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"The ship sank in minutes ... she went stern first on to her port side and sank very quickly, until just her turrets were visible. She paud then and just disappeared under the a and was gone." The last moments of the HMS EDIMBURGH, remembered by one of her crew. It was 2 May, 1942. The British cruir was on her way home from Murmansk. She was carrying a rather unusual cargo in her bomb room -- five and a half tons of gold bullion, payment by the Russians for American armaments.
For nearly forty years she lay undisturbed, 800 feet down at the bottom of the Barents Sea, beneath the icy waters of the Arctic Circle. After the war she was declared a war grave. This and her depth effectively 伦敦奥运吉祥物ruled out the traditional methods of salvaging her cargo. No diver could get down to work on the wreck, and no-one would be allowed to blast her open with explosives and grab what he could. So for years the HMS EDINBURGH remained a treasure infinitely desirable but always beyond reach.
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Enter now Keith Jessop, who felt sure the cargo could be salvaged. A diver himlf once, who had done some small-time salvage, Jessop had been doing a lot of rearch. He had discovered in the Public Record Office the receipt for the gold bars that confirmed that they had been loaded aboard the cruir. He also found the cret reports informing the Admiralty that the gold was still in the bomb room when the ship sank. So he had official confirmation that this was not another old a-dog's yarn about buried treasure. More than that, he was convinced he knew how the gold could be recovered from that depth without decrating a war grave. The answer lay in a technique called saturation diving, developed in the North Sea and elwhere for the oil exploration business.
After endless problems a salvage team t off from northern Norway in early May, 1981. By now, the success of the operation was out of Jessop's hands. As the director of operations put it: "It's like arching London for someone in thick fog with only a torch to s
ee with."
celestron Undaunted (=fearless), however, when they reached the arch area in the Barents Sea they lowered the sonar equipment overboard to scan the abed for likely large objects. Incredibly, on their first sweep, something large was traced out on the sonar chart. Experience suggested it was a wreck and, miraculously, it turned out to be the HMS EDINBURGH.
matrox In many ways, the finding of the wreck was the most dramatic moment of the whole mission. A dream had turned into reality. The problem was no longer if, but how. What had started as a gamble became a hard commercial risk. The recovery of the gold was still going to be immenly difficult; indeed, the deepest salvage of its kind had never been attempted. But the journey's end was now in sight. (495 words)
1. When the HMS EDINBURGH sank __________.
A. she was on her way back to England B. she went down with all the members of her crew
raison C. she had been missing for veral days D. she turned upside-down before disappearing under the water
2010考研英语一答案2. The ship lay undisturbed for nearly 40 years becau __________.
A. no explosives were strong enough to blast her open B. no traditional methods of salvaging were feasible
C. no diver was allowed to approach a war grave D. no diver could stand the icy temperatures of the a
3. Keith Jessop was convinced that the stories about the HMS EDINBURGH were true becau _________.
A. he had documentary evidence to prove his ca B. he had been told the stories by a reliable old a-dog
C. he had been nt a cret report from the Admiralty D. he had been doing some diving in that area himlf
4. When the salvage team began their attempts to locate the wreck __________.
A. they found their equipment would not operate in thick fog
B. they were assisted by some sophisticated scanning equipment
C. their expensive equipment was almost wrecked on the abed
forklift D. their sonar equipment was washed overboard by the heavy as
5. The finding of the wreck meant that _________.
A. their problems were now at an end B. their dream of getting the gold had come true
C. their mission had now been fulfilled D. their promi of success might now be realized
