Golden Fishery

229. The Gold Coin of George Shoal

Seeing Qin Shiou's luxurious trawling yacht, the fishermen on the other fishing boats were a little puzzled.

Soon someone came up with a boat, and about a quarter of a mile away, the boat stopped, and someone stood on the bow with a horn and shouted: "Hey, rich man, you are on vacation Is it? You chose the wrong place! Please go to Gloucester Harbor for vacation, where there are hot beauties and delicate beaches, don't stay here, don't cause trouble for us."

Although they all speak English, the Canadian accent is very different from the American accent, and there are also differences in many vocabulary and grammar, so Qin Shiou knew that this person was American when he spoke.

He shook his head and said, "Americans are so rude and selfish, so what if I bask in the sun here? This sea area is not their backyard."

Shaq, who was standing next to him, smiled and said, "Although I hate Yankees, I have to explain that he didn't want to monopolize the catch here by letting us go. He was worried that we would break down here later, or just go down If someone catches a tuna, those big guys will rush around and easily cause a mess of the line, which will cause the anchor line or the fishing line to cut the fishing line."

Qin Shiou shrugged and said, "So that's the case, then we'll leave first, and then come back with the fishing boat."

"That's not like your style," said the sea monster.

Qin Shiou said: "This is my style, what if our own fishing line is cut by the anchor cable later?"

The yacht started to spin around, and the fishing boat showed its face. Qin Shiou, Shaq, sea monster, Ivorson, and tigers and leopards were on the fishing boat. Nelson drove the yacht away from George Shoal.

After getting on the fishing boat, Qin Shiou leaned over to look into the sea, and felt that he was in the right place.

Far from the coast, marine pollution is naturally small, and the seawater in deep waters is almost clear and completely transparent. It's just that the ocean is too deep. The sun does not reach the bottom of the sea, so the water will look very dark.

But George Shoal was different. The sea here was relatively shallow, especially where Qin Shiou and his men docked. Shine brightly on the clear waters.

In this way, the water level here seems to be transparent. When the sea was calm, Qin Shiou looked down into the water, as if there was no sea water under the boat and the fishing boat was floating directly in the air.

Such clear beauty. Qin Shiou was shocked for a moment, he couldn't help reaching out his hand into the water, feeling as if he could touch the fine and white sand on the bottom of the sea as soon as he stretched out his hand.

From time to time, groups of Atlantic herring swim across the bottom of the sea, and the seaweed stays quietly in the water. This combination of movement and stillness is like a carefully crafted dynamic picture.

After lying on the bow of the boat and looking at it for a while, Qin Shiou took out his mobile phone and started shooting. Dozens of pictures came from various angles.

He took off his shirt and jumped into the water, controlling his body to keep his balance in the water and let Shaq take a few pictures. From the photos, it looks like he is floating in mid-air. This shows how clear the water here is!

Huzi and Leopard watched him go into the water, jumped down and swam beside him excitedly.

Qin Shiou managed to catch the two little guys, Shaq clicked the shutter, and another series of photos appeared.

After arguing for a long time, Qin Shiou finally got on the boat. The fishermen on several fishing boats in the distance watched them with binoculars, and when they saw Qin Shiou playing around there, they thought it was a tourist. But wait for Qin Shiou to get on board. There are fishing rods erected on their fishing boats.

When he left Halifax yesterday evening, Shaq bought two boxes of frozen herring and mackerel. He put on gloves, took the small fish to the chopping board, cut them into four with a sharp knife, and started making bait.

Although the shallow water is beautiful, it is impossible to catch big fish, because big fish will not appear in such a conspicuous place.

The sea monster chose a place with a water depth of about 40 meters with great experience, then cast anchor and cast bait, and warmed up to work.

Qin Shiou immediately released the sea god consciousness, and he wandered around for a while, not only looking for fish, but also looking for the two sunken ships that Billy Stormer told him.

The area of ​​George Shoal is not large, and it belongs to the shallow sea area, so if there is a treasure of sunken ship, it should have been fished out long ago. Then why are there two sunken ships here, and they have not been found yet?

The reason is simple, the two sunken ships are small boats, small wooden boats. According to Osaide's investigation, the two boats are a small sampan with a length of 6 meters, and the other is an ordinary wooden fishing boat with a length of 10 meters.

The sinking of the two ships was not the same thing, the small sampan sank in 1915. At that time, it was a naval ship escorting American Eagle Ocean gold coins from New York to Arcadia on the border of Maine. The ship carried a total of 50 naval officers and soldiers and 40,000 1907-style Eagle Ocean gold coins.

As a result, the George Shoal was shallow and rocky, and the naval ship ran aground while sailing here.

There was heavy rain on the sea that day, and after the officers and soldiers sent out a distress signal, they hurriedly transferred the gold coin box to a sampan, and an officer led two soldiers to escort it away first.

When they were rescued by leaning on the semi-sinkable warship, they found that the officers and soldiers who left first were dead, and the sampan carrying the gold coin box disappeared.

After the forensic doctor conducted anatomical studies on the officers and soldiers, it was found that they had no wounds on their bodies and were drowned. In this way, it can be basically confirmed that the sampan overturned in the storm that night, and the gold box fell into the sea.

But the sampan was too small. The U.S. government dispatched naval salvage teams to search but failed to find it. However, there were more salvage teams from the private sector, but the box of gold coins was still not found.

However, this is how the fishery resources in George Shoal were discovered. A fishing company that came to salvage gold saw that there were so many fish here, so it directly changed its target. industry development.

The other ship has a name and surname, called the "Falkenstein". This ship sank earlier, during the American Civil War, that is, the Civil War.

At that time, President Lincoln announced the abolition of black slavery, which aroused the dissatisfaction of many large plantation owners. A large plantation owner living in Concord wanted to transfer all the gold and silver he had exchanged from the sea to the anti-Japanese army. Concentrated southern region.

As a result, Falkenstein also encountered Waterloo in George Shoal, and the family of six escaped with only two children. According to the children's description, their boat hit a rock and sank in the waters of George Shoal. As for the exact location, they certainly can't remember it.

Over the years, countless salvage teams and fishing boats have come to George Shoal to try their luck, but no one was lucky enough to find these two sunken ships.

Slowly, people lost interest in these two boats. They all speculated that the two small boats were probably covered by the sand on the seabed, and it was impossible to find them.

What Qin Shiou wanted to do was to find them. According to the information given to him by Billy Stormer, any of the treasures on these two ships is worth more than 20 million U.S. dollars. (to be continued)