The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

With the water coming out of the first salvage basket, about 100 kilograms and 3,000 double eagle gold coins came to light again!

Golden and shining, after a brief rinse with fresh water as soon as they were on the deck, there was a pile of bosses in the basket, looking magnificent!

Ninety percent of the gold content is not afraid of seawater corrosion, that is, there are some stains remaining in the pattern gaps of some gold coins. These will be treated in a special cleaning cabin on the ship later, and then individually sealed in a small sealed bag temporarily to avoid friction caused by each other. Necessary scratches.

Old gold coins are not used, appearance is king!

Martin Bayer, who "has never seen the big scene", was a little excited, holding this pile of gold coins and letting the photographer on the boat take pictures as a memento, the smile on his face couldn't stop him.

Here, Zhang Nan, who randomly looked at the first batch of gold coins, saw him like this, and asked him with a smile: "Martin, there are a total of 150,000 below, and I guess I can get them basically.

A variety is still completely unused. Do you want 3000 gold coins for this batch first, or divide the money later after accounting? "

Martin Bayer was slightly stunned when he heard it, and then said: "Gold coins, of course gold coins!"

As the discoverer of the shipwreck, he is one of the actual partners in this treasure hunt and salvage operation. He is divided into two percent. After all the gold coins are up, the company will do what it says, so he will be divided into this proportion.

As a near-professional treasure hunter, Martin is not a layman, knowing that money will slowly depreciate, and such superb gold coins will slowly appreciate, although not too much.

Mr. Allen is really nice and generous, otherwise it will be a few months or even longer before he distributes the cash to you, Martin Bayer has nothing to do.

And all the treasures found on the "Royal Cruise Line Republic" have a 2% share after cost accounting. The share of the military payment and precious metal coins alone will not only be enough to offset the part of the salvage accounting cost he wants to share, but also Enough to pay off all debts owed before.

Regarding Mr. Cyclops' choice, Zhang Nan smiled and said, "Wise!"

Dollar bills are paper, and more and more, leaving only gold coins is always money.

"Now that I have money, will I join the Star Salvage Company?"

"Of course, Mr. Allen, I want to join today.

I am a person who was born for diving, and I also like to take risks. "

Zhang Nan nodded slightly and said, "You can call me the boss."

"Yes, boss!"

Martin Bayer is now considered as joining the salvage company, becoming a member of the huge Sunshine Star Group, and will go through the entry procedures at a later date.

This will be on the other side of the ship of the "Searcher", and a large number of silver coins will be picked up every once in a while, and the number is not small. Zhang Nan also took a look in the past. Morgan silver coins accounted for the vast majority, and there was a small amount of US trade silver dollars, nothing special.

Nearly everyone on the deck and the command room is busy. Once the treasure has been discovered, the "Searcher" will continue to operate, changing divers and submersibles every 8 hours to prevent changes in the weather.

By six o'clock in the afternoon, because of the limited number of coins, the "Military Warranty Depot" was first cleaned up. A total of nearly 20,000 Morgan silver coins were collected, many of which were brand new in 1908.

Nicole took a helicopter back to New York at noon. Charlize Theron also returned. It was too hot on the deck. The temperature was rising compared to yesterday. It was said to be affected by heat waves. Even the sea area more than 50 nautical miles from the coast was affected. spread.

It is also easy to get wet by the sea, and the shade rises at 30 degrees, and the sun is scorching under the sun above the ocean, which is not friendly to women's skin.

Charlie is not afraid of sun red, but she is afraid of peeling!

Whether the women are gone, now the boat is full of men, and they can behave and dress more casually.

Those guys who are not afraid of the sun are wearing big pants, shirtless on the upper body, and decking with non-slip sandals under their feet to work overtime.

Zhang Nan is still more civilized. He still wears a light-colored t-shirt. He wears a South American sunhat made of straw buckle on his forehead. From a distance, he looks like an old Indian farmer going to the market.

On this trip, Mark Callaway was not allowed to come with the Glenn Jacobs brothers, and they were given a shift to spend time with their families. Behind them was Nikolai Varuyev, who had never seen salvage at sea.

This young Russian guy from Leningrad probably had been frozen for too long before, but now he really likes the sun and is not afraid of it.

Everyone on the deck was allowed to be shirtless by the captain and the boss. This guy was wearing long hair, a pair of beach pants underneath, and the holster of the big runner on his shirt, and honestly followed the boss.

This young man doesn’t look like a primitive man, but his brain is actually quite good. As soon as the boss comes out from under the umbrella, he will consciously help the boss to shade him-he doesn’t need an umbrella, he just needs to be at the right angle, his body is exaggerated. It's a good human-shaped sun visor.

Zhang Nan didn't think he was an eyesore either. With such an alternative big guy, he could still set off his own image.

The safflower needs green leaves to set off. The "beauty" in "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance" is still fresh in my memory, which is really reasonable.

I just don’t know if Nicola knew what the boss thought, would he think about the whole Rong.

After the "military payment cabin" was basically emptied, the shifted atmospheric divers moved to the shipwreck wine cellar location. A few hundred dollars a bottle of aged wine is also a high-value item and should not be missed.

At this time, Martin Bayer and two professional divers have begun to prepare to enter the water using heliox diving technology.

These Cyclops wear this equipment and can only work for 15 minutes at a depth of 90 meters, and the longest can never exceed 20 minutes.

The three divers are working in the water at different times, so that they can guarantee a continuous operation time of 45 to 50 minutes.

It is dangerous, but Martin Bayer and others have very rich technical experience. This time they went down to find and salvage a small amount of fish that slipped through the net in the "military pay cabin."

The armor-style diving suit that was used for salvage before, even if it is advanced and flexible, it is also the flexibility of the human body, let alone the difference between the manipulator and the human hand.

In fact, according to Zhang Nan's concept, the big head has already come up, and the remaining bits and pieces can be given up.

But divers don’t think about it this way: the “loan cabin” on the other side will take a long time to work, and the operating cost of the salvage ship is about the same every day. Instead of wasting time and manpower, it is better to go diving in helium and oxygen to clean up the remnants.

Besides, the more divers go into the water, the more valuable items they get, the more dividends they will receive in the future, and who would think that the money is too much?

Without discouraging the enthusiasm of the employees, they watched three divers wearing thick helium-oxygen diving equipment, each launching at 15-minute intervals.

They all carried two huge gas cylinders, and when they got back on the boat, it should be several hours later.

It only takes a few minutes to reach the bottom of the water, 15 minutes of work, and several hours of ascent strictly. The stay time for each stage of ascent can be slightly longer than the timetable stipulated by the diving rules, but it must not be advanced!

The persistence of Martin Bayer and others is still worth it. In less than 50 minutes of work, a total of more than 400 silver coins were obtained. There are also a few precious metal necklaces that were probably originally in the mail parcel. At least it was much more expensive than the overall cost of this dive. .

After these three consecutive manual searches, even if there are still valuables left in the "Military Payments Compartment", there will not be much left. There is no need to send someone to dive in.

The process of exiting the water was slow. The three divers went from the depth of 90 to the depth mark of the diving rope, and first ascended to a depth of 50 meters and waited.

Ascend nearly half of the depth at once, and then you can reach the surface again?

no!

From 90 meters to 50 meters, there is a difference of several atmospheres, but for divers, the actual pressure is actually less than half the difference. The lungs, blood vessels, and cells cannot explode.

After that, you will stay step by step, float slowly, and wait slowly at intervals, strictly in accordance with the time of the diving watch, only slightly more, not less.

When he went into the water before, Martin Bayer was the first of the three to go down. During the ascent stage, he waited for the two guys behind.

If they could talk underwater, these three would probably be able to chat every time they waited at the same depth.

When the water came out in the middle of the night, the three people were directly hoisted onto the deck at the same time.

The splint crews had been prepared in groups long ago. As soon as the three of them got out of the water, they all removed their helmets and oxygen cylinders within one minute, and then sent the three people in wetsuits into the hyperbaric oxygen tank on the side of the deck.

The towels and the dry clothes that need to be changed are all ready. After that, the three have to stay in the oxygen cabin for a few more hours to continue to slowly decompress.

However, before entering the hyperbaric oxygen chamber, Martin Bayer took out two small things from the densely woven net pocket hung on the side of the diving suit and handed it to Zhang Nan.

"Boss, I found this below. I guess Mrs. Nicole and Miss Charlie will like it."

With that said, this enters the oxygen chamber.

Zhang Nan took a look, smiled and said to Vita who was following: "If they were here, these two gadgets would not be included in the auction list."

Chief diver Weta looked under the light and smiled and said, "Boss, this little thing doesn't need to be registered. Didn't you just say that everyone on the boat divided into five 1908 double eagles as an extra souvenir? It is only natural for you to get some gadgets! "

Others on the side agreed, including Captain Louis Trentz.

The captain was a little curious, and asked: "Boss, this bracelet, which is a brooch?"

"Yes, brooch."

"It's beautiful, just how it looks like a modern design, it's avant-garde!"

This is a sapphire and diamond bracelet, another gold-encrusted and diamond brooch, especially this brooch. A rabbit is crossing a diamond-encrusted fence, and there is a little turtle in the grass under the fence!

This design is spiritual!

Others have similar questions. Is the jewelry of the beginning of the century so avant-garde?

In this regard, Zhang Nan raised the two gadgets and looked at it carefully. Then he said: "This is the'Art Nouveau' jewelry that began in France in the 1880s and has been popular for more than ten years. In the 20th century, it changed the fashion trend and became re-traditional and dull.

The popularity time is short, and the later popular styles have become old-fashioned, so this kind of jewelry looks like modern, in fact, it is really an antique for hundreds of years...

By the way, this kind of jewellery is too particular about fine carvings, and the manual costs were too expensive for ordinary people at the beginning, so those years were called the Art Nouveau jewellery period. In fact, in the same period, most people’s ordinary jewellery and The Art Nouveau style does not touch it at all! "

The Art Nouveau style, which started in France, quickly spread to the world at the time, affecting architecture, painting, jewelry, clothing, sculpture, painting and other art forms, but it has not been popular for a long time.

Over the years, Zhang Nan has become half a jewellery expert. He has also studied antique jewellery a bit, so he can recognize it.

There is no way, the family has a solid foundation, and there are a bunch of experts who help me organize and classify, and I learned it on my own.

As far as Zhang Nan knows, this kind of art is close to nature. He likes to simplify the shapes of animals, plants, and flowers in nature, and form a decorative effect with smooth and smooth lines. The biggest feature is that it can give people fresh, natural and sensuality. Visual perception.

Jewelry of this period generally only used diamonds as a starting point. Especially valuable large-grained gemstones are not used much. Artists like to carve gold and silver in detail.

But the trouble is also coming!

As Zhang Nan said before, this "Art Nouveau" jewellery was too expensive because of the manual craftsmanship, and at that time not many people could pay for it!

It's pretty, generous, and the employees are also ventilating, so let people go for cleaning and maintenance first.

Zhang Nan did not return to the Star that night, but lived on the salvage ship. After getting up the next day, he listened to the report and learned that Martin and others had left the hyperbaric oxygen chamber and everything was normal.

As for the atmospheric divers, it was busy until dawn last night, and this will be a new batch of two divers going down again.

During the day, I work for more than ten hours at a time. After I come up, I take a shower and eat, stop for an hour, and then go to sleep for seven or eight hours.

After waking up, I went to the bathroom, washed, and ate, then had a rest, and then I was ready to go into the water.

Go down~www.wuxiaspot.com~ You will lose at least one or two kilograms!

Deep-water divers are not good at this job. Even if atmospheric diving is relatively easy, it takes a long time and consumes a lot of physical strength!

One person continued to clean the "loan compartment" and the other was busy in the "wine cellar". A bottle of old wine worth several hundred dollars was worth the effort to salvage.

After nearly 50 hours of continuous salvage, not only Martin Bayer and the two heliox dive masters who went into the water before, but also the company's chief diver Vita Bruno also went into the water with heliox diving equipment and went to the "loan cabin" for the last time. Cleanup.

A few hours later, as the last heliox diver entered the hyperbaric oxygen chamber, it didn't take long for the "Searcher" to pick up anchor.

It will return to New York. The most valuable part of the shipwreck below has been basically salvaged. If it is consumed, the cost-effectiveness of the salvage operation will drop sharply and not cost-effective. It is time to go.

At the same time as the "Searcher" anchored, the star superyacht not far away was already carrying their boss, and was re-adjusting its course to the southwestern coast of South Carolina.