After the banquet, Xiang Yang and Xu Fang returned to their boat.
Chen Qingsheng immediately came forward, "Captain, Lao Xu, you are back?"
"Yeah." Xiang Yang smiled and nodded, "Have you guys eaten and drunk well?"
Chen Qingsheng nodded, "The brothers are all full."
Xiang Yang smiled and said, "Now that we have eaten and drunk well, let's take a good rest. If nothing unexpected happens, the fleet will set sail again tomorrow."
"As soon as the banquet ended, I asked the crew to return to their cabins." Chen Qingsheng said.
Xiang Yang hummed.
After experiencing the snowstorm, everyone was exhausted from the fear they had suffered all day, and they also drank some wine at the evening banquet. Now that they were back in the cabin, they definitely needed to rest.
Early the next morning.
Xiang Yang appeared on the deck early, waving his arms.
After one night, the impact of the snowstorm had completely passed.
But the sky was still gray.
Soon, the crew members who got up early got up one after another, and when they saw Xiang Yang, they immediately greeted him one by one.
"captain."
"Brother Yang."
Xiang Yang also responded one by one, "Morning."
Looking at the majestic blue sky and the huge white iceberg dominating everything not far away, Xiang Yang felt relaxed and happy.
"Why did you get up so early?" Xiang Yang asked with a smile the crew members who got up early.
"I went to bed too early last night, and with the polar day, it was bright all day. In fact, I woke up even earlier. I got up now, but I've actually been lying in bed for more than an hour since I woke up." Chen Qingsheng said.
"There's nothing to do when I get up anyway, so even if I wake up I might as well lie in bed for a while." Xiang Yang said while exercising.
"How about we take a walk under the sea?" Chen Qingsheng said.
As soon as Chen Qingsheng said this, all the crew members who had gotten up nearby immediately looked at Xiang Yang.
"You all want to go into the sea?" Xiang Yang asked with a smile.
Everyone nodded immediately. Now everyone on Xiang Yang's boat had become accustomed to diving as a recreational activity.
The last time we went diving, we encountered hammerhead sharks, so none of us had a good time diving. Then we encountered a blizzard and the Antarctic death ray. We fled all the way to this sea area, and have long wanted to go into the sea to have some fun.
Xiang Yang looked at the towering iceberg not far away and said, "Do you know? Generally, the part of an iceberg that floats above the water is only about one tenth of the volume of the entire iceberg. Look at that iceberg, the part above the water is dozens of meters, and the part under the water is at least hundreds of meters. This means that the depth of the sea in this area is at least hundreds of meters. Even if we go down, we can't reach the bottom of the sea."
"It's okay to go down and take a look. We don't necessarily have to dive and fish when we get to the surface. We can just use it as a way to kill time." Chen Qingsheng said.
Xiang Yang smiled and shook his head, "I'm afraid you're the only ones who have such a high enthusiasm for diving."
Upon hearing this, Chen Qingsheng immediately touched his head embarrassedly.
Diving is an extremely physically demanding sport from beginning to end, and staying underwater for a long time will cause some damage to the body. Except for Xiang Yang's boat, the crew on any other fishing boat would not be so enthusiastic about diving.
"Aren't we just sitting there with nothing to do? Yesterday the fishing boat was hit by a snowstorm and you, Captain, suffered a lot of losses. Let's go into the water and see if we can catch some rare fish to help you recover some of your losses." A crew member said, touching his head.
Hearing this, Xiang Yang's brows slowly frowned.
The crew member immediately panicked, "Captain, did I say something wrong?"
Xiang Yang sighed, "You're right. We fishermen rely on the weather for our livelihood. I was lucky to have encountered a snowstorm yesterday. The damage on the boat was not great. Boss Gao's loss was much greater than mine."
Chen Qingsheng shook his head and said, "In fact, Boss Gao is lucky. At least there were no casualties among the crew members of the fleet."
Xiang Yang waved his hands and scolded with a smile: "Forget it, let's not talk about this. If you want to go to the sea, go ahead, but be careful, don't run around underwater. When you are underwater, always pay attention to the movements of the fishing boats on the surface. Don't be fishing in the water when the fleet leaves."
"That's not possible." Chen Qingsheng said immediately.
Xiang Yang laughed, "Go get your diving suit, and bring mine out for me as well."
Chen Qingsheng asked in surprise: "Captain, are you going down too?"
"What? You are allowed to go down, but I am not allowed to go down and take a look?" Xiang Yang snorted.
"Okay, I'll go get the diving suit for the captain." Chen Qingsheng said with a hearty smile.
Soon, Xiang Yang put on his diving suit, and then dived directly into the water.
This time, Xiang Yang did not bring a net bag, he just planned to go down and see the scenery.
Because the water here is at least several hundred meters deep, it is impossible for normal humans to dive to the bottom of the sea even if they are wearing diving suits.
Xiang Yang was able to dive down, but it would be difficult for him to explain to the crew after coming up.
There is a huge iceberg not far away.
After Xiang Yang went into the water, he saw the underwater part of the iceberg at a glance.
To be honest, Xiang Yang was shocked when he saw the underwater part of the iceberg.
On the sea, the iceberg looks like a pointed hill without vegetation, dominated by white.
And on the seabed, the iceberg is so large that it almost looks like a real mountain.
"No wonder there is a saying that if you only look at the iceberg on the sea surface, you will never know how deep the underwater part is." Xiang Yang thought to himself.
The underwater part of this iceberg is more than ten times the size of its above-water part.
An iceberg is actually a piece of ice as big as a mountain, which has broken away from a glacier or ice shelf on land and floats on a vast expanse of water.
Xiang Yang flashed and appeared at the underwater part of the huge iceberg.
Xiang Yang knocked on the iceberg in front of him with his hand and found that the texture of the iceberg was very strong and hard. If his fishing boat collided with it, it would definitely cause a shipwreck, and the consequences might be as serious as the Titanic shipwreck in 1912.
"It's impossible to allow such a large iceberg to float on the sea without any supervision, right?" Xiang Yang thought to himself.
In fact, these icebergs floating on the sea are very dangerous. Before field exploration, no one knows what their underwater parts look like. When ships travel near icebergs, they may run aground and sink at any time.
The most important thing is that most icebergs on the sea surface will move with the ocean currents and wind currents, and it is difficult to accurately record a route that can safely avoid all icebergs on a nautical chart.
Because icebergs can easily pose a hazard to marine operations, countries around the world have formed an international ice patrol to monitor the movements of icebergs around the world. my country is said to also have a related system for monitoring the movement of icebergs.