Chapter 66
Captain, are you sure these pearls are really common? Fang Youqun swallowed and looked at Xiang Yang eagerly.
Stars also appeared in the eyes of the rest of the crew members. If Xiang Yang nodded their heads, they would put on diving suits and dive into the bottom of the sea again without hesitation.
In fact, there are quite a lot of pearls, but round and large pearls are very rare, and it is very accidental that mussels produce pearls. Every two pearls are separated by a long distance on the bottom of the sea, and there are many pearls in the sea. Sea areas are very rare. He Mingde was already wearing a diving suit, and explained for Xiang Yang while putting on the diving suit.
Stop playing cards? Xiang Yang asked with a smile.
Don't play anymore, don't play anymore. Chen Qingsheng put the cards in his pocket, Go down for a stroll and if you are lucky, you can find two pearls to make jewelry for my wife. If you can't find them, you can catch some swimming crabs.
Xiang Yang nodded and didn't say anything, anyway, he agreed to let them make arrangements for today's holiday.
Most of the crew members on the boat started to wear diving suits to excite the two humpback whales, and they kept poking their heads out of the sea and making long whale calls.
The two humpbacks were smart enough to figure out that the people on deck would come down to the sea and play with them if they put on that weird suit.
There were some exceptions. Xu Fang stood on the side of the boat and kept gesticulating. After a while, he said: The sea here seems to be tens of meters deep.
The depth of the sea means that the pressure is also deep, and the impact on the human body is also great. Xu Fang hesitated whether he should go down too.
Go down and try it according to your ability. If you feel tightness in your chest, come up immediately. He Mingde didn't care about it. The young crew members on the deck can dive, there is no reason why he can't dive, he also came from the young crew I think he could dive fifty or sixty meters with his bare hands when he was young. Now that he is an upright man with diving equipment, he can't dive anymore?
Xiang Yang ignored them, went back to his exclusive room in the cabin, put the green pearl the size of a pigeon egg and some pearls with a diameter of more than 8mm into a box in the drawer and put them away.
After thinking about it, Xiang Yang put the black pearl that had lost its luster into the box, and then locked the box.
As for the remaining pearls, they are not so valuable.
After collecting the pearls, Xiang Yang was not in a hurry to go into the sea again, but ran to the freezer and dragged a basket of squid to the edge of the deck.
Big head, two heads. Xiang Yang stood on the side of the boat and shouted into the sea. This is the name Xiang Yang gave to the two humpback whales. The two humpback whales were chasing the crew members on the sea surface. They followed the same pattern to push the diving crew members out of the sea with their big heads, and then carried them around in circles on the sea surface. .
Hearing Xiang Yang's call, the two humpback whales didn't know who Xiang Yang was calling at first.
But seeing Xiang Yang holding a squid weighing more than a pound in his hand and waving at them on the deck, the two humpback whales immediately knew that Xiang Yang was calling them.
Immediately, the two humpback whales became excited, threw the crew on their big heads and swam towards the fishing boat at Xiang Yang's feet.
Hey, hey, don't run away! Fang Youqun was one of the crew members whose head was dropped by the humpback whale. He finally climbed onto the head of the male whale and was having fun. He threw him away when he saw a squid, but Fang Youqun was really pissed off.
The baskets on the deck are not very big like the foam boxes, and a basket of squid only weighs about forty or fifty catties.
Forty or fifty catties of squid is really too little for two humpback whales, just like a snack to quench their thirst.
Soon the basket was bottomed out, but the two humpback whales were still looking at Xiang Yang eagerly.
It's gone. Xiang Yang reluctantly showed the basket to the two humpback whales, indicating that the squid had really been eaten.
The two humpback whales were immediately disappointed and slowly backed away.
Xiang Yang smiled, and he was willing to feed the two big guys with some cheap catches, but let him feed the two big guys, forget it!
The two humpback whales retreated a certain distance, and after confirming that there were no more squids in Xiang Yang, they sank to the bottom of the sea again to play.
Xiang Yang asked the two crew members on duty to send the baskets back to the cabin, while he put on his hood and breathing mask and prepared to go into the sea again.
It was getting brighter when Xiang Yang went into the sea again.
The different migrating fish schools from yesterday swam to this sea area with the waves after resting all night, and they were mighty and magnificent.
This made the two humpback whales swim slowly on the bottom of the sea with their mouths open.
I saw a huge school of fish swimming towards the south, and many even lined up and crashed into the big mouths of the two humpback whales and never came out again.
It may be because of the presence of the two humpback whales, or it may be that the school of fish that passed by yesterday was more powerful. Except for the migrating small fish in this group of fish, Xiang Yang found it after searching for four weeks carefully. No ferocious marine predators were found.
The other crew members on the boat were also shocked by the large group of sea fish that suddenly passed by this sea area, and they all looked around in a daze, staring at the dense sea fish in front of, up, down, left, and right, and were so shocked that they were almost speechless Come.
Damn, the fishery resources in this deep sea are really too rich! No wonder those who fish near the sea are getting poorer every year, so poor that they want to abandon their ancestral business to find another way of life, while those outside who bought fishing boats to go fishing in the far sea are getting richer and richer. Year by year, the fleet is getting bigger and more fishing boats.
Xiang Yang looked at the two humpback whales that were preying, then smiled and dived down to the bottom of the sea, carefully searching for various mussels or shells.
He Mingde, Chen Fusheng, Chen Qingsheng and most other crew members were also like this. When they saw dead shells, they turned them over to see if there were any pearls left inside, and when they encountered live shells, they opened them to see if there were any pearls.
But for live scallops and mussels, everyone only pries the ones that are bigger than a palm.
This piece of sea fish may be the reason why there are a lot of sediment and quartz substances driven by the cold current. Many mussels have pearls in their bodies.
However, most of them are some of the most common white pearls, and the particles are very small and the shape is very irregular. The value of such pearls is even lower than that of artificially cultivated pearls.
Xiang Yang's vision on the bottom of the sea is extremely good, and he can often confirm whether there are pearls inside and what color the pearls are before alarming the scallops to close the shells from a long distance, so Xiang Yang's harvest is the biggest among all.
After prying open a clam shell that was bigger than an adult's palm, he took out a milky white pearl over 12mm and threw it into his net pocket. Xiang Yang suddenly saw an extremely interesting scene.
In a group of pearl salvage crews, there is a strange thing. When he sees dead shellfish, he will turn over to see if there are any pearls in it, but when he encounters a living shellfish, he will stuff his brains into the net bag. Now he is dragging a net full of shellfish. The clam shells struggled to move on the bottom of the sea.