Craft this year will go to India not related to ocean science and the search for lost airliner | | MAS _ Dragon, news

CNS, Nanjing, June 25 (reporters and and Zhu Xiaoying)-25th at the pilot station of Jiangyin City under the guidance of a pilot, deep-sea manned submersible "jiaolong" aboard the mothership – Chinese ocean research ship the "Xiangyanghong 09" round, Jiangsu Jiangyin Sunan from container terminals slid into the River: it will travel to the Pacific Northwest to perform new tasks. "Dragon" designer of Hu Zhen 25th told Xinhua in an interview that this year "flood Dragon" will also travel to southwestern India ocean waters, such as scientific research, but nothing to do with salvaging lost Malaysian Airlines passenger plane.

This expedition is "Dragon" was the second voyage. Hu Zhen said that this task is divided into 3 phases, the first segment of the line with the first experimental voyage route is somewhat similar to last year, is visiting the Northwest Pacific Ocean cobalt-rich crusts in the exploration area to carry out investigation and evaluation of environment and resources, is expected to return in early August in Qingdao, a total of 40 days. In November, the "Dragon" was scheduled to visit South India ocean waters, such as implementation of the second and third segment missions, resources, biodiversity and the environment survey and assessment work and is expected to return to Qingdao in mid-March.

Earlier, Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that the lost MH370 MAS aircraft crash site in South India Ocean and anecdotal "jiaolong" expedition to salvage and are looking forward to. In this regard, Hu Zhen explained, while the second and third segments task execution site in Southwest India ocean waters, search, salvage and loss of the aircraft and is not linked to, this whole trial voyage also has no connection with Malaysia Airlines aircraft salvage, "now we still don't know MAS (MH370) is located. ”

He says, first leg of the second and third segment missions and take different routes, different research purpose, and terrain more complex, so equipped will be different.

Hu Zhen, the "Dragon" original design life of 30 years or 5,000 dives, in the maiden voyage of the "teenagers", can be used for a long time. But carrying "jiaolong" mother ships "Xiangyanghong 09" boat is a more than 30-year old ship, to make this voyage research tasks to be carried out smoothly, mother ship overhaul over time.

According to statistics, "Xiangyanghong 09" completed 16 dock project, 229 voyage repair project, 8 additional modifications, 8 ship inspection projects and 137 fire fighting rescue equipment inspection and 2 complete sets of installation and commissioning of the USBL, temperature and salinity instrument repair and 8000 winch meters deep geological winch system repair and maintenance.

"The craft" manned submersible was China's first self-designed, autonomic integrated development of deep-sea manned submersible designed depth of 7000 meters. "Dragon", 3000 meters, 5000, 7000 meter after successful sea trials, China has become one of the world to embrace cutting-edge technology of deep-sea diving. (End)

(Original title: expert: "dragons" to the India Ocean tasks unrelated to salvage lost airliner)

17:59 on June 25, 2014 China News Network