According to the Hong Kong "South China Morning Post" website on October 5, China has completed the first manned deep diving in the Arctic ice zone, and achieved the world's first manned/unmanned diving underground synergy operation.
According to the report, these deep diving missions are part of China's 15th and largest Arctic Ocean scientific expedition, which ended last month. According to reports, researchers have collected a large number of deep-sea samples and multi-field data, in which artificial intelligence technology has played an auxiliary role.
During the scientific examination, several Chinese scientific examination ships traveled to Alaska for operations in the North Sea, raising U.S. attention.
The vessels involved in the survey included China’s first self-built polar science ice breaker, the Sherlock II, the polar ice breaker, the Exploring III, and the Deep Sea One, a submarine carrying the Dragon. It is that the ship’s fleet sailed the longest to 77.5 degrees north latitude. This is China’s largest scientific research activity to date in the Northern Ice Ocean.
With the help of the equipment, China has achieved the first man-made deep sea diving in the Arctic ice zone, the submarine's chief driver, Fu Veng Xiaoping, said in an interview: "The submarine, as a man-made submarine, has always been a single operation underwater. This time we have expanded its operational capabilities." he said: "We have tried the joint operation of the submarine and the unmanned submarine, this will solve many aspects including communication, positioning and other problems, and then consider the next joint cooperation."
The joint diving operation was carried out in August, during which time the "Dragon" collected samples of underwater life and sediment, and the two dives also photographed each other's recording of the "Dragon" in this scientific examination, cumulatively completed more than ten dives, collecting a total of 183 biological samples, as well as sediment, rock and sea water samples.
Li Mengna, assistant researcher at the National Deep Sea Base Management Center, said in an interview that the quality of samples obtained during this submersible voyage is better than those collected by traditional methods such as trawling. Li Mengna pointed out that these new samples are "conducive to subsequent morphological identification and scientific research." (Reference message)