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After Yang Jing and Grid arrived, David Patel, the head of the private polar scientific research organization, and Andrei Mirakinov, the captain of the Blue Whale, immediately appeared in the port, and Yang Jing, a big gold The Lord had a meeting.

In Western developed capitalist countries, there are many private polar scientific research organizations like Ingram. The situation in these developed capitalist countries is different from that of China. In China, scientific research activities in the Antarctic and Arctic are often the power of the country. But in these developed countries, the vast majority of scientific research activities are privately owned. These private scientific research organizations make profits by accepting commissions from government departments, universities and even other private organizations. Of course, they are completing the commissions of others. At the same time, you can also start your own scientific research tasks and sell some results to some interested people or organizations.

In the last century, the polar expedition was still a very unpopular industry, and the competition was not so fierce. But as people pay more and more attention to the two poles, the competition in this industry is getting more and more fierce. Especially after entering the new century, many private polar scientific research organizations have sprung up like bamboo shoots after a rain, which brings the competition in this industry into a very cruel realm.

Just like Ingram, a private polar scientific research organization based in North America, its main service targets are North American universities and related government departments. But unfortunately, this privately-owned company has a history of more than 20 years. The polar scientific expedition organization, after more and more juniors appeared in this industry with large amounts of funds, its competitiveness became weaker and weaker.

For this reason, the partners of Ingram at that time spent US$400 million more than ten years ago to build the Graham Blue Whale, trying to get rid of the predicament by relying on the most advanced polar scientific research ship at the time.

When the Blue Whale was launched, it really caused a sensation in the industry. Ingram also got a lot of orders with the advanced Blue Whale. But it is a pity that whether the polar scientific expedition can produce results depends not only on the advanced polar scientific expedition ship, but also depends on the ability of the scientific expedition personnel.

Obviously, Ingram is not stronger than other top polar scientific research organizations in this respect, on the contrary, they are still weak in some respects.

In this way, although Ingram added an extremely advanced Blue Whale, the actual business did not increase much, and because of the huge maintenance funds of the Blue Whale, it became more difficult for Ingram. If it weren't for the major shareholder behind Ingram to be a wealthy man, and still clenched his teeth, maybe this well-known polar scientific research organization would be completely disbanded.

Last winter, Ingram received a commission from the U.S. Department of Energy to conduct a detailed investigation of several mining divisions in Antarctica. The Ministry of Energy only gave a budget of US$3.58 million for this task, but this task will last as long as four months, almost spanning the entire warm season in Antarctica.

The task is not complicated, but for such a long time span, the money is only so small, and Ingram's order is guaranteed not to lose money at most. But even so, Ingram could only pinch his nose to take the order.

No way, you won't pick it up. Some people are lining up to pick up this list.

Fortunately, before the mission started, Ingram received another commission, which was to deliver a batch of supplies to the American Polar Research Station Mike Odor Station located along the Ross Ice Shelf.

This extra mission made this trip to the Antarctic more or less profitable, but the sky was not as good as the humans. Just when the Blue Whale had just delivered the supplies to Mike Odor Station and was about to start the investigation of mineral resources, Blue Whale Unfortunately, No. encountered a sudden cold current.

The strong cold current caused the sea ice on the Ross Ice Shelf to rapidly expand and thicken, and eventually the Blue Whale was trapped in the Ross Ice Shelf forcibly, unable to advance or retreat. The most serious thing is that when the Blue Whale was trying to forcefully break the ice out of the Ross Sea, the starboard hull was damaged. Although the hull did not break, the plan to force the ice to break would be completely ruined.

Not only that, the Blue Whale, trapped in the Ross Ice Shelf, had to send out a distress signal. An Antarctic research ship from Germany finally rescued the Blue Whale in twelve days.

Although she was rescued, including the time she was trapped, the Blue Whale was delayed in the Ross Sea for more than 20 days, and the hull was damaged and needed to be returned to port for repairs. At this time, even the tasks assigned by the US Department of Energy are no longer possible.

No way, after the approval of the U.S. Department of Energy, Ingram had to transfer this task to another polar research ship from the United States. Then the Blue Whale dragged the damaged hull back to Boston at a very slow speed.

This trip to Antarctica not only failed to complete the mission entrusted by the US Department of Energy, but also injured the Blue Whale’s hull. Of course, the Germans did not save you in vain. In order to rescue the Blue Whale from the Ross Ice Shelf, the British Gram paid the Germans up to 450,000 U.S. dollars. As for the failure to complete the commission of the Ministry of Energy, Ingram also needed to pay the Ministry of Energy a liquidated damages of up to 800,000 U.S. dollars...

It can be said that last year's trip to the South Pole was a disaster. To put it in an old Chinese saying, it was to lose his wife and break the army!

Ingram, who was expecting to earn a sum of money, paid a total of more than $4 million in expenses during that trip to the Antarctic. In addition, after including the cost of repairing the ship, Ingram paid a total of Nearly five million dollars.

This is undoubtedly worse for Ingram, who is already a little stretched.

And what made the head of Ingram even more desperate was that because of the Blue Whale's accident in the Antarctic and the failure to complete the mission of the US Department of Energy, Ingram did not receive any mission to the North Pole. ——Regardless of whether it is a government department or other colleges and universities, they all have lingering fears about the Blue Whale’s failure to complete the tasks entrusted by the US Department of Energy. No one wants to hand over his entrustment to an organization that has not completed the task of scientific research.

In this way, Ingram was immediately faced with an extremely severe situation-if there is no commission, Ingram will most likely be closed!

But at this moment, David Patel, the head of Ingram, learned that a Chinese from San Francisco was looking for a polar scientific research ship that could perform missions in the Arctic waters, and said that money was not a problem.

In this case, David Patel naturally immediately contacted Lin Dan. As rumored, this young Chinese man from San Francisco didn’t care about money at all, even if David Patel offered a price of 240,000 U.S. dollars a week, after seeing the Blue Whale, the young Chinese man still I just paid a five-week deposit of 1.2 million US dollars in advance.

Although this amount of money is not a lot, it is undoubtedly a life-saving money for Ingram, who is about to be unable to open the pot. In particular, this young Chinese surnamed Lin also personally promised that once the ship goes to sea, five weeks will definitely not be enough. Eight weeks or even twelve weeks are possible, but how long it can be used. Time depends on the specific circumstances of this trip to sea.

Although this incident was not a commissioned task, it was just a simple lease of the Blue Whale, but after learning that Lin Dan’s behind-the-scenes boss had appeared, David Patel immediately brought the newly appointed captain of the Blue Whale to and Yang Meet Jing.

"Hello Mr. Yang, I am David Patel, the head of Ingram, and this is Andrei Mirakinov, the captain of the Blue Whale. When you go to sea, Andrei Responsible for you throughout the whole process." Although David Patel is a white man who is nearly fifty years old, he involuntarily lowered his posture when facing Yang Jing, the golden master.

He can’t put down his posture. Although the two in front of him are of Chinese origin, when David Patel saw the Patek Philippe Platinum World Time watch in Yang Jing’s left hand, he immediately realized what was in front of him. These two Chinese young people are definitely rich men with a lot of money.

Multi-million dollar watches are worn so casually on the wrists. To be honest, even if David Patel claims to be a well-informed person, he has never seen such a luxurious guy. The watch on the wrist alone is enough to pay the rent of the Blue Whale for most of the year.

"Hello, Mr. Patel, just call me Albert~www.wuxiaspot.com~ For this well-mannered middle-aged man, Yang Jing still feels good." Mr. Patel, this time The main purpose of leasing your Blue Whale is to take my fiancee around in the Arctic waters. My fiancée and I have just got engaged, and my fiancée is looking forward to going to the North Pole, so this time we will go to the North Pole together. "There is no need to keep confidential in some cases...

"Wow, Albert, congratulations on having such a beautiful fiancee." Patel offered his compliment in a timely manner, "Please rest assured to take our Blue Whale. Although the Blue Whale has been launched for ten Years later, but this ship is still one of the top polar scientific research ships in the world. The facilities on the ship are guaranteed to allow you and your fiancee to be an enjoyment in the next Arctic trip. At the same time, the Blue Whale also Have a good enough captain. Although our Mr. Andre has just become the captain of the Blue Whale, Andre has extremely rich sailing experience. When the Blue Whale was launched, he served as the Blue Whale’s captain. The chief engineer, later became the first officer of the Blue Whale, and it was not until this year that Mr. Andre became the helm of the Blue Whale. It is no exaggeration to say that no one is more familiar with the Blue Whale than Andre. "

Andrei on the side saluted and said in English with a strong Russian accent: "Welcome to the Blue Whale, Andrei Mirakinov will serve you wholeheartedly."

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