Fang Youqun said slyly, "Brother Yang, if I don't use your equipment, what about the fishing rod and bait I brought with me?"
Xiang Yang drooped his eyelids and said, "Go fishing in the sea, everything you catch is yours."
Chen Qingsheng slapped Fang Youqun on the head. "From Qinglongwan to South Pole, have you ever calculated how much you spent on this journey? Are you not happy with half of it? And now it's working hours, and you still want to collect your salary while doing your own thing?"
Fang Youqun immediately laughed and said, "I'm just asking. I don't fish and I don't have a fishing rod."
Xiang Yang rolled his eyes, "Why would I ask you if I'm not going to catch you? You might as well go back to the cabin and get some more sleep while you have some free time."
"I want to dive." Fang Youqun said immediately.
When sailing on the sea, the scenery is the same everywhere, which can easily cause visual fatigue.
On the contrary, there are all kinds of strange things on the seabed.
Therefore, many people on the boat actually hope that the boat will stop, put on diving suits, and go to the bottom of the sea for a walk.
Xiang Yang looked at the other fishing boats around and instructed: "After entering the water, look carefully at the water surface when you come up. Although Boss Gao said that we will rest here for a day, I am not sure whether those parked fishing boats will move halfway. Also, there will definitely be a lot of rubber boats on the sea soon. Don't be stupid and bump into them without knowing it."
"Don't worry, Captain, this is not the first time for any of us to go to sea." Chen Qingsheng said with a smile.
Xu Fang also nodded and said, "There's no need to worry about the ships on the water, but I don't know how deep the water is here. Don't worry, it's hundreds of meters deep every now and then. That would be no fun."
"Well, then go down. Remember, you can't run too far after you go down. You must always keep yourself in the sight of others. Also, if you encounter floating ice, you are never allowed to drill under the ice, especially you, Fang Youqun. If I find out that you dare to drill under the ice, you will never be able to dive again." Xiang Yang said seriously.
In other waters, Xiang Yang actually encouraged crew members to go underwater.
Firstly, life on the sea is indeed monotonous, and diving can add a lot of fun to the crew during the voyage.
Secondly, underwater operations are indeed one of Xiang Yang’s main sources of income.
However, in the Antarctic waters, Xiang Yang rarely lets his crew members work underwater.
The reason was that they were worried that some reckless crew members would go under the ice.
"Yes, Captain." Seeing Xiang Yang become serious, the crew members immediately tensed up and answered loudly.
"Okay, if you want to go down, go register and get your diving suit. Remember, you can't stay down for more than half an hour each time." Xiang Yang waved his hand, signaling everyone to disperse.
The crew members immediately swarmed towards Chen Qingsheng. The ship had not yet received a set of diving equipment, and if they registered late, they might not be able to get a turn.
Xiang Yang also took a diving suit, put it on, and jumped to the bottom of the sea.
This sea area is completely different from the sea area that Xiang Yang and his team had dived into before.
From a topographical point of view, there seems to be a series of steep mountains under this sea, one peak after another, steep slopes, and dark abyss.
These mountains are not all bare, but are covered with various mosses, seaweeds, and giant algae.
Xiang Yang landed on a towering "mountain peak", surrounded by long seaweed swaying with the waves.
"What a strange sea and seabed." Xiang Yang sighed inwardly. From where he was standing, the distance to the sea level was only a few dozen meters. Such a shallow sea was basically possible for a normal person wearing diving equipment to come down.
However, when Xiang Yang looked down, he saw a very steep and bottomless abyss.
Then, not far away, there is another underwater mountain rising up.
Xiang Yang looked left and right.
Soon, not far away, they saw a fat Antarctic red dragon, whose body was as thick as Xiang Yang's wrist and more than fifteen centimeters long.
The red dragon was gnawing on a shellfish. When it saw Xiang Yang, it did not dodge and even waved a pair of small pincers to demonstrate towards Xiang Yang.
Xiang Yang smiled and appeared next to the Antarctic red dragon in a flash. Then he grabbed the Antarctic red dragon's head with his hand and stuffed it into the net bag around his waist.
Then Xiang Yang picked up the shellfish and took a look at it. This was also a valuable shellfish called the blue-spotted flower shell. It was produced in the unpolluted waters of Antarctica and had very tender meat.
Unfortunately, this blue-spotted flower shell was already dead, and its meat was almost eaten up by the Antarctic red dragon.
Xiang Yang shook his head and thought to himself that this Antarctic red dragon really knew how to eat, actually choosing such an expensive blue-spotted flower shell.
Continuing to walk forward, Xiang Yang saw something that was completely transparent and looked like jelly.
Xiang Yang thought it was seaweed, so he bent down and examined it carefully.
As a result, Xiang Yang discovered that this thing was quite different from ordinary sea jelly vegetables.
Real sea jelly is a type of algae and can be found in major oceans around the world. It is an indispensable signature dish in various cold dish and kimchi shops in my country.
However, sea jelly grows upright and has many branches.
The unknown marine plants that Xiang Yang saw now looked very similar to sea jelly, but they were lying on the seabed like ivy.
The length is similar to that of sea jelly, both are about 20 to 30 centimeters long, and the colors include purple, reddish brown, light yellow, etc.
"What on earth is this thing? It looks too much like sea jelly." Xiang Yang was puzzled. These jelly-like things looked too much like sea jelly in all other aspects except that they did not grow upright.
If you don't look closely, their shapes look like coral.
Xiang Yang didn't doubt whether this was a kind of sea jelly.
Because sea jelly is more beautiful than these jelly-like things, especially the sea jelly that is exposed above the water, it looks like a bunch of purple coral flowers from a distance, swaying with the flow of the tide, and it is stunningly beautiful.
At this time, Xiang Yang saw that among these jelly-like plants, there lived many marine creatures, including shellfish, small fish and shrimps.
Among them, Xiang Yang also saw a lot of sea fish eating these jelly-like things.
When Xiang Yang saw it, he immediately pulled several of them and stuffed them into his net bag. "Since so many fish are eating it, it's probably non-toxic. Let's get some up there first and see if anyone recognizes it."
In fact, what Xiang Yang didn't know was that this thing was actually a type of sea jelly. The only difference was that compared to the sea jelly that grows upright and can be eaten directly as a cold dish, this type of sea jelly that lies on the seabed is the raw material for making agar.