A joint China-New Zealand deep-sea expedition to explore ocean trenches 10 kilometers deep in the Pacific Ocean completed the first stage of its mission on November 27. The research vessel Tansuo-1, also known as Explorer-1, is currently moored in Auckland with the advanced Fendouzhe or Striver deep-sea manned submersible aboard. In the first stage, Fendouzhe completed 16 dives, 14 of which were to a depth of more than 6,000 meters in the first-ever large-scale manned survey at such depths in the Kermadec Trench. (CGTN)
The mother ship for a new deep-sea submersible was delivered to its owner, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), on Thursday in southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. The 94-meter "Tansuo-1" has a full-load displacement of 6,250 tonnes, said Yang Ning, head of the technical division of the CAS Institute for Deep-sea Science and Engineering.
China's deep-sea submersible mother ship, Tansuo-1, returned to Sanya in south China's Hainan province on Friday after completing its successful maiden voyage to the Mariana Trench. During the expedition, researchers with the Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted 84 research tasks and collected a large amount of samples and data at different depths.
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