China's Submersible Breaks 7,000m Mark

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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.
 
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