Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

The underwater excavation work got off to a bad start because the first batch of materials found had been completely turned into a pile of garbage due to seawater erosion, which had no salvage value at least from a salvage perspective.

But this does not mean that everyone found nothing during this search, because judging from the discovery here, this ship has no traces of human disturbance before, which means that no one has salvaged here before.

This has two advantages for Liang En. On the one hand, it means that there is probably something valuable left in the boat, and he can take this opportunity to salvage it.

On the other hand, the untouched ship was a very good background, which allowed Liang En to place the discovery site of the golden Buddha in this place without anyone's suspicion.

Because it was already dark, Liang En and the others stopped fishing and started having dinner. The main dish was a swordfish that had just been caught.

When Liang En and the others were fishing underwater just now, the off-duty crew members on the boat took out their fishing gear and started fishing, and this sailfish was one of their harvests.

In addition, they also caught several other kinds of fish, so today's dinner mainly consisted of a variety of seafood, and it was definitely the freshest kind.

However, during the meal, we could find that the people on the boat were divided into two distinct groups. Some of them were crew members on the boat. They mainly stared at the chicken, mutton and beef that we brought from the shore and refrigerated them.

The other group was mainly composed of Liang En and others who had temporarily boarded the ship. They mainly ate the seafood that had just been caught.

The reason for this is that these sailors often go to sea for a long time, so they prefer fresh food from the land.

Liang En and the others, on the other hand, are just the opposite. When they come to a new sea area, they will naturally try the seafood here as soon as possible if they have the opportunity, especially fish that they can't usually eat like swordfish.

"What we found today should be the warehouse near the deck." After finishing the meal, everyone cleaned up the restaurant and started the summary work for the day, and Liang En was the first to speak at the summary meeting.

"According to tradition, ships will take into account the center of gravity of trimming when placing items, so as to avoid dangers caused by improper placement of items. In other words, heavy items will be placed at the bottom, and light items will be placed at the top."

"So if what we find in the upper layer is rubber, then there is a high probability that the lower layer is various metal blocks. And if we are lucky, those metals should be in good condition and can probably be sold for a lot. money."

"Yes, boss, we guess that is probably the case." Louis nodded at this time and said, "It's just that the lower deck of the hull is better preserved than the upper deck, so we may need to spend time doing underwater cutting tomorrow. .”

Underwater cutting is not an easy task. Fortunately, Liang En and the others work in a shallow sea, so although the next work is a bit difficult, it is not difficult for Liang En and the others to solve it.

So the next day, the first thing Liang En and Joan of Arc did after diving to the bottom of the sea was to check the scattered cargo boxes on the ship, and the divers started with various cutting tools. Cut the ship's bulkhead.

"It seems that the explosion that occurred below the waterline of the ship was indeed serious, so much so that the remaining boxes could not be found in the fracture on the lower floor."

After a brief inspection, Liang En, who had a general understanding of the lower fracture, put his oxygen mask on Jeanne's mask and said.

"So do we have to open those cabin compartments to check the situation inside?" Jeanne asked curiously, and then looked at the cutting sparks flashing beside the ship.

"It's not necessary." Liang En said, taking off a metal detector capable of underwater inspection from his waist, and then pointed to the surrounding seafloor. "I believe some of it should be scattered around, and then we just need samples."

Soon, Liang En and Jeanne De Cui began to check the surroundings with the breach as the core. Sure enough, after a few minutes, they each found something interesting from the bottom of the sea.

These items are metal blocks that look only about the size of a palm. Due to being under water for a long time, rust has appeared on the surface and looks dark.

However, the metal is generally well preserved, at least much better than the pile of completely destroyed rubber blocks just now. Except for the oxide layer on the surface, the overall look is very good.

At this time, the first compartment door was opened. The inside was also the same as the rubber, but this time the boxes were all made of metal blocks.

After stepping forward and weighing it with his hands, Liang En found that the metal blocks in the cabin were the same as the metal blocks he found outside. It seemed that most of the warehouses on the bottom deck at that time should be filled with the same type of items.

Next, everyone opened another cabin, which also contained metal blocks. It seemed that the ship wanted to transport raw materials such as rubber and metal to the mainland.

This should be considered a relatively common item when Japanese ships transported from Southeast Asia to Japan during World War II. It can even be said that these items were the main materials transported from Southeast Asia to Japan.

According to history, at that time, Japan transported various troops, weapons and other war-related items to Southeast Asia, and what was shipped back were various raw materials.

Of course, this kind of transportation did not last long. At least after the Americans withstood the first round of Japanese attacks, the large-scale war successfully cut off the connection between Japan and Southeast Asia.

Countless ships were sunk on the route. These ships were both ships transporting various supplies and troop transports, so the ship Liang En and the others found was one of those sunken ships.

After Liang En and the others returned to the ship, several people used a cutting machine to cut the metal blocks they had picked up, and then cut several metal blocks into two sections and looked at the sections.

The cross section glowed with a silver-gray light, which did not look dazzling. After simple tests, they determined that the metal was tin, and it was very pure tin refined in the industrial era.

"These things are more valuable than copper, with an average price of about 22,000 US dollars per ton." After holding a piece of metal in one hand and knocking it lightly, Liang En turned around and said to the people present.

"Based on what we just investigated, the lower deck cargo warehouse on the other side's ship should be full of this, so if there are no accidents, there may be hundreds of tons of these things. There is a high probability that there are hundreds of tons of tin. Ton."

When he said this, Liao Yin was very happy, because he only wanted to find a legal source for the golden Buddha he obtained before, and he really didn't expect that this excavation would yield anything.

Therefore, the large amount of metal pieces discovered now can be regarded as an unexpected harvest, making this time a real treasure hunt, rather than simply placing certain items as planned before.