Craft set sail for Pacific expedition would dive to take outside | Dragon carrying robots _ news

"Jiaolong" manned submersibles yesterday from Fuzhou, Fujian to sail to the Pacific Northwest to carry out scientific research tasks. Voyage introduction of field command, and the "Dragon", compared to prior year voyage, the voyage taking diversity, submersibles to carry new equipment, and read a lot.

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1 small cable controlled robot "Dragon Ball" debut

According to reports, this voyage, many of the "Dragon", supporting the new equipment and working tools will appearances. Including domestic ultra short baseline positioning system, small cable controlled robot "Dragon Ball", new seafloor sampling equipment.

"From ' Dragon ' aboard the small cable controlled robot ' Dragon Ball ' will debut, which consists of ' Dragon ' into the seabed, operated by Aquanaut, realize submersible underwater filming, special operating in narrow environments, such as on the sea floor. "Liu Feng said.

In addition, this voyage also carried a variety of sea floor sample drilling work. "Including the newly developed biological sampling equipment designed for underwater swimming ability, manipulators or conventional equipment difficult to obtain biological research, increased ability to obtain biological samples. "Liu Feng said.

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2 torch passed combination to the seafloor

Liu Feng said that this voyage will start the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic torch underwater transmission activities from Beijing Huiwen first elementary school teacher also will take part in the voyage, creates the conditions for marine science education in adolescents.

According to the voyage, Vice Director of the scene "jiaolong" Aquanaut, baton introduced because of the particularity of submersibles and undersea environments, the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games torch relay will take the form of combination, mainly passes through mobile applications.

"Jiaolong" launch, the Youth Olympic torch flame passed through mobile applications to the baton of phones. In the "flood Dragon" when carrying out diving operations, carry the fire's cell phones carried by Aquanaut into tanks and dive to the seabed. Aquanaut will also be displayed at the bottom of the torch, the Youth Olympic Games mascots and logos.

(Original title: "jiaolong" voyage will carry the torch, diving)

(Edit: SN123)
02:14 July 05, 2014 Beijing times