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Sailfish's submarine moved forward 'slowly'. Although the maximum speed was 80 knots, which was much faster than the warships of the Defense Force era, when converted to the speed commonly used in life, it was actually only 148 knots. Kilometers per hour, a slightly better car can easily reach this speed on a straight highway.
This is also the reason why, in an emergency, they are always airlifted to a predetermined sea area and then released, because if the submarine is allowed to swim there by itself, the day lily will really be cold.
As for installing a Max power system on a submarine to increase the submarine's diving speed.
Someone actually proposed this and tried it.
The result.
From the fact that whether it is Super Victory Team's Victory Submarine or other submarines, they still use high-purity energy engines, it can be seen that the failure of that attempt can be said to be very complete.
The reason is simple, water pressure!
The terrifying water pressure in the deep sea is unimaginable to ordinary people.
How terrifying is the water pressure at 10,000 meters under the sea? Calculated based on one megapascal per 100 meters, that is a full 100 megapascals of pressure, which is a ton of weight, pressing on one square centimeter. If it were replaced by a human If so, it would be to bear two thousand elephants at the same time.
The sea dragon palace is located in a depth of 6,000 meters, so every square meter has to bear the weight of 6,000 tons. The total area of the sea dragon palace is 10,000 square meters, which is equivalent to bearing a weight of 60 million tons.
How to say it.
The weight of Diga is 44,000 tons, which is equivalent to 1,3400 Diga stacked together and pressing on the Sea Dragon Palace.
From this we can understand why TPC has gone into the universe and built dozens of interstellar bases and space stations, but only has two undersea bases.
Because it is much easier to build a base in the universe than under the sea, and it is much simpler to build a base underground than the two of them.
Such huge sea pressure made it difficult for even marine life to survive. Anyway, after falling below a thousand meters, Chiba Cheng no longer saw swarms of fish.
But now, luckily, the radar actually discovered a giant creature that was at least a kilometer long.
This.
It's incredible.
Even if it's a monster, it's too big to be that big.
This is not to say that it cannot grow so big. After all, it is not that Chiba Makoto has never seen monsters bigger than this, but the problem is that in such a deep seabed, the larger the size, the greater the pressure it will bear.
With such a huge body, it is not difficult to move around on the seabed.
Chiba Makoto was looking outside. Although there was a thick bulkhead and a pressure-resistant barrier that could withstand tens of thousands of tons of pressure per square centimeter, after focusing the light on his eyes, even though the seabed was pitch black, , but everything is clearly visible in Chiba Cheng's eyes.
The sonar, radar, infrared and other detectors on the submarine were all turned on to conduct all-round detection and scanning of the seafloor. 3D models of mountain ranges were gradually constructed on the screen, matching the seafloor topographic map in the database. Comparing to see if there is any deviation, there must be a problem. After all, unless there is a major geological activity, the seafloor topography is the same as the mountains on land, and there will be no major changes.
This is the era of the National Defense Forces. The most effective way to find submarines sitting on the bottom is to search for monsters. After all, monsters are about the same size as submarines. They are not as good at hiding as submarines. They are much easier to find than submarines.
But Dagu drove the submarine and swam around for several times, but he couldn't find the thousand-meter monster that suddenly appeared.
"How is that possible? Where did it go?" Dagu was puzzled. He held the rudder in his hand and steered the submarine to a wider area, trying to find the missing monster.
Such a big monster is not a small fish, so how could it not be found?
It is impossible to hide. The terrain of the seabed is the same as in the database. With such a large volume, it is very conspicuous no matter where it lies. It will definitely be discovered immediately. As for distant escape, it is possible, but with such a large volume, it is difficult to swim. The sound of rising will never be small, it can be detected from a long distance.
However, no matter whether it was scanning the seabed terrain or sonar, nothing was found. It is really incredible that such a big monster just evaporated from the bottom of the sea.
"Could it be a radar failure?"
Although I have doubts, this seems to be the only explanation left.
"Hmm"
Qianye Cheng pondered for a moment and said: "Let's go to Hailong Palace first."
Ultra's Eye did not find anything. The undersea mountains seen along the way were endless, more spectacular and steep than those on land.
As for why the monster disappeared, it was either a radar malfunction or it was hidden.
As for where it is hidden?
It is not easy to hide thousands of monsters in these high mountains and deep valleys.
"Understood!"
Dagu then slowly turned the rudder and controlled the submarine to swim in the direction of Hailong Palace.
The submarine, filled with powerful beams of light that illuminated all directions, slowly turned around and headed into the distance.
As it goes further and further away, the light gradually dims until it completely disappears, allowing the seabed to return to the darkness and silence that has lasted for hundreds of millions of years.
After a while, a flash of red light suddenly appeared in the darkness, as bright as blood, moving slowly in the darkness, turning left and right, back and forth, as if detecting. After a circle, it disappeared again.
At this time, the submarine had arrived at Hailong Palace, entered through the torpedo port marked on the drawing, closed the outer gate, and then started pumping water.
That is to say, it is technologically advanced and has a "black technology" pressure barrier that can maintain the same air pressure inside the boat as on land, so there is no need to consider the problem of pressure difference.
Otherwise, even if a submarine base is built, just getting in and out of the submarine base is a very troublesome matter. It requires repeated pressure increase and decrease, which cannot be done fast. Otherwise, diving sickness will come to your door every minute, or even There will be an implosion due to rapid changes in air pressure.
But 'TPC Technology' did not have to consider this issue. It quickly drained the water, then opened the inner hatch, and the crawler truck carried the submarine into the inner hangar.
When the inner cabin door was closed, the submarine was also placed on the parking bay. Chiba Cheng and Dagu tidied up, then opened the door and got out. As soon as I opened the door, I saw a grinning Asuka, who came up to me happily: "Captain, vice-captain, you are finally here."
Chiba Cheng looked at Asuka up and down, his face was red, and his arms were no longer hanging, but his wrists were still bandaged, so he was doing well.
"This place seems to suit your liking."
"Hee hee!"
Asuka is laughing. He is having a great time. He not only looks at the bottom of the sea every day, but also learns to drive a submarine. He even drove a submarine for a trip alone yesterday and enjoyed the underwater scenery.
At this time, a middle-aged man with a cane in his left hand and wearing a blue uniform representing senior cadres came up to him. He extended his right hand enthusiastically and said: "Hello, Captain Chiba, I'm glad you can come. I On behalf of all the staff at Triton J2, welcome your arrival.”
"Hello, Director Fujikura, I am honored to come to Triton J2."
Chiba Makoto also quickly reached out and took the right hand of Director Triton J2, the supervisor of Triton J2.
Although this person has limited legs and feet, he is still very capable. He was the one who single-handedly promoted the construction of Triton J2 at the beginning. It was precisely because he was lame and running around that his crutches were shortened by a lot. After convincing countless people, we were able to build the Triton J2 at huge cost during that chaotic period.
Standing next to him is Toshiyuki Koda. He and Fujikura are classmates. They studied together as graduate students at TPC. Although one majored in cosmology and the other majored in oceanography, they became connected because of rugby. Their recognition of each other's strengths made them quickly become friends. became friends.
But success is also rugby, and failure is rugby.
Rugby games are purely physical confrontations that test physical fitness in order to become a TPC school event. However, accidents cannot be avoided in physical confrontations.
Fujikura became that unlucky accident. During a game, he injured his leg, and it was so serious that he could hardly exert force, which meant that he could not leave the crutches for the rest of his life.
This can be said to be a bolt from the blue for Fujikura, who dreams of driving a submarine to the bottom of the sea. After all, even in logistics, a cripple cannot play a big role. He is basically just a idle person.
However, Fujikura did not despair or give up on himself. He still worked hard optimistically. Not only did he complete his studies, he also studied for a second degree. With greater efforts and more efforts than other people with sound legs, he became a professor of oceanography. Experts and have gained great recognition in this field.
It was precisely because of his own excellence that his statement gained great recognition, and he created Triton J2 and became the person in charge of this important submarine base.
Along the way, Fujikura enthusiastically introduced this submarine base, especially the results achieved since its establishment. All human research results on the ocean in the past, combined, are no more than a fraction of the Triton J2.
"You also know that the R sea area is the most special place in the Pacific Ocean, or even in the global ocean. Hundreds of ocean currents converge here, just like an ocean current hub. No matter where it is dumped into the ocean, it can ultimately be monitored here. Because of this, a huge amount of garbage has accumulated here.”
Following Fujikura's words, they also arrived at the exhibition hall, which was only about a hundred meters away, but there were a large number of pictures, videos, and exhibits.
Among them are images of garbage accumulation on the seabed and the results of its treatment.
After years of hard work, 95% of the garbage on the seabed has been cleared. What was once a dense sea of garbage now only has a few sparse spots left.
"There will be another big dragnet in the near future to clean up this garbage, and this sea area will be completely clean."
Fujikura said with a smile on his face, this is a major achievement of TPC's environmental management. Human beings are making up for past mistakes and working hard to restore nature.
“It’s really good.”
Chiba Cheng has seen with his own eyes how bad this sea area used to be.
Densely packed garbage piled up into mountains, dirty is not enough to describe this area.
But now, there is no garbage in the sea water, and the difference between before and after can be said to be very big.
Dagu listened and watched, but a question came to his mind, and he quickly asked: "Director Fujikura, if the ocean currents converge, does that mean that if something is released here, it will be carried to all parts of the world by the ocean currents? ?”
"Theoretically, this is the case," Fujikura nodded and said, "However, there are no relevant experiments yet. After all, the ocean is too big. Unless the target reagent is released on a large scale, it will be diluted to the point where it cannot be detected at all. ”
"If that's the case" Dagu thought of the thousand-meter-long monster that suddenly appeared on the radar. It was located near here at that time.
Seeing Ogu like this, Fujikura asked: "Vice Captain Makaku, have you discovered any problems?"
"Yes!" Dagu nodded, recounted the situation in the future tense, and then shared his guess.
"A thousand-meter-long monster?"
Fujikura, Koda, and Asuka were all shocked by the exaggerated size.
One thousand meters, it is more than 300 stories tall when erected. It is about 100 meters taller than the current tallest building, the Burj Khalifa.
This is not an ordinary high, but an extremely high one.
"It just appeared for a moment and then disappeared. The radar didn't have time to detect the specific figure. Later, I searched the area repeatedly, but I didn't find anything. I wondered if the radar was malfunctioning." Dagu said with a bitter smile. In fact, I'm not sure. I didn't plan to say anything now. I wanted to check the radar, but as soon as I thought of this possibility, I couldn't help but ask.
Fujikura did not laugh it off, but frowned, thinking, and then said: "In fact, the scale of the submarine mountain range is larger than people imagined. It is the longest on land. The total length of the Cordillera Mountains is about 15,000 kilometers, but the length of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is 16,000 kilometers.
Although the mid-ocean ridges, ridges, volcanic ridges and fractured ridges of the Pacific are not as large as those of the Atlantic Ocean, they are still very majestic. Especially nearby, there are many chain mountains and fractured ridges. Their total length adds up to More than 20,000 kilometers.
We used a combination of sonar and radar to detect the existence of cavities inside thirteen seamounts, and are preparing to conduct in-depth research in the near future. ”
"Is it possible that these mountains are connected by tunnels? That monster comes out through these tunnels?" Dagu immediately started to imagine.
"This." Fujikura hesitated and said: "It still needs to be verified, but I personally think that the holes in the mountain are probably not isolated, and they will not exist for a short time. The current guess is that there are Possibly a volcanic lava channel, as extinct volcanoes have been found nearby.”
"In this case, the monster got into the hole and was not discovered." Asuka said with sudden realization.
"But if it can accommodate such a big monster, the entrance of the cave will not be small," Toshiyuki Koda put forward a different opinion, saying: "The submarine's equipment should also be able to be discovered."
"It stands to reason that the entrance to the cave should be found, but in fact nothing was found." (End of Chapter)