Chapter 103: Queen Phoenix Conch
After putting on diving equipment again, Li Ming solemnly said to the camera: "It's getting late. It may be dawn in China now, but before the Caribbean Sea is dark, this is my last time in the water today!"
"That anchor may be my biggest discovery in the past few days. In fact, everyone has discovered it during this period. It is completely different from my previous treasure hunt in Britain. It is extremely difficult to find a valuable shipwreck in the vast ocean."
"I hope the dolphins I just visited will bring me better luck!"
Then he turned over and sneaked into the calm sea.
Coral groups growing under the Caribbean sea are like forests on land, nurturing thousands of colorful life forms under the sea.
The colorful peacock halibut, while Li Ming dived into the sea bed, a wandering turtle slowly slid past him.
And once he entered the coral area, his eyes were attracted by various ingredients;
The smooth tree trunk fish and the four-eyed butterfly fish hid under the pink soft coral. A smug spotted from his crotch. The beautiful queen angelfish was particularly eye-catching in the coral group at the bottom of the sea. Her flat body had a bright blue outline and several bright blue vertical lines on her body. She was covered with grid-like bead-shaped yellow dots with blue edges, and blue and black spots at the bottom of her pectoral fins...
As expected, the water friends in the live broadcast room understood what he thought best, and they shouted that he should not let go of these great dinners in front of him!
Li Ming joked that if anyone brought bread here, he would definitely enjoy the pleasure of being surrounded by these tropical fish.
But his purpose for this trip was not them.
He went straight to the white seabed, where the water depth here was much shallower than the anchors and artificial reefs, so the view here was clearer.
Moreover, such a coral area is not suitable for Li Ming's corner ventilation duct. Even if he adjusts the Explorer's horsepower to the minimum and the wake brought by the propeller rushes down, it will cause damage to the seabed and animals in this coral area at will.
This time the waterproof metal detector in his hand finally came in handy.
The underwater metal detector in his hand only cost one or two hundred dollars. He bought several of them temporarily before departure, and even if they broke, they still had spares.
The use depth of this underwater metal detector is only 30 meters at most, and the detection range is only six or seven meters, which is the biggest difference from the metal detectors on land.
There is an LED glowing light on the tray of this thing. Once it finds a metal object, it will flash the lights while making beeping sounds.
When working underwater, because people need to exhale gas, the sound environment is even noisier.
Moreover, the deeper the water, the dimmer the light becomes, and the flashing lights on the tray are more obvious.
Li Ming's movements are very fast, but undersea work is more consuming than on land.
He turned on the searchlight and carefully searched for every large pile of gravel on the seabed. This inefficient homework was a test of a person's patience.
One and a half hours later.
He had searched this small seabed along the possible existence of the coral bush, and nothing else was except a piece of iron that was rusty as big as a palm.
Just when he was a little discouraged, he reached out and moved the metal detector to a conch;
Sudden!
The light of the metal detector began to flicker continuously.
At this time, it was already five o'clock in the morning in China, which was the most tired and sleepy moment;
Li Ming successfully put most night owls off the line, and the metal detector alarm signal appeared and received some feedback from the live broadcast room, but it was much dimmer than the peak online period.
Obviously, the conch in front of me could not be Li Ming’s target, even if it was a very beautiful queen phoenix snail.
This thing is a large and edible sea snail, and they are currently found as one of the largest mollusks;
The Queen Phoenix Snail is the most beautiful and magical among the shell population.
Most of them live in seaweeds in southeast Florida, the United States and in Cuba waters in the Caribbean Sea.
The Queen Phoenix Snail looks very strange. It is very wide under it, like a beautiful big fan. The "big fan" has four colors: red, yellow, blue and purple;
These bright and gorgeous colors highlight the noble status of the Queen Phoenix Snail in the shell. The upper part is getting sharper and sharper as it goes upwards, both like a 10-story pagoda and a gorgeous golden crown on the queen's head.
So the Queen Phoenix Snail is famous for!
The snails of Queen Phoenix Snails are a popular delicacy in the Caribbean. In this sea area, there are more than one such beautiful conch, and there are many nearby coral reefs.
Commercial fishing is no longer allowed, but Li Ming can hold two of them in his arms and taste them by himself.
【Okay, breakfast is coming again ~】
【This should be the anchor’s dinner.】
【A good treasure hunter, he made a food program.】
【223333】
The Queen Phoenix Snail in front of me was covered with a bunch of small black blocks and some scalable irregular block objects;
They were mixed with the gravel, and Li Ming picked up one and looked it carefully, and found that the thing in his hand could no longer see their true colors;
Moreover, the light at the bottom of the sea dimmed a lot at this time, and even if Li Ming picked up the searchlight, he would not be able to tell it out for a while.
All the things found in the metal detector were put into the net bag by Li Ming, including the queen phoenix snails.
But he vaguely felt that he should have discovered something very important and said cheerfully: "Brothers, although I am not sure what these things are now, it is certain that they are all metal. I will see if there are any nearby."
While he could still see the surroundings clearly, Li Ming searched for the area within a radius of 10 meters with the location where the black object had just been discovered as the center point.
At this time, he had been working under the sea for nearly two hours and was exhausted very much, but this sudden discovery made him feel much more excited.
Next his goal was focused on the gaps in those reefs;
Sure enough, he found a lot of black blocks of metal around him again, as well as some irregular block objects that were stained.
It was not until he was almost unable to see the underwater environment that Li Ming reluctantly returned to the Explorer.
He resisted the itch in his scalp and carefully counted the gains.
He found 13 small black pieces and 8 irregular things covered with dirt.
He tried each of them with a probe, and the metal detector in his hand sounded a prompt that these things were genuine.
The Explorer's warehouse was cleared out by Li Ming and became a temporary workshop;
In the spotlight, he picked up one of the small black pieces, looked carefully and explained: "The black metal in my hand has no obvious characteristics. I suspect that this thing is either iron or copper alloy."
Many viewers in the live broadcast room were full of joy and thought it was silver or gold, but Li Ming's words disappointed them a little;
So they no longer have hope for the eight things covered with dirt.
On the contrary, the queen phoenix snails became the target of the audience's hearts, and they all shouted that they would start eating conch meat.
The snail meat was put aside first, and Li Ming planned to quietly be covered with dirt. What exactly were the metal blocks covered with mud?
He took out a plastic basin from the cabin and poured in a special cleaning agent, which was configured with a special composite acid, corrosion inhibitor and a variety of descaling additives.
Then wait for time to come into play.
Li Ming always felt itchy on his scalp, which was caused by sea corrosion. If you soak in the sea for a long time, your hair will be slit and easily broken, and it will have a strong irritating effect on the scalp.
Fortunately, there was plenty of fresh water on the boat, so he asked the system to point the camera at the plastic basin to facilitate observation by water lovers.
He ran to the shower room and took a shower happily, and washed his hair several times.
When Li Ming finished taking a shower, he found that the live broadcast room had a barrage frenzy.
"Why are you so excited? Is it because you're having another hurricane? Or have you encountered a shark?"
When he got closer, he was a little confused. The eight metals wrapped in mud and dirt that had been soaked in the plastic basin revealed their prototypes.
Coins with a diameter of about 4 cm were lying in plastic basins one by one, and even the decomposed dirt could not hide their glory.
Looking at these things on the plastic plate, Li Ming widened his eyes and exclaimed: "Brothers, we seem to have gained a lot..."
The Spanish language on these coins is clearly visible!
Even though Li Ming was still holding a bath towel in his hand, he was already so excited that he was extremely excited. The boring treasure hunting work during this period had already made him exhausted.
The appearance of these silver coins made him feel excited.
Chapter completed!