Seabed Exploration Submarine

1. ALVIN (UNITED STATES)

Length: 7 meters 

Crew: 3 people  

Maximum depth: 4,500 meters 

Launch: 1964

1966: Alvin used to locate the 1.45 megaton hydrogen bomb lost in the collision USAF aircraft over the Mediterranean Sea.  

1979: Alvin providing views black smokers, first-time visits by researcher. Black smoke was coming from hydrothermal vents on the seafloor that contain high levels of sulfur minerals in the East Pacific Rise.

2015: The latest version of Alvin launched and designed for maximum depth of 6,500 meters.

2. NAUTILE (FRANCE)

Length: 7 meters 

Crew: 3 people

Maximum depth: 6,000 meters  

Launch: 1984 

June 2009: Nautile used to find the black box flight 447 Air France plane that crashed in the sea.

 

3. MIR (RUSSIA)

Length: 7.8 meters

Crew: 3 people 

Maximum depth: 6,000 meters  

Launch: 1987  

1990: Mir record images for Titanic's film director James Cameron.  

2007: Russia's Mir put flags on the Arctic seabed.

4. SHINKAI 6500 (JAPAN) 

Length: 9.5 meters 

Crew: 3 people

Maximum depth: 6,500 meters 

Launch: 1989 

1989: Shinkai, Japanese submarines that dive up to 6,527 meters.

 

5. JIAOLONG (CHINA) 

Length: 8 meters 

Crew: 3 people

Maximum depth: 7,000 meters 

Launch: 2009  

2010: Jiaolong install the Chinese flag at the bottom of the South China Sea. July 26, 2011: Jiaolong dive to a depth of 5,057 meters.

6. TRIESTE (UNITED STATES) 

Length: 18 meters 

Crew: 2 people

Maximum depth: 10,911 meters

Launch: 1953 World's deepest ocean point contained in the Mariana Trench (10,911 meters).  

1960: Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh dived as deep as 10,911 meters to the bottom of Challenger Deep in bathyscape Trieste. This record has not been solved.*** [KORAN TEMPO 3609]