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ABOARD XIANGYANGHONG 09, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Chinese oceanauts refreshed the country's dive record in a
manned submersible by going deeper than 7,000 meters beneath the sea after a successful test dive in the Pacific
Ocean Sunday morning.
The Jiaolong, China's manned submersible named after a mythical sea dragon, succeeded in diving 7,015 meters below
sea level at around 11 a.m. local time during its fourth dive into the Mariana Trench.
The dive started at 7 a.m. local time Sunday in heavy rain.
The three oceanauts, namely Ye Cong, Liu Kaizhou and Yang Bo, sent greetings from the bottom of the blue sea to the
three astronauts who are expected to conduct a manual docking of the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft with the orbiting
Tiangong-1 lab module.
ABOARD XIANGYANGHONG 09, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Chinese oceanauts refreshed the country's dive record in a
manned submersible by going deeper than 7,000 meters beneath the sea after a successful test dive in the Pacific
Ocean Sunday morning.
The Jiaolong, China's manned submersible named after a mythical sea dragon, succeeded in diving 7,015 meters below
sea level at around 11 a.m. local time during its fourth dive into the Mariana Trench.
The dive started at 7 a.m. local time Sunday in heavy rain.
The three oceanauts, namely Ye Cong, Liu Kaizhou and Yang Bo, sent greetings from the bottom of the blue sea to the
three astronauts who are expected to conduct a manual docking of the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft with the orbiting
Tiangong-1 lab module.
