
It turned out that only a few scallops and clams were caught.
"Are you going to take these things back to raise?" Xiang Yang asked.
"We would like to raise them, but we don't have sea water where we are, so we can't raise them." Zhuo Shao chuckled and said, "We are going to take these clam shells back and try our luck to see if we can get some pearls."
Hearing this, everyone started laughing, and Zhuo Shao was a little confused.
"What are you laughing at?" Zhuo Shao looked at Xiang Yang puzzledly.
"They laughed at you for using scallops to open pearls." Xiang Yang said with a smile.
Scallops and clam shells look very similar, and many people mistakenly think that they are the same thing.
Actually, it’s not.
These are two completely different species.
For example, very beautiful pearls can be produced inside the shells of clams, but scallops do not produce pearls.
"You can open these two clam shells and try your luck. You can take the scallops back to play with." Xiang Yang said with a smile.
Zhuo Shao said quickly: "I tried, but I couldn't pry it open. Boss Xiang, lend me a hammer and I'll break it open."
"Don't." Xiang Yang said quickly: "If you just want to take the pearl, there is no need to smash the shell of the clam."
Pearl oysters are generally not killed. Pearls are foreign objects to pearl oysters. After the pearls are taken out, the pearl oysters will not die but will become healthier.
"Come, I'll teach you how to get the pearl."
Xiang Yang took out a Swiss Army knife from his arms, pried open the clam shell with the blade, and then felt the clam meat bit by bit. If he felt something hard, it would definitely be a pearl.
There is a lot of sand and no mud under the sea area, so the pearl production rate of clam shells is too low.
After Xiang Yang explored around, he shook his head and said, "These are ordinary sea clams. They don't produce pearls."
"ah?"
Zhuo Shao was immediately disappointed.
They didn't even try to catch the turbot. They worked hard to catch a few clams and scallops, only to find that they were all empty shells.
"Don't be disappointed. The bottom of this sea is all soft white sand. Although there are many pearl oysters underneath, most of them are natural oysters that do not produce pearls. It is still quite difficult to get natural oysters that produce pearls. But I can go down with you to look for it later." Xiang Yang said with a smile.