Chapter 801 Captain's Complaint

   "Excuse me, what happened to you below? How did you come to this sea area?"

"Below? We encountered a cliff in the sea, and the bearing of our submarine's propeller leaked. Damn the Swedes, we thought their submarine technology was so good. Unexpectedly, the submarine they built was full of problems! This time Almost sent us to hell, thank you, you are sent by God to save us."

   "No, we are sent by the Mingzhou Group. You haven't answered my question yet, why did you come to this sea area?"

The front and back of the Jiaolong are separated. The people in the front are operating the Jiaolong, and the people behind are asking questions. If the questions do not get the desired results, they will not be stingy in sailing in the sea for a while, anyway, some of them have been rescued. Here they come, their purpose has been achieved.

  Peter was silent.

   "According to the client, after receiving your distress signal, they went to the Americans immediately, but the Americans used various excuses to push them away, but they refused to coordinate rescue forces to come."

Hearing this sentence, Peter finally couldn't help it: "Damn Americans! They ordered us to come here to follow a 039C submarine. At that time, I didn't think much about it. I thought it was an opportunity for our submarine to show its capabilities. , Thinking about it now, the Americans are cheating us, they not only cheated us, but also pretended not to know anything afterwards, when did he care about the lives of our sailors? They are too hateful!"

Peter's anger finally broke out. At first he didn't think there was any problem, but after struggling for so long on the edge of life and death underwater, Peter was already on the verge of collapse. Now that he was rescued, under this huge contrast, he just He felt that the people around him who saved him were the best, and the others were all bad people!

  Once Peter started the bashing mode, he didn’t stop. He kept cursing that the Americans were full of bad water. He didn’t know that in this cabin, there was a camera lens facing him, recording everything about him.

  The Jiaolong did not delay. After being hoisted onto the deck of the mother ship by a crane, the east was already bright. Peter got off the lifeboat, took a breath of the humid sea air, and let out a long breath.

   Great, it's finally out! It feels so good to be alive!

   "Everyone, you go to rest and eat something, we are going down for the second time to rescue more people."

   Peter stopped walking.

  He really wanted to say, I will go down with you and rescue my children, but, thinking about his escape from death just now, he swallowed this thought back into his stomach.

   After the catastrophe, they felt hungry at this time, and they flocked to the canteen on the mother ship together under the greeting of the staff on the mother ship.

   There were other people eating in the cafeteria. When they saw them coming, one of them greeted them very enthusiastically: "Friends, how are you!"

  "Zhang Zhong?" Peter recognized the other party. This person hosts the show. He is very novel and often reveals some secrets. Therefore, Peter often watches Zhang Zhong talk, but he often scolds while watching.

  Now, I actually saw a real person!

  Zhang Zhong nodded: "It's me, I didn't expect you to be my fan, how about we chat?"

Zhang Zhong went to Qiongzhou by plane, transferred to Shuangsha Island, and boarded the ship by helicopter. Fortunately, after he made a request, everything was arranged by President Qin, otherwise he really couldn't show up here in time .

  He raised his head and glanced at a camera hidden behind the wall clock.

   "Okay." Peter nodded.

   "How about we talk about Swedish submarines?"

"Yes, the quality of the submarine they built is too poor. It was originally designed to dive to a depth of 300 meters, but the propeller bearing will leak at a depth of 200 meters. This problem was supposed to be fixed. Who would have thought that it would happen again this time?" The problem, if it's not a water leak, we can save ourselves."

   "These are minor problems." Zhang Zhong said: "Their submarines have major problems in the overall design. Have you noticed?"

   "What's wrong with the design?" Now Peter was also a little curious. They thought it was a processing problem, because the processing accuracy was not enough, which led to various accidents. As for the design, they really didn't notice it.

   "What is the surface displacement and underwater displacement of your Collins-class submarine?" Zhang Zhong said.

  Peter immediately became vigilant. On the lifeboat, he had already shared some information. At that time, he was excited because he had just been rescued, but now, he has recovered. He knows his identity and must not disclose those confidential information.

"Then let's talk about the Kilo class first. Take the most common type 877 as an example. The surface displacement is 2,325 tons, and the underwater displacement is 3,075 tons. The difference between the two is 750 tons. We can understand the 750 tons." In order to reserve buoyancy, when the submarine floats from the water to the water, 750 tons of seawater is emptied, which can be fully converted into buoyancy, and your Collins class is definitely not so big."

   "That's right, in order to increase the internal space and reduce the cost, we use a small reserve buoyancy solution, and the two data are not much different."

"According to the published data, the water displacement is 3,051 tons, and the underwater displacement is 3,353 tons. The difference between the two is only 300 tons. Surprised, just dumbfounded."

  The Collins class is indeed a strange thing. For ordinary submarines, the surface and underwater displacement will be much different. The difference between a 3,000-ton submarine can be seven to eight hundred tons or even thousands of tons, and the difference between seven and eight thousand tons is even more.

  For example, the 039 submarine has a surface displacement of more than 2,600 tons and an underwater displacement of more than 3,600 tons. This data difference is even greater than that of the Kilo class.

  The Collins class is only 300 tons short, which is problematic in itself.

  Peter was a little helpless. He thought it was a confidential data. In fact, the displacement data was not confidential at all. It was included in any introduction materials. Sweden used this as the main selling point at the beginning.

  The reserve buoyancy is small, indicating that our space utilization rate is high.

"The design of this submarine is not only a defect of low reserve buoyancy, it also adopts a large compartment plan." Zhang Zhong continued: "If it is a small compartment plan, then when one of the compartments is flooded, It is completely possible to completely seal this cabin, even if it is completely flooded, the other cabins can continue to be intact, and there is still enough buoyancy.”

   "That's right, that's it!" Peter finally came to his senses.

  Their submarines not only have low reserve buoyancy, but also have large compartments! In this way, once an accident occurs and a certain compartment needs to be closed, it is meaningless to close it, because after that compartment is flooded, the buoyancy of the entire submarine will not be enough, and they will not be able to float up.

  What did the purchasers think at the beginning!

"Damn it, this purchase must be a kickback, otherwise why would you choose such an unreliable plan." Peter said angrily: "There are many similar design flaws, for example, it only has pressure on the bow and stern. Water tank, in this accident, there was another accident. The ballast water tank at the bow of the boat could not be emptied of seawater. Therefore, the tail of the submarine was upturned and the front part was sinking. If it is like a conventional submarine, a ballast water tank is added in the middle of the submarine , the posture of the submarine will definitely not be like this! Your lifeboat can actually complete the docking in that posture, it is really amazing! Dongfang's technology is first-rate!"

  When talking about this, Peter suddenly thought of something again, and his face changed drastically: "No, those people who are staying under the water now may be in danger!"

   "What's the danger? You've already come up part of the way, and the submarine is lighter, so there shouldn't be any problems." Zhang Zhong asked.

   "Right now, the posture of the submarine is still tilted, and everyone is gathered in the front cabin, which will make the bow of the boat heavier. Otherwise, the submarine will directly stab!"

  During the rescue just now, everyone thought about escaping, so they didn't care about other things. Until now, they have survived the disaster, and then they thought of some other things.

In submarine movies, it can be seen that when an emergency dive is needed, the submariners who have nothing to do will run to the front cabin, which can make the bow of the boat drop faster and facilitate the dive. This operation is not only in the movie , also has practical significance.

   Now, so many people are crowded in the front cabin, it will definitely cause the front cabin to be too heavy! Once there is a problem with the posture of the submarine, such as erecting it up, or urgently needing to plunge down, then the gods will be hard to save!

  When thinking of this, Peter was no longer in the mood to eat. He remembered again that he was the captain of this submarine, and he had to take care of every crew member.

  My child hasn't come up yet, how can I eat here with peace of mind?

   "Where is your lifeboat control room? I'm going to see it!"

  Peter left the cafeteria, and everyone else stopped eating and went with him.

   Soon, all the people crowded into the small lifeboat control room. Looking at the screen, they saw that it was too crowded, and the technicians projected the screen outside, so it was not crowded.

  The scene shown above is the picture taken by the bow camera of the deep submersible lifeboat. The bottom of the sea is dark, and it lights up the light. According to the sea water below, the light beam shines on some deep-sea fish, which looks a little weird.

   "The depth has reached 250 meters, and no submarine was found at the original location of the submarine. We are continuing to search."

   "The submarine may be drifting with the ocean current. If you look for it along the ocean current, you will definitely find it." Peter murmured, now, he doesn't want to hear bad news.

   "Please rest assured, we will not give up the rescue."

   "Please cooperate with the mother ship's sonar to search."

  "No target found at the same depth, please continue to descend to search."

  Peter's expression turned ugly. If the depth is not the same, then the submarine will definitely continue. Once it goes down, it will not be able to stop, and will continue to descend to the bottom of the sea!

  Can your own submarine withstand such a large pressure?

   Certainly not. Looking at the construction quality of this submarine, at a depth of 300 meters, it may be on the verge of disintegration!

   "There is no target found at a depth of 300 meters. Please search the seabed with the mother ship." Finally, such a report was uploaded from the Jiaolong that everyone could not accept.

   "No, no, they can't be at the bottom of the sea, they must still be somewhere, please, find them!"

   “We did our best.”

  The sonar searched again, this time aiming at the bottom of the sea. Two hours later, it finally found something, and another hour later, the Jiaolong started to go there.

  Underwater, at a depth of more than 3,000 meters, a big guy with a height of tens of meters poked into the mud on the bottom of the sea. This posture was almost ninety degrees!

  The Jiaolong approached slowly, and the image in the camera became clearer and clearer. When he saw the whole picture of the hull, Peter still had a kind of expectation, hoping that the submarine was still intact, and that the people inside were still alive.

  However, how can the submarine be intact at a place that exceeds ten times the design depth? No Eastern sub can do it, let alone a Swedish one.

   "God, in the middle of the hull..."

The center is a single-hull structure. It can be seen that a huge gap has been cracked on the top, and the seawater must have filled it. It is precisely because of this that the submarine was not crushed into pieces by the huge seawater pressure, and the seawater entered the interior. In this way, the internal and external pressure is balanced, just like a deep-sea fish, the flesh and blood can remain intact inside.

  Everyone is pale, they know that everyone inside is finished!

   Shuangsha Island.

"A total of 14 people were rescued from your side. According to our previous agreement, each person is 2 million, and we charge 28 million. We will refund the rest of the rescue fee." Qin Tao looked at Kewell in front of him, Some helplessly said: "It's such a pity, even if we let us save it again, we can double it. I'm afraid we will lose money this time."

   The rescue fee is settled according to the head, so we will definitely work hard to rescue. The more people are rescued, the more money they will earn.

   "I just don't know if your son was rescued, after all, it was too chaotic." Qin Tao said: "Now, our deal is over, we..."

   "Boss Qin, the transaction is not over yet." Kewell said with difficulty: "Next, we need to salvage that submarine."

"Salvage? It's not easy. It's in sea water more than 3,000 meters deep, and the cost of salvage will exceed 100 million. It's really not worth it for you." Qin Tao shook his head repeatedly: "Forget it, forget it If you want to pay homage, you can send someone to sprinkle a wreath on the sea or something, and I will say hello to you and our navy, so that your memorial activities can go smoothly."

  This is not just a seawater cliff, but the quality of the submarine is important! Would their existing Collins class subs be usable without investigating the sub's flaws? Moreover, they still have four follow-up ships under construction, and they can only go to the Swedes for compensation if they have obtained definite evidence!

  If the next four submarines are not to be discarded, it will definitely be a matter of wrangling. The key is to find evidence to prove that these submarines have serious defects. Therefore, salvage must be carried out.

   Moreover, the remains can only be buried after they are salvaged. Now, the families of the submarine soldiers have arrived in their capital and are crying.

   To see people in life, to see corpses in death, this is the case for people in any country.

   If you want to salvage, you can only ask Mingzhou Group for help, because their salvage ability is the highest! You know, when Lao Maozi's nuclear submarine accident happened, it was the Mingzhou Group that salvaged it.

   Originally thought that with the previous rescue operation, the current salvage should be able to give a friendly price, but Qin Tao actually said that the salvage cost would exceed 100 million!

   Isn’t this too dark?

   "Boss Qin, can the salvage cost be made cheaper?" Kewell asked.

"It's very difficult to salvage a submarine with a displacement of more than 3,000 tons at a depth of 3,000 meters." Qin Tao said, "Do you know how many times our underwater robots have to dive? You know what we have to do. How much dangerous preparation work? Especially, there are seawater cliffs there! The salvage cost of 100 million is only an estimate, and we may need additional funds in the future. So, I advise you, just forget it."

  Kewell's complexion changed, cloudy or cloudy.

   "Fortunately, this is a conventional submarine, not a nuclear submarine. If it is a nuclear submarine, the cost of salvage will be high." Qin Tao said.

  Hearing Qin Tao talk about the nuclear submarine, Kewell immediately thought of something: "Mr. Qin, we must salvage this submarine. As for the salvage cost, we will raise it."

   Throughout the process, Americans have been onlookers, how can this work? They must be paid!

   Here comes Swift's trouble.

  Since the accident on the Farncombe, he has had an ominous premonition, and now, this premonition has finally become a reality.

   "Mr. Swift, please watch the latest episode of Zhang Zhongshuo immediately."

   "Zhang Zhong said? What nonsense is this guy talking about again?" Swift complained, watching the assistant turn on the TV.

"This time the Collins-class submarine HMS Farncombe was killed, we acted immediately to help rescue, which fully embodies our spirit of internationalism. We are a responsible big country. At the same time, we also warn some people that they have done many injustices." You must kill yourself! Well, now let’s look at the accounts of the rescued crew members on the submarine, and first look at Captain Peter’s analysis.”

   "Swedish-made submarines, the quality is too bad..."

"It seems that this matter has nothing to do with us. It is caused by the poor quality of the submarines they have." Swift said: "They have been trying to obtain advanced diesel-electric submarines, but it is a pity that they did not choose German submarines. Come on, the blame is on the Swedes."

   "No, these are not important, let's look at the back."

  These images are all stored in the video tape. The assistant pressed the fast-forward button and played it again after a while.

   After a few more meaningless shots, the dialogue came again.

   "How did your submarine come to this sea?"

"Damn Americans! They ordered us to come here to follow a 039C submarine. At that time, I didn't think much about it. I thought it was an opportunity for our submarine to show its capabilities. Now that I think about it, this is the Americans who are cheating us. They not only cheated us, but also wanted to pretend that they didn’t know anything afterwards, when did he care about the lives of our sailors? They are too hateful!”

  The background was blurred, making it impossible to know whether it was in the studio, the cafeteria, or on the deep-diving lifeboat. In short, these words will definitely cause a global sensation.

  When he saw this sentence, Swift's face changed drastically, he already had a premonition of something.

   This kind of thing can only be said in private, and it must not be made public. Now, that stupid captain actually said it?

  Does he know what consequences this will lead to?

   "Mr. Swift, please see Cowell."

   "What is he doing here?"

"I'm here to negotiate with you on the salvage of the submarine." Cowell shouted loudly outside: "Mr. Swift, you are mainly responsible for this matter, so you need to pay us 100 million US dollars rescue costs!"

   "Is this the reason why you can talk nonsense among the Orientals?" Swift was annoyed: "You make this kind of thing public directly, trying to force us to give you money? You are really hateful!"

  Kewell was dumbfounded: "What, made it public? We didn't!"

   "Then take a look, this captain is the captain of your submarine, right?"

  Kewell walked in, looked at the replayed video after rewinding it, and his face changed drastically: "This Peter, you are so stupid, how can you say such things to the Orientals?"

   "Now, what do you want us to do? You still ask us for salvage fees?" Swift said: "We haven't asked you for reputation damage fees yet!"

  Zhang Zhong said that the program is popular all over the world, and there are often explosive news, but after the broadcast of Zhang Zhong’s Farncombe program, it shocked countless people’s eyes.

  They knew that there was an inside story, otherwise the Collins-class submarine would not have been able to go to that position, but they would never have imagined that the Easterners could fool the captain of the submarine into saying such a thing.

  The lethality of these words is too great, it is tantamount to a bomb!

  Relying on his dominant position, Yankee let his younger brother die, and after the younger brother died, he didn't go to rescue him, which is too chilling!

  Peter's superior responded very quickly. Just two hours after Zhang Zhong said that the program was released, he publicly announced: This nonsense person is not our captain! He has nothing to do with the Farncombe, he's a madman!

  This eager way of expressing their attitude made people even more suspicious!

  Shuangsha Island, after Qin Tao got the news, his face was full of contempt: "They treat their subordinates like this, which will definitely chill their hearts. If their hearts are scattered, it will be difficult to take care of them in the future."

   "President Qin, those people are still on our mother ship." Xu Zhengyang said.

This is where the opponent failed the most. Before announcing the news, they actually forgot where the rescued crew members were. After all, they had to hurry to appease their master. As for the subordinates, they couldn’t care about them for the time being .

   Moreover, the Mingzhou Group also declined several times to delay the time and prevent those rescued personnel from returning at the first time, and finally it was delayed until this time.

   "Tell them the news and see how they react."

  (end of this chapter)