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Chinese Submersible Planning For Record Dive
An anonymous reader writes "You may have heard that China sent a manned research sub down to the ocean deep this summer, marking a personal depth record of 5,000 meters (next year it will aim for a world record of 7,000 meters). Here's a story about the sub based on an interview with its designer in Wuxi, China. It's got some interesting new details: the designer had never actually seen a submersible before he set out to build the deepest diving research sub in the world; all the stuff he's built before has ended up in warehouses because the Chinese government only funded technological development, not use."
Well, the wikipedia for the Shinkai 6500 (whose record these guys are specifically trying to beat) explains: "The only manned expedition to have gone deeper was the dive of the Trieste bathyscaphe in 1960. However, the vessel could not navigate along the bottom of the sea bed." So that's the difference.
To be fair, it's a personal depth record of that particular submersible.
The Titanic set a depth record for that particular ship as well.
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