Chapter 58

"Left rudder 10 degrees! 10 degrees! No, no, no, just 8 degrees. It's too much. Turn back quickly!"

The fog echoed with acharin's shrill scream. Lorraine couldn't see anyone. He had to carefully adjust the position of the steering wheel along the sound of the sailors and give all his trust to acharin's eyes.

They are driving on a vast reef.

Dense reefs are distributed on the sea surface, hidden or present, hidden in fog. The people on board could only occasionally see one or two that came out of the water, and they were all close to the hull and rubbed the side.

Such a voyage makes everyone nervous.

They were dancing with death. Recently, the sharp reef had almost touched the hull.

Lorraine put Haina back on the lookout.

In the heavy fog, the lookout can't see anything. They just hope that the fog can drop occasionally and give them a chance to look into the distance. Just once.

Because they are not far from the island.

Reefs are mountains in the sea. Continuous reefs can only appear in the shallow sea, and the shallow sea only appears near the land.

This is a simple inference, which every sailor knows.

Nervous, expecting, waiting

They know they are going in the right direction.

Life is close!

"Right rudder 15 degrees!"

Lorraine bit his lips and was absorbed. As soon as he heard acharin's cry, he clattered the steering wheel.

The butterfly tilted over the hull, slowly avoided a protruding reef, walked half way, and suddenly shook violently!

Boom!

The starboard side hit a reef in the underwater position, and the whole ship was raised and tilted. Lorraine beat the steering wheel to avoid, vaguely heard a cry, and then there was the sound of water.

Someone fell into the water?

Before he could find out the situation, the sailors on the deck shouted, "look out! Ms. yesla is falling on the starboard side!"

Lorraine's face changed greatly and immediately shouted, "Pierce, take the helm!"

He quickly locked the steering wheel, strode to the starboard side, and jumped up without thinking.

Poop!

The cold water wrapped her body, and Lorraine opened her eyes.

The current is very fast.

The turbulent current stirred under the sea, making the sea water turbulent and turbid, but with the help of the eyelid, Lorraine could still see nearly 100 meters, much higher than the visibility on the sea.

Stupid... Why didn't you think about pilotage before?

He shook his head and first saw the broken hull of the butterfly.

A broken reef was hidden one meter under the water, and a large inclined hole was opened for the hull on the starboard side.

The hole extends about two watertight compartments, but there is no more debris nearby except the debris of the hull.

The only watertight compartments without sundries on board are those that actively inject water, so fortunately, the butterfly did not pour more water, and through the emergency avoidance just now, it has completely separated from the reef.

Lorraine slid around looking for her and soon found Haina in the distance.

She was thrown into the water from an altitude of more than 20 meters. Without any protection, she was knocked unconscious by the hard sea.

She is sinking, her eyes are closed, the bubbles are fine, her slender limbs are stretched and motionless, and she is drifting farther and farther along the current.

The distance between the two sides is about fifty or sixty meters.

Lorraine bit her teeth, surfaced and shouted to the dim shadow of the butterfly, "pierce!"

"Brother! I'm here! What shall we do!"

"The position of hitting the reef is in the water injection tank, and the ship will not sink for the time being!" Lorraine took a deep breath. "You take the helm, follow the command of acharin, and continue to cross cut the circulation. Don't stop the ship! The circulation is too urgent, forcibly dropping the anchor will be pushed out, and you will continue to hit the reef!"

"What about you?"

"I found Haina. Now go and save her! I'll see you in Heba!"

With this, Lorraine plunged back to the bottom. He swayed his legs along the ocean current and rushed in the direction of Haina like a swimming fish.

After a while, Haina reappeared in his field of vision. She still looked unconscious, and there were almost no bubbles on her lips.

Lorraine swam faster and faster, ran up, hugged her, stepped on the sea and quickly floated up, splashing out of the water.

There was a milky fog sea all around. The butterfly had lost its trace. Lorraine took a few breaths and swam to a nearby reef with Haina's head. From time to time, she sank into the water to identify the direction and ensure that she didn't deviate.

He put Hannah on the reef, took off her wet and heavy blouse, rolled it up and put it on the back of her neck, raised her head and chin, and carefully cleaned up the sundries in her mouth and nose.

Then he pinched Haina's nose, opened his mouth, leaned close, wrapped his lips around Haina's lips and blew quickly.

Haina's lips were soft and cold. Lorraine took a breath and loosened her hand to pinch her nose and let the gas exhale five times in a row.

After five times, he felt the xiphoid process along Haina's ribs, pointed up two horizontal fingers and pressed it with his palm.

He folded his hands into a cross, straightened his arms and pressed them down vertically.

Press it, he shouted, "Haina, wake up!"

Press it, he shouted again: "Haina, wake up!"

Twelve presses, five breaths, three rounds in a row.

Haina coughed violently, and water flowed out of her mouth and nose.

Lorraine was overjoyed. She quickly knelt down on one knee, picked up Haina, gently put her on her knees, and gently patted her back so that the water in her respiratory tract and stomach could flow out smoothly.

A minute later, Haina finally regained consciousness.

She lay weakly in Lorraine's arms, opened her eyes and whispered, "I... drowned?"

"You fell from the lookout and were directly knocked unconscious by the sea. You accidentally drank a few more saliva. It's not drowning."

"Really..." she looked at the fog in confusion. "Where's the butterfly?"

"She couldn't stop in the reef belt. I told them to go to Heba first."

"Where's hebbasi?"

Lorraine raised his finger in a direction: "don't worry, I'll take you to swim."

"Yes."

They held each other quietly and rested on the reef for more than half an hour.

Haina felt that her strength had recovered a little, so she pulled Lorraine's sleeve: "I can."

Lorraine helped her to her feet. They jumped back into the water and gently stroked their arms.

Haina asked, "how far is Heba?"

"I don't know."

"In case..."

"We'll find it," Lorraine interrupted Haina with a laugh. "Niold told me it's in the center of the fog and we're about to see it."

Haina stopped talking and took out her sling and handed it to Lorraine. Lorraine tied a knot on Haina's waist with a rope, set aside two meters, and wrapped it tightly around her waist.

"Are you ready?"

"Well..."

The two swam towards the depths of the fog. Lorraine was in front and Haina was in the back. A thin sling was connected in the middle. They crossed the circulation like a butterfly. They swam for more than an hour and finally rushed out of the reef zone.

The sea suddenly warmed, the fog began to thin, and the water flow became weaker and weaker.

Lorraine finally saw the stars.

So... It's already evening.

He stopped in the sea and dragged Haina for a long time to fight against the rapids, which exhausted his physical strength and made him dizzy. Even his swimming posture became clumsy.

Haina looked at him anxiously.

Lorraine reached out and patted Haina's face with a rustling smile: "look, we have passed through the fog area. If there is an octant at this time, I can calculate the latitude here."

"Let me swim by myself..."

"I'm about to see hebbasi. I promised you I'd take you ashore."