My Deep-sea Fishery

"Meet a shark, more than four meters long." Xiang Yang didn't mean to hide from the crew, and told the crew how he found the basking shark before, but he didn't say the distance.

The crew were shocked. Sharks have always been synonymous with ferocity in human hearts, and great white sharks were once considered the most ferocious creatures on this planet.

Sharks over four meters long.

Oh my god, can't you eat people?

The crew broke into a cold sweat for Xiang Yang just by hearing it.

But Xiang Yang smiled and said: "It's okay, it's a basking shark, it doesn't attack people, I even swam over to touch it, but it was timid, and swam away when it saw me approaching."

Are there any sharks in this world that don't attack people? Many crew members felt like they were listening to the Arabian Nights.

Especially after hearing Xiang Yang say that he approached the shark on his own initiative and scared the shark away, many crew members looked at Xiang Yang strangely.

There are several crew members in Yanlong Village who grew up with Xiang Yang. You look at me and I look at you. They look like they want to refute but dare not refute, which is very graphic.

Chen Qingsheng and others who knew about basking sharks breathed a sigh of relief, "I actually met a shark, but luckily it's a basking shark, otherwise we might be in real trouble."

"What, why is it a basking shark, or else we would be in trouble? Could it be that the old shark is an old shark whose teeth can't bite anymore?" Fang Youqun asked stupidly.

"It's grandma's grandma." Chen Qingsheng said unhappily: "The basking shark is a very timid shark. They only have a few teeth in their mouths, and the length of each tooth is no more than one centimeter. They will not actively prey. of prey."

"There are such sharks?" Fang Youqun bared his teeth. It was hard for him to imagine how he would live if he only had a few teeth.

"Basking sharks don't actively hunt their prey, so what do they eat to grow up?" Fang Youqun continued to ask.

"They open their mouths, waiting for the prey to take the initiative to get into their mouths." Xiang Yang explained with a smile: "Basking sharks have olfactory bulbs in their bodies, which emit a scent to attract prey to swim towards their mouths."

Fang Youqun said in amazement: "There is such an operation, those prey are really stupid."

At this moment, Chen Qingsheng asked Xiang Yang, "Captain, in which direction is that basking shark swimming? Should we catch up?"

"What are you doing chasing after?" Xiang Yang asked back.

"Of course it's to catch the basking shark." Chen Qing took it for granted, "If it's other sharks, we might not be able to catch them underwater, or we might even be chased and bitten by them, but for the basking shark There is no such consideration, I can go down to fight with a steel fork by myself, if there are two more people helping me, I can guarantee that the basking shark will be brought up."

Because basking sharks swim very slowly and basking sharks are not aggressive, sailors were once proud of hand-painted basking sharks.

There is also a very rare hand-painted drawing of basking sharks in the British Museum.

According to historical records, Magellan arrived in the Pacific Ocean after more than 100 days of voyage. Since he did not encounter strong winds and waves along the way, Magellan never felt so relaxed, as if God had helped him a lot. He gave the sea area an auspicious name "Pacific Ocean".

In the vast Pacific Ocean, with no land or islands, food became the most critical problem. For more than 100 days and nights, Magellan did not eat any fresh food. He only had dry bread to satisfy his hunger. Later, he even ran out of dry bread. Nothing but wormy crumbs of rusk, which stinks like rat piss.

The fresh water in the cabin became shallower and shallower, and in the end he could only drink turbid yellow water with a foul smell.

In order to survive, Magellan and the others even used the cowhide covered on the beams as food. Due to the sun, wind and rain, the cowhide was as hard as a stone. It had to be soaked in sea water for four or five days, and then placed in the It takes a long time to bake on charcoal fire before eating.

Sometimes, they also eat wood sawdust.

In this situation of extreme food scarcity, Magellan's fleet around the world encountered a huge shark.

At that time, a very bold, hungry and red-eyed Spanish sailor rushed towards the sea with a three-pronged harpoon upside down.

At that time, the sailors traveling around the world thought that the Spanish sailor was doomed, and dared to provoke the "sea monster" like a hill.

As a result, the Spanish sailor seemed to be possessed by the sea god. He killed the huge sea monster with just a steel fork.

The globetrotting crew honored the brave sailor with his hand-painted basking shark.

It was with the support of the basking shark that Magellan and the others could persist until March 1521. The fleet arrived at three inhabited islands. The enthusiastic islanders sent food, fruits and vegetables to Magellan and the others. able to proceed.

Magellan's first voyage across the Pacific produced a revolution in the history of geography and navigation.

Traveling around the world proved that most of the earth's surface is not land, but oceans. The oceans around the world are not isolated from each other, but a unified and complete body of water, which played a pioneering role in the later navigation.

Xiang Yang looked at Chen Qingsheng with some amusement. If Chen Qingsheng were to go down into the sea with a steel fork, he might really be able to kill that adult basking shark.

But if Xiang Yang really wanted to do this, he would have done it by himself, how could he wait until Chen Qingsheng came to ask for a fight?

"The number of basking sharks is far less than before, and they are now listed as protected animals," Xiang Yang said.

Chen Qingsheng was taken aback, "Is the basking shark a protected animal?"

"Yes." Xiang Yang nodded very positively.

Chen Qingsheng suddenly showed an annoyed expression. He dared not kill animals to protect them, but he finally encountered a basking shark but couldn't catch it. He really felt distressed.

When Fang Youqun saw it, he asked curiously, "Isn't it just a shark? Brother Qing, why do you have such an expression?"

"Isn't it just a shark? It's so easy to say." Chen Qingsheng said depressedly: "You know what a fart."

"So you underestimate people, right?" Fang Youqun said with a chuckle, "I'm also deliberately learning about and reading some books on marine life. Shark meat is very worthless, right? Many fishermen catch sharks They all cut off the fins of the sharks, and then threw the finned sharks into the water because they thought the shark’s body would take up space on the boat.”

"It's just a pair of shark's fins. If we cast a net casually, we will reap more rewards. It's not worth going down and working hard." Fang Youqun said with reason.

Chen Qingsheng glanced at him, "Stop showing off your half-knowledge, basking shark fins are different from other shark fins."