On May 2, 1993, there was an extremely tragic accident in the east coast of China, when the Chinese research vessel Xiangyanghong encountered a violent impact from a foreign ship during the normal course of operation, and a large hole appeared on our ship, which directly began to tilt and slowly sank to the bottom of the sea. The scientists and crew members on the ship were holding a small number of life jackets, hoping to help sink their own ship, but the other side was very arrogant, almost causing casualties, but in the end they saw that the Chinese side sent a military ship to rush here, and reluctantly agreed to rescue our scientists and crew, so what is going on?
As early as the 1990s or so, China's development in various fields was relatively backward, so it was very easy to be looked down upon or even deliberately discriminated against by some countries, such as the marine dispute that occurred that year, the Xiangyanghong research ship was sunk by a Cypriot ship, which was a very humiliating and unjust thing.
Scientific research vessels are very important for each country, and this sunk Xiangyanghong 16 is a huge displacement built by China in 1981 with a huge mileage, and the maximum speed can reach 19 knots, with a very high wind and seismic resistance of the research vessel, the configuration of this ship and various performance data has reached the world's top level, belongs to the best of the scientific research vessels, so not every crew and scientists at that time had the opportunity to board this scientific research vessel.
This research vessel has a lot of accurate instruments and experimental equipment, can be used by scientists to observe and analyze the scientific research site, and each reference data is particularly accurate, the actual situation is more outstanding than described, since the xiangyanghong 16 Chinese scholars in various fields have taken it to complete the international huge expedition task, such as the sea around the Antarctic and the South Pacific ocean and the Arctic Ocean and other places of the expedition work. It can be said that without this research vessel, there would be no later outstanding achievements in other fields of our country.
Xiangyanghong No. 16 has impressed many Western developed countries with China, so Xiangyanghong No. 16 has also been rated as a backbone-level research vessel for many years, and the supporting measures it has become more excellent because of its excellent functions and achievements. Every time the crew embarked on the ship were some of the better and more powerful people, but in order to take care of several people in the Ningbo branch at that time, the family conditions were not good, so they gave them the opportunity, because there were US dollar subsidies for going to sea.
Scientists and crew members packed their bags and embarked on this expedition, just after leaving Shanghai, scientists began to sleep for the sake of recuperation, but the crew never dared to slacken off, in order to leave the Bohai Sea, they directly drove to the fastest speed. Soon everyone arrived in South Korea, at this time there is a lot of fog on Jeju Island in South Korea, the speed of the ship is also slower and slower, at the same time, Jeju Island at night there will be a lot of Korean fishermen fishing in the surrounding area, so the radar of China's research vessels sounded, which made many crew members feel very surprised, thinking that there was an invasion of enemy ships.
But after the scientists stated why, the crew calmed down and even turned off the radar. This action made the later research vessels fall into an extremely passive situation. Because a crew member saw a large black shadow appear on the right side of the Xiangyanghong 16 ship during the shift change, and this black shadow was actually a merchant ship from Cyprus that had just been seen not long ago.
China's research ship and Cyprus's silver horn looked like they were about to collide together, but they did not expect that both sides were too nervous and opened their rudders, hoping to immediately stagger each other's ships, but the pilots of both sides were too nervous and thought the same, so within 5 seconds after making the same decision, the huge silver horn ship directly inserted its own bow into the cabin of Xiangyanghong 16, and rubbed out a large hole of more than 5 meters for this research ship, and pulled out, and this extremely precious research ship, It slowly tilted and sank to the bottom of the sea.
Although the crew of Xiangyanghong 16 immediately took out their life jackets and sounded the alarm, they abandoned the ship and escaped because they could not be rescued in the vast sea and needed to turn to Cyprus for help, but the other side did not apologize for their mistakes, but they were also very arrogant, in fact, they looked down on the new China that was developing at that time. In the process of continuous negotiation and negotiation between our scientists, they finally agreed to rescue our personnel from the shore first.
After being rescued, they did not send our personnel to a safe place first according to international practice, but instead went to other places to complete the delivery task first. Because our personnel were already injured and needed to return to Shanghai to rescue as soon as possible, we had to contact China, and China also sent warships to meet them to avoid the casualties of scientific researchers and crews. What followed was a protracted lawsuit, but in the end China did not receive any compensation from Cyprus, which is a great tragedy and shame.