Chapter 1167: Submersible failure

"Xiaoqiu, what do you eat tonight? What vegetables are there on the boat?" Xiao Peng threw the fishing rod aside.
He really regrets it now, he only agreed to do this scientific expedition work after his brain peeed! He was used to life on the sea, but it was the first time that he was floating on the sea like this boring.
He is not the only one who feels boring, Xiaoqiu and the others are also boring. I wiped the deck of the ship over and over again--it was nothing to do.
Xiaoqiu replied: "Beetroot, red stalk chard, sprouts, asparagus, leeks, onions and artichoke potatoes! Boss, what do you want to eat?"
Xiao Peng sighed and said, "I don't want to eat anything... You can't stop eating it, forget it, let's eat the buns with leek dipping sauce!"
Xiaoqiu said: "I just steamed the steamed buns. Do I need to roast you another artichoke?"
Xiao Peng nodded: "That's great, especially, I want to eat Chinese cabbage! I want to eat leeks! I want to eat rapeseed! When will this day be big!"
They made supplies in Bailu Port, and many of the vegetables in it were not the vegetables they usually eat.
For example, beetroot, this thing is made of sugar in China, but here it has become a favorite vegetable, usually directly chopped for salad.
People here have a deep love for beetroot, and beet sauce and canned beet are common. After all, the environment here in the Aleutian Islands is also very harsh, so the eating habits are very similar to the bear country, and it is mainly high-fat, high-calorie and high-sugar. Beetroot is very suitable for the eating habits here.
And there are spore kale, which looks like a pocket version of kohlrabi, and one is as big as a finger belly. But the kohlrabi grows in the ground, one is one, and the sprouts grow round and hide among the leaves, and one brussels sprout can produce dozens of sprouts. This is also a good ingredient for salads, but no one on the boat likes to eat salads. Xiao Qiu always blanched the spores of cabbage in boiling water and sautéed the meat.
As for the taste, that's the case. . . . . .
Asparagus is often eaten here in Huaxia. It is also boiled and blanched with fried meat or served cold, but Xiao Peng really doesn’t catch a cold with asparagus. It tastes good when mixed with shrimps, but it is fine to eat two meals occasionally. Up.
We also have chard in China, which is just a big leaf. Huaxia here are generally green and white stalks, but here are red stalks. There are not many people who eat this stuff in China, and it is very popular here.
Anyway, they only need to make a good salad dressing. These things are eaten raw, but for Huaxia people, this is not good. Huaxia people pay attention to taste when they eat?
Xiao Peng's favorite vegetable is leeks.
The leeks are almost carved out of the same mold as the green onions, and the taste is quite similar, but these are two out-of-pocket vegetables. It is a product between green garlic sprouts and green onions. Fried twice-cooked pork with leeks still tastes good.
But after all, Bailu Port's supply is not so abundant. Their leeks are too old, especially after being left on the boat for so long, the current ones have grown older and can only eat a little bit of onion cores. But this is better than nothing.
The only vegetable that made Xiao Peng think that the highlight was artichokes, which looked pretty, like a big green pine ball. And now happens to be the most delicious time. It tastes more like mushrooms with a hint of corn aroma. It is also very simple to eat. Cut in half from the middle, sprinkle a little salt and bake it in the oven. When you eat it, dip a little pepper to make it tasteless. It's a good snack.
Xiao Peng took out two bottles of beer and handed Qian Congcong a bottle: "How about? Very boring, right?"
Qian Congcong nodded and said, "Yeah, this is too boring. I just want to go to the bottom of the sea to see."
Xiao Peng looked at the nautical chart: "There are four days of survey plan for this survey site, and then we will reach the sixth coordinate. Then I will let you go down and play at the sixth coordinate!"
Qian Congcong excitedly said, "Really?"
"Nonsense!" As soon as Xiao Peng finished speaking, the water sound intercom suddenly sounded: "Xiao Peng, need help!"
Xiao Peng asked puzzledly: "What's the situation?"
"The counterweight hydraulic pump failed, a leak occurred, the counterweight door could not be opened, and the counterweight iron could not be put in." Yang Meng said.
"Oh, I see!" Xiao Peng said lightly.
He just hung up the walkie-talkie, and Yang Meng's voice came from the walkie-talkie: "Professor Luan and Dr. Fang said they want to give their last words."
Xiao Peng said silently: "Explain a fart, let them not make trouble!"
"Well, that's what I said, OK, leave it to you!" Yang Meng said.
"Okay, wait for my notice at any time, can the power rise now?" Xiao Peng asked.
Yang Meng was quiet for a while and said, "Up to four hundred meters."
"Then it's okay, wait for my notice, take good care of those two, don't let them mess around."
Xiao Peng hung up the water sound intercom and picked up the intercom inside the ship: "Wang Hu, activate emergency plan No. 3! Ready for the ‘Little Elf’, Huang Bin, make preparations for the recovery of the ‘Four Sea Warrior’."
After listening to Xiao Peng's words, all the crew on board became busy.
The ‘elf’ is a deep-sea robot. It is not very big. It is a square robot with only one robotic arm. It looks very crude, but it is indeed a powerful deep-sea robot.
"Boss, the'elf' is ready!" Wang Hu reported.
"Deliver!" Xiao Peng ordered.
Wang Hu nodded to Xiao Peng and instructed Huang Bin to operate the crane to drop the "elves" into the sea. Then Wang Hu sat in front of the console and controlled the ‘elf’ into the sea.
Seeing that the people on the boat were busy, idlers like Qian Congcong surrounded Xiao Peng with a nervous expression: "What happened?"
Xiao Peng explained: "The iron hatch of the counterweight cannot be opened, and the counterweight cannot be put in."
"What does that mean?" Qian Congcong didn't understand.
Xiao Peng explained: "It's nothing, but the submersible can't float up."
"What? What should I do?" Tang Sheng exclaimed after hearing this.
Xiao Peng looked at them: "What are you nervous about? This is not now going to implement rescue! Don't be nervous!"
Qian Congcong handed Xiao Peng a cigarette to help him light it and asked: "Brother Peng, can you tell me what is going on?"
Xiao Peng took a breath and explained: "You know that deep-sea submersibles have to bear a lot of pressure on the seafloor, so this is a very delicate instrument. Everything, including the weight density, must be carefully calculated. The submersible can stay suspended on the bottom of the sea, so that the deep-sea submersible can move on the bottom of the sea with the least power. However, this also causes a problem. It is troublesome to float up. The solution is to install two pieces in the submersible. The counterweight iron, when you need to float up, throw two counterweights directly into the sea, and the submersible will directly float to the surface."
"However, due to the excessive pressure of the seawater, the hull design of the deep submersible is the spherical shell and high-sealing design with the strongest pressure resistance. The same is true for the counterweight cabin. When the counterweight is needed, the hydraulic pump in the cabin is used. Push open the counterweight compartment door and throw the counterweight iron out. The problem they have now is that the hydraulic pump is depressurizing, and the counterweight compartment door cannot be opened."
Qian Congcong asked: "How to solve this problem?"
Xiao Peng replied: "In the absence of rescue, the submersible's own thruster is used to push up. However, the power of the submersible is limited and the seawater pressure is also high. Pushing upwards consumes more. Mengzi said that it can float up. One hundred meters, this is an optimistic estimate."
Qian Congcong asked curiously: "Then if you are in the deep sea, it's useless to float up to 400 meters, isn't it?"
Xiao Peng shook his head: "It doesn't have to be. It depends on the situation. It may float up little by little after rushing for 400 meters with the help of inertia, or it may rush for a while and then fall back. So in such a situation, four It must be rescued within hours."
"Why is it four hours?" Qian Congcong asked puzzledly.
Xiao Peng laughed: "I need to ask? The oxygen consumption inside can only last for eight hours of underwater work. They have been down for more than three hours. So there is more than four hours of rescue time."
Tang Sheng's eyes widened: "Boss Xiao! Why are you so cold-blooded? You can still laugh now? It's a matter of life and death below, why are you so ruthless? You hurry to save people!"
Xiao Peng was happy after hearing this: "I thought you were going to say to me,'You are ruthless, you are cruel, and you are making trouble without reason'! Then I am answering you,'Then you are merciless! Are you cruel? Are you making trouble without reason?'... . Let’s play a Qiong Yao drama! Friends, don’t get in the way here, stay wherever you are cool, don’t bother me!"
"You..." Tang Sheng pointed at Xiao Peng with wide eyes.
"What are you?" Xiao Peng gave Tang Sheng a white look: "The people on our ship are all acting in accordance with the rescue plan. What's the problem? What better way do you have? Come! Now you are responsible for the rescue! I Let you command! Now your boss, you tell us what to do! We all listen to you!"
When Tang Sheng heard this, he was stunned. He knew how to rescue him!
Xiao Peng looked at him and snorted coldly: "The fart skills are here to make irresponsible remarks! There is the sea. If you want to be anxious, you can jump down by yourself! Otherwise, get out of here! The adults work and the kids go away!"
Qian Congcong was speechless: "Brother Peng, he is much bigger than you, okay? You call him a kid?"
Xiao Peng pointed to his temple: "You are a child if you are immature. If you give him a face like this, he will take himself seriously, and he won't know his surname if you don't slap him harshly!"
Qian Congcong patted Tang Sheng and others on the shoulders: "Don't worry, the pilot of the submersible boat Mengzi is Peng's best brother, and Peng will not watch Mengzi die."
"What do you know as a rich second generation? We have received deep diving training, which is very dangerous..." Tang Sheng didn't dare to argue with Xiao Peng, could he still be afraid of Qian Congcong?
Qian Congcong pointed out the door without waiting for him to finish: "Get out!"