My Deep-sea Fishery

Moreover, there are not a few Weddell seals that drowned under the ice. At present, there are about 800,000 Weddell seals in the world. Their normal life span is about twenty years. However, because of their deadly behavior, all The average lifespan of a Weddell seal is less than ten years.

Most of the Weddell seals that died abnormally swam to the bottom of the ice floes by themselves, and then were suffocated to death alive.

"Leave it on the ship, and send it to the Antarctic Animal Rescue Station when we return," Xiang Yang ordered.

The teeth of this Weddell seal were almost completely ground and melted, and the gums were full of rot. If left alone, it would absolutely be impossible to recover from such a serious injury.

"Come on, give me the squid. You can eat some of this." Chen Qingsheng grabbed a handful of krill and brought them to the Weddell seal, and put the krill on the deck next to it.

Krill are so small that a Weddell seal can swallow them whole.

I saw that the Weddell seal raised its head first, squinted its eyes and looked at Chen Qingsheng for a while, then lowered its head, sniffed at the small pile of krill, and after making sure that there was no danger, it slowly moved eat up.

"Brother Yang, why do you think this Weddell seal always likes to drill under the ice?" Fang Youqun asked curiously.

Xiang Yang smiled, "Weddell seals like the cold very much, they spend most of their time on the ice, and they will bite out an ice cave on the ice for predation, because the ice cave is very hard to bite, so They will re-bite the ice cave every once in a while to prevent the entrance of the cave from freezing again, but you all know that the temperature in Antarctica is changeable, and there are blizzards, so the freezing time of this ice cave is not fixed. If one is not controlled well, it may be trapped under the ice."

After the Weddell seal ate a few krills slowly, it lay down on the deck and closed its eyes a little listlessly.

"Captain, this Weddell seal's gums are rotten. Basically, it can't survive the animal rescue station. If we want to save it, we can only do it now." Chen Qingsheng said seriously.

"Let's save?" Xiang Yang was stunned for a moment, "Does any of you know medical skills?"

All the crew members shook their heads.

Xiang Yang was not disappointed either, he had known this for a long time, there were indeed a few crew members on board who knew a little bit about medicine, but they were also treating people, and if they were treating Weddell seals, it would really embarrass them.

Xiang Yang squatted in front of the Weddell seal and used it to open its mouth, a stench immediately came to his nostrils.

Xiang Yang's heart sank. The injury of this Weddell seal was more serious than Xiang Yang imagined. Its teeth were almost invisible, and its gums were purple and black. Blisters, and rotten flesh that has completely suppurated.

"Captain, I think the first thing we need to do now is to clean up the festering rotten flesh and then disinfect it. As for the teeth, we can only wait until the animal rescue station to find a solution." Chen Qingsheng Xiao soundtrack.

Xiang Yang nodded, "Give it an anesthetic injection, and help it treat the wound first."

Chen Qingsheng hesitated: "But the captain, who will treat its wound?"

Xiang Yang looked around, and all the crew members shook their heads.

If they are asked to do some physical work, they are all good hands, but if they are asked to treat wounds of animals, this kind of technical work will really embarrass them.

"Let me do it." Xiang Yang said.

When he was in school, Xiang Yang also learned some basic rescue knowledge, although he never used it, but the knowledge was in Xiang Yang's mind, and now he can only treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

In 1961, the Russian Rogozov was able to perform an operation on himself under the extremely rough conditions in Antarctica, proving to the world that human beings can defeat nature and the cold and ruthless Antarctica. Xiang Yang felt that he could also challenge it.

However, Rogozov is a highly skilled doctor. In 1961, he followed an Antarctic scientific expedition team to reach the South Pole.

After arriving at the South Pole, Rogozov himself fell ill. According to his own judgment, he was suffering from acute appendicitis.

If it were on land, acute appendicitis would be just a minor illness worth mentioning, but on the Antarctic Road, it could easily kill a person.

Not to mention that the sick person was the only doctor in the entire scientific expedition team.

As the saying goes, doctors do not heal themselves. At that time, the entire scientific expedition team was in despair. The team leader even brought a pen and paper and asked Rogozov to write down the survivors, explain his funeral, and then wait for death to come.

However, under the torture of severe pain, Rogozov chose to save himself. He had to endure the severe pain and perform surgery on himself without anesthesia.

Rogozov's teammates were shocked, but rather than watching Rogozov die, the expedition team chose to help Rogozov fight together.

The operating room is in a very simple Antarctic camp. The attending physician is the patient himself, and the assistants are an engineer and a meteorologist.

Rogozov was lying on the hospital bed. After disinfecting himself, he cut open his abdomen with a scalpel. A simple excision of acute appendicitis was extremely difficult.

In addition, the mirror set up by the assistant engineer on Rogozov's abdomen reflected the opposite scene, which made the operation more difficult. Rogozov could only keep groping for the organs in his abdominal cavity with his hands. Find your appendix.

Halfway through the operation, Rogozov became very weak due to excessive blood loss and severe physical exertion, and had to stop for a rest every four or five minutes. At that time, the blood almost stained the whole bed Quilt.

However, it was in this situation that Rogozov completely removed his appendix and then sewed himself up with needles and thread.

After the operation, Rogozov recovered rapidly. In just two weeks, he was able to walk on the ground again and start his normal work.

Compared with Rogozov's shrewd medical skills, Xiang Yang's medical theory is undoubtedly still at the level of theoretical feasibility.

But compared to Rogozov's operation at that time, Xiang Yang's operation was much less difficult.

At least Xiang Yang's operation is theoretically feasible.

At that time, Rogozov's operation was theoretically unworkable, and that operation was a miracle in the history of world medicine.

Even Rogozov himself recalled afterwards that if he was asked to do it again, he might not be able to succeed.

After returning to Russia, this incident caused a huge sensation at that time, and Russia even awarded him a medal.