Building deep water stations in China’s South China Sea
China has approved the construction of a deep-sea research facility in the South China Sea to support marine exploration.
The station is claimed to be one of the deepest and most technologically advanced underwater installations in the world, with its target operating date around 2030.
Details of the station design were disclosed in an article published in the journal by Ying Jiang Ping, a researcher from the Institute of Oceanography of the South China Sea at the Academy of Sciences. Manufacturing and Upgrades Today.
“Construction is expected to begin soon,” his team wrote. He also said that it would be to work closely with unmanned sub-mansever, surface vessels and undersea observatory to establish a “four-dimensional” surveillance network.
To be built 2,000m below the surface of the area, said to be resource-rich and subject to multiple territorial claims, South China Morning Post The research station reported that it would study cold permeation ecosystems, which are methane-rich hydrothermal pores with their own life forms.
The facility is designed to accommodate up to six scientists for missions that last for up to one month.
It features an advanced life support system that allows for the establishment of a surveillance network to track methane flux, ecological changes, and structural movements.
The station is expected to become part of a larger infrastructure network, including the fibrous network on the seafloor and the Mengxiang, a drilling vessel with ambitions that first reached the Earth’s mantle.
The station’s power source remains undisclosed, but experts compare it to us who used nuclear reactors and stations from the Soviet era.
The South China Sea is estimated to carry 70 billion tonnes of methane hydrate. That’s about half of China’s proven oil and gas reserves.
The area has rare mineral deposits such as cobalt and nickel, three times higher than the concentrations found in onshore mines.
Additionally, more than 600 species adapted to extreme conditions have been identified in the region, some with enzymes deemed important for cancer treatment.
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