The snow dragon was full of horsepower, struggling to push a gap between the big ship that hit her and the coast, from which it interspersed, and the huge sound of friction between the hull and the big ship was made.

The speed is mentioned in 17.9 knots, which is also the limit of the speed of the "Snow Dragon", and all the equipment on the ship can provide energy for the power system at this moment.

The ship’s searchlights had been turned on, and the crew of the bridge tower saw through the cabin’s windows that the guy who had “attacked” himself was a giant ship.

The length of the giant ship should be nearly three hundred meters long, its body is far larger than the Snow Dragon, and the ship's hull is on fire in many places.

Wang Puhong's decision was wise, and he first determined from the factors of the fire after the collision of the ship that it was probably an oil tanker, that is, a freighter transporting oil.Such ships are prone to fire in the event of a collision, and there will be violent combustion or even explosion and other accidents, oil in the combustion will also produce smoke, these smoke in addition to suffocation can also be toxic.

Wang Puhong let the "Snow Dragon" get rid of the oil tanker's elbow at full speed, and quickly opened the distance between it.

"Snow Dragon" to the upper vent, now from the collision has been ten minutes, the oil ship fire gradually grew larger, the flame spread from several fire position, some do not connected places even burned to a piece.

It was only at this time that the crew was allowed to go up to the deck, some stayed in the cabin, some went outside.The oil tankers on the sea in the night were burning like a fire, and the nearby sea was red.

The first explosion came half an hour later, the black smoke in the fire emptied, the huge ship's bow was suspected to have collapsed, and the hull was slightly tilted.

"Snow Dragon" always kept a safe distance from it, and stayed quietly on the distant sea.It had no equipment to rescue the fire, and the ship that caught fire did not seem to see the rescuers.

Then the explosion sounded one after another, and the fire began to spread to the nearby sea, that is, the oil on the ship leaked and spread to the sea, and the fire bit the oil and let them burn more violently.

The accident happened somewhat, and now everyone is too late to explore the reasons for it, and everyone is looking at the shocking and frightless scene in the distance.

In the command room, Wang Puhong finally breathed a sigh of relief, and his face had been tight.The heart is still hanging, because this collision accident has also had a certain impact on the "Snow Dragon", and it is not known how much the impact is, and everything can only wait for the dawn to be checked.

Tonight was destined to be a sleepless night, no one on the ship was still sleepy, and everyone's eyes were on the burning oil ship.

Time passes by minute by second, and the dawn is very slow, but it is finally returned to the light.

Wang Puhong divided the shipping staff into two groups, one group took the Yellow River boat to the vicinity of the fire vessel for monitoring and monitoring, and the other group re-maintened the "Snow Dragon".

It took several hours for the damage to the Snow Dragon finally came out.Although the fire on the oil ship did not affect the "Snow Dragon", some of the scientific instruments on the "Snow Dragon" were seriously damaged.Fortunately, the "Snow Dragon" because the bow and the stern have icebreaking ability, the hull is relatively ordinary commercial cargo ship to be hard, so the collision did not hurt the main structure of the hull, nor did it cause the hull leakage accident.

"Happiness of luck," Wang Puhong's hanging heart was finally put into his stomach.Most of the damage is marine measurement and meteorological instruments, the mission of this trip is to cooperate with Professor Zhang Can to do the investigation, so these instruments do not necessarily have the value of use.The ship's power system is intact, and the hull is not damaged too much, it will not have much impact on the operation.

The Yellow River boat brought back the latest news from the ship of the accident, a large Panamanian oil tanker, which appeared here for unknown reasons, and the ship was loaded with condensate.

In the previous collision, condensate continued to leak and burn and explode.After half a night, a kilometer-long oil belt appeared on the sea, which was heading east and west, enveloping the shores of Gambar.

Wang Puhong looked at the black oil belt near the coast and sighed, and he had just analyzed the collision accident in his heart based on his previous navigational experience.Gampel is a horn in the northwest end of St. Lawrence Island, yesterday when the "Snow Dragon" landed did not find the tanker, the ship apparently did not enter the "Snow Dragon" vision, and it can suddenly appear, Wang Puhong believes that it is affected by the terrain.

At that time, two ships, perhaps one on the north side of Gambor, and one on the west side of Gambor, and the tanker drifted along the coast due to the wind direction, so it hit the Snow Dragon docked on the shore in the middle of the night.

"It seems that although there are fewer ships at sea after the disaster, the danger has not decreased much," thinking of the Baigen-class destroyer "Saddle Horse" and this tanker encountered in the Strait of Malaysia, Wang Puhong felt that similar "sea iron coffins may be encountered" in the future, and the ship should be strengthened in the course of navigation, especially at night.

After dawn, the "Snow Dragon" began to continue on the road north, and although the fire on the oil ship near Gampel was much smaller, the oil belt on the sea surface continued to spread, which had no small impact on the local marine environment pollution, but at this moment, the "Snow Dragon" was powerless.

More than 200 kilometers to the north is the Bering Strait, in the middle of the strait there are two islands called Diomede Island, both of which are rocky islands, and they are divided into the United States and the jipros.

The sea between the two islands is only a few kilometers wide, the island of Diomede belongs to the jeepus, and the small Diomede is under the United States.Interestingly, because of the international date line, the two islands were separated by two days, of which the island of Diomede was 23 hours earlier than the small island of Diomede, so it was also called "Tomorrow Island" and "Yesterday Island".

Wang Puhong had previously been to the small island of Diomede, which was shaped like a large flat-topped stone, revealing the sea about 300 meters high.Its formation is due to volcanic activity and a remnant of the Bering Road Bridge.The top of the island is surrounded by a 40-degree steep slope that slopes to the sea, and only a slightly flat land on the western side of the island, where there was a small town where Wang Puhong looked at the "Tomorrow" of the jipros.

"Let the crew arrange an activity to be shocked," Wang Puhong thought, intending to arrange for the "Snow Dragon" to stay for a few hours between the small Diomede Island and the Big Diomede Island, so that everyone can feel the scenery of "yesterday" and "tomorrow" with today's eyes.

The journey at sea is relatively dull, the people on board have just experienced the danger of being hit by the tanker, and it is necessary to find a meaningful new thing to adjust the tension under the psychology, and the size of Diomede Island is in front, so it has become the first choice of Wang Puhong.

After the announcement of the decompression plan of the captain of the "Snow Dragon", it was well received among the crew, and although many people on board had experience in ocean voyages, few people who had visited Diomedes Island.Everyone is excited to have the opportunity to experience the opportunity to shuttle on the international date change line.

"It's so fucking cool," Da Fei has been a little impatient to feel the feeling of "shuttle time."

"Actually not so magical," Chen Bin is also very excited, but his concept is not as mysterious as Da Fei's understanding of this matter, "this date line seems to be something that was formulated by everyone in the world in order to unify time, that is, 'man-made daily boundaries', 'Shuttle time' is more like a metaphor or give it meaning."I remember when I was a child, I read a novel called "80 Days Around the World", where the protagonist traveled from west to east, the time was nearly 24 hours, and almost did not get the bet.“

"I also have an impression of the story you say," Big Fei nodded, "I know that there is no possibility of shuttle time in this world, but the meaning is different, and when I come back to the Chongming I can blow up a wave with them."

Wales and Norm are east of Diomede Island, two towns that have previously been popular with polar expeditions and explorers as recharge ports.The polar trip Wang Puhong did not choose any of them as a transit station for supply, because the outbreak of the disaster has caused the two supply ports to lose their original functions, and it is difficult and dangerous for their crews to disembark and operate on the "Snow Dragon" alone, so this time in the trip, it was also directly decided to wait until the Yellow River Station on Spitsbergen Island to do so.

The Yellow River Station is located in New Olsson on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, where it was once a hot spot for Arctic scientific research, and in addition to the Yellow River Station, there are also Norway, Oranke, Breton Gran, Vikingman, Sakura and Bagan's research stations nearby.

The station building in the Yellow River Station is a two-story single-family red building on the top of the slope, and the research stations in several other countries are not far away, and this small building was built in the 1940s, which is a concrete structure and is very strong.It was originally a dormitory building of a company in Norway, and later the Chinese side rented the building from the company and renovated it.After the completion of the renovation project, the research station has been in the trial operation state, the Yellow River station's second floor of the total area of about 500 square meters, inside the laboratory, office, reading lounge, dormitory, storage room, etc., there are five small "attic" at the top, which is an important facility in the research station - optical observation platform.

In the Arctic, the Yellow River Station also has the largest space physics observation point in the world's polar research.