China has approved the construction of a deep sea research facility in the South Chinese Sea to support Marine Exploration.
The station is claimed that it is one of the deepest and most technologically advanced underwater installations worldwide, with an operational target date of around 2030.
The design details of the station were announced by researcher Yin Jianping, from the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with his colleagues, published in an article in the magazine Production and upgrading today.
“The construction will start soon,” wrote Yin and his team, who also mentioned that the goal was that the station worked closely with unmanned immersion, surface ships and seabed observatories to set up a “four -dimensional” security network.
To be built 2,000 meters below the surface in an area that is reportedly rich in resources and subject to several territorial claims, the South -China Morning Post Reported that the Cold Sekzekels research station will study ecosystems, which are methane hydrothermic ventilation openings with unique life forms.
The facility will be designed for a maximum of six scientists for missions that last up to a month.
It will contain advanced living support systems to enable a monitoring network for following methane fluxes, ecological changes and tectonic movements.
The station is expected to be part of a larger infrastructure network, including a seabed Fibreoptic network and the drill ship Mengxiang, which has ambitions to be the first to reach the mantle of the earth.
The power source for the station will not be announced, but experts have compared it to us and Soviet era stations that used nuclear reactors.
The South Chinese Sea will contain an estimated 70 billion tonnes of methane hydrates, which is about half of the proven oil and gas reserves from China.
The region also has rare mineral deposits such as cobalt and nickel, with concentrations that are three times higher than those in land -based mines.
In addition, more than 600 species adapted to extreme conditions have been identified in the area, some with enzymes that are considered crucial for cancer treatments.
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