"Captain, are you sure these pearls are really common?" Fang Youqun swallowed and looked at Xiang Yang eagerly.
The other crew members also had stars in their eyes. If Xiang Yang nodded, they would put on their diving suits without hesitation and dive to the bottom of the sea again.
"In fact, there are really a lot of pearls, but round and large pearls are very rare. Moreover, it is very rare for clams to produce pearls. Every two pearls are far apart on the seabed. It is very rare to find sea areas rich in pearls." He Mingde was already putting on a diving suit and explained for Xiang Yang while doing so.
"Not playing cards anymore?" Xiang Yang asked with a smile.
"No more playing, no more playing." Chen Qingsheng put the cards in his pocket and said, "Let's go down and have a look. If I'm lucky, I can find two pearls to make jewelry for my wife. If I can't find any, I can catch some swimming crabs."
Xiang Yang nodded without saying anything. Anyway, it was agreed that today was a holiday so he let them make their own arrangements.
Most of the crew members on the ship began to wear diving suits, which made the two humpback whales very excited. They kept poking their heads out of the sea and making long whale calls.
The two humpback whales were smart enough to figure out that if the guys on deck put on that strange outfit they would come down to the sea and play with them.
There were exceptions. Xu Fang stood by the side of the boat and gestured continuously. After a while, he said, "The sea water here seems to be several dozen meters deep."
The deep sea means high pressure, which has a great impact on the human body. Xu Fang was hesitating whether he should go down as well.
"Just try it according to your ability. If you feel tightness in your chest, come up immediately." He Mingde didn't care. If the young crew members on the deck could dive, there was no reason why he couldn't. He was also a young crew member. When he was young, he could dive 50 to 60 meters with his bare hands. Now that he is in his prime and has diving equipment, he can't dive
Xiang Yang ignored them and went back to his own room in the cabin, where he put all the green pearls, including the one as big as a pigeon egg and some pearls with a diameter of more than 8 mm, into a box in the drawer.
After thinking for a while, Xiang Yang put the black pearl that had lost its luster into the box and then locked the box.
As for the remaining pearls, they are not that valuable.
After collecting the pearls, Xiang Yang did not rush to go into the sea again, but ran to the freezer and dragged a basket of squid to the edge of the deck.
"Big Head, Two Heads." Xiang Yang shouted loudly at the sea while standing on the side of the ship. These were the names Xiang Yang gave to the two humpback whales, which were chasing the crew members on the sea, using their big heads to push the submerged crew members out of the sea, and then carrying them around in circles on the sea.
When the two humpback whales heard Xiang Yang's shout, they didn't know who Xiang Yang was calling at first.
However, when they saw Xiang Yang holding a squid weighing more than one kilogram in his hand and waving at them on the deck, the two humpback whales immediately knew that Xiang Yang was calling them.
Suddenly the two humpback whales became excited, dropped the crew on their big heads and swam towards the fishing boat under Xiang Yang's feet.
"Hey, hey, don't run!" Among the crew members whose heads were thrown off by the humpback whale was Fang Youqun. He had finally climbed onto the head of the male whale and was having fun, but those two ungrateful guys just threw him away when they saw a squid, which really made Fang Youqun very angry.
The baskets on the deck are not very big, just like the foam boxes. A basket of squid weighs only about 40 to 50 kilograms.
Forty or fifty kilograms of squid is really too little for the two humpback whales, it is just like a snack to satisfy their cravings.
Soon the basket was empty, but the two humpback whales were still staring at Xiang Yang eagerly.
"Gone." Xiang Yang helplessly showed the basket to the two humpback whales, indicating that the squids had really been eaten up.
The two humpback whales were immediately disappointed and slowly backed away.
Xiang Yang smiled. He was willing to give some cheap catches to the two big guys to satisfy their cravings, but forget it if he was asked to feed them!
The two humpback whales retreated for a distance, and after making sure that Xiang Yang really had no squids, they sank to the bottom of the sea again to play.
Xiang Yang asked the two crew members on duty on the ship to send the basket back to the cabin, and he put on a hood and breathing mask and prepared to go to the sea again.
It was brighter when Xiang Yang went to sea again.
A different group of migrating fish from yesterday swam to this sea area with the waves after a night of rest. It was a magnificent sight.
This made the two humpback whales very happy. They opened their mouths wide and swam slowly on the seabed.
I saw a huge school of fish swimming towards the south, and many of them even lined up to crash into the big mouths of two humpback whales and never got out.
Maybe it was because of the presence of the two humpback whales, or maybe it was because the school of fish that passed by yesterday was even more massive. After searching carefully around, Xiang Yang did not find any ferocious marine predators among this group of fish except for the migrating small fish.
The other crew members on the ship were also shocked by the large group of sea fish that suddenly passed through this sea area. They looked around in a daze, staring at the dense sea fish above, below, left, right, front and behind them, and were so shocked that they were almost speechless.
Damn, the fishery resources in the deep sea are really too rich! No wonder those who fish in the near sea are getting poorer and poorer every year, so poor that they want to abandon their ancestral business and find another way to make a living, while those who buy fishing boats to fish in the open sea are getting richer and richer, with their fishing boats getting bigger and bigger every year, and the number of fishing boats in the fleet is increasing year by year.
Xiang Yang looked at the two humpback whales that were hunting, then smiled and dived to the bottom of the sea, carefully searching for various clams or shells.
Most of the crew members, including He Mingde, Chen Fusheng, and Chen Qingsheng, did the same. When they saw a dead shell, they would turn it over to see if there were any pearls left inside. If they saw a living one, they would pry it open to see if there were any pearls.
However, when it comes to live scallops, clams, etc., people only pry open those that are larger than the palm of their hand.
This area of sea fish may be due to the large amount of mud, sand and quartz materials brought by the cold current, and many clams have pearls in their bodies.
However, most of them are the most common white pearls, and the grains are very small and the shapes are very irregular. The value of such pearls is not even as good as that of artificially cultivated pearls.
Xiang Yang had an extremely good vision at the bottom of the sea. He could often determine from a long distance whether there were pearls and what color the pearls were inside the scallop before alarming it and causing it to close its shell. Therefore, Xiang Yang's harvest was the largest among everyone.
Xiang Yang pried open a clam shell that was larger than an adult's palm, took out a milky white pearl over 12mm in size and threw it into his net bag. Suddenly, he saw an extremely interesting scene.
Among a group of pearl-diving crew members there was a strange guy. When he saw dead shellfish, he would turn them over to see if there were any pearls inside, but when he saw living clams, he would stuff them all into his net bag. Now he was struggling to move along the seabed with a net bag full of clam shells.