Church's Diary Three

The snow finally stopped, and the sun greeted the sea again. Even though it is winter in the southern hemisphere, if you keep tanning on the deck, you may still burn your skin. But Anderson went fishing there again, he did this all year round, and he didn't see any skin allergies.

We left Fitzroy Port and sailed north-east. Mr. Robbins asked if I knew about Maria Theresa Reef and Ernest Legouwe Reef. I have heard that those two places are the legendary ghost islands. Several of Verne's novels have written about Maria Theresa Reef, oh, it seems to be a beautiful island in his writing. In fact, it is just a small coral reef. It was first discovered by a whaling ship. It is said that some earlier European navigators also discovered these islands and wrote down their coordinates.

But in the past 50 years, the navies of New Zealand and the United States have searched this area on a large scale and found nothing. The average water depth is 4,000 meters, the deepest point is more than 5,000 meters, and the area is large enough to fit the entire area of ​​Australia. Sea basin.

However, the legends about ghost islands have been constant, but like the water monsters in Loch Ness, the ufo over Mexico, and the lizardmen in the ore swamps, many people claim to have discovered them again every year, but no one takes their words seriously. .

In my sailing career, I have passed through that sea twice, but I have never seen a ghost island. If people who see miracles are God's favorites, then I must not be God's favor. So I am not very optimistic about the results of this industry, but I will not speak out in public. As a captain, I must do my job well and maintain an optimistic attitude.

I said to Mr. Robbins, sir, I feel that we are more like expeditions rather than scientific expeditions. I have never seen a scientific expedition ship full of advanced equipment only to go to an uncertain place.

Robbins said that you are right, we are going to explore, and not only the ghost island, we are going to more mysterious places, do more interesting things.

I don’t know what interesting things can happen at sea. Did these scientists get a treasure map? Is there a huge shipwreck there? But in the big sea basin, even if there is a sunken ship, it is impossible to salvage it!

At this time Anderson walked over with his fishing rod, heard our conversation, and interrupted, something interesting? In the vast ocean, what is more interesting than fishing?

Robbins laughed at this, and nodded and said, yes, Anderson, you are absolutely right, fishing is the most interesting thing.

His laughter infected us, and Anderson and I both laughed.

Stephen Robbins was the captain of this scientific expedition. The crew respected him, including the scientists on the same ship. Even Mrs. Larry, who had always been frosty, was kind to him. But he never puts on airs, not only is it not difficult to deal with, but also speaks very well. He is a full-fledged gentleman who makes people feel good when they meet him, he is always gentle when he speaks, and he walks unhurriedly.

Every time he came to the deck, he always said, ladies and gentlemen, what a beautiful day! When he met a lady in the passage, he always stepped aside, put his hand on his chest and bowed slightly and said, beautiful lady, hello! Although there are only two women on board, Mrs. Larry and her assistant, Miss Alice.

Mr. Robbins can get along well with the team members and sailors, just like today, he and Anderson discussed sea fishing for most of the day.

I admire his versatility. He is not only a scientist, but he is very familiar with everything on the sea. Sometimes I feel that he is more suitable to be a captain than me. But he was very humble. He said that all he knew was learned from books, and the real ocean voyages still depend on professionals like us.

I asked him about Leng Liuxue, snow is obviously a common phenomenon, why he thinks it is unusual.

Robbins said that the North Island of New Zealand, especially the Port of Auckland, is already at the northernmost point. There are not many snowfalls, and it has not yet reached the coldest time. Moreover, cold current clouds usually have signs and do not appear suddenly. Only when the strong cold air passes through the warm sea, the difference between the temperature and the water temperature reaches more than 10c, the warm and humid air mass on the ocean surface is forced to rise, and the low-level atmosphere warming and humidifying causes the low-level atmosphere to become unstable, and then cold flow clouds will appear.

And as a common meteorological phenomenon, meteorological satellites can accurately forecast through cloud images. However, neither the Meteorological Administration of New Zealand nor the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has been in communication with the scientific research vessel, did not issue a warning before we set sail. The point is that the snow is a bit heavy and should not appear in this location in the southern hemisphere at this time. The Pacific Ocean in the eastern part of New Zealand is too wide. Due to the large specific heat capacity of the sea, the cold wind blowing from Antarctica has turned into a warm and warm wind long before it reaches here.

Mr. Robbins looked a little heavy at this time. He said that you are the captain and you should know some things, so I can tell you some things I know. While we were stranded in Fitzroy Port, I got in touch with experts from the Bureau of Meteorology. They told me that the cold current snow clouds we encountered first appeared in the eastern part of New Zealand, which is about 1,500 nautical miles. Not far from the destination we were going to, the cloud cluster disappeared from the satellite cloud picture, and then suddenly appeared in the sea near the North Island of New Zealand.

I said please forgive my husband~lightnovelpub.net~ I don't understand very well. Are you trying to say that this snow should have fallen on the sea area we were going to, but it suddenly fell on the place where we stopped yesterday?

Robbins nodded and said, you understand it right, this is a very strange phenomenon. This cloud cluster is like a ghost. It formed in the warm spring place of 15 degrees Celsius in the Pacific Ocean. As it drifted westward, it seemed to pass through a certain wormhole, bringing it to the North Island of New Zealand, which has cooled but is still warm. There was a heavy snowfall. As you said, this snow should have fallen 1,500 nautical miles away, or it came from somewhere else, because there shouldn’t be such clouds.

I was dumbfounded. Although I am not a scientist, I have been running scientific research ships all year round and dealing with various scientific workers. I dare to say boldly that I am one of the ocean-going captains who understand science best in the world. But Mr. Robbins’s narrative is clearly beyond my comprehension.

I asked him what it means?

Stephen Robbins looked at the sea horizon in the distance and said, I am worried that some huge changes that we don't know are happening where we are going, and the results of our trip will become unpredictable.

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