Chapter 803 Salvage of Submarines

   When the sun sprinkled the last ray of sunlight on the sparkling sea, Kewell came again.

  Kewell doesn't want to come, he had a harsh word with Qin Tao last time, if he comes again this time, Qin Tao will definitely not look good towards him!

  However, he had to come, because at the meeting, everyone thought that Kewell and Mr. Qin had the most contacts and the most experience. If he didn't come, who would come?

  So, Kewell had no choice but to come here. Although he was reluctant, he had no other choice. He could only be cheeky and come to Qin Tao again.

  "President Qin, I'm very sorry. Last time I was angry and said something. I apologize to you." Kewell lowered his posture when he came up, appearing very sincere.

"It's okay, I know you're in a bad mood, I'm a generous person, I don't care about you, by the way, you invited the Norwegian salvage team over, don't worry, even if you want to salvage in our territorial waters, I will also fight with you." Those who say hello in China, you will not be targeted, just salvage with confidence and boldly.”

   "Thank you, Mr. Qin." Kewell was very moved when he saw that Qin Tao didn't blame him.

   "By the way, you came to see me, what's the matter?"

   "Mr. Qin, we want to rent a semi-submersible ship from your side to transport the salvaged submarine. I wonder what price you are asking for?"

  Kewell came here for two things, one is a semi-submersible ship, and the other is the location of the wreck. He was thinking about it on the way, and he felt that if he rented a semi-submersible boat first, the other party would definitely ask for a high price. Then he asked for the location of the sunken ship, and the other party should give him a low price or even free of charge. After all, it was just data. If Without the location of the wreck, the semi-submersible boat cannot be rented, so it should be regarded as a supplement to the business.

  Hearing Kewell's words, Qin Tao thought for a while: "Well, our Mingzhou Group can provide it for free."

   "Free?" Cowell was stunned. Boss Qin has played so many tricks in front of him, and he has cheated countless of his side, why should he provide it for free now? There is a pit, there must be a pit!

"Yeah, this incident has caused a lot of noise recently. There are always some conspirators who want to refer to a deer as a horse and a mouse as a duck. Our Mingzhou Group is a well-known multinational enterprise. We want to contribute to the world. This time, your submarine The soldiers are miserable, there are no people inside and outside, our Mingzhou Group is willing to help you, isn't it just a semi-submersible ship, as long as our semi-submersible ship has time, we will transport it for you for free!"

   Kewell was not grateful, but thought of something: "Mr. Qin, can we arrange a few of our people on this semi-submersible ship?"

"Why, are you still afraid that we will bring this semi-submersible ship back directly and seize your submarine? You can rest assured that our Mingzhou Group has long stopped doing ship breaking business." Qin Tao said : "Our Mingzhou Group has no place to dismantle ships. This kind of backward work has long been transferred to third world countries. Besides, submarines are secondary. The key is that there are so many remains of submarine soldiers on them. If we Take the submarine back directly, so that people all over the world will scold us, and our reputation will not be stinky?"

   "Boss Qin, are you really willing to transport us for free?"

   "Of course." Qin Tao said: "We can make a public statement at any time. This is the responsibility and action of our large enterprise, Mingzhou Group."

Kewell seems to understand that the other party is making such a fuss just for the sake of being famous. For Mingzhou Group, they have already made enough money. They don’t care about money. What they care about is reputation. After this move, they will definitely be praised by the world .

   In this way, one's own side can also get benefits, the best of both worlds, this advantage can be taken!

   "Boss Qin, I have one more thing to do when I come here."

"What's up?"

   "We want to know the specific location of the sunken ship, which is accurate to the ten-meter level, so that we can salvage it conveniently."

   "There is no problem with this." Qin Tao looked up at Xu Zhengyang: "Secretary Xu, go and get the location of the sunken ship and give it to Mr. Kewell."

   This one doesn’t cost money? Is this the sun coming out from the west? Kewell looked at the sky in the distance suspiciously. The sun is in the west, but it is setting. The earth has begun to be shrouded in darkness, but Shuangsha Island is brightly lit, and the nightlife has just begun.

  Xu Zhengyang walked for more than ten minutes, and when he came back, his face was full of embarrassment: "Mr. Qin, they searched for a long time, but they couldn't find the coordinates of the sunken ship."

   "How is this possible?" Kewell said, "Isn't it marked on the chart?"

"We have been using electronic charts for a long time." Xu Zhengyang said: "The computer used on the Jiaolong was five years ago, and the memory capacity is limited. Therefore, yesterday, in order to accommodate the new data, some internal parts of the computer were useless. The data was deleted, including the location of the sinking of the submarine HMS Farncombe."

   "How could this be? Don't you have a backup hard drive?" Qin Tao asked.

"No."

"Well, electronic technology is changing with each passing day, our Jiaolong should have been updated a long time ago." Qin Tao sighed and looked at Kewell: "Mr. If you hire us to salvage, there will be no such accidents, and we must have heard that you hired ships from Norway to salvage, knowing that it is no longer needed, so we deleted it."

   These words are also reasonable, you don’t need us to salvage, why do we still keep the location of the sunken ship? There is no way, the computer technology five years ago is not strong enough.

  Kewell's expression became complicated.

real or fake?

  Kewell's eyes were full of doubts, did the other party really delete it, or did they not give it? Ordinarily, semi-submersible ships can provide it, which is real money, and the location of the sunken ship is just data, and the other party does not need to spend more money, which is more likely to be true.

  Since this is the case, he has nothing more to say.

  Qin Tao sent the other party out of the door with a smile, and returned to the room, where he met puzzled eyes.

"Brother Tao, now is a good opportunity to make money." Zhao Ling said: "They need a semi-submersible boat. Even if we want 50 million, they have to accept it. After all, we are close. delivered?"

   "That's right, of course it has to be given away for nothing, since they won't need it anyway."

   "Can't use it?"

"That's right, do you think they can salvage the sunken submarine from the depth of 3,000 meters? With the little technology of the Norwegians? It's long gone. Once they fail to salvage, they may break the submarine into a few knots." , They don’t need a semi-submersible boat at all, so I give it to them for free, gaining fame without paying anything, why not do it?”

  Qin Tao planned it long ago.

  The other party wants a semi-submersible boat? Okay, let's use it for free, now we have everything in it, anyway, the other party will fail to salvage it, so all we need to do is move our lips.

   When the salvage fails, he has to come to Mingzhou Group. Although Qin Tao promised a salvage fee of 100 million US dollars at the beginning, but if it is broken into several knots, the cost will have to be doubled!

   This money has to be earned, and there is a gift of the right to use the semi-submersible boat, just to ease the relationship.

   Sure enough, when Kewell went back to report, Michael and others were stunned.

   "The Orientals are willing to lend us for free?"

   "That's right, they wouldn't be cheating us, would they?"

"I don't know what kind of pit is in it, but Mr. Qin has made it clear that they don't need to seize the submarine. They won't dismantle the ship, and they will ruin their reputation, especially the remains of our sailors on the submarine. , the whole world is watching," Cowell said.

   "If this is the case, then they may really be doing it for a reputation, or to show us goodwill." Michael said: "Unfortunately, they don't have submarine location data."

   "Well, this can only be discussed with the Norwegians."

   Soon, Sollot came in.

   "If we need to search, the cost will have to go up to 30 million US dollars. We need to airlift the underwater robot and start the search immediately. Please rest assured that we are professional and will never let you down."

  The semi-submersible ship is a gimmick, because Qin Tao bet that they will never salvage it, so naturally there is no need for a semi-submersible ship.

   "Okay, we are collecting the cost, I hope you can take action first."

   The big guys are all from the same camp, so there is no need to worry about reneging on debts, so Sollott didn't say anything, but after adding the content of the contract, he started to act.

   On the third day, the sea was a bit rough, and the underwater robot from Sweden entered the seabed and began to detect.

  One day, two days, three days... At the end of October, before the two floating cranes arrived, they finally found the location of the sunken submarine by luck. When they saw the images sent back from the water, they were all stunned.

   "Why didn't you say it earlier, we didn't know that this submarine was stuck vertically, how to salvage it?" Sollot was worried.

  Generally speaking, submarine accidents usually sink horizontally, lie flat on the bottom of the water, and be hoisted horizontally. Who would have thought that the submarine in front of me was plunged vertically, almost perpendicular to the bottom of the sea. How can it be salvaged?

"Aren't you the most professional? Can't you still deal with this kind of problem?" Michael, who came to the sea together, became nervous: "In short, don't try to use this reason to add money! If you can't salvage it, don't even think about it." Follow-up final payment!"

  The other party has already come to this sea area, so he has to continue to work, otherwise he will not get the final payment, and if he wants to add more money now, it is even more impossible. Sollot is also a little disappointed with the Norwegians. These people are good at asking for money, and they will always find various excuses to ask for more money.

"We are the most professional, but your submarine has gone beyond the professional field." Sollot said: "We will not add money, but our salvage will be very difficult, and it may also make the submarine in the salvage process." Break into sections."

  He has already foreseen the risk. After all, he is also a professional. In this case, the salvage must first pull the submarine out from the bottom of the sea. Who knows if there will be any accidents? The submarine has withstood impacts and the strong pressure of sea water, and the load-bearing structure has long been destroyed. No one knows what accidents will happen.

   "If you mess up, we won't pay the balance," Michael said.

   "That's not stipulated in the contract!" Sollot also became angry: "Even if we fail to salvage, you have to pay."

   "Now, the contract has been revised." Michael said.

  At this moment, Sollot wished to raise his fist and beat the annoying guy in front of him, but he held back.

  If you do something, the cooperation will be considered a failure, and the other party will definitely not pay the final payment. If they travel thousands of miles and then go back, they will lose money.

   Still have to salvage!

   "Mr. Sollot, it is precisely because of the difficulties that you will test your salvage skills. We believe that you will succeed." Kewell came to smooth things over. He raised his head and looked at a helicopter flying in the nearby sky: "Everyone is watching, you can only succeed, not fail."

  The new episode of Zhang Zhongshuo’s program begins with a salvage scene shot by a helicopter. Two crane ships, a working mother ship, and a cargo ship seem to be very powerful.

"Dear audience, the footage we just saw is the scene of the salvage scene taken by our helicopter. We can see that the salvage work has already started, but we don't know what happened inside. Now, we have invited the domestic expert Xu Old man, he has been in charge of salvaging sunken ships on the seabed many times, so he has rich experience, now, let him analyze it for us."

"Hello, audiences. In the eyes of ordinary people, salvage is to use a crane to lift things up from the bottom of the sea. It is actually very complicated. After all, the things below are huge, weighing thousands of tons, and many slings are needed. The sling is impacted by the ocean current in the sea, and the force may be uneven. Of course, the most important thing is the specific condition of the shipwreck on the bottom of the sea." Xu Lao easily entered the role, according to the content prepared in advance .

"It is said that the submarine Farncombe sank this time because of a malfunction in the ballast tank at the bow, which led to the emptying of the ballast tank at the tail, the stern of the boat rose, and the bow of the boat sank. I am afraid that the state of falling into the water like this is not optimistic." Zhang Zhong said.

"Yes, it is said that underwater images have been taken. This submarine is almost perpendicular to the bottom of the sea, and it is plunged vertically. The bow of the submarine is about one or two meters deep into the bottom of the sea. Therefore, this is the most difficult salvage work. Of course, we don’t need to be afraid, there are ways to deal with this method.”

"any solution?"

"Undersea excavator." Xu Lao said: "Develop a special wide-track excavator, fully electric propulsion, which can be connected to the mother ship at sea through cables, and can also use the power of its own battery. With this excavator, First dig out the silt around the bow of the boat."

   The best way to get the submarine out is to dig up the surrounding silt, and dredging, of course, is the job of the excavator.

Ordinary excavators generally work on the ground, and excavators that work in rivers are equipped with particularly wide crawlers, which can move freely in the mud. However, if it is a submersible excavator, most people would I've never heard of it, let alone an excavator that dives below 3,000 meters.

   "Old Xu, can you still have this kind of thing?"

"Yes, we are currently researching and developing it for the use of submarine infrastructure. If we want to be a major country in infrastructure construction, we must have all kinds of advanced machinery. We are already pre-researching this product. What we need now is funds. If Someone invests a lot of money in us, and we can make it in half a year."

  Do it within half a year? The daylilies are getting cold!

  So, even if you hear that Dongfang is researching this kind of equipment, people who are salvaging submarines can't use it.

  Sollott is under a lot of pressure.

"We have found some stress points based on the mechanical conditions of the hull. Next, we need to install cables on these stress points to try to drag the submarine up at one time." Sollot said to Michael: "This It should be the safest solution."

   "Are you sure? Will the submarine be towed in two while dragging?"

   "If that kind of thing really happened, then I have nothing to do." Sollot said: "We have to try. If we don't try, how will we know."

   "No way? You are the most professional salvage team, how can you have no way?" Michael shouted angrily.

   "We don't have an underwater excavator, that thing is a joke!"

   "You must ensure that nothing goes wrong, otherwise I will not sign a formal salvage order."

   "Then we can only leave." Sollot said: "But, don't try to lose our salvage fee, we will sue you in the international court."

Kewell watched the conflict between the two, and was a little anxious: "How about, Mr. Michael, let's ask the BOA company to try to salvage it. If there is any accident in the middle, we should stop quickly. As long as we are careful, we should be able to save the dangerous fish." Keep it to a minimum."

   "Okay." Michael could only nod: "You must be careful! We need to salvage the submarine completely, we don't want any accidents!"

   "We will, by the way, if the analysis of the following situation is correct, the remains of those unlucky sailors should all be in the front cabin?"

"Why do you ask this? We don't just want the front cabin, we want everything. The rear cabin is also very important, because the rear propeller is leaking. We have to fish it up and show the Swedes. The submarine they built is leaky. They We need to be compensated for our losses, and they have compensated us for our losses, so we will have the money to pay you for the salvage costs, do you understand?"

  Looking at the roaring Michael, Sollott felt that he was cheated. The other party had no money at all, and even hired his own side to salvage it. It seems that even if the salvage is successful, it will be difficult to pay in the future, and maybe a lawsuit will be required.

   At the beginning, they should have settled the bill first, and then dispatched their own side. At that time, in order to bid with Germany, they were a little too anxious.

  Sollot feels a little helpless in his heart, but he has already come here, and has already set up a battle. No matter what, he has to salvage it first.

   A few days later, the salvage officially started.

  Two floating cranes released the long cables and went deep into the seabed. It took several hours just to put the cables down. Then, the underwater robot did a lot of work to hang the cables that fixed the submarine on the hooks.

When they were doing all this, there were always onlookers around, there was no way, theoretically speaking, this place is really the territory of the Orientals, and now, the Orientals dispatched another 054, which has been wandering here, but the other party is very Restraint, not getting too close, for fear that they would fail to salvage and wrong the spectators.

   On Shuangsha Island, Qin Tao was also listening to the progress here.

   "They used a longitudinal salvage plan, and arranged three sets of steel cables on the submarine body, namely the front, middle and rear. These steel cables are of different lengths, but they can be properly fixed on the hook."

   "Are they planning to salvage the water vertically?" Qin Tao was also curious.

   "Probably not. They only plan to pull out the submarine vertically, then lay it flat on the seabed, readjust the length of the steel cable, and fish it out of the water horizontally."

   "So it was just to pull out the carrot." Qin Tao said, "I guess they must pull it out."

   "This mainly depends on the strength, if you are careful..."

  Watching Zhao Ling making various inferences there, Xu Zhengyang couldn't help but said: "In the past few days, our Jiaolong has been wandering outside for a long time, so the submarine will definitely break from the middle."

  Zhao Ling opened her eyes wide and looked at Qin Tao: "Is it all arranged?"

   "Zhengyang, what are you talking nonsense? If you talk nonsense again, I will transfer you to another place, separate you from Xiaoqian, and become a monk every day. By the way, you have been plowing the fields all night, have you planted any seeds?"

  Zhao Ling blushed, what are you talking about?

   "There are three ways to be unfilial, and the greatest thing is to have no descendants." Qin Tao said, "We are discussing important matters. What's wrong? What are you thinking? Why are you blushing?"

   "Nicolas has called several times recently, and wants to ask you to visit him when you have time."

   "Nicolas? This old friend still remembers me, it's not easy. When this matter is over, let's go... Forget it, let's go now, maybe there will be fun."

  As a spectator, Qin Tao can point out the country, and the people salvaged there don't have the leisure time like him, and everyone is very nervous.

   "When lifting, you must pay attention to the balance on both sides. We have the most experienced veterans who can control all this. Now, I hope God bless." Sollot said: "Salvage begins!"

The two floating gondolas roared, the thick cables rose slowly, and the naked eye could see that they were slowly tightening, tightening, and the underwater robot was also vigilantly monitoring all this, looking at every cable below. Whether the cable has been taut, give a prompt at any time.

   "It's all taut!"

   "Start hoisting!"

  The cable made a creaking sound and began to exert force. The part of the pulley supporting the cable on the floating crane also began to sink under the huge pulling force.

   "Today's weather is not bad. If there is too much wind and waves at sea, we will stop operations." Sollot said.

   Crunch, crunch!

   "The bow of the boat is already loosening!"

   "The bow of the boat is slowly leaving the mud!"

  Everyone got excited as the good news came.

marvelous!

  They have seen the dawn of hope!

   Crunch!

  The sound was still being made underwater, which seemed normal, and the image sent back by the underwater robot made them very satisfied: "The bow is being pulled out!"

   "The bow of the boat is about to leave the mud!"

   "Great, now ready to put the sub down!"

  However, the Lambitz, which was hoisted on it, suddenly found something abnormal.

   "The cable seems to be less stressed!"

   "Has the sub been pulled out?"

   "No, it seems that the cable is completely loose!"

  The personnel monitoring the underwater robot then discovered an unexpected situation: "No, the middle of the submarine..."

  (end of this chapter)