Sentences with phrase «manned submersible»

Completed in 1990, SHINKAI 6500 is a manned submersible that can dive to depths of 6,500 meters.

By using the manned submersible Curasub for exploration of the deep reefs around Curacao and documenting their discoveries in major scientific journals, marine biologists from all over the world have helped this Caribbean island in rapidly earning a reputation as a destination where exploring the twilight zone of the ocean is producing dynamic results.

Other notable maritime experience includes deep water manned submersible work where he served as the scientific observer collecting data on fishes observed in depths of 120 to 1,000 feet.

The manned submersible Curasub reaches depths up to 300 m in search of tropical marine fishes and invertebrates.

Meanwhile, in a separate project, Smithsonian scientists were using a manned submersible to explore the deep - reef fish species off of Curacao in the southern Caribbean.

Researchers are now able to study deep reefs in the southern Caribbean because of the availability of the Curasub submersible, a privately owned, manned submersible capable of descending to 1,000 feet.

Alvin replacement Function: A manned submersible with five windows — two more than the current workhorse, called Alvin — this craft dives 6,500 feet deeper, putting 99 percent of the ocean within its range.

Based on the unique fish fauna observed from a manned submersible on a southern Caribbean reef system in Curaçao, Smithsonian explorers defined a new ocean - life zone, the rariphotic, between 130 and 309 meters (about 400 to 1,000 feet) below the surface.

For DROP expeditions theSubstation Curaçao's manned submersible Curasub was used to catch specimens.

Other manned submersibles can not dive deeper than about seven kilometers, says Lutz, who has made more than 85 underwater voyages on board the mini sub Alvin and was part of the first deep - sea exploration of hydrothermal vents in 1979, when he was a postdoc at Yale University.

The Russians will use the world's largest research ship, the Akademik Keldysh, which carries two manned submersibles.

Not exact matches

The man who piloted the first submersible to reach the deepest point in the ocean — in 1960 — recounts the excitement and tension he experienced diving to 35,846 feet

That's because his center runs two of the three manned research submersibles based in the United States, as well as a new remotely operated vehicle.

Innerspace takes its premise from Fantastic Voyage, where a cocksure Navy test pilot, Tuck Pendleton (Quaid, Dreamscape), is set to become the first man to be shrunk down to microscopic form to traverse in a submersible through the body of a rabbit.