Chapter 1645: Second turning point

The seawater was split at the bow of the boat, forming white waves, and dragging a long wake at the stern.

The sea breeze rolled the spray and hit the cockpit window, making a fine crackling sound, like a whisper from the deep sea, calling and warning.

The breakwater of the port gradually went away, and a few seagulls circled over the boat fleet, making crisp calls, as if seeing off the travelers.

He unfolded the sea chart in the cockpit, confirming the route and coordinates again. Departure place: Shenjia Sect, Zhoushi (29°56′N, 122°12′E)

First turning point: East of Dongji Island (28°30′N, 123°45′E)

Second turning point: Entering the Kuroshio branch (27°10′N, 125°20′E)

Target fishing ground: Near DYD (25°44′N, 123°28′E)

Consistent with the route of the last trip to sea, other boats had the same sea chart, and the boat bosses had all walked it. This time, everyone's heart was much more settled.

Ye Yaodong took the walkie-talkie and notified: "Course 117 degrees, keep it."

"Received."

All the fishing boats behind, as well as the boatswain on the deck, responded.

"Captain, first mate, second mate, come up."

"Received."

Now that they were sailing, they could take the opportunity to teach people and recognize the simple operation of the machines in the cockpit.

This trip would take a long time to sail at sea, and he had also communicated with everyone. If it went smoothly, it would definitely be two months at the bottom.

For such a long time, he definitely couldn't rely on himself alone, and he also needed others to help, so he had to teach people first.

Identifying these devices was simple, and the operation wasn't difficult. What was difficult was having the confidence to command, control the whole boat to cooperate, and have the ability to adapt to circumstances.

After all, at sea, anything could happen, and the ability to respond was very important.

This also had to be done slowly, relying on experience. The captain, first mate, and second mate he picked were all drawn from the Dongsheng boat. They had also been sailing the Dongsheng boat for several years, so they still had experience.

After calling people up, he first talked about the sea chart, and then adapted to local conditions, pointing to the light spots on the radar screen to explain to them.

On the radar screen, the last faint light spot representing the fishing port disappeared completely as the fishing boat went far away, and then was replaced by a pure, dark green with small snowflake noise.

The scanning line, like a probe that never got tired, scanned silently in circles. In the central area of the screen, there was only a strong echo point representing this boat.

And seven slightly weaker light points following loyally behind, like a string of stars moving firmly in the night sky, pulling a dashed line extending to the southeast on the vast dark green background.

Ye Yaodong's fingers also stayed for a moment on a few faint light points representing distant island reefs on the edge of the screen, explaining to them, and then quickly returned to the sea chart, drawing the red and blue trajectory with his fingertips, teaching them to identify them one by one.

As they went further away from the shore, the shadows of other fishing boats working appeared in the line of sight, a few smaller wooden drift gillnet boats.

The fishermen on the boat wore heavy rubber clothes and were struggling to drag the long net gear with floats from the sea.

The stern was piled with harvest, shining with sporadic silver light in the sun.

They saw Ye Yaodong's steel fleet rumbling past. Someone straightened up, put their hand on their forehead to look far away, and their eyes were mixed with curiosity, envy, and perhaps a trace of awe.

Don't ask him how he knew; he could guess it with his butt.

When he used a small boat, looking at the large boats of others on the sea, his dad had a similar expression.

After the fleet sailed out of the near-sea area, the color of the seawater gradually changed from turbid yellow-green to clear dark blue, the surge became regular, and the smell of the seawater became stronger and stronger.

Apart from the smell of diesel, the tip of the nose was no longer the fishy smell mixed with mud and sand on the shore, but a pure deep-sea breath with saltiness, cold and strange.

Ye Yaodong let the captain take over the steering wheel first, and he walked to the deck to get some air. He had been sailing for most of the day, and he was also tired.

It wasn't difficult to move forward along the set route, just need to focus on it, don't deviate because of wind and waves.

Today was only the first day, and it hadn't passed yet. The destination was still far away, at least another day and a half.

It also depended on whether it went smoothly, whether the wind and waves were big. If it didn't go smoothly, it would take three days to arrive. If it went smoothly, it would take two days.

However, if it were only his boat, full-speed sailing, two days would be guaranteed. By then, using this boat for transportation would be convenient.

He had already arranged it properly, letting his dad arrange a 40-meter fresh-fish receiving boat to come out in 5 days. By then, his boat would just happen to go back, and it could also be connected.

As for the two 30-meter fresh-fish receiving boats at home, they only needed to target the Dongsheng boat, which was more than enough.

He had urged the Jiangnan Shipyard in Modu a few days ago, and also supplemented a batch of boat payments, asking them to arrange more manpower to produce as soon as possible. It was really urgent.

By the way, he inquired about another shipyard and ordered two 40-meter ones. It was really that the Donghai Shipyard didn't accept his orders anymore, saying the orders couldn't be done, and he still had two orders that hadn't been delivered.

Others had to patch together to order a boat, pulling a few more people to join forces, while he had money and wanted to order fishing boats, but the shipyard couldn't make them.

Painful.

Ye Yaodong let the three of them steer together, and later let them try to take turns. Anyway, when resting, he also lived in the captain's special lounge behind the cockpit. If there was anything, knock on the cabin door, and he would get up.

Now taking advantage of the daytime, just out of the near-sea category, just purely looking at the route, it wouldn't cause any trouble, so he went to rest first. He had to take someone to take turns at night. Taking advantage of the fact that there was nothing to do now, he could sleep for a while.

Near dusk, a group of dolphins appeared in front of the fleet.

There were about thirty or forty of them, gray-black all over, and their streamlined bodies flipped in the dark blue seawater, looking strong and elegant.

And they sailed for a long time without leaving, and even blocked their way in front of the fishing boat, as if opening the way for them.

"There are quite a lot of dolphins."

"If only we could catch them. Haven't eaten dolphins yet."

"Straight to prison."

"Tsk tsk tsk, it's legal for the fishery company to catch them, but it's illegal for our private fishing boats to catch them."

"That's right. People are state-owned units, definitely have indicators. If caught, they should be sent somewhere."

"Dongzi seems to have handed over quite a few rare whales and sharks."

Ye Yaodong nodded. "Yeah, a pile of commendations at home and in the office."

He even asked someone to copy a copy and put it in the processing factory office to hang up, as well as various honors in the past.

Even the newspapers were taken and framed and hung on the wall.

The blank wall of the office finally looked like something. The wall full of honors explained his glorious history.

"There seems to be a school of fish in front, there are quite a lot of seagulls..."

"Small fish don't need to be managed, hurry up and sail."

"Hey, it's getting dark. Dongzi, you go rest first. How about we come to take over at 10 o'clock tonight? We are all familiar with it. If there is any situation, we will call you in advance."

"Okay."

It was only the first day, no matter what they encountered, as long as there was no situation, they would go all out.

The first night also passed very steadily.

When Ye Yaodong woke up at noon the next day, the fleet sailed through a sea area where the water temperature changed significantly.

He just got up and someone reported to him that they had arrived at the second turning point, the coordinates of the Kuroshio branch. If he hadn't got up, everyone would have called him.

After Ye Yaodong understood, he took over the fishing boat first, and then picked up the walkie-talkie.

"Hey hey, pay attention, about to arrive at the second turning point, boat course 117 degrees, continue to sail along the southeast direction."

"Received."

At this time, the sea surface presented a strange scene.

In front, the dark blue seawater seemed to be divided by an invisible line. On one side was the familiar indigo blue, and on the other side was a clearer, more emerald tone.

The two colors of seawater pushed and blended with each other, forming a winding and twisting dividing line, on which floated fine bubbles and debris drifting with the waves.

The sunlight spilled on this dividing line through the clouds, refracting strange colors.

"Cold and warm water convergence!"

Ye Yaodong said to everyone in the cockpit.

Such places are often where plankton gather, and also the cafeteria for small fish, indicating the activity of underwater ecology.

Sure enough, near the dividing line, more seabirds could be seen circling and foraging at low altitude.

"Wow, this is too magical, just a piece of water surface, two colors."

"First time seeing dark blue and green seawater, and it's on the sea surface right in front of us."

"Really magical."

Ye Yaodong simply told them about the peculiarity of this Kuroshio branch, and at the same time, they also monitored several waves of fish schools.

However, unlike the first time, there were more fishing boats brought out this time, and he didn't want to toss anymore.

After all, in the last trip to this sea area, one boat had already lost a fishing net. Although it was said that it wouldn't lose money, it was better to prioritize safety.

Arriving at the destination, there was no worry about not having schools of fish.

Entering the Kuroshio branch range, they hadn't encountered any other fishing boats since the night.

Only these few of them.

The afternoon sun became fierce, and the sea surface steamed with thin water vapor.

On the sea horizon far to the right of the fleet, a continuous outline of "islands" suddenly appeared, and even clear "mountain peaks" and "valleys" could be seen.

This scene lasted for more than ten minutes, so clear that people almost doubted the accuracy of the sea chart.

"What is that?"

Everyone looked up.

Ye Yaodong looked at it and looked with binoculars. "It's a mirage! It's virtual! That's the shadow refracted from some land or large boat in the distance, a trick played by the Sea Dragon King!"

The illusory island floated on the sparkling sea surface, and with the movement of the fleet and the change of light, the outline gradually blurred, twisted, and finally gradually faded and disappeared.

"Haha, this trip is worth it, actually seeing a mirage."

"No wonder you said this sea area is peculiar. Besides seeing two-colored seawater, there is actually a mirage. I'm seeing it for the first time."

"The time is too short, just a few minutes, didn't look carefully before."

"It's good to see it. Staying at sea for a long time, there will be more sea wonders to see in the future."

"Hehehe, are we not going to cast nets for these fish schools?"

"No need, go all out."

Other fishing boats also successively detected schools of fish, and also asked him one after another through fishing boats or walkie-talkies.

After all, when they came for the first time, they had cast nets here for most of the day, and the harvest was quite rich.

Ye Yaodong also refused, just letting them continue to sail forward according to the established route.

Now the deep-sea resources are very rich. When he came for the first time, he didn't have a bottom in his heart, so he stayed here for half a day. Later, when he went to the sea area near DYD, he found that there were not a few, so there was no need to toss here.

"Received."

"Without accident, tomorrow morning, at the latest noon, we should be able to arrive at the destination."

"Understand." ===== CHAPTER 1646 =====

The deep-sea resources are currently very abundant. Since it was his first time here, he had no baseline in his heart, which is why he lingered here for half a day. Only after going to the sea area near the Diaoyu Islands did he discover that there was just as much there, so there was no need to struggle here.

"Received."

"Barring any accidents, we should be able to reach our destination by tomorrow morning, or by noon at the latest."

"Understood."