Moscow – The Russian bathyscaphe Vitiaz reached the deepest point on the planet, known as the Mariana Trench, where he placed a pennant on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, the Advanced Research Foundation reported to local media.
The Vitiaz set the world record for an autonomous and unmanned underwater apparatus on May 8 by landing at 10,028 meters depth on the first attempt.
The dive lasted for three hours, during which time the device recorded images of the seabed and also carried out a cartographic analysis of this area of the Pacific Ocean, according to the source.
Communication between the bathyscaphe and the surface was carried out in real time and through hydroacoustic channels.
The Advanced Research Foundation noted that, unlike other underwater devices that reached the bottom of the seas – the Japanese Kaiko and the American Nereus – the Vitiaz works completely autonomously.
“Thanks to the use of artificial intelligence elements in the device’s command system, it can autonomously avoid obstacles on its way, find an exit route in tight spaces …”, he explained.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov stressed that the dive of the Vitiaz is a “great achievement” for both science and the national defense industry.
Vitiaz takes its name from the Soviet scientific research vessel that determined in 1957 the deepest place in the Mariana Trench: 11,022 meters.
A year ago the American Victor Vescovo set a world record by arriving with his submersible at a depth of 10,935 meters on the cliffs of the Marianas, 20 meters more than the march that the filmmaker James Cameron has held since 2012.
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