China attempting to beat deepest manned submersible dive record (7.000 metres)

Tuesday, June 5th 2012 - 02:54 UTC

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An oceanographic ship carrying China's manned deep-sea submersible, Jiaolong, left the eastern port city of Jiangyin on June 3 for the Mariana Trench to attempt the world's deepest manned submersible dive. Read full article

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Littlechay
This must be another of this modern trend of records in 'special' categories. Surely the record for the deepest submersible dive is around 11,000 metres. 7000 is a record for that particular vehicle but it's not a 'record'!

The record holders (I'm not sure which was the deepest dive) would be Trieste in 1960 and Deepsea Challenger just recently in March 2012.
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