Title :
MIR submersibles historic dive under the ice dome at the geographical North Pole: It has never happened before that small open window was overhead submersible crew instead of the immense ocean surface
Author :
Sagalevitch, A.M.
Author_Institution :
Deep Manned Submersibles Lab., P.P. Shirshov Inst. of Oceanol., Moscow, Russia
Abstract :
As of September, 2007, thousands have been to the summit of Mt. Everest, 437 astronauts have been to space, 13 men have stepped on the Moon, and only 2 people reached the deepest part of the ocean on Earth at 11,000 meters (35,800´) in the Challenger Deep of the Marianas Trench.
Keywords :
marine engineering; seawater; underwater vehicles; Challenger Deep; MIR submersibles historic dive; Marianas Trench; geographical North Pole; ice dome; immense ocean surface; Ice; Monitoring; North Pole; Transponders; Underwater vehicles; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Underwater Technology Symposium (UT), 2013 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5948-1
DOI :
10.1109/UT.2013.6519812
