Underwater operations with the “MIR” submersibles in 1990-1994

During the last four years the “MIR-1” and “MIR-2” deep manned submersibles of P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences were used for scientific research as well as for different types of special underwater technical operations. All the expeditions with the “MIR” submersibles were conducted at the international level. In different expeditions of r/v “Akademik Mstislav Keldysh”-support vessel of the “MIR”s-large groups of the scientists from the United States, Canada, Germany, England and other countries participated. A large volume of scientific results was obtained. During the dives different movies were obtained and unique underwater operations were performed