Just imagine this.
The crew members on Wu Shiwen's side dived underwater with great effort, but after fishing for a long time they only caught a few swimming crabs, and then they had to hand over half of them to the boat. Who would be willing to go underwater
On the other hand, although everything Xiang Yang caught belonged to him, he could always get a big harvest every time he went down, and Xiang Yang was also generous in giving bonuses and red envelopes.
If this happens a few times, how could Wu Shiwen's crew be more motivated to go into the water? How could Xiang Yang's crew be less motivated
The sea water outside the reef is as clear and blue as a gem, which shows that the sea water here is very clean and not polluted at all.
Xiang Yang put on his diving suit and prepared to go down to the bottom of the sea for a look.
In waters like this one where the water is exceptionally clear, as long as the seabed is not completely bare with no bait, there are generally relatively rich fishery resources. It will have a very sound marine food chain and there may be ferocious marine predators.
Xiang Yang was not confident in letting the crew go down by themselves.
When he reached the bottom of the sea, Xiang Yang immediately saw large clusters of corals, which were piled together to form a huge coral reef.
Among these beautiful coral reefs, there are countless extremely bright and beautiful marine fish.
Just as Xiang Yang was about to continue diving, he saw a huge sea turtle swimming towards him leisurely paddling its limbs.
Xiang Yang had seen many sea turtles, but this was the first time he had seen one this big.
It is more than two meters long, and its two huge forelimbs are like two door panels.
The most amazing thing is that this giant sea turtle has no shell, but has seven hard ridges running vertically across its carapace.
"Skin-striped turtle!"
Xiang Yang was shocked.
All turtles and tortoises have a solid shell, some are single-sided, some are double-sided. Only the leatherback turtle is unique in that it does not have a shell.
The back of the leatherback turtle is covered with a thin, tough waxy skin, which ossifies to form a flexible carapace that is very strong.
Adult leatherback sea turtles have almost no natural enemies in the ocean.
If there are leatherback turtles swimming so leisurely in this sea area, then there must be jellyfish in this sea area.
Jellyfish are the main food of leatherback turtles. An adult leatherback turtle is simply a living jellyfish harvester.
According to scientific data, leatherback sea turtles can eat up to 73 percent of their own body weight in jellyfish in a day.
That is to say, an adult leatherback sea turtle can swallow hundreds of kilograms of jellyfish a day.
Xiang Yang didn't know whether the leatherback turtle saw him.
Leatherback turtles have poor eyesight and often mistake plastic bags for jellyfish. Because of ingesting plastic bags, their numbers have dropped by 95 percent. Some experts predict that they will become completely extinct within 20 years.
Such a large leatherback turtle has extremely strong combat power in the ocean. Xiang Yang did not dare to provoke this leatherback turtle and carefully stepped aside to show that he had no ill will towards it.
Turtles are all spiritual.
The leatherback sea turtle, as the king of turtles, is no exception. When it swam past Xiang Yang, it circled around him twice, looking at Xiang Yang with kindness with its pair of turbid black eyes.
Xiang Yang sighed in his heart. The leatherback turtle was full of kindness towards humans, but it was almost extinct because of humans.
The edible and medicinal value of the leatherback turtle is very high. Even today, there are still people who risk killing leatherback turtles. In the eyes of poachers, each leatherback turtle is a huge fortune.
Xiang Yang touched the head of the leatherback turtle, of course he was very careful, for he was afraid of suddenly angering this huge turtle. Looking at its forelimbs that looked like door panels, if it were hit by it, it would probably not be much lighter than being hit by a humpback whale.
As a result, the leatherback turtle had no ill will towards Xiang Yang. It allowed Xiang Yang to stroke its body and even squinted its eyes with joy.
After playing with the giant leatherback turtle for a while, Xiang Yang continued to dive underwater.
The sea water here is indeed very deep, more than a hundred meters.
It would be difficult for Wu Shiwen and his group to descend to this depth wearing ordinary diving suits.
As soon as Xiang Yang stepped on the ground, he was attracted by a strange crab with a black back and the rest of its body was bright red.
This crab looks like a Digimon.
Its eyes look like the tentacles of a snail, sticking out like matchsticks, and look very funny.
Its two claws were of very different sizes. The right claw was about three times longer than its carapace, accounting for more than half of its total volume, while the left claw was very small and delicate. If Xiang Yang had not known that crabs had two claws, he would have thought that this crab had nine legs and one claw.
Xiang Yang flashed and swam to the side of the strange crab. He grabbed its shell and lifted it up.
Xiang Yang discovered that the pincer on its right was not only large and heavy, but also very brightly colored, with a very special pattern on it as embellishment, which was extremely eye-catching.
Xiang Yang burst out laughing. This must be the Tide-Calling Crab.
There are so many brightly colored, beautiful, and strange-looking creatures in the ocean.
The reason why Xiang Yang was able to recognize this crab as a fiddler crab was because this type of crab has a signature move—summoning the tide.
The action of summoning the tide is the focus of attention of the fiddler crab.
In fact, fiddler crabs are a general term for ninety-five different species of crabs.
These 95 different species, all called fiddler crabs, have a signature move: they like to wave their huge right claws as if they are summoning the tide.
In addition, the body color of all fiddler crabs undergoes regular changes. During the day, they are extremely bright and dark in color, and at night, their body color becomes lighter.
This is not a skill similar to a chameleon that changes its body color according to the surrounding environment.
There is no scientific explanation as to why different species of fiddler crabs can change their body color. The more common theory is that it is to block ultraviolet rays or regulate body temperature, just like humans apply sunscreen on their skin.
But this statement does not make sense scientifically.
Because the color changes of the fiddler crab are very regular, no matter where it is, whether it is placed in a completely dark place or in a place that is bright for 24 hours, its body can change color on time, as if a biological clock is automatically set in the body.
Some people also believe that this is a process similar to photosynthesis in plants.
Because the fiddler crab has a very strange characteristic, it does not need to eat any organic food and can survive by eating only soil.
But this was quickly denied by scientists, because although fiddler crabs do not need to eat organisms, the soil contains a variety of nutritious debris, and the stomachs of fiddler crabs can digest the soil.