Research Vehicle Reaches the Bottom of the Ocean

Research Vehicle Reaches the Bottom of the Ocean 165

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @10:44PM from the ah-ooo-gah dept.

timothy found BBC coverage of the voyage of the Nereus, which on May 31 dove to the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench. Only two vehicles have accomplished this feat before, the last 11 years ago. "The unmanned vehicle is remotely operated by pilots aboard a surface ship via a lightweight tether. Its thin, fibre-optic tether to the research vessel Kilo Moana allows the submersible to make deep dives and be highly manoeuvrable. Nereus can also be switched into a free-swimming, autonomous vehicle. ... The Challenger Deep... is the deepest abyss on Earth at 11,000m-deep, more than 2km (1.2 miles) deeper than Mount Everest is high. At that depth, pressures reach 1,100 times those at the surface."

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Are you ready kids? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @10:47PM (#28191125)

Aye aye, Captain!

undersea progress (Score:2, Funny)

by codename.matrix ( 889422 ) writes: on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @10:47PM (#28191137)

Wow, that is great. Hope they find some interesting stuff down there. Maybe some animals we didn't even know existed. Next up: Building the Seaquest

Re:undersea progress (Score:4, Funny)

by Yvan256 ( 722131 ) writes: on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @10:48PM (#28191149) Homepage Journal

You're asking a lot there, buddy. Don't you think they got enough pressure as it is?

All I want to know.. (Score:3, Funny)

by nanospook ( 521118 ) writes: on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @10:54PM (#28191205)

Do they have a good pizza/wing place down there?

Only Two Vehicles (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @10:54PM (#28191207)

Plus all the boats that sank.

Re:I wonder if my great^8 grandkids (Score:4, Funny)

by QuantumG ( 50515 ) * writes: <qg@biodome.org> on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @10:59PM (#28191255) Homepage Journal

Men had balls in the 60s.

Re:I wonder if my great^8 grandkids (Score:3, Funny)

by The_mad_linguist ( 1019680 ) writes: on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @11:01PM (#28191271)

Oh yeah? Well, I'm going to be the first man to set foot on the surface of the sun!

Re:All I want to know.. (Score:5, Funny)

by Scutter ( 18425 ) writes: on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @11:05PM (#28191289) Journal

Do they have a good pizza/wing place down there?
No, but there's a Starbuck's.

Re:I wonder if my great^8 grandkids (Score:5, Funny)

by __aaclcg7560 ( 824291 ) writes: on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @11:11PM (#28191345)

Men had steel balls in the 60s.

Fixed that for you.

Re:Nice, but what does it do? (Score:3, Funny)

by tsa ( 15680 ) writes: on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @11:16PM (#28191387) Homepage

I would love to see Google Street View of the ocean floor. Who knows what we'll find down there... And it's easy for Google too; no complaints about privacy breach.

Re:undersea progress (Score:4, Funny)

by RuBLed ( 995686 ) writes: on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @11:19PM (#28191423)

Couple that with the fact that we're already scraping the bottom of the barrel here.

Re:undersea progress (Score:3, Funny)

by Kagura ( 843695 ) writes: on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @11:38PM (#28191525)

I've walked [danheller.com] on the bottom of the ocean before. The picture's not me, just an example. ;)

Re:What They Aren't Telling Us... (Score:5, Funny)

by artor3 ( 1344997 ) writes: on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @12:00AM (#28191645)

That'll make for one traumatic moment when the lead mermaid tries to surface and bursts open from the tremendous drop in pressure. I don't think my kids would want to see that one.

Re:Nice, but what does it do? (Score:4, Funny)

by MichaelSmith ( 789609 ) writes: on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @12:01AM (#28191653) Homepage Journal

I suspect it would be like the time there was a volcano in New Zealand and somebody there set up a web cam people elsewhere could monitor it. Somebody in a different hemisphere took a look and because the scene was black assumed the surrounding area had blown up. Of course they were looking at night and had forgotten the time difference.

Re:I wonder if my great^8 grandkids (Score:3, Funny)

by gringofrijolero ( 1489395 ) writes: on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @12:09AM (#28191713) Journal

After getting through the corona, that should feel downright refreshing.

Re:I wonder if my great^8 grandkids (Score:5, Funny)

by The_mad_linguist ( 1019680 ) writes: on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @12:12AM (#28191733)

That's why I'd do it at night.

Re:Are you ready kids? (Score:5, Funny)

by Your Pal Dave ( 33229 ) writes: on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @12:31AM (#28191855)

I can't hear you!

Re:Nice, but what does it do? (Score:5, Funny)

by clarkkent09 ( 1104833 ) * writes: on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @12:49AM (#28191965)

And it's easy for Google too; no complaints about privacy breach.

They are getting sued by SCO though, for violating their patent for sinking to the lowest depths possible.

Re:Nice, but what does it do? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @01:44AM (#28192205)

Sharks *are* fish, you insensitive biped!

Re:I wonder if my great^8 grandkids (Score:3, Funny)

by techno-vampire ( 666512 ) writes: on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @02:33AM (#28192485) Homepage

Are you sure that's the only time men got down there? I'd not be surprised if the Seaview [wikipedia.org] didn't manage it at least once. After all, that's exactly the type of thing she was built for.

Re:Cable? Why? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @03:27AM (#28192731)

Congratulations - you managed to be so wrong that you were modded Funny.

Already been done? (Score:4, Funny)

by Lost Penguin ( 636359 ) writes: on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @10:02AM (#28195167)

Didn't the Titanic already make this journey? /Oh, you meant "and returned". //My bad...

Re:Are you ready kids? (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @10:11AM (#28195283)

AYE AYE, CAPTAIN!

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Are you ready kids? (Score:5, Funny)

undersea progress (Score:2, Funny)

Re:undersea progress (Score:4, Funny)

All I want to know.. (Score:3, Funny)

Only Two Vehicles (Score:1, Funny)

Re:I wonder if my great^8 grandkids (Score:4, Funny)

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Re:All I want to know.. (Score:5, Funny)

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Re:Nice, but what does it do? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:undersea progress (Score:4, Funny)

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Re:What They Aren't Telling Us... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Nice, but what does it do? (Score:4, Funny)

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Re:Are you ready kids? (Score:5, Funny)

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Re:I wonder if my great^8 grandkids (Score:3, Funny)

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Already been done? (Score:4, Funny)

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