Don't panic, America; this is just civilian technology.

At the headquarters of Anle Toys, an internal meeting of senior executives was being held.

When Zhang Chi proposed the idea of ​​developing underwater vehicles and talked about their huge potential market prospects.

The company executives present immediately started discussing it amongst themselves, feeling that this thing had great potential.

They immediately praised and supported the suggestion, finding it brilliant.

If Anle Toys enters this market, it will certainly make huge profits.

However, the technical director, Zhang Guan, kept his eyebrows furrowed, looking as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

"Zhang Guan, what are your thoughts?"

Seeing this, Zhang Chi told Zhang Guan to express his opinion and not to keep it to himself.

"Boss, our FPV head-mounted display and FPV camera module do have many applications in underwater vehicles."

However, electromagnetic waves are actually most vulnerable to water; once submerged underwater, the signal will attenuate rapidly.

Electromagnetic waves attenuate most severely, especially in the ocean.

Taking a 2.4G WiFi signal as an example, the effective transmission distance of a WiFi signal submerged in seawater is no more than 1 meter!

Therefore, our wireless communication technology, specifically developed for FPV camera modules and head-mounted displays, was essentially rendered useless underwater.

Upon hearing this, the company executives on site stood frozen in place, finally understanding why they had never heard of underwater vehicles.

The real reason is not that no one has realized the huge potential of this market and entered it.

The real reason is that radio signals suffer severe attenuation underwater, which inherently limits the development of this product.

"I've also considered the signal attenuation problem, and we can actually solve it using underwater acoustic communication technology."

"Underwater acoustic communication technology?"

Technical Director Zhang Guan fell into deep thought.

"That's right, light is a wave, electromagnetic waves are also a wave, and sound waves are even more so."

Electromagnetic waves do indeed experience significant signal attenuation in water, especially in seawater with high salinity.

However, sound waves are different. The attenuation of sound waves in water is much less than that of electromagnetic waves, making them the transmission medium with the lowest energy attenuation in water.

Take the famous blue whale, for example; its song in shallow waters can be transmitted over distances of 200 to 500 kilometers.

In areas with less noise interference in the deep sea, the sound of singing can travel thousands of kilometers, with the farthest reaching more than 2000 kilometers.

Even the manatee, the creature with the weakest underwater acoustic communication capability, can only achieve underwater acoustic communication over a distance of 1 kilometer.

We could actually develop our own underwater vehicle based on underwater acoustic communication technology.

Upon hearing this, the company executives present were taken aback.

I never imagined that sound waves could travel such a long distance in water.

Even the blue whale, the most distant of creatures, can maintain a communication range of over 200 kilometers in shallow waters.

In the deep sea, communication distances can reach up to 2000 kilometers.

In terms of communication range, this underwater acoustic communication technology is sufficient for Anle Toys' underwater submersible.

After all, the underwater vehicle they are developing is not intended to achieve a control and display distance of hundreds of kilometers.

If the control display distance is more than one kilometer, then it is sufficient for use.

If a communication range of more than ten kilometers can be achieved, that would be an even greater surprise.

What's even more amazing is that it can communicate even in the deep sea environment, which means it can go into the seabed to explore for treasure!

Over the years, a large amount of gold, silver jewelry and antiques have been deposited at the bottom of lakes, rivers and even the seabed.

If you could find one and sell it on the black market or overseas, that would be an astonishing fortune.

Thinking of this, Marketing Director Su Ming immediately suggested:

"Boss, I suggest that we develop two versions of this underwater vehicle, with the lower-spec version only capable of diving underwater for observation."

The higher-end version adds one or two robotic arms, which then allows items to be retrieved from underwater.

After all, throughout human history spanning thousands of years, countless gold, silver, jewels, and antiques have been hidden underwater.

If two robotic arms could be added, it would allow users to explore for treasure underwater using underwater submersibles.

Then I guarantee that its sales will definitely increase by more than half!

After all, this is a lucrative opportunity to make money; who wouldn't want to become rich overnight?

"Whoosh!"

Upon hearing this idea, the company executives present immediately began discussing it among themselves.

Adding two robotic arms, enabling the system to shift from passively observing to actively retrieving objects from underwater, is indeed a huge improvement.

If it can be successfully developed, it certainly has great commercial potential.

After all, who doesn't dream of getting rich overnight?

Didn't you see that in 2017, the total sales of welfare lottery reached an astonishing 4266 billion yuan?

This shows just how much Chinese people crave getting rich overnight.

Among these, the probability of winning a big prize in the welfare lottery is extremely low.

Many people actually know that they probably have no hope of winning the lottery in their lifetime.

However, underwater treasure hunting is different. Over the past few thousand years, humans have left behind a large number of treasures at the bottom of lakes, rivers, and seas.

Even if it's not gold or silver jewelry, just a piece of wood, a piece of ceramic, or a piece of porcelain is still an antique.

Antiques in prosperous times, gold in chaotic times!

We are currently living in a prosperous era, and the prices of antiques are soaring.

Instead of pinning your hopes of getting rich overnight on winning the lottery, it's better to put those hopes on underwater treasure hunting.

In that case, the probability of success might be even higher.

However, at this moment, General Counsel Xu Zhengming shook his head slightly and said:

"This kind of underwater treasure hunting is actually illegal. The state issued the 'Regulations on the Protection and Management of Underwater Cultural Relics' as early as 20 years ago."

It is forbidden for any individual or organization to salvage underwater cultural relics without approval; otherwise, they will be sentenced to imprisonment, with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.

I doubt those consumers would dare risk imprisonment to salvage underwater artifacts; the risks are simply too great.

However, Zhang Chi's next words left Xu Zhengming speechless.

"It's illegal domestically, but what about abroad? What about international waters?"

Besides, underwater treasure hunting is inherently secretive; if you don't make a fuss, who will know?

Upon hearing Zhang Chi's words, Xu Zhengming was immediately speechless and unable to refute them.

Because the law is the law and reality is reality, many laws are merely on paper and are not strictly enforced.

For example, along the coast, there has long been an unspoken rule of "underwater treasure hunting," which everyone tacitly acknowledges.

With current regulatory capabilities, if you don't make a big fuss...

Who can tell whether this gold, silver, jewelry, or antique is a family heirloom or something you salvaged from the seabed?

Furthermore, there exists a phenomenon called the black market in this world, and there is a reason why it has been able to exist for so long.

Therefore, the law is the law, and reality is reality.

If the law were truly omnipotent and universally obeyed, then there wouldn't be so many frustrating or infuriating things in this world.