"One Ocean" expedition set off
"Dragon" submersible
The deep sea, "treasure hunters"
Investigation of the main ocean ship "Ocean No." 8 sail from Guangzhou, went to the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans 22 the implementation of our voyage task. The task of a total of nine sectors, planning time 376 days, a range of about 4.5 million miles, setting a scientific exploration of the ocean up to participate in aviation units, most staff participation and the voyage time of flight up to 3 major records.
"Ocean One," Introduction Tao Chunhui, chief scientist, China Ocean voyage arrangement 22 reflects the multi-tasking, multi-objective, multi-disciplinary characteristics, mainly to carry out deep-sea resources in the three oceans, biodiversity and environmental investigation of the geological survey area, environment and biological diversity, in-depth evaluation. Main tasks include submarine sulphide exploration, research and marine biodiversity of the seabed environmental survey.
"Three King Kong" to preserve the expedition
The expedition of the "Ocean One" to ocean expedition equipped with the latest development of China's "Three King Kong."
"Dragon" is the job of a large unmanned deep-sea remotely operated vehicle system is to carry out seabed observation and sampling operations such as refinement of key equipment. In the last year to 21 ocean voyage, the "Dragon" was successfully conducted a trial, observed in the East Pacific Rise to the rare giant sulfide "chimneys" and accurately captured by the robot to the polymetallic sulfide samples. After the researchers adjusted well, today's "Dragon" features a more complete and more secure.
With full intellectual property rights of the State "863" key project areas of marine technology - in the deep core samples of deep sea drilling in the sea trial just concluded, in the 1740 meters Dongsha area of success for the end of deep core samples, and record record of 15.7 meters deep. This means "Ocean One" in the area of the ocean floor mineral deposits, the reserves will get more accurate information.
The new hydrothermal sulfide SP integrated detection system, you can detect the submarine rocks containing magnetic metal components produced to allow the "Ocean One" bottomless sea of a more comprehensive probe.
