Chapter 324

Church's diary five

I'm glad that all the seasick people have recovered, including Mrs. Larry and Miss Alice. I don't know whether this is the blessing of the sea god or Anderson's fish soup. Anyway, I thank Anderson very much. I'm sincere.

Alice began to run around the deck again, feeling the grandeur and beauty of the sea. Her smile is so pure. It's as bright as the sunshine in May. It seems that she has completely forgotten the pain caused by kelp a few days ago. She also often went to see Anderson fishing. They talked and laughed in the sea breeze. I said Anderson, are you lucky? Although I don't think you two are suitable, I wish you good luck.

Mrs. Larry looked much heavier. I wonder whether she recovered less quickly and completely than the young people, or because of the cold snow, she had the same concern as Mr. Robbins. I think they've been whispering together these two days. I don't know what they're discussing.

No matter how worried, we will arrive at our destination tomorrow. Although it is a whole week later than the scheduled plan, with the blessing of Poseidon, everything is going well at last. If it were me, I would relax today. Anyway, the result will be announced tomorrow. Whether it is good or bad is under the control of God, not us. All we can do is face all this optimistically.

As for when to return, it depends on the investigation progress of these scientists. Who knows what amazing secrets they will find? If there is any significant discovery, it is also a glorious thing for me to witness with them. Anyway, the discovery has a endurance of 18000 nautical miles, which meets the requirements of unlimited navigation area, no matter how long they toss. Although more than 70 people eat 50 kilograms of vegetables and 30 kilograms of fish every day, we have enough food in Auckland for a month. We can't go fishing like Anderson.

Oh, my God! What am I thinking? Before I got to my destination, I was thinking about returning. It's so old! I wouldn't think so much when I was young!

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Church's diary six

We reached the designated location, but we didn't find Ghost Island.

Anderson and I repeatedly confirmed that we were checking the GPS system and checking the chart. Mr. Robbins also contacted the US Naval Research Laboratory and asked their system to provide us with more accurate positioning and retrieve satellite images from a period of time before. However, all our efforts were in vain.

I didn't drive in the wrong direction, and the GPS didn't guide us in the wrong direction. Everything showed that the discovery had reached the predetermined target position. My crew and I didn't feel much, because it was not us who found the ghost island and wrote down the location, but another ship. But those scientists - Robbins believed it was true, because there were many scientists on the ship at that time, and several of them were on our ship. They came here for the second time.

Based on the seriousness of their group towards science and their credibility and sense of mission beyond life, I think most of what they say is true and will not be a joke of some boring people. Of course, with their knowledge, they are not easy to be deceived by nature.

According to the position recorded by the ship that found the island before, I drove the discovery to 36 ° 55's latitude and 136 ° 39 'W longitude. This figure is almost the same as the location of Maria Theresa reef recorded in the past 100 years. But when we arrived, I could see nothing but the endless sea, and because the water depth exceeded the length of the anchor chain, we couldn't anchor at all. Of course, the discovery has an advanced balance positioning system. Even in case of wind and waves, the ship can automatically stop at its original position.

Robbins asked us to search within 1 ° of the positive and negative difference of longitude and latitude according to this coordinate position.

My God, the difference between positive and negative longitude and latitude is 1 °, that is, the sea surface of nearly 50000 square kilometers can hold the land area of the whole Netherlands. You know, just three centuries ago, the iron ships of this country conquered many places all over the world. It was the Dutch who first discovered these lands in the ocean of the southern hemisphere and named the largest land "New Holland", which was later renamed Australia; Another smaller piece of land has never been renamed. It is named New Zealand after an area called "Xilan" in the Netherlands.

Now, I will drive this ship to search for two ghost like invisible islands and reefs that may be about the size of our ship in the sea area equivalent to the land area of the Netherlands.

We went around the sea and got nothing. In fact, everyone knows very well that it is too easy to find two islands within tens of thousands of square kilometers by relying on our ship's equipment and GPS satellites, provided that they really exist. Since the satellites can't be found, we can't find them like this.

We just don't give up, so we continue to circle and expect ghost island to live up to its name. If it is a "ghost", maybe the satellite can't be seen.

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Church's diary seven

We have been cruising in this area for two days, and everyone is beginning to get impatient. If it hadn't been for Mr. Robbins's preciseness and good temper and Alice's naive girl to bring joy to the ship, everyone would have gone crazy.

Only Anderson was still not surprised by honor or disgrace. As long as the ship stopped or didn't need him to work, he went fishing on the stern deck.

He said there was no ghost island, but a huge ancient fish surfaced from the bottom of the sea to catch his breath!

I think Anderson's head is broken when fishing. How can there be such a big fish? Besides, how could those scientists not even recognize a fish?

All the equipment on board was turned on, and sonar, magnetic force, laser, infrared and underwater robot were put down, but there was nothing. The data show that the water depth here is at least more than 3000 meters, the deepest reaches 5000 meters, and there are only a few submarine peaks. Even if submarine volcanoes erupt, it is impossible to form islands to expose to the sea.

After dinner, the scientific research team held a small meeting and invited me and chief officer Anderson to attend. Mr. Robbins made a brief statement to explain the situation, and then asked for your opinions. Everyone looked at the people who came for the second time. They had vowed that the island existed, but now they were bitter and silent.

Anderson suddenly shouted, I said it was a fish, but you don't believe it! You know, the area of the earth's Shanghai Ocean is much larger than that of land. The sea is so deep that there must be many strange creatures on the seabed. There is a kind of fish. It is very big. Because it is too big, it moves very slowly and its metabolism is very slow. Its back is full of all kinds of corals and seaweed. It only surfaced from the sea for hundreds of years to breathe fresh air. It just floated there, but it was regarded as an island by you. Ha ha, it's ridiculous!

The more wild Anderson laughed, the more ugly the others looked. What else does Robbins want to say, said Mrs. Larry, who was not smiling. Don't waste time here. Let's go to the next place.

The next place Mrs. Larry said was the underwater ruins with pyramids. In the end, everyone agreed with Mrs. Larry, although they were not reconciled. However, Robbins said that the next place is where they really want to go, and it will never disappear like ghost island, because that place has been preliminarily investigated and evidenced by photos and objects.

I am also full of expectation, full of curiosity about the underwater inverted pyramid.