One Thousand Four Hundred and Twenty-Eight. Passing the First Bullet

Another reason why king crabs do not belong to crabs is that real crabs are fast runners, and once they move on the bottom of the sea, they can run very fast. King crabs are different. They are walkers, walking leisurely and leisurely, which has the taste of a gentleman under the sea.

But if anyone really thinks that they are gentlemen, they can only say that they are blind. The temperament of king crabs is very tough, and their appetite is very greedy!

These guys with carapaces as big as small pots like to live in groups, and they will gather in a nest when they hunt. If they are targeted by them, even small sharks will have to kneel. Once they are surrounded, they will be dismembered.

In addition, the appearance of king crabs can tell their ferocity. The carapace and legs of these guys are covered with sharp hooks. They are born with soft hedgehog armor, and there are few natural enemies in the seas of the North and South Pole.

On the deck, Qin Shiou passed on the fishing task, and the twenty or so fishermen got busy.

"Old Geng, you will be optimistic about the four of you later. Don't start yet. Shaq will lead the team to do the first two rounds of work. You just have to watch them carefully, understand?" Qin Shiou specifically urged.

As mentioned earlier, fishing king crab is a very dangerous job. Death is not uncommon, and injuries are even more common. If all the crew members of a crab fishing boat are healthy and no one is injured during the crab fishing season, it can be said that God bless.

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This is not an exaggeration. There are usually only four or five days between the beginning and the end of each king crab fishing season. During these four or five days, the work of the crabbing boats is intense and heavy, and the daily rest time of fishermen does not exceed five hours. .

Fatigue plus sleepiness, the result is that it is difficult to concentrate and it is easy to go wrong.

From the moment you step onto the crabbing boat. Fishermen are always in danger.

The fishermen in Farewell are veterans of this type of work, and have heard of it if they haven't done it before. Therefore, Qin Shiou nodded and said that after the official start of work, everyone cheered up.

King crabs live in the deep sea. To catch them, you need a more powerful existence than other fishing equipment, and that is the super crab pot.

This kind of crab pot has a flat cylindrical shape, the diameter of the cage mouth is about two and a half meters, and the whole body is made of solid steel bars, which weighs a full 300 kilograms, otherwise it would not be able to sink into the deep seabed.

In order to make reasonable use of the space of the fishing boat, these crab pots are stacked high, and steel monsters more than ten meters high are piled up together. The tying is very firm and tight, with thick iron chains for fingers and thick cables for arms.

Geng Junjie led four Chinese soldiers watching curiously,

Qin Shiou said: "If you have any questions, just ask, I need you to become the best fishermen in the shortest time, understand?"

A young man said: "Boss, I want to ask, why are these crab pots tied so tightly?"

Shaq, who was following Qin Shiou, answered the question: "Man, you have to know that the North Atlantic is a girl with a weird temper. Every year from October to December, it is the time when the wind and waves are the strongest. And once it enters January, its The wind and waves will be much smaller. We have traveled this way and have not encountered particularly large waves. This is God bless us."

"But normally, every year biologists set fishing quotas based on the growth of king crabs, and the government gives crabbing periods. This period is in October, which means that crabbing boats go out to sea when the wind is the strongest. "

"Have you ever encountered a sea breeze at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour? Have you ever walked through a wave of ten meters high?"

Geng Junjie shook his head. The other four nodded, and said as a matter of course: "When I was on the fleet, such sea winds and huge waves were very common."

Except for Geng Junjie, the other four are all retired navies. This is Qin Shiou's first consideration when recruiting besides personality. The advantage of navy soldiers is that they can work on the ship immediately without seasickness.

For fishermen, the most fatal thing is seasickness. Once seasick, let alone work, it is not a matter of whether they can go back alive after going to the high seas.

Hearing what they said, Shaq laughed: "Then you understand, right? When a boat travels through waves of ten meters high, it doesn't matter how fast the things on it are tied."

The sea monster commanded two calm fishermen to untie the ropes, and then the crane started, and the crab pots were lowered one by one.

Strong winds are unavoidable at sea, and the Melon Princess is shaking rhythmically. After these crab cages are released, they seem to become beasts that have escaped from the cage under the push of the waves, full of lethality.

"When you put these 300kg big guys into the sea, you have to be very careful not only to avoid getting your hands caught in the crab pots, but also to prevent falling into the cages. I don't think you would want to do that. The first big crab, right?" Shaq said instructively.

Several people laughed, and the sea monster heard the laughter pointing at them and warned: "Don't laugh, you think Shaq is joking? Falk! Just seven years ago, my cousin Bruno was damned arrested The crab pot got stuck, do you know the result? When we fished the crab pot up again, his heart was full of ice!"

A fisherman next to him patted the sea monster on the shoulder and said in a low voice, "Bruno lives very well in heaven, don't even think about it."

Geng Junjie was silent for a moment, went up and put his arms around the sea monster's shoulder and said in not fluent English: "Sorry buddy, our mistake, we will take this job seriously, it's scary, isn't it?"

The sea monster forced a smile and said, "But don't be afraid of it."

As long as you deal with it carefully, fishing king crabs is not that dangerous. Qin Shiou doesn't need to take risks now. This is one of the reasons why he decided to go to Greenland in January. The sea weather in November and December is too bad.

Crab pots are dropped into the ocean one by one in series, filled with delicious mackerel, herring and minced cod meat, which is a delicacy for greedy king crabs, and they are absolutely irresistible.

After the crab pots were put down, Shaq and the sea monster each led a team to start the second job, which was to carefully mop up every part of the deck and stern with a mop.

It was noon now, but the outdoor temperature of the ship was still about ten degrees below zero. If it was night, the temperature would drop to twenty degrees below zero.

What does this mean? It means that the howling waves roll onto the boat, and as long as the waves fall, there will be an extra layer of ice on the boat!

Ice not only makes it slippery, but also adds to the load on the boat, which can easily cause the crabbing boat to capsize.

"I think you have seen that the waves come from one direction. Once a thick layer of ice hangs on one side of the hull, our only hope is the coast guard in charge of sea rescue work." Ke explained.

Qin Shiou also joined the battle, not because he wanted to take the lead, but because he had to exercise. In this environment, it is not enough to rely on the air conditioner to keep warm, and exercise more to promote blood circulation. (To be continued..)

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