Xiang Yang took a look at the ice floe in front of him. Indeed, the ice floe was at least several thousand acres in size. Such ice floes could not be broken by ordinary icebreakers. But could one fish on the ice floes
Want to catch penguins
Xiang Yang didn't ask any more questions. He told everyone on his boat through the intercom to pack their work and prepare for landing. Then he followed Gao Chuang and reached the ice floe in a speedboat.
When he got on the ice floe, Xiang Yang carefully wiped the ice under his feet with the soles of his shoes. Although they were special anti-slip shoes, they were still very slippery on the ice floe.
Soon, the crew members arrived on the ice one by one.
At this time, Fang Youqun pointed in a direction and said in surprise: "Brother Yang, look over there."
Xiang Yang raised his eyes and looked in that direction.
A few hundred meters away, there was an animal with a white belly, a black back, and a furry body.
"It's an Adélie penguin." Xia Pengjie whispered, "Penguins are usually gregarious animals. They need to cuddle together for warmth. The solitary penguins are usually Adélie penguins."
Xiang Yang nodded in agreement.
Many people think that the most ferocious penguin is the emperor penguin. In fact, the emperor penguin is at least the most famous species of penguins. They are very friendly and not ferocious at all.
The emperor penguin, also known as the emperor penguin, is the largest species in the penguin family. The largest can even grow to over 1.2 meters long and weigh up to 150 kilograms.
Adélie penguins are the truly ferocious penguins, they even dare to fight with sea lions.
Xiang Yang once watched a documentary in which a group of emperor penguins that had just become independent were on a piece of ice and were afraid to go into the water.
At this time, they were seen by an Adélie penguin.
The Adélie penguin took a fancy to the piece of ice and immediately attacked the group of emperor penguins.
Although emperor penguins are large in size, they are not as ferocious as Adélie penguins. They formed a circle and fought together against the Adélie penguin.
As a result, the group of emperor penguins at the outermost edge of the circle were pecked by the Adélie penguin, and they fled into the ocean in panic due to the pain.
"Very fierce?" Fang Youqun muttered, "This thing is not much bigger than a goose, how fierce can it be?"
"You can try it yourself." Xia Pengjie laughed.
"Okay, stop making noise. Put on your protective goggles to prevent your eyes from getting hurt by ultraviolet rays." Xiang Yang stopped the two people who were quarreling.
In Antarctica, you cannot go out without protective glasses. Antarctica has very strong ultraviolet rays, which are very harmful to human eyes. In addition, ice will refract light, which will also harm human eyes.
Sometimes, people even suffer from snow blindness.
"Xiang Yang." At this time, Gao Chuang waved to Xiang Yang.
Xiang Yang hurried over and said, "Boss Gao, are you looking for me?"
Gao Chuang nodded. "I'll have someone drill a hole in the ice and fish from the ice hole. You and your crew can move freely now, but don't leave the ice, and don't let your crew get close to the edge of the ice. There may be seals under the water."
Xiang Yang nodded seriously. In Antarctica, seals are very dangerous creatures.
As a result, before Gao Chuang could continue speaking, Xiang Yang suddenly heard the crew members exclaiming loudly, "Seal, look, there is a seal over there."
Xiang Yang quickly looked over there.
Sure enough, in the distance, there was a sturdy creature covered with black spots, over three meters long, weighing at least several hundred kilograms, with dark gray lines on its back. It was crawling on the ice and looking at everyone curiously.
When the seal saw the crew looking at it, it opened its mouth, slapped its belly hard with its two large flippers, and then crawled towards them with clumsy but not slow steps.
Xiang Yang narrowed his eyes slightly, "Be careful, this is an untrained leopard seal, it will attack people."
But the people were not afraid.
Are you kidding? There are more than ten ships of all sizes and thousands of people here. It would be funny if they were scared by a seal.
"Mr. Gao, do you want to kill this leopard seal?" An old sailor licked his lips and asked Gao Chuang while holding a three-pronged harpoon in one hand.
"Forget it, don't kill it, just drive it away." Gao Chuang said.
"Okay." The crew member immediately lost interest. "I only know how to kill seals. If you want to chase them, go ahead."
"Captain." Chen Qingsheng protected Xiang Yang behind him, "Stand behind me in a moment. If this seal hurts anyone, I will kill it."
Xiang Yang smiled and pulled Chen Qingsheng to his side, "I'm not afraid of this seal."
Although seals are very agile in the water, once they are on the surface, their movement speed is not much different from that of penguins.
Even if Xiang Yang walked over now and kicked it in the back, it would take it a while to turn around.
However, leopard seals are indeed a very dangerous marine creature. They are very courageous and curious, and they are extremely cruel and bloodthirsty. They are one of the creatures at the top of the entire Antarctic food chain. In the entire Antarctic, the only predator that can kill them is the killer whale, the god of war of the ocean.
And they have a history of attacking humans.
In 2003, a female scientist named Kirsty Brown was in a research team carrying out a scientific research expedition in Antarctica. While conducting underwater operations near the base, she was suddenly attacked by a leopard seal, dragged into deep water and killed.
"Move aside." At this time, three crew members carrying things like gas tanks shouted to the crew members who were watching the excitement in front.
Xiang Yang explained to Chen Qingsheng: "On the ice, there is nothing to be afraid of seals except that they are a little bigger and have thicker skin and flesh. Basically, any adult man with a harpoon can kill it."
"But underwater, this guy is really scary. Apart from the bio-electric gun, we have almost no other means to deal with it."
"But now we are on the ice, someone will take care of this big guy."
Xiang Yang guessed correctly.
I saw the three crew members wearing assault suits and carrying a large can striding towards the seal.
When the seal saw people approaching, it immediately showed a ferocious expression, twisted its body, quickened its pace and was about to attack the three people.
"Breathing fire."
I don't know who shouted, and then I saw the three crew members carrying the cans raised their hands at the same time. In their hands, they held a tube, and three or four meters of blue flames spurted out from the tube.
The leopard was still about twenty or thirty meters away from the three crew members, but after seeing the blue flame, it immediately stopped and looked at the three crew members with fear and confusion.
But the three crew members did not hesitate at all, they ran towards the seal.