Chapter 303 Floating Island
South China Sea.

Near Yongxing Island in a certain archipelago.

A large tugboat, pulling a dozen huge “capsule”-shaped objects, slowly approached from the northern waters.

The rare sunny weather made the relevant staff on Yongxing Island feel much better.

On one side of Yongxing Island, there is a floating structure that is also made up of “capsule”-shaped objects.

These capsule-shaped floating objects are about 100 meters long and have a radius of 20 meters. The part immersed in water is made of a composite of foam silicon and silicon bean silk film. In order to ensure strength, three layers of composite layers are used.

The upper part is made of fixed hemispherical foam silicon and silicon bean silk composite materials at the front and rear, which is consistent with the hull material.

Then there is the middle part of the upper part, half of which is made of the same material as the hull.

The remaining half is made of fiberglass and double-layer silicon carbide film. This part is movable and can be stored in the interlayer of another part when it is not needed.

If needed, start the machine to push the translucent barrier to completely seal the entire ship.

This simple capsule boat has very good overall waterproof performance, and there is no way to sink it even if the waves are very big.

If a sudden tsunami occurs, the entire capsule ship can be sealed to achieve an effect similar to that of a submarine.

However, this simple capsule boat does not have an internal air circulation system, and only has a few one-way ventilation valves at the top.

Generally speaking, staff cannot live inside for a long time. With food and water, a person can only stay inside the capsule ship for about 72 hours at most.

Of course, the shipyard had anticipated this situation when designing the capsule ship. If an emergency occurs and someone is trapped inside the capsule ship, after confirming that there is no huge risk of flooding and capsizing around it, several ventilation valves on the side can be manually opened to ensure the oxygen supply inside.

In addition, there is a special emergency cabin inside the capsule ship. If the manual ventilation valve on the side cannot be opened, the things in the emergency cabin can be used to save lives.

“…Did you understand?” Safety trainer Li Ke looked at the new employees around him seriously.

“I understand!” The new employees answered sporadically.

“You’d better understand, hehe…” Li Ke sneered and glanced at everyone. He knew that these guys certainly didn’t take it too seriously, but this was within his expectations.

The other old employees just smiled and said nothing.

It is obvious that all the old employees have been cheated by Li Ke.

The floating island area of ​​Yongxing Island began to be laid in February this year. Currently, a total of 344 capsule ships have been connected, and there are quite a few employees working on them.

The project is also the property of Hailufeng Company.

Nanhai New Agriculture Company, affiliated to Qiongzhou Branch.

“I’ll say it once, you must study and understand every page of the management manual I just sent to you carefully. Don’t complain that I didn’t remind you when something goes wrong.” Li Ke reminded again with a smile.

“knew…”

Some people disagreed.

Some people were secretly alert.

Someone looked through it carefully.

Li Ke took in everyone’s expressions. He had already reminded these rookies, and it was up to them whether they listened or not.

Anyway, next month’s safety drills and employee assessments will let those who don’t take it seriously know the consequences of not taking it seriously.

Rather than talking at the top of his lungs, it would be better to teach these people a lesson by imposing fines and extending their probation period, so that they will remember the requirements in the safety manual.

After all, if you fail the safety drills and employee assessments, you will be fined and your internship period will be extended.

Li Ke opened the emergency cabin: “Come over and try to open and close the door of the emergency cabin…”

This heavy hatch, similar to that on a submarine, has a ring-shaped rotating handle that requires a lot of force to open and close.

After teaching the new employee how to open the hatch, he took out various items from the emergency cabin.

It includes an emergency medical kit, a compressed biscuit barrel, a simple hand-cranked seawater desalination machine, a box of small packages of fresh water, a box of oxygen candles, a simple tool box, and a rescue kit.

“Remember, these things are for two people. They can sustain two people at sea for at least 15 days. If it’s just one person, it can last about a month.”

A new employee patted the compressed biscuits on the table and said, “Teacher Li, will these expire?”

“Don’t worry, these things have a shelf life of about 3 to 10 years, and the food and medical kits are replaced every three years.”

Another new employee, whose skin was peeling from the sun, shook his head: “Even if we don’t change it, if we encounter an emergency, won’t we eat it?”

The others also looked on in agreement.

If you really encounter an emergency, you will have to eat and use it even if it has been expired for several years, let alone a few months.

“Okay, stop worrying.” Li Ke patted the toolbox in his hand. “We work on a floating island at sea, so we generally don’t encounter emergencies. We usually pay attention to weather forecasts and internal notifications. If a typhoon approaches or a major earthquake occurs nearby, we must quickly follow the procedures in the safety manual. Next, I will take you to the living area and dormitory area.”

Although these capsule ships are floating on the sea.

But there is no swaying feeling like standing on a boat. Instead, it feels like walking on flat ground, just like on land.

That’s because these capsule ships are connected together to form a floating island.

Usually, every 100 capsule ships form a floating island. These capsule ships are connected by steel structures and have special fixed anchor cables to firmly connect the capsule ships to the seabed.

Even if a tsunami occurs, it is difficult to destroy these capsule ships. At most, their anchor cables will break and they will drift to other sea areas.

Li Ke brought the new employees to the living and dormitory areas through the steel structure plank road between the capsule ships.

In fact, there are four specially modified capsule ships, two of which are living areas and two are dormitory areas. Opening a room in the dormitory, Li Ke introduced it with a smile: “You will live here for a long time in the future, so you can just take a quick look now…”

Everyone filed in.

The room is not big, about 10 square meters, with a bed, a wardrobe and a table. These things are fixed to the floor and cannot be moved.

Li Ke reminded: “There is one toilet and bath room in each capsule ship. They are shared. You must maintain them yourselves and don’t damage them.”

“Teacher Li, if it breaks, you won’t ask us to pay for it, right?” a new employee wearing glasses asked uncertainly.

Li Ke shook his head first, then smiled at the rookies: “That’s not necessary, but the company has a special assessment every month. The infrastructure and environmental sanitation of the dormitory and living area are all within the scope of the assessment. Our company is engaged in agriculture, and the floating island area will receive tourists. You’d better pay attention. Otherwise, if you fail the assessment, you can read the employee handbook for the consequences!”

Some new employees felt a chill in their hearts and felt that it was necessary to study the employee handbook carefully.

After all, coming to the archipelago area of ​​the South China Sea to work is a good job opportunity for them, and the various subsidies are very high.

Good treatment is the main reason why they are willing to come here, so they don’t want to lose the job opportunity.

“Okay, now you should start preparing for work according to the positions assigned by the company!” Li Ke turned his head and looked at several old employees: “Lao He, Xiao Bo, Jin Hai, as team leaders, you three should take the lead.”

“Don’t worry! Teacher Li, we will definitely guide them well.” Lao He said, patting his chest. He did not do it perfunctorily, because guiding the new employees is one of the company’s tasks. If he can’t guide the new employees well, then forget about promotion in the company in the future.

The other two old employees also quickly expressed their opinions.

“I have said what I should say. You guys take care of yourselves!” After Li Ke finished speaking, he drove his electric scooter away from the steel structure plank road between the floating islands and headed for another floating island.

After Li Ke left.

Lao He had no intention of giving the new employees a sense of pressure because he had a special exemption period. During the first month after new employees joined the company, no matter how poorly they performed, the management would not put pressure on them.

Therefore, he planned to persuade these newcomers with kind words. As for whether they would listen or not, that was up to the individual. Anyway, he would not be the one who would be punished. If the other party really performed poorly, Lao He could also jointly sign with the two deputy team leaders to send the new employee back to the training center.

Of course, there must be a good reason to send new employees back to the training center, otherwise it would be difficult for them to use this power.

Lao He looked at the lazy crowd and got straight to the point: “You may think what Teacher Li said just now is nothing, but you’d better calm down and listen carefully to what I’m going to say next.”

Everyone suddenly became quiet.

“Teacher Li has reminded you several times to read the employee handbook. That’s because the company will conduct assessments and safety drills from time to time. If you fail, you will be fined and have your internship period extended. In serious cases, you will be sent back to the training center or even fired.”

“what?”

“Is there still a need for assessment?”

The new employees suddenly became nervous.

Lao He continued, “Don’t think that you can sit back and relax after recruitment and training. Our company is not a state-owned enterprise or unit. There is no such thing as a permanent job. If you want to work in the company for a longer time, you should calm down and study hard, and don’t think too much.”

After being hit hard by Lao He, everyone put away their lazy attitude and became serious.

“Let me tell you about the work arrangements!” Lao He turned around and pointed at the capsule ship next door: “You should know your jobs, right?”

“know.”

“That’s good.” Lao He continued, “These capsule ships are farms, specializing in breeding various high-value tropical aquatic products. Everyone’s job is to feed and monitor these aquatic products.”

These artificial floating islands are all farms. Although the cost of capsule ships is not high, the cost of supporting facilities is not small, such as rapid water exchange systems, oxygenation systems, cooling systems and automated monitoring systems, which are all costs that must be paid.

In recent years, the sea water temperature in the South China Sea has been relatively high in summer, which is not conducive to shallow-water aquaculture.

In the coastal areas of the country, the need to build dams and guard against the hazards of rising sea levels will affect the scale of aquaculture of some aquatic products.

Therefore, Hailufeng Company took a different approach and chose to cultivate seafood on floating islands. For example, lobsters and mantis shrimps, etc. Hailufeng Company has already mastered the cultivation technology for these seafoods, and they will all be cultivated on floating islands in the future.

In order to cooperate with floating island aquaculture, Hailufeng Company has ordered a number of large photovoltaic airships from Blue Whale Airship, which will be deployed directly above these islands.

The sea water temperature is relatively high in summer, so we can use photovoltaic airships to generate electricity for cooling, thereby maintaining a suitable temperature in the breeding ponds and allowing the farmed seafood to safely spend the summer.

In fact, with the promotion of Hailufeng Company and other domestic companies, the domestic aquaculture industry has reached a new height. Now the domestic fishing ban period is getting longer and longer, just to give the coastal wild marine biological populations a chance to breathe.

After all, since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the country’s coastal aquatic resources have become increasingly scarce, mainly because modern fishing equipment has become more and more powerful, and one net can catch a large wave of fish.

This makes it difficult for many wild marine species populations to recover in a short period of time.

Zhoushan fishing ground is a typical example. If it were not for the strict fishing ban in the past decade, even the small fish fry would have been caught clean.

Of course, this situation is not unique to the Seris family, it also exists abroad.

For example, the famous Newfoundland fishing grounds. Due to the large-scale fishing of cod in the past, the various fish resources in the sea area have decreased sharply. In the last century, they were basically exhausted. Now, fishing has been banned for decades, and it has still not recovered to its peak period.

The reason why the country continues to extend the fishing ban is not only to protect marine biological resources, but also to respond to the climate crisis.

For example, the large-scale bleaching of coral reefs in the South China Sea is the consequence of the continuous rising water temperature in the South China Sea.

If the scale of fishing continues to increase, the already precarious coral reef biosphere may face a catastrophic disaster.

Hailufeng Company has another purpose for building floating island aquaculture farms in the archipelagoes of the South China Sea, which is to lower the temperature of nearby seawater through heat exchange, the shading effect of photovoltaic airships, and the shading effect of floating islands, so that nearby coral reefs can barely survive.

After all, these photovoltaic airships will directly reflect part of the sunlight, and the floating islands will also block part of the sunlight. Combined with electric cooling, the sea temperature in the surrounding waters can be lowered.

These floating islands are arranged near coral reefs to protect them.

Of course, Hailufeng Company is naturally profitable. After all, as the global climate becomes increasingly unpredictable, many seafood products are facing the dilemma of reduced production.

Hailufeng Company took the opportunity to expand aquaculture, which can not only meet domestic seafood demand, but also protect the marine ecology. At the same time, the company can make money. It is a three-pronged approach. Why not do it?

(End of this chapter)