Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1550 Caution
The fishing boats all started moving and gathered towards the target fishing boat. The workers continued to sort the goods that had not yet been sorted.

However, looking at the huge quantity and the time-consuming weighing, Ye Yaodong felt that it was no longer appropriate to calculate the profit according to the fishing boats' catch. After all, they were not selling to fresh-catch boats, but shipping them back directly, so it didn't matter whether they weighed them or not.

He thought about it and decided that it would be more appropriate to give a certain proportion of the total annual catch to the captains of the five ships to share. This would be considered as a year-end bonus, and the fixed salary could be increased first.

Then the first and second mates are paid directly on an annual basis, and they can refer to the total amount they received last year and increase it slightly.

Thinking of this, he also contacted other fishing boats and talked about it.

"Oh, I've actually been meaning to say this for a long time. It's a waste of time to weigh the goods when the freshwater ship comes out to collect them."

"Yes, someone has to remember it, which is a waste of time and manpower."

"Anyway, once we get it ashore, there will always be a manifest record of each batch sold."

"Yes, that's good. I don't have to weigh the goods every time I come to receive them."

Ye Yaodong listened to their discussions and said, "No one has any objections, that's good."

"No problem, absolutely no problem."

"You are the boss, you have the final say."

"No problem, it's easier this way."

He added, "Okay, I'll talk to Lao Liu about this when I get back. I'll calculate the accounts before May 5st and send them to you first. After May 1st, we'll wait until the end of the year to settle the accounts."

"Good good..."

"Let the workers prepare in advance now. Take out all the goods in the warehouse and move them to ship No. 5 later."

"Understood. Ship No. 2 has been notified."

"Crew 3 is ready."

"Ship No. 4 is almost sorted and can be moved at any time."

"Ship No. 5 is also ready to receive the cargo. Once all the cargo is collected, shall we set off and return immediately?"

Ye Yaodong responded, "Yes, and then tell my father what happened, and ask him to arrange as many people as possible. You can add 40 people to each boat based on the standard of 10 people. Your boat and the freshwater boat can slow down first, and the other boats can increase manpower first."

"If we can't arrange so many people temporarily, let him try his best..."

Thinking that he would have to move the goods later, he planned to explain the other details after they met. It was inconvenient to talk over the communication equipment, so he did not discuss it in person.

Several boats will carry the goods in the order in which they arrive. The first one to arrive will be the first to arrive.

After Ye Yaodong and others pulled the boat over, they climbed over to help direct the operation.

The cargo, weighing several hundred tons, was too huge in quantity and took a long time to move. Dozens of workers worked until midnight to move all the cargo neatly.

He also explained everything that needed to be explained to the captain of the ship and gave him the letter, including asking his father to call back A Guang and a few other friends to help him.

By the way, he took advantage of the time to check the mast while moving the goods. It was indeed dangerous during the day, but fortunately he abandoned the car to save the driver in time.

"Boss, all the goods have been moved."

"Let me take a look."

Ye Yaodong went into the freezer compartment, fresh-keeping compartment and living compartment and checked them all.

A full warehouse of fish is often just an exaggeration, but it has become a reality for him.

In just one day, the warehouse was full of fish.

This ship is estimated to be worth no less than 20 yuan, a real gold mine.

"Okay, no problem. Then you can return immediately and follow the same route when you come here. We will also follow the planned route from now on. We can try to maintain the connection along the way, and do the same when we come here, so that we can connect as soon as possible."

"clear."

"Be careful on the road. The seafood boat will probably return four or five days later than you. You should be able to meet it on the way you set out."

"Okay, I understand. I'll keep in touch."

"Okay, I'll get back on the boat then. You guys should get ready and set off."

Ye Yaodong waved his hand and returned to his boat first.

They will return the same way they left. He was not too worried about the fishing boats returning because the routes were clearly marked.

He was just worried about the issues of time and personnel. He hoped that this ship could be connected with the fresh-collecting ship by then, and the two ships could take turns transporting goods, so that the manpower problem could be solved as soon as possible.

Boat No. 5 slowly started to move, cutting through the undercurrents of the waves on its own. The full load of fish made the waterline half a meter lower than usual, and the hull slowly rose and fell with the long waves.

The anti-collision lights on the mast flashed regularly in the dark night, the red light piercing the night sky, and the stern track glowed phosphorescently in the moonlight and was soon smoothed out by the waves.

The roar of the machines faded away, gradually distancing themselves from the boats.

Ye Yaodong turned around and said to everyone, "Okay, the boat has left, let's continue to move towards our destination. Everyone can have a midnight snack or rest."

The workers all nodded in response, and then went about their business. Most of them went out to find something to eat first. They were all tired after working all day and carrying things all night.

He looked at Lao Xiao and Chen Shi who were still standing beside him, "You guys go eat something and go to bed. I'll watch over you at night."

"That's fine. I'll get up tomorrow morning to take over." Chen Shi said.

Ye Yaodong nodded.

When sailing at night, one may run aground, deviate from the course or encounter a smuggling ship if one is not careful. Tonight, he will take over the watch. Once we reach the destination and everything is operating smoothly, the two of them can take turns.

Back in the cockpit, he issued instructions to other fishing boats, "The fishing boats continue to move towards the designated destination."

"receive."

The dashboard in the cockpit glowed with a faint green fluorescence, and on the radar screen, the triangular symbol representing ship No. 5 was moving slowly towards the northwest.

After taking a look, he adjusted the range to 12 nautical miles and monitored nearby ships, reefs and floating objects.

Generally, flashing green spots represent small fishing boats, which cannot be seen nearby; while red spots represent large cargo ships or suspicious ships, which require a distance of more than 3 nautical miles to be maintained.

If it is a flashing signal, it means a reef or buoy and the course needs to be corrected immediately.

After adjusting the radar, he called up the electronic nautical chart, entered the preset route, and set the safety depth contour to more than 20 meters.

After doing all this, he let the fishing boat move forward automatically according to the set route.

There is a manual steering mode and an automatic steering mode to choose from.

The manual steering mode requires manual control when encountering bad weather. Generally, it is automatic steering after the route is set.

At this time, Chen Shi brought him a midnight snack, which was seafood porridge.

There is basically something to eat at any time on the ship. After all, when things get busy, there is no distinction between noon and night, and there is no distinction between whether it is meal time or not.

"Brother Dong, you can have some midnight snack first, do you want anything else?"

"No, just bring me a thermos."

"Ok."

Ye Yaodong has to make a cup of strong tea to refresh himself at night.

The seafood porridge is filled with plenty of ingredients, including shrimps, crabs, octopus tentacles, tender fish fillets, and green vegetables, which are so delicious that they will make your tongue drop.

After finishing a big bowl, he burped, patted his stomach, and felt extremely satisfied.

There were four other triangular signs flashing on the radar screen. These were escort signals, meaning partner ships.

Several boats were moving forward slowly and steadily.

However, in the second half of the night, two workers on duty took turns shouting in surprise, "Look under the water!"

Ye Yaodong leaned over and saw that in the water layer more than 20 meters deep, a group of glowing little lantern fish formed a huge silver vortex.

The blue-green bioluminescence emitted from their abdomens flickers, like stars on the seabed still twinkling during the day.

Occasionally, a few individuals tried to break away from the group, but were immediately snatched away at lightning speed by deep-sea cutlassfish lurking in the dark.

At this moment, a dense cluster of red dots suddenly appeared on the sonar screen.

"Brother Dong, there is something underneath!"

"Prepare the fish-finding light!" Ye Yaodong made a prompt decision.

When the strong light shone into the sea water, a wonderful scene appeared.

Thousands of transparent squid tubes are attracted to the light, and their fist-sized bodies look like strings of crystal lanterns, bobbing up and down with the ocean currents.

In these transparent bodies, you can even clearly see their beating hearts and flowing blue blood.

"Wow, it's a school of small pipe fish..."

"Wow, it's quite beautiful. Everything under the water is transparent, and it moves up and down. It's really pretty."

“Not only does it look good, it tastes good too. Now is also the season for eating squid, and there are a lot of fish.”

"Are you ready to lower the net, boss?" the worker on duty shouted at him.

"Wait, let's detect it first."

Ye Yaodong also saw that the small tube was exposed under the strong light, and its transparent body was jumping duang duang in the sea. He was also somewhat happy when he saw it.

There were continuous schools of fish all day today, and in large numbers, and they were all good catches.

He ran his finger across the nautical chart. The water here was 320 meters deep, the bottom was a mixture of sand and mud, and the ocean current speed was moderate.

I looked up at the black-footed albatross circling in the air. The gathering of seabirds indicated that there were schools of fish in the middle and upper layers.

"Do you want to lower the net?" another worker asked anxiously.

On duty at night were two retired soldiers who had only two months of fishing experience. They were more excited than anyone else to see the school of fish and were happier than seeing their own mother.

"No hurry, wait a little longer, first put down the buoy to observe the direction of the ocean current, and then I will check the sonar."

Ye Yaodong did not agree immediately, but carefully observed the sea surface and the instruments.

Several floating transparent monk jellyfish were drifting with the current, dragging several meters long poisonous tentacles under their light blue air sacs.

Don't think that they have left the Kuroshio tributary. In fact, they haven't. The entire tributary covers a very vast sea area.

And they have been trawling from dawn to dusk today, hovering around the school of fish, at a speed of only three knots per hour, and they are still circling around. Where can they go?

What's more, the ship has been stopped at night to move goods, which has delayed it for several hours. It was originally expected to reach the destination in three days, but now it will take one more day. It may not arrive until tomorrow night, and it may not arrive until the day after tomorrow.

The green spots of light that should have shown the school of fish on the sonar screen were strangely distorted, as if being stirred by some force.

He frowned. What was going on?

At this time, the radar also issued an abnormal alarm. Two nautical miles to the northeast, a vague echo suddenly appeared on the sea surface that should have been empty, appearing and disappearing from time to time.

The depth sounder also jumped, and the water depth dropped suddenly from 180 meters to 70 meters, and then bounced back to 150 meters after a while.

Looking at the seabed, either there is something wrong with the terrain, there are reefs, or a big creature has passed by.

The worker didn't receive any instructions for a long time, and didn't want to miss such a large school of fish, so he asked again.

"Boss? Do you want to lower the net? There are so many squids."

"Something's wrong. Don't drop the net yet. Let's chase... Oh shit..."

Suddenly, the ocean current became disordered. The Kuroshio tributary, which was supposed to flow northward, formed a vortex-shaped countercurrent under the ship, and the cable of the fish search light was pulled into a taut arc.

Squids have a strong tendency to move toward light, and now because of the searchlight, more and more of them gathered and have floated to the surface.

Some workers were itching to catch some fish so they took out their hand nets and spent the whole night fishing. They were very excited.

It takes two people to lift a net bag full of squids.

Ye Yaodong also saw their actions. Although he was also envious of this group of squids, unfortunately, it was too dangerous.

"No more fishing allowed. The ocean currents have suddenly changed. It's too dangerous. Turn off the lights and get out of this area at full speed."

After he gave the order, he gave instructions to several other fishing boats.

I don’t know if other fishing boats encountered the squid school, but the sudden change in ocean currents affected the entire sea area.

There had been a sudden change in the morning, and there was another sudden change now. This place was no longer suitable for staying, and they had to leave as soon as possible.

When the lights went out, the fishing boat quickly moved away from its previous position, the garbled text on the sonar screen suddenly disappeared, and everything returned to normal.

Fortunately, he was cautious and did not rush to cast the net when he encountered a school of fish. Otherwise, if the ocean current suddenly changed drastically when he was halfway through casting the net, his net would be ruined, and he might even encounter other drastic changes.

The risks at sea are no joke. In addition to natural disasters and man-made calamities, there are also various risks in the sea due to terrain and landforms.

Moreover, there are no marked no-fishing zones these days, and there are no standards for dangerous areas. Everything has to rely on experience. In the vast ocean, he is not omnipotent.

You have to be cautious when you need to be cautious, and not lose your mind when you see the goods.

There is an old saying, "It is better to miss a hold full of fish than to bet on the Dragon King turning the waves."

The two workers below were still talking about it, what a pity.

Several other ships were also asking, saying that their radar seemed to have a blind spot in detection and the depth sounder was fluctuating greatly.

Everyone was discussing the situation they had just encountered.

"The situation here is really as complicated as Adong said. We should leave early."

"It was quite calm last night. I didn't expect it to be so dangerous to enter this sea area."

Ye Yaodong said: "If you don't cast the net, you won't feel it's dangerous. I just encountered a large group of squids. Fortunately, I didn't cast the net. I wanted to detect it first. If I cast the net, this boat will lose a fishing net at the least. If it's serious, the consequences will be unbearable..."

"We just detected a school of fish. We were thinking of taking a closer look, but then we received your order to leave immediately."

He warned: "The deep sea is too dangerous. Safety is the first priority. No matter what, we must first explore the area before deciding whether to cast the net or not."

"I understand that we are very careful. We have to follow your instructions. I will report and see whether we should lower the net."

"We won't cast our nets until we reach our destination. Regardless of whether we encounter a school of fish or not, we will leave this area of ​​the sea tonight."

"Roger that!"

The ups and downs of his emotions made him a little uneasy. He took a few sips of tea before he calmed down.

He felt relieved only when nothing happened again until dawn.

He estimated that it would take another half a morning to completely leave the Kuroshio tributary and enter calm waters.

When the sun finally emerged from the clouds and golden light poured down, Chen Shi also came over to take over.

"Brother Dong."

Ye Yaodong stretched his waist and said, "You came just in time."

"I heard that we encountered a large group of squids last night. They said that when the lights were turned on, they all floated to the surface..."

"I didn't cast the net. It's not appropriate and too dangerous. The sonar display is confusing and the radar has detected a blind spot in the sea. I would rather not make this money and be more careful."

"That's right, safety comes first. After all, this is not our destination."

"Well, I leave it to you. I'm going to eat something and go to bed."

"Ok."

Ye Yaodong walked out of the cockpit, twisted his neck and waist, and felt more tired after staying up all night than after a day's work.

He took a few deep breaths. The rising sun was bright yellow, and countless tiny spots of light suddenly appeared on the sea surface, like a layer of gold, which was very beautiful.

Even after watching it countless times, he still thinks it is beautiful.

Some workers got up to eat their meals on their shifts. Everyone was talking about what happened last night and tasting the squid.

Ye Yaodong grabbed one and tasted it before he even filled his bowl with rice. "Hmm~ Fresh, sweet, and has seeds. Delicious."

"Haha, we picked them specially. The ones with seeds are delicious."

"If you cook seafood porridge again today, put some in it."

"definitely."

"Brother Dong, I heard that you are very cautious..."

"If I don't exercise caution, wouldn't that be irresponsible? Safety comes first. Whether it's money or not, it has to be based on safety."

Ye Yaodong was serving them food while chatting with them about science. "It's much more dangerous at night than during the day. One reason is the light. Vision is poor at night. Another reason is that it's easy to get tired at night. When you're mentally exhausted, it's easy to make mistakes."

"Let's rule out weather reasons first. There are several typical reasons for accidents at sea. The first is radar blind spots, which happened last night. The second is failure to update the nautical charts in time. The third is mistakenly entering a prohibited navigation zone. Some terrains are very dangerous, and running aground on a reef is the most common one."

It’s not marked on the nautical chart now, and the sea is not land, so how can he remember every place? He can only be as careful as possible.

The safest thing to do is to work in waters that you are familiar with.

Therefore, I will not log off the internet until I reach my destination. After all, there are several no-fly zones from the Kuroshio Sea to DYD, and some are military areas.

Everyone listened to him with laughter.

Ye Yaodong smiled again after saying this, "Cherish your free time today, because you won't be able to rest from tomorrow on."

"Haha, the busier we are, the more money you can make."

"That's right, haha, make more money and give everyone big red envelopes at the end of the year."