Titanic set sail for new york from Southampton, England on April 19 12. The wealthy businessman Dajia and British and American celebrities who boarded the ship want to spend a wonderful week on this brand-new miracle ship. Below the deck, there are hundreds of immigrants living in the lower cabin. They want to cross the Atlantic and start a new life on the other side.
The first few days passed safely, but on the fourth day, the operator received an emergency telegram from the ship sailing ahead, reminding them that the iceberg was floating abnormally south and had reached the nearby sea area. On Sunday, April 14, Titanic received an urgent telegram with the same content. However, these warnings were not taken seriously by the arrogant crew. The first alarm was thrown aside and was not reported to the captain for several hours. The next two times were never sent to the command room. Just after dusk, the temperature began to plummet. Although the signs of iceberg approaching are very obvious, Titanic neither changed course nor slowed down.
After nightfall, Captain edward smith began to look for icebergs. At 23: 40, the lookout first found the iceberg, and the duty officer ordered a sharp turn to the right chord. But it's too late. The iceberg knocked the outer wall of the ship's string open a gap 100 meters long. Most passengers only felt a slight vibration, which hardly attracted anyone's attention, but the engineers on board decided that the ship was hopeless after inspection. They think that if there are only four water tanks on board 16, the ship can still float on the water, but unfortunately, the outer walls of the five bottom tanks are torn by icebergs. Most of the passengers in the third class got up because the floor of their room had been flooded by the sea. The operator uses Morse code to send out the latest SOS distress signal, which is the first time to use this signal in a shipwreck. At midnight 12: 05, according to the captain's order, the lifeboat began to launch.
Passengers don't know that all lifeboats have only 1 178 seats, which can only accommodate half of the total number of people, but according to the laws at that time, this life-saving condition is quite sufficient. At first, the passengers did not panic. They don't believe there will be any danger at all, because the Titanic is unsinkable! It was not until the hull tilted dangerously that they lost their previous composure. Women and children leave the ship first. The first-class passengers boarded the lifeboat first, and only four women were killed in the shipwreck. Of the 272 women in second class and third class, only 96 survived. At one time, the door of the third-class cabin leading to the deck was even locked to prevent the passengers below from rushing onto the deck. On the increasingly inclined deck, the band has been playing the music of the mob.
At 2: 40 in the morning, the Titanic almost stood upright in the water, and then plunged into the Atlantic Ocean at a depth of 3,000 meters. The immigrants who stayed in the dark cabin were buried at the bottom of the sea with the Titanic, and all the people on the deck were thrown into the cold sea, which became the funerary objects of the famous shipwreck in this ice sea.
The iceberg that led to the sinking of this luxury ship is actually not a mysterious thing, but a huge piece of ice floating in the polar waters. Every spring and summer, it is formed by the rupture of polar ocean ice due to rising temperature, and gradually disappears when drifting to temperate and tropical regions. Their size varies greatly, and large icebergs can reach several kilometers long. Such a behemoth is a great threat to maritime navigation.
The sinking of Titanic shows that the power of nature is enormous, and human beings must not be blind and arrogant. We must pay enough attention to various natural phenomena, otherwise tragedy will be inevitable.
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A boat.
Dream trip.
Huge, magnificent and luxurious.
Ribbons danced and flags fluttered. The drums were loud and the voices were buzzing.
The color of the picture only exists in our feelings, but it is a single yellow in front of us, as if it were an old photo of the past years, which has experienced countless old events in the spring and autumn. It seems that we can brush away the dust of the years, count the years in the spring and autumn, and relive our feelings in the past dreams.
My heart goes on, and a girl's song, as if from nine days, echoes in our ears with a feeling of emptiness and vastness. Song ups and downs, rustling in the air, but lingering, thousands of times:
Every night, in my dream,
I see you, I feel you,
I know your heart.
Through the space of our hearts,
You showed me your arrival.
No matter how far away you are from me,
I believe my heart has followed;
You knocked on my heart again, and you melted into my heart.
My heart is with you, with you.
Love touches us all the time,
At the last moment of my life,
Don't want to lose, forever.
Love is how I feel when I love you.
I firmly grasped that real moment,
In my life, love is endless.
No matter how far you are from me, I believe I have the same heart.
You knock on my heart, you melt into my heart,
My heart is with you.
My heart depends on you.
Love is so close to me that you are by my side.
I'm completely fearless,
I know my heart is with you, and we will walk together forever.
In my heart, you are safe,
My heart belongs to you, and love is endless.
With this euphemistic song, the color of the old image in front of us gradually faded, and a deep and changeable color occupied the whole field of vision. ...
That's sea water, sparkling.
On the dark blue background, a line of Chinese characters gradually appeared:
Titanic
chapter one
1996. The bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
Deep in the ocean, it's dark and cold.
This is a place where you can't get the sun all the year round. It was dark, beautiful and frightening, but now its darkness has been broken. When the first beam of light passed through the cold world, it attracted people's attention as a formidable monster. ...
"I see ... well, climb up, ... to the bow."
"Peace II, let's go to the bow and keep up!"
Two deep-water submarines are circling around this monster.
Inside the submarine, a camera is aiming at the scene outside the porthole.
"Good, quiet, shoot. ..... She appeared like a ghost in the dark, which was frightening. Lying in front of me is the wreckage of the Titanic ... "
Titanic stopped at the dark bottom of the sea, surrounded by silence, with terrible scars left by tragedy. It is heavily moored on the sediment, leaning slightly to the port side and facing south, as if struggling to surface and heading for a port that has never been seen before. The hull corroded by seawater is covered with sediment and silt on the seabed. The lights on the submarine jumped under the dark superstructure of the Titanic shipwreck and cast a long ghostly shadow on the rotten teak deck. Now, the upper deck of the Titanic is completely bare, the towering chimneys and masts are all gone, only the black and white paint can be vaguely distinguished, and the columns on which the lifeboats are hung are empty, as if to reach out and beg for the return of things that have been lost for a long time. Some of its portholes are open and some are closed, neatly arranged on a wide ship. Through the spots of the fallen ornaments and the broken hull, you can vaguely see the luxurious momentum of that year, but you can't recognize the colors and shapes of those ornaments.
The light lit up a metal hollow door that had rusted to half a page. The plankton in the sea swims like snowflakes in this silent world, and an atmosphere of death hangs over this once powerful ship.
"...1912 April 15 at 2: 20 am, she sank to the bottom of the sea and the ship disappeared ..."
"Boss, you really know the market."
In the deep-sea submarine, Braque lovett and his assistant, bearded Louis Burton, are staring out the window. For them, nothing is more exciting than this time.
Braque lovett is such a person. When he does something, he will put all his energy into it, such as searching for and salvaging sunken treasures, which has become a part of his life. It is no exaggeration for us to call him a professional madman. This well-equipped and well-trained maritime search team has been working in various sea areas of the world for many years. They are as familiar with the sea as they are with their own gardens. The blue sea hides too many secrets under the boundless waves, and discovering and looking for these secrets is the whole content of their lives. This profession is a challenge, a test. It invites the brave and the fearless to take part in the adventure of this life.
The diggers of these treasures should be historians first. They need to know the history of all ancestors buried in the sea. They must be oceanographers too. They need to know the exact location of the sunken ship and the ocean conditions there. They are also excellent scientists, because there are too many unknowns in front of them, which need to be solved with all human knowledge and skills. ...
Because of this, they are very few elites, their contributions are unknown to people, but their income attracts the attention of the world.
Today, the search and salvage they are going to carry out has attracted the attention of the whole world-the goal:
Titanic.
In the past 2000 years, no ship has become an eternal legend like the Titanic at the beginning of this century. As early as 1878, the navigator Morgan Robertson once wrote a novel "Fuility", in which the world's largest and most luxurious passenger ship sailed from Southampton, England, and began its maiden voyage. On a cold night in April, on the way to the Atlantic Ocean, the whole ship hit an iceberg, and the hull below the waterline cracked and sank. Due to the small number of lifeboats on board, a large number of passengers were killed. Robertson named the ship in his novel Titan. 14 years later, the Titanic built by British White Star Shipping Company sank. It is puzzling that the bad luck of Titanic is strikingly similar to the description in the novel.
Shortly after the sinking of the Titanic, the author Morgan Robertson shot himself in ador, New Jersey, USA, for unknown reasons.
The news that this super-luxury ship, once known as an unsinkable ship, sank on the iceberg on its maiden voyage shocked the whole world. People made up so many stories about the ship that they drowned out its true situation. Perhaps today's salvage will unveil the veil of history and erase the dust of the years? Today, the biggest sunken ship that shocked generations will be excavated again, which may be the biggest discovery in history since the tomb of the first 18 Egyptian emperor Tutankhamun was excavated! As long as the thought of the impact and benefits of this matter, it is difficult for lovett to restrain his excitement.
Lovett had planned a salvage operation when the wreckage of the Titanic was found at the bottom of the sea at a depth of 3.82 kilometers. However, it took nearly 1 1 year to put it into practice today. There are reasons for funds, but more is the need for detailed investigation and scientific analysis.
People seldom have a vivid understanding of numbers. For example, what is the concept of 3.82 kilometers? The pressure per square inch is 3.5 tons in such deep water. Not every square foot or yard here, but every square inch! How many salvage experts have been scared off by this figure? Lovett doesn't have statistics, but he can proudly say today that this figure is no longer a problem for me.
Behind this sentence is countless efforts and wisdom.
Now, they can finally go deep into the sunken ship of the century to find the treasures and secrets buried with the ship.
"For the sixth time, we came to the deck of the Titanic again, with a depth of 2.5 nautical miles, which is about 382 1 meter. The water pressure outside the submarine is 3.5 tons per square inch, and the thickness of the window is 9 inches. If it breaks, everyone will die in an instant. ..... Well, that's it. " Lovett ended the recording and ordered NATO, the salvage crew on another ship, "We will stop at the top of the crew cabin."
"yes"
Highly mechanized and electronic equipment can sometimes cause claustrophobic nightmares. If there is an accident, there is no hope of being rescued under the water of 12000 feet. As long as the submarine sinks to a depth of 2000 feet, it will enter the eternal night. From then on, what people see with the naked eye is completely dark. In such an environment, people can't carry out direct activities, and the only way is to rely on robots.
Lovett arranged the robot's action on the microphone: "Listen, Heping II is going to hit Duncan now. Are you ready? "
"Yes, ready to put Duncan. Start, put the cable. " The technician's answer came from the microphone.
"Let go of the cable!"
"put the cable."
The order was sent to every technician, and then the result was sent back to lovett-"The Duncan set out and ran along the hull."
A red robot like an enlarged beetle was released from the submarine and sank to the sunken ship with a long control cable.
Through the feedback information in the microphone, we can see the moving image of robot Duncan.
"I see." Lovett calmly gave the password: "Go ahead ... the sink ... enter from the first-level entrance, and first search in the reception hall and restaurant on the second floor."
"I understand."
The black and white images seen from the TV camera clearly transmit every part of the cruise ship to the submarine. On the screen, you can see the broken wound caused by the collision between the Titanic and the iceberg, from the starboard stern to the third boiler room 300 feet below the hull. The big hole in the bow below the waterline is caused by the extrusion of many boilers. They broke free from the middle of the ship, smashed layers of bulkheads and finally rushed into the sea.
"Here, go forward ... to the left, to the left, to the left ..." With lovett's instruction, the technician repeated the order and manipulated the robot Duncan at the same time. The robot follows the technician's instructions completely. ...
"Duncan is moving ... turn down the stairs to the end ..." lovett stared at every move on the TV screen: "OK, continue down to the B floor, this is the A floor."
There seems to be something wrong with the robot. Louis reminds him, "We still have to put the cable."
"Here, go in, go in ..." lovett couldn't help crying.
Louis also shouted excitedly: "All right!"
In the lens, only the rusty and broken carved door ornaments are left in the door frame, and the light can only illuminate the rest, as if a few teeth were exposed in the open mouth, and inside the door frame is a black secret world.
On the boat, next to a dress, there is a pair of glasses with only one lens left. I wonder if his master was spared.
The light illuminates another object that people can't bear to look directly at. It is a doll, half of which is buried in the sand at the bottom of the sea. When the light moves, people will feel its eyes flashing because of the light. It's creepy
"Watch the door frame ... the door frame ... watch it!" Lovett shouted repeatedly, he was really afraid of what would happen at this moment.
"Yes, I saw it. Everything goes well, don't worry! " Louis firmly controlled Duncan, and he comforted the boss.
Lovett was relieved. He seems to be following the robot, whispering a password from time to time: "All right, turn, turn, be careful, don't hit the wall."
"I see, boss."
The technician reported, "We have arrived at the piano."
A piano, the sea has corroded all its keys, but its skeleton is still there. The robot swam by and people seemed to hear its bell. ...
"Keep walking." Lovett gave the order without hesitation. The robot walks in this dead world according to his orders.
The bright band of light from the deep-sea submarine lamp pierced the eternal night. The adjacent places on both sides of the light belt suddenly turned blue-black, but under the direct light of the light belt, plankton reflected light. From the observation hole, you can vaguely see the red silt in the highest sediment layer under the submarine in the Atlantic Ocean.
There are no creatures here, but there is evidence to prove otherwise. Traces of twists and turns left by seabed residents on the sediment can be seen everywhere. You may think that these marks are only recently left, but the sea is very deceptive. The traces left by sea spiders, sea cucumbers or starfish living in the depths of the seabed may be a few minutes ago or hundreds of years ago, because the remains of microorganisms and animals that make up deep-sea sediments are deposited at a rate of one or two centimeters every thousand years.
It's hard to imagine who could walk so easily in such deep water without robots. Of course, robots are not as romantic as humans, but humans can satisfy their dreams through robots.
In front of us is the fireplace in the same hall. There is a clock on the fireplace. Now, the hands of the clock have been corroded. I don't know why I put the clock on the fireplace. ...
Finally, Duncan came to the bedroom door. You can't see the luxury here from the picture, but at this time, this silent world seems to have music. ...
"Come in, we are in the bedroom!" Louis cheered.
The room didn't seem to be damaged too much, and a big bed was still standing against the wall. Of course, it's just the skeleton of a bed.
Lovett finally relieved. "He smiled ... Hockley's bed! That son of a bitch sleeps here. "
Suddenly, lovett found something, and he quickly shouted, "Stop, stop for a while. Turn right ... "
"What did you find?" Louis doesn't know what he found. But obviously there will never be a living person here.
"That's the wardrobe! Close to the point ... "
Thick seabed sediments make it difficult to accurately distinguish its shape, but from its placement and general image, it can still be determined that it is a wardrobe. The door of the wardrobe is inclined, pressing a square object.
"You move the cupboard door," lovett ordered. "Be careful not to break it."
Louis put on the remote control before he came to the console. Under his command, Duncan slowly floated to the front of the cupboard and began to move the cupboard door. Its action stirred the sediment at the bottom of the water.
"okay. Lift, lift, stop, lift, lift ... Put down ... "
With lovett's password, Louis moved his hands and controlled Duncan to complete every movement accurately.
When the cupboard door moved away, Louis was the first to shout, "Oh, honey, it's safe! Did you get a look at him? Boss! "
"We are rich!" Lovett was ecstatic.
1996. Atlantic Ocean, scientific research ship.
The speedboat galloped away to the mother ship.
The boom leaned out of the boat and retracted the robot. There is a net bag hanging under the robot, which is the prey they operate.
"Let go, let go, let go."
The safe was put on the research ship, and the salvage team cheered and cheered around it.
Lovett said excitedly, "Yes, Bobby."
Louis said proudly, "Boss Wen, tell me, who is the best? Say it, say it! "
Lovett said with satisfaction, "You are the best, Louis."
Louis laughed, danced, hugged lovett and kissed him like a child, even though he had a big beard.
At this point, lovett is really full of pride. He shouted, "Bobby, cigar."
Everyone knows that lovett's cigars won't be smoked until the rare treasure "in the center of the ocean" is salvaged. Now, he picked up a cigar, indicating that there was "in the center of the sea" on his palm.
Louis took champagne from his partner, and when he opened it, bubbles spilled on the employees. ...
At this time, lovett, like a monarch, was distinguished. He held his breath, and when everything was ready, he ordered: "Open it!" "
A team member brought a chainsaw, and within a minute, the hinge of the safe was sawed off. A chain was hooked on the armrest of the safe, and the door of the safe was opened with a hard pull.
There is foul red mud in the safe, which is the sediment of rotten marine life. Lovett reached out and took out a rotten dollar, and found a folder-
This is everything in the safe.
"The diamond is not there?" The words of NATO expressed everyone's feelings.
The enthusiasm for reaching the boiling point instantly drops to freezing point.
"I said, boss-"Louis's face stretched. "We are in Baoshan, but we can come out empty-handed."
"Turn off the camera!" Lowe's big roar, his mood at this time.
"Boss, the partner wants to know the situation." Bobby gave a cry and handed the receiver.
Lovett picked up the receiver: "Hello, Dave Bailey … It's not in the safe … No, don't worry, it may be somewhere else … of course it may be." ..... cracks in the floor and her mother's bedroom will always be found. "
Bobby interjected in a low voice, "Maybe it will never be found."
Lovett ignored him and still spoke into the receiver ... It's really not easy to find, and ... But there are still several rooms that haven't entered ... You have to take your time and look for each room carefully ... "Suddenly, his eyes focused on the TV screen-
"Just a moment, please ..." lovett gave Bobby the phone, and then came to the table.
It is a big square glassware, and there is a photo in the folder. A salvage team member is flushing the mud on the painting with a hose. The painting that was washed out is a sketch of a naked woman. ...
Bobby said into the phone, "He seems to have found something ..."
Speaking of which, lovett asked urgently, "What about the diamond photos provided by the insurance company?"
Bobby had no choice. He said into the microphone, "How about ... wait for my call." Put the phone down and rush over.
A picture of a huge blue diamond, a sketch of a naked woman.
The ripples of water shake ripples from the picture, as if painting is light, making people want to fly. ...
Under the sunlight, you can clearly see every detail in the photo. Diamonds are crystal clear, as if absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon. Under the sweep of light, every facet shines with dazzling light. When extraordinary splendour flows, stop a living soul. In contrast, the humble sketch of the human body protected in the next potion looks so unpretentious if you don't observe it carefully. It's hard for you to tell its real age. It is also a relic of nearly a hundred years. The brushwork of painting is still immature, but the expression of the characters and the relationship between light and shade are handled in detail. Judging from the expression of the woman in the painting, it is certain that this is a novice model, but the happiness and satisfaction in her eyes reveal an extraordinary relationship with the painter. The most striking thing is the diamond on the girl's chest, which is exactly the same as the diamond in the photo.
19 12 April 14
This is the date on the painting.
Signature at bottom: Jack Dawson.
"My God!"
Lovett a scream. You can't find a place to get it, and it doesn't take much effort to get it. He finally found the whereabouts of the diamond.
1996 USA.
Lisa calvert is very busy today. Although she only cleans and tidies her room, she also needs most of the time. You know, it's not always free. The house is full of grandma's things of unknown age. As long as there is such an old man at home, there is no time to clean. But to tell the truth, Lisa still has special respect for her grandmother. She has an unusual history, so it can be said that she is a witness of a century! Being a hundred years old has not weakened her love of life. Just look at the photos of her room, and you can know her extraordinary experience. Therefore, Lisa never complained about the messy room, but grandma felt a little guilty. At this time, grandma is playing with her clay on the balcony alone. She is an artist. Lisa doesn't know when grandma learned this craft, because she learned it from grandma.
From a family point of view, she will not think of these things. There are so many mysteries about grandma that even my parents in Philadelphia don't know. Fortunately, like modern young women, Lisa is always self-centered and doesn't care much about the outside world. Indeed, her own affairs are too busy to come over, how can she control other people's affairs? For this generation, everything in the past means obsolescence and decline, but in front of them is an infinitely bright future, which belongs to young people. Sometimes you may need to know a little about the past, but at most it is out of curiosity and boredom; Fortunately, grandma hasn't said much, which makes Lisa happy and quiet. The only thing she has to do today is to tidy up the house quickly.
Grandma has a habit that the TV is always on no matter how busy or messy it is. It's news program time, and the mellow and sweet voice of the female announcer echoes in the room: "... treasure expert Braque lovett is famous for searching for sunken ships and gold jewelry ... he rented a Russian submarine and went to the place where the Titanic sank. Now we have contacted Braque, a research ship in the Atlantic Ocean, by satellite. Please listen to our interview with him ... "
Lisa is not interested in such a well-known news. She tried to transform her grandmother with her own aesthetics, but she finally compromised. Now she seems to have forgotten all the lessons of the past and still started a new round of bedroom decoration. The arrangement of articles and furniture is far more important than that sunken ship. As long as she is not on that ship, it has nothing to do with her. It is unfair to say that she absolutely doesn't care. Although she is busy with her career, she occasionally glances at the TV screen. This mainly depends on when the news ends and whether she can switch to the music channel.
Grandma on the balcony is concentrating on her creation, and the clay is spinning on the turntable. Grandma's tendon-covered hands skillfully control the shape of clay. Sometimes, Lisa is a little confused. Why can't she do such a clever thing? Now, if Lisa is around her grandmother, she will find that her grandmother is obviously absent-minded, because the shape of the clay pot is far less exquisite than in the past, and the thoughtful expression on her vicissitudes of life deepened her charming eyes.
"Hello, Braque-"It seems that the satellite has been connected, and the announcer's voice becomes excited.
"hello! Tracy. Everyone knows the Titanic, and those stories can be said to be familiar. For example, when the ship sank, the band kept playing songs like Autumn and God is Closer to You ... But ... "
Maybe Lisa moved something and interfered with the sound of the TV. In the old man's ear, the words were intermittent: "... we also want to know some unknown stories." Lovett's voice is broadcast on TV via satellite. "There were many secrets locked in the cabin ... so we sneaked into places where no one had ever been."
The old man's eyes are more and more focused, almost exceeding the expression that an old man can have. It's a pity that Lisa didn't see all this. ...
"Your actions have attracted the attention of the whole world." Announcer Tracy duly took Braque's words and introduced the interview to another topic. "However, your behavior has also caused great controversy. Some people say you are legal, but many people call you a grave robber. What do you think? "
"Archaeologists must dig as many ancient tombs as possible, otherwise he will not be able to study them in depth ..."
Lisa didn't hear what the old man stood up and said. The old man walked into the house. Obviously Titanic aroused her interest, but she didn't seem to care whether to rob a tomb, because she didn't go to Braque's debate at all.
Lisa found grandma standing up and coming over: "What did you say?"
"Turn it up, son," said the old man.
On TV, Braque replied, "I studied museum science at school and received special training. I will take good care of the relics I found. " He is obviously changing the subject. "Please look at what we found today. This is a picture. "
The TV camera turned to Braque, and then to the sketch of a woman in front of him.
"This is a piece of paper that has been under the sea for 84 years," Braque said proudly. "Our players keep it intact. There is also the author's signature, and the handwriting is very clear ... or ... "He added sarcastically," Should it be buried at the bottom of the sea forever? "
At this time, the old man's eyes blurred, as if a spring rain had gradually spread all over the earth, moistening things silently; Like a misty valley, hazy and ethereal ...
The TV camera seems to be stuck in the painting and refuses to move for a long time. So, under the guidance of the camera, we began to look from the young woman's face to her whole body. She was half-lying, her naked body was exposed, and her slightly tilted head just showed the huge diamond necklace under her neck; Diamonds are embedded between a pair of towering breasts, just like spring water between two peaks. Although it is a sketch, it seems that you can see the color of the skin and feel its texture-white as snow and soft as cotton, especially those eyes, which have a mixture of satisfaction and surprise, making this sketch a vivid work.
This little-known work gives people a enchanting beauty, makes people focus on the eyes of the woman in the painting, and then brings people into a dreamlike realm. ...
"Oh, my God!" In front of the TV, the old man gave a light shout, adding a trace of suspense to the confusing story of the shipwreck treasure hunt.
1996. Atlantic Ocean. Scientific research number.
Braque lovett rejoiced at the success of the first rescue. The only puzzling thing is that the sketch of 84 years ago, after such a long time of underwater immersion, is as complete as new, which makes experts puzzled. They interpret this as the lack of harmful microorganisms in the deep sea, the low salt content or concentration of the bottom seawater, the temperature in the deep water almost reaching freezing point, and the low oxygen content. All these explanations are just people's subjective guesses, so lovett can't fully believe them. Because for salvaging the sunken treasure, the probability of success is extremely low, which is not only technically difficult, but more importantly, the information is timely and accurate. Otherwise, everyone can make a fortune by salvaging sunken ships, so what sunken ships can be salvaged? It is necessary to determine the location of the sunken ship, its contents, the terrain and depth of the sunken sea area, whether anyone has salvaged it and so on.