(ECNS) -- China's self-developed deep-sea remotely operated vehicle (ROV) has successfully completed a voyage in the South China Sea, according to People's Daily.
Designed and built by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the deep-sea electric ROV "Haiqin" reached a depth of 4,140 meters during the sea trial early on Saturday morning.
Equipped with high-definition cameras, robotic arms, sonar systems and sensors, the ROV demonstrated capabilities including automatic heading control and precise hovering.
The ROV is customized for the research and training vessel, Zhong Shan Da Xue, named after its developer Sun Yat-sen University. It enables precise positioning, observation, and sample collection of deep-sea scientific targets. Meanwhile, it can conduct long-term near-seabed operations, including marine environmental surveys, biodiversity assessments, the discovery of new species, and genetic material acquisition.
The expedition, led by the Sun Yat-sen University, set sail on Aug. 13 from Zhuhai City, south China's Guangdong Province, and is scheduled for a 25-day mission in the South China Sea.
The journey also includes the deep-sea scientific applications of the fully autonomous ROV Haidou-1, which will conduct multi-disciplinary seafloor sampling tasks.
Haiqin and Haidou-1 will serve a variety of scientific objectives in the South China Sea, including unmanned aerial observation of oceanic weather patterns, marine geological process detection, deep-sea biological ecology studies, and 30-meter gravity coring sampling.
(By Zhang Dongfang)
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