{"id":138009,"date":"2012-06-12T10:54:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T17:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=138009"},"modified":"2012-06-12T10:54:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T17:54:52","slug":"chinas-jiaolong-to-dive-in-mariana-trench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/06\/chinas-jiaolong-to-dive-in-mariana-trench\/","title":{"rendered":"China’s Jiaolong to Dive in Mariana Trench"},"content":{"rendered":"

As China plans to launch a manned spacecraft<\/a>, they are also planning to send a manned submarine into the world\u2019s deepest trench<\/strong><\/a>. Jiaolong, the submarine, has already been used to explore various terrains<\/a>. Xinhua reports:<\/p>\n

The Xiangyanghong 09 ship carrying China’s manned deep-sea submersible Jiaolong arrived at the designated dive area of the Mariana Trench on Monday morning, where it will attempt the world’s first 7,000-meter dive.<\/p>\n

The first dive will challenge the depth of over 5,000 meters, but less than 6,200 meters. The fifth and sixth dives are scheduled to challenge the depth of 7,000 meters.<\/p>\n

Each dive may last for eight to 12 hours.<\/p>\n

“Before the formal sea dives, a comprehensive review of the submersible as well as its support system will be taken,” on-scene commander Liu Feng told Xinhua on the Xiangyanghong 09, the mother oceanographic ship of the submersible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to AFP, if this dive is successful, there are plans to use Jiaolong for scientific exploration<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

A Chinese expert told AFP that the Jiaolong could be used for scientific research, to collect samples of undersea life and study geological structures.<\/p>\n

“It’s not a simply constructed submersible,” said Jian Zhimin, director of the State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology at Shanghai’s Tongji University.<\/p>\n

“If it is successful in the 7,000-metre challenge, then it can be turned over to scientists for use,” he said.<\/p>\n

Since the Jiaolong’s maximum design depth is 7,000 metres a dive to that level will test the limits of China’s technology, he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jiaolong will attempt to break the previous records for deepest dive, which was previously set by the US<\/strong><\/a>. From the Huffington Post:<\/p>\n

Much of the deepest ocean is unreachable via state-owned submersibles; at this point, none has dived deeper than 21,300 feet (6,500 m). Only Japan’s Shinkai 6500 has reached such depths. The United States is refurbishing\u00a0Alvin, its deepest-diving craft, to be able to reach 21,300 feet within the next five years.<\/p>\n

The attempt to reach 23,000 feet follows on the heels of\u00a0James Cameron’s record-setting dive\u00a0to the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Mariana Trench. The filmmaker and explorer made his descent in a submersible of his own design in late March, reaching a depth of 35,756 feet (10,890 meters), or nearly 7 miles beneath the surface of the sea, in two hours and 36 minutes.<\/p>\n

It was the first solo dive to the Earth’s deepest spot, and came more than five decades after the only other time humans visited the Challenger Deep in 1960, when a U.S. Navy captain and a Swiss engineer spent 20 minutes in the murk at the very bottom of the sea aboard the Trieste submersible.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As China plans to launch a manned spacecraft, they are also planning to send a manned submarine into the world\u2019s deepest trench. Jiaolong, the submarine, has already been used to explore various terrains. 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