Accompanied by the cheers of the small bowl, I also looked over and gave me shock at the first glance. In addition to shock, I can only describe it as beauty and magnificence.
We seem to be in a crystal clear glass ball, the dome is full of vast stars, and there is no obvious boundary between it and the sea. Countless moonlight jellyfishes in the water, in groups, flashing dim lights, reflecting a large area of the beach. Just like the light radiating from jewelry, the entire sea is transparent.
This is a large group of jellyfish, with no end in sight.
"Wow! Brother Xiaoxia, there is a fountain in the water, it's so spectacular!" Xiaowan kept clapping his hands. I looked over carefully, and sure enough, a column of sea water burst out into the sky. "It's a blue whale!" The blue whale is not far from us, about a hundred meters away. Gradually three or four blue whales also swam over, and there was a burst of spray.
To identify the type of whale, in addition to looking at the appearance, experienced people usually use the jet of water from the whale in the ocean. The water column of baleen whales is tall and long, and the water column of toothed whales is thick and short. The blue whale sprays a narrow and straight column of mist, up to six to twelve meters high.
Suddenly there was a wave of waves on the surface of the water, which rushed our boat up, and we looked down on the water, and a huge and incomparable blue figure passed by the boat! Fifty meters away, it jumped out of the water like a hill. It was extremely shocking and frightening, and I thought "Too fucking scary. Fortunately, this big guy doesn't eat people, otherwise we won't be able to stuff our teeth!"
Old Du has a poem, "Or look at the emerald orchid vetch, without a whale in the blue sea." Presumably Du Fu had never seen such a behemoth, otherwise he would not have written such an exaggerated poem.
Smiled at this time and said, "Blue whales are very widely distributed. According to my experience, this place may be part of the South Pacific. As for where it is, God knows!" Doesn't this mean that I didn't talk about it? However, this reveals a piece of information, which means that we have entered the most emptied center of the Pacific Ocean and the probability of encountering islands is very small... As I understand, there are very few waterways in this sea area. If there are no islands in the middle, it means The planes are also pitiful.
"It's not a way for us to drift like this. It seems that the power system of this ship is broken! Can you think of a way to make the ship move?"
"With sails, this thing is too heavy and you need to steer it!" After smiling, he made the tarpaulin into a simple sail and handed a rope into my hand. Take the trouble to command:
"The sailing boat is driven by the "Bernoulli effect", which means that when the air flows through an arc like a wing, it will produce a forward and upward attraction to the small sailing boat." He finished with a smile and paused. pause. Pointing to the positions of the sails, I explained them in detail.
"As the saying goes [a smooth sailing], for novices, tailwind is quite difficult. When there is a tailwind, the wind comes in parallel to the ship, and there is no lateral pressure for balance. It is easy to capsize because of loss of balance. "After talking with a smile, I pulled the rope and performed a demonstration of the operation. It took me several times before I remembered the operation essentials.
"If it is a crosswind, then it will be turned into two forces by the sails, one is the force that makes the boat slide, the other is the force that makes the boat move forward, and the force of the sideslip is "center board". The force turned into a sideways, and then adjusted by the sailor's center of gravity, there is only a small amount of sideways power left, and most of the power is moving forward at this time." After that, Xiaoxiao performed another operation demonstration.
"If you encounter a head wind, the sail is generally limited to 45 degrees. The concept of head wind driving is quite similar to cross wind driving. If you encounter a head wind, the lateral force is greater than the cross wind, and the forward force is less Wind is easy to learn but hard to master." After all, Xiaoxiao gave another demonstration. At this time, it was a downwind. It took me 16 hours to master the essentials, and my arms became sour from exhaustion.
"Right! Now that we have an engine, how do we judge the way forward?"
"The ancients watched the sun during the day, the stars at night, and the sun during the day. It is easy to understand. When you look carefully at the sky, which star is the easiest and best to identify?"
I looked towards the vast sea of stars in the sky, and a group of stars like spoons suddenly came into my eyes: "The Big Dipper?"
"That's right! The Big Dipper is in the sky all year round. In ancient times, the direction of the bucket handle was used to judge the seasons: Doo handle east refers to the world, spring is all under the sky, south refers to the world is summer, west refers to the world, autumn is all the world, and the world is all autumn. The north refers to the world in winter. It's summer now, and the direction of Dou handle refers to the south!"
If you know one direction, just follow the directions from north to south, left east and right west. This is what Confucius called "by analogy!". Our direction is relatively clear. In this sea area, it is easy to encounter islands and navigation channels when driving to the south.
The ancients often carried navigational materials such as "The Golden Needle of the Sea", "Send Down the Wind", and "Genglu Book". The approximate format of these data is from a certain island to a certain island, in a certain direction, and reachable at a certain time. There is something in the sea, there are many rocks somewhere in the sea, and so on. In the case of "Better Roads", it will additionally record that there is a certain fish somewhere.
Back then, I read "Zheng He's Nautical Chart" by Zhonghua Book Company, and I appended a volume of "The Golden Needle of the Sea"! Although it is not very useful for our navigation in this sea area, there is still a lot of inspiration. When I read "The Columbus Voyage Log", I was full of fascination with this sea area, but now I have fallen here, and I feel quite a lot.
Next, one day, two days, five days passed... We depended on rain and fishing for a living, and the whole person became more and more depressed, and loneliness and loneliness followed. But since we have three people, can we still play some games next to the day. The sea is still black, which means that we are still in the deep sea area. I don't know how long it will take to drift. I remember some records about drifting in history.
Not long ago, the news reported that three Mexican fishermen drifted in the Pacific for 85 days and were rescued, setting a record for the longest drifting time at sea. In 180, the "Essex" was hit by a whale, and 0 crew members escaped by boat and drifted at sea for three months. They ate each other, and only 8 survived.
In 194, a businessman sank due to a ship hitting a torpedo. The businessman fled in a small boat. He made two hooks with filaments and nails and was rescued by fishing for one day.
Morris and Maralyn Bailey, who drifted for 118 days in 197, have a lot of canned food, and there are also stoves, books and cards on board.
Stephen Callahan, who was rescued by drifting for 76 days in 198, had two solar evaporators, which could convert seawater into fresh water, and a speargun. Seven years later, Bill Butler and Simone Butler drifted for 66 days. They had fishing gear, dominoes, canned food, blankets, radio and seven bottles of Evian water.
With the aimless floating **, we are all a little irritable. The initial praise for the magnificence of the depths of the sea became dispensable at this time.
All the stored fresh water was drunk. It hasn't rained for several days, and even seabirds can't be seen in the sky. It can be concluded that there are no islands nearby, and with the physical strength of seabirds, it is impossible to cross this sea area. If we want to live, we can only catch marine fish for a living. Fishing has become our only pleasure.
Fortunately, the fish here have never come into contact with humans, let alone what bait is. It's easy to get the bait. I took out an iron nail, bent it, and tied it to the hemp rope, looking for a thin rod to make a fishing rod. Use some food as bait! I am very satisfied with my fishing tackle and use it smoothly.
Xiaoxiao is an expert in this area. She finds the location of the boat and collects the sails. Using the food scraps from before, beat a few spoonfuls of nesting materials. When the nest material fell down, splashes appeared on the surface of the water, where a school of fish was vying for food. After my first shot, I measured the speed and wind direction of the water. The fishing rod bounced for a while, and I hurriedly picked up the fishing rod, but still didn't catch anything. Xiaoxiao smiled slightly and motioned not to rush.
In my second shot, the fish started to bite. The rod shook very violently. As soon as my wrist lifted the rod and flicked, the fish hung on the hook. It didn't feel big. The rod didn't bend too much. The fish comes out of the water when it is lightly retracted on the side of the rod. It is a very beautiful fire fish.
Then another saury came up, about one or two, the fish was not too big. This is a smile and said, "Do you want to catch a big fish? I have a side, don't you listen?"
This article was first published from www.***net.com, and the chapters will be revised after it is published. Please go to ***net, so that you can create more good works.
(To be continued) (To be continued) (End of this chapter)