After Yang Jing and Princess arrived, David Patel, the head of the private polar scientific research organization, and Andrei Mirakinov, the captain of the Blue Whale, immediately appeared at the port and met with Yang Jing, the big financial supporter.

In developed capitalist countries in the West, there are many private polar scientific research organizations like Ingram. The situation in these developed capitalist countries is different from that in China. Scientific research activities in China, Antarctic and Arctic are often the power of the state. But in these developed countries, most of the scientific research activities are private. These private scientific research organizations accept commissions from government departments, major universities and even other private organizations to make profits. Of course, while completing the commissions by others, they can also carry out their own scientific research tasks and sell some results to interested people or organizations.

In the last century, polar scientific research was still a very unpopular industry and the competition was not so fierce. However, as people pay more and more attention to the two polarities, the competition in this industry became more and more powerful. Especially after entering the new century, many private polar scientific research organizations emerged like mushrooms after a rain, which made the competition in this industry enter an extremely cruel state.

Just like Ingram, it is a private polar scientific research organization based in North America. Its main service targets are major North American universities and related government departments. Unfortunately, this private polar scientific research organization, which has a history of more than 20 years, has become increasingly competitive after more and more juniors bring a large amount of funds to appear in this industry.

To this end, Ingram's partners spent $140 million more than a decade ago to build the Graham Blue Whale, trying to rely on the most advanced polar scientific research ship at that time to get rid of the predicament.

When the Blue Whale was launched, it did cause a big sensation in the industry. Ingram also received a lot of orders with the advanced Blue Whale. Unfortunately, whether the polar scientific expedition can produce results does not rely solely on the advanced polar scientific expedition ship, but more depends on the ability of the scientific expedition personnel.

Obviously, Ingram is not stronger than other top polar scientific research organizations in this regard, on the contrary, they are still at a disadvantage in some aspects.

In this way, although Ingram added an extremely advanced Blue Whale, its actual business did not increase much, and the huge maintenance funds of the Blue Whale made Ingram more and more difficult. If the major shareholder behind Ingram was not considered a rich man and could still grit his teeth and persevere, perhaps this well-known polar scientific research organization would have completely disbanded.

Last winter, Ingram received a commission from the U.S. Department of Energy to conduct a detailed investigation of several mineral divisions in Antarctica. The Department of Energy only gave $3.58 million in budget funds, but the mission lasted for four months, almost spanning the entire warm season in Antarctica.

The task is not complicated, but the amount of money given for such a long time span is only a little bit. At most, Ingram can guarantee that he will not lose money. But even so, Ingram can only hold his nose and take the order.

There is no way, you don’t accept it, some people are lined up behind to take the order.

Fortunately, before the mission set out, Ingram received another commission to transport a batch of supplies to Mike Oudo Station, the American polar scientific research station located along the Ross Ice Shelf.

This additional mission made this trip to Antarctica somewhat profitable, but the sky was not as good as humans. Just when the Blue Whale had just transported supplies to Mike Oduo Station and was about to start a mineral resource survey, the Blue Whale unfortunately encountered a sudden cold wave.

The powerful cold current quickly expanded and thickened the sea ice of the Ross Ice Shelf, and it eventually trapped the Blue Whale in the Ross Ice Shelf and could not move forward or retreat. The most serious thing is that when the Blue Whale tried to forcibly break the ice and leave the Ross Sea, the starboard hull was damaged. Although the hull did not break, the plan to force the ice to break again was completely ruined.

Not only that, the Blue Whale, trapped in the Ross ice shelf, had to send a distress signal outside. An Antarctic scientific research ship from Germany finally took twelve days to rescue the Blue Whale.

Although it was rescued, the time of being trapped was counted, the Blue Whale was delayed in the Ross Sea for more than 20 days, and its hull was damaged and needed to return to port for repair. Now even the tasks assigned by the US Department of Energy were unable to be done.

There was no way, after the approval of the US Department of Energy, Ingram had to hand over the mission to another polar scientific research ship from the United States. Then the Blue Whale dragged the damaged hull back to Boston at a very slow speed.

This trip to Antarctica not only failed to complete the tasks entrusted by the U.S. Department of Energy, but also injured the hull of the Blue Whale. Of course, the Germans did not save you in vain. In order to rescue the Blue Whale from the Ross ice shelf, Ingram paid the Germans up to $1.45 million; as for not completing the commission from the Department of Energy, Ingram also needed to pay the Department of Energy up to $800,000 in liquidated damages...

It can be said that last year's trip to Antarctica was a disaster. To put it in an old Chinese saying, it means losing both the wife and the army!

Ingram, who was originally looking forward to earning a sum of money, paid a total of more than $4 million during that trip to Antarctica. Including the cost of repairing the ship later, Ingram lost nearly $5 million.

This is undoubtedly a worse injury to Ingram, who is already a little stretched.

What made Ingram more desperate was that the accident that the Blue Whale broke out in Antarctica and the failure to complete the entrusted tasks of the US Department of Energy, Ingram did not receive any entrusted tasks to the Arctic. Whether it was government departments or other institutions, they were still scared that the Blue Whale was unable to complete the entrusted tasks of the US Department of Energy. No one wanted to hand over their entrusted tasks to an organization that had not completed the scientific expedition task.

In this way, Ingram immediately faced an extremely serious situation - without commission, Ingram would be very likely to close the door!

But at this moment, Ingram's head David Patel learned that a Chinese from San Francisco was looking for a polar scientific research ship that could go to the Arctic waters to perform missions, and said that money was not a problem.

In this case, David Patel naturally contacted Lin Dan immediately. As the rumors were rumored, this young Chinese man from San Francisco didn't care about money at all. Even David Patel offered a price of $240,000 a week. After seeing the Blue Whale, the young Chinese man directly paid a deposit of $1.2 million for five weeks.

Although this money is not a lot, it is undoubtedly a timely life-saving money for Ingram, who is about to lose his money. In particular, this young Chinese man named Lin also personally guaranteed that once the ship goes to sea, it will definitely not be enough for only five weeks, and there are possibilities for eight or even twelve weeks, but how long it can be used depends on the specific situation of going to sea this time.

Although this matter was not a entrusted task, it was just a simple rental of the Blue Whale. After David Patel learned that Lin Dan's behind-the-scenes boss appeared, he immediately brought the newly appointed Blue Whale captain to meet Yang Jing.

"Hello Mr. Yang, I am David Patel, the person in charge of Ingram, and this is Andrei Mirakinov, the captain of the Blue Whale. When you go to sea, Andrei will be responsible for you throughout the journey." Although David Patel is a white man in his fifty years old, he still involuntarily lowered his posture when facing Yang Jing, the financial backer.

He couldn't stand it down. Although the two people in front of him were both Chinese, when David Patel saw the Patek Philippe World Time watch on Yang Jing's left hand, he immediately realized that the two young Chinese people in front of him were definitely wealthy rich people.

Millions of dollars watches are just worn on the wrist. To be honest, even David Patel claims to be a knowledgeable person, he has never seen such a luxurious guy. The watch on the wrist alone is enough to pay the rent for the Blue Whale for more than half a year.

"Hello, Mr. Patel, just call me Albert." Yang Jing still feels good about this polite middle-aged man. "Mr. Patel, this time, you rented your Blue Whale. The main purpose of taking my fiancée to the Arctic waters is to take my fiancée to the Arctic. My fiancée and I have just gotten engaged, and my fiancée yearns to go to the Arctic, so we will go to the Arctic together this time." There is no need to keep some confidentiality in some situations.

"Wow, Albert, congratulations on having such a beautiful fiancée." Patel gave his compliment at the right time, "Please rest assured to take our Blue Whale. Although the Blue Whale has been launched for ten years, this ship is still one of the world's top polar scientific research ships. The facilities on the ship ensure that you and your fiancée will become a pleasure in the next Arctic journey. At the same time, the Blue Whale also has an excellent captain. Although our Mr. Andre became the captain of the Blue Whale, Andre has extremely rich sailing experience. When the Blue Whale was launched, he served as the commander of the Blue Whale and later became the first mate of the Blue Whale. Until this year, Mr. Andre became the helmator of the Blue Whale. It is no exaggeration to say that no one is more familiar with the Blue Whale than Andre."

Andrey, who was standing by, saluted and said in English with a strong Russian accent: "Welcome to board the Blue Whale, Andrei Mirakinov will serve you wholeheartedly."
Chapter completed!