06-03-2009, 03:26 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Toronto
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Unmanned sub touches deepest part of world's ocean
This Sub can do it
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An unmanned robotic vehicle has successfully touched the deepest known part of the ocean floor, U.S. researchers revealed on Wednesday.
On May 31, the Nereus was launched off the research vessel Kilo Moana in the western Pacific Ocean, between Papua New Guinea and Japan.
The unmanned aquatic vessel descended 10,902 metres into a part of the Mariana Trench known as Challenger Deep. It is the first vessel to explore the remote area in more than a decade.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2...ench-dive.html
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