Xiang Yang called Chen Qingsheng and said with a smile: "Master Chen, it is not good for human health to stay underwater for a long time. We must return to the deck to rest for a while every half an hour at most. This is an old rule on our ship."
Chen Qingsheng slapped his head and said, "Look at my brain. I forgot about this matter when I was excited. But, Captain, I am worried. There are green-lipped abalones down there. They are green-lipped abalones!"
Xiang Yang smiled and said, "But rules are rules. It's just right that you can take advantage of this little time to deal with these green-lipped abalone in my net bag."
Chen Qingsheng immediately asked: "Captain, what do you want to do?"
Xiang Yang pondered for a moment. If other fishermen caught green-lipped abalone, they would usually freeze it immediately after catching it to preserve its perfect sashimi-grade taste, making it fresher, sweeter, smoother and more tender than other abalone on the market.
The greenlip abalone is preserved by quick freezing technology, and its quality and freshness are just like it was just caught from nature.
But those were just ordinary small fishermen.
Those who really engage in deep-sea fishing will not be so reckless. They will generally find ways to bring the caught green-lipped abalone back alive.
Even if they cannot be brought back alive, they will be directly made into dried abalone.
"Clear out a water tank, put ice in it, put the larger green-lipped abalone in the net bag in the tank and take it back. Pick out the smaller ones separately and we will taste them in the evening." Xiang Yang said.
"Huh? We are going to eat such expensive green-lipped abalone ourselves?" Chen Qingsheng asked in surprise.
Chen Qingsheng had been following Xiang Yang for a while. Although he had known for a long time that Xiang Yang was generous and the crew had eaten rare seafood with Xiang Yang more than once or twice, Chen Qingsheng was still surprised when he heard Xiang Yang say that he wanted to keep such a precious green-lipped abalone for himself.
Xiang Yang smiled and said, "I can't let my brothers and I catch seafood ourselves, but end up not trying a lot of seafood."
Chen Qingsheng nodded and sighed, "Captain, you are really generous."
Green-lipped abalone is the king of nourishing foods, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is more valuable than gold. In Chen Qingsheng's opinion, this is not just eating seafood, this is clearly eating gold.
Xiang Yang said, "Don't say that. It's not generous or not. It's not prepared specially for you. I want to try it myself."
Chen Qingsheng nodded heavily. He knew that Xiang Yang said this to relieve his psychological pressure.
Soon, Chen Qingsheng had someone bring over an extra-large water tank, filled it with cold sea water, and placed a small water circulation pump into the tank. Finally, he had someone dig out a few large pieces of crushed ice from the freezer and throw them into the water tank before carefully placing the green-lipped abalone into the tank.
"Captain, these green-lipped abalone have been processed, and we are about to go into the water." Chen Qingsheng said eagerly.
Xiang Yang knew that Chen Qingsheng was anxious. After all, Xiang Yang had promised everyone before that half of the things salvaged this time would belong to the crew members.
For the crew members including Chen Qingsheng, green-lipped abalone is an extremely precious seafood. As long as they can catch a few of them, it will be a huge income.
If they were lucky enough to catch a double-headed abalone or even a single-headed abalone, it would be a huge windfall for the crew.
"Okay, but I have to tell you first, you must come up within half an hour. Also, green-lipped abalone likes to live in rock crevices or caves. If you find a green-lipped abalone in one of those smaller crevices, no matter how big it is, you are absolutely not allowed to catch it."
Chen Qingsheng nodded immediately. As an old sailor, he certainly knew how terrible it would be to get stuck in a crevice by accident.
"Don't worry, Captain. I will send people down in groups of two and will never allow anyone to take risks." Chen Qingsheng assured.
"Well, then go ahead. I won't stop you from making money." Xiang Yang said jokingly.
Chen Qingsheng touched his head embarrassedly, "If we talk about getting rich, then it's you, the captain, who is really making a fortune. We are just following behind you to get some soup."
Xiang Yang said unhappily: "If you don't know how to flatter, don't do it. Go now."
"No hurry, let me drink some water first." Chen Qingsheng said with a smile.
Xiang Yang smiled and said, "Why, you know to drink water now? Seeing how excited you were just now, I thought you could dive twice in a row without drinking water."
"That's not possible." Chen Qingsheng immediately shook his head. When people are underwater, it is easy to become dehydrated and they need to constantly replenish water into their bodies.
Just now, Chen Qingsheng didn’t feel thirsty because his mind was full of green-lipped abalone.
Now that the excitement had passed, Chen Qingsheng's throat felt so dry that it seemed like it was smoking.
After drinking the water, Chen Qingsheng quickly led the crew to dive to the bottom of the sea.
The crew members were very enthusiastic and rushed to go into the water.
Xiang Yang smiled as he watched the scene in front of him, then he put on his helmet as well.
When Xiang Yang went down into the sea again, he did not deliberately look for the green-lipped abalone.
Xiang Yang wandered around the seabed, looking for other rare catches.
Of course, because Xiang Yang had an excellent vision underwater and he swam very fast, even if Xiang Yang did not look for them deliberately, he caught much more green-lipped abalone than other crew members.
After making a circle in the waters near the sea surface, Xiang Yang began to dive slowly into the deeper trench.
What Xiang Yang found very strange was that the deeper he dived, the more numerous and denser the marine plants he discovered were along the way.
"It's really strange that there are such lush underwater plants growing in such a cold deep sea." Xiang Yang thought to himself.
As far as Xiang Yang knows, the Antarctic flora is poor in plant species, but has significant endemic phenomena.
Typical plants include the Feather Fruit Family, Nothofagus, Pteris and many Araucaria plants.
After countless botanists' surveys in Antarctica, a total of more than 850 species of plants were discovered in Antarctica.
Most of these more than 850 species of plants are lower plants, and only three flowering plants belong to higher plants.
Among the lower plants, there are more than 350 species of lichens, more than 370 species of mosses, and more than 130 species of algae.
The variety and quantity of plants are not only incomparable to those on other continents, but are also far behind those in the Arctic region.
Although the Arctic region is also extremely cold, with the lowest temperature below minus 60 degrees Celsius and most areas belonging to the permafrost zone, the variety and quantity of plants growing there are more than in Antarctica. There are more than 100 species of flowering plants alone, more than 2,000 species of lichens, and more than 500 species of mosses.
In Antarctica, not only are there few species and small numbers, but there are many places without any plants at all.