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Research expedition of deepwater vehicles Mir to start on Baikal
IRKUTSK, July 20 (Itar-Tass) -- A research expedition involving
Russian manned deepwater vehicles Mir will begin on the Baikal Lake on
Sunday. During the first stage of the expedition, which will last until the middle of September, the manned deepwater vehicles Mir-1 and Mir-2 will make about 60 dives. During the second stage in 2009 the deepwater vehicles Mir will make more than 100 dives.
The expedition should fulfill the tasks to submerge to the maximum
depth of the Baikal Lake and specify the lake depth, explore the orifices of underwater thermal springs and mud volcanoes, examine the bottom of the Barguzin Bay and the junction of the Academician range with the Holy Nose Peninsula, prospect the reserves of hydrocarbons in the Baikal Lake and examine their background level for water pollution evaluation and obtain the information about tectonic phenomena on the lake bottom for further forecasting of the natural processes and find the artifacts, Vice-President of the Association of Russian Polar Explorers Vladimir Strugatsky told Itar-Tass.
The first dive of the deepwater vehicle Mir is scheduled for July 23, Dr. Anatoly Sagalevich, head of the deepwater vehicle laboratory of the Shirshov Oceanology Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told Itar-Tass in Ulan-Ude. The deepwater vehicles will make the preliminary examination of the Baikal bottom. "The first dive will be about 500 meters deep in the vicinity of the Turka village and will be purely technical," Sagalevich said. "Then a dive to the deepest Baikal point of up to 1,7 thousand meters is planned. The expedition does not set any extraordinary tasks in the first days of work," he said.
The deepwater vehicles will be delivered in two stages to the Turka port, which is situated 160 kilometers north of Ulan-Ude on the
Ulan-Ude-Kurumkan highway. At first the Mir deepwater vehicles will be
brought by the Ulan-Ude-Irkutsk highway to the settlement of Klyuyevka
(150 kilometers southward on the Baikal bank), then the deepwater
submersibles will be delivered northward by barge on the lake to the Turka port. The technical transportation conditions for the Mir deepwater vehicles caused this itinerary.
The first dives of the deepwater vehicles with crews onboard are
scheduled for July 29, the organizer of the expedition, a State Duma
deputy and the chairman of the recently formed Foundation for the
Promotion of the Lake Baikal Preservation, Artur Chilingarov, told
Itar-Tass. "The crews were approved for the first dives of the Mir
deepwater vehicles in the Baikal Lake," he said. According to Chilingarov, the head of the deepwater vehicle laboratory of the Shirshov Oceanology Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Anatoly Sagalevich, the chief of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Promotion of the Lake Baikal Preservation, Mikhail Slipenchuk and an official will be the first to dive in the Mir for four hours on July 29. The second crew consists of the Mir pilot, Yevgeny Chernyayev, a deputy and a member in the expedition of the Academician Fyodorov research vessel to the North Pole and in the diving mission of the deepwater vehicle Mir-1, Vladimir Gruzdev, and the director of the Baikal Institute of Nature Management of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Arnold Tulokhonov.
According to Chilingarov, "For the first time the deepwater vehicles Mir will dive not from a specially equipped vessel, but from a barge converted for the needs of the expedition." The diving mission is specific, as the deepwater vehicles "will operate in the fresh water" for the first time ever, the expedition organizer said.
Upon results of the expedition a scope of practical measures and
recommendations will be drafted to contribute to the preservation of the Baikal Lake, Chilingarov said.
Meanwhile, the Mir deepwater vehicles will dive to 1,600 meters to the Baikal bottom setting the world record of diving in fresh water lakes.
Prince Albert II of Monaco, the Japanese Association of Baikal
Programs, the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural
Knowledge and other authoritative international organisations, nature
conservation units and experts will participate in the expedition.
Russian manned deepwater vehicles Mir will begin on the Baikal Lake on
Sunday. During the first stage of the expedition, which will last until the middle of September, the manned deepwater vehicles Mir-1 and Mir-2 will make about 60 dives. During the second stage in 2009 the deepwater vehicles Mir will make more than 100 dives.
The expedition should fulfill the tasks to submerge to the maximum
depth of the Baikal Lake and specify the lake depth, explore the orifices of underwater thermal springs and mud volcanoes, examine the bottom of the Barguzin Bay and the junction of the Academician range with the Holy Nose Peninsula, prospect the reserves of hydrocarbons in the Baikal Lake and examine their background level for water pollution evaluation and obtain the information about tectonic phenomena on the lake bottom for further forecasting of the natural processes and find the artifacts, Vice-President of the Association of Russian Polar Explorers Vladimir Strugatsky told Itar-Tass.
The first dive of the deepwater vehicle Mir is scheduled for July 23, Dr. Anatoly Sagalevich, head of the deepwater vehicle laboratory of the Shirshov Oceanology Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told Itar-Tass in Ulan-Ude. The deepwater vehicles will make the preliminary examination of the Baikal bottom. "The first dive will be about 500 meters deep in the vicinity of the Turka village and will be purely technical," Sagalevich said. "Then a dive to the deepest Baikal point of up to 1,7 thousand meters is planned. The expedition does not set any extraordinary tasks in the first days of work," he said.
The deepwater vehicles will be delivered in two stages to the Turka port, which is situated 160 kilometers north of Ulan-Ude on the
Ulan-Ude-Kurumkan highway. At first the Mir deepwater vehicles will be
brought by the Ulan-Ude-Irkutsk highway to the settlement of Klyuyevka
(150 kilometers southward on the Baikal bank), then the deepwater
submersibles will be delivered northward by barge on the lake to the Turka port. The technical transportation conditions for the Mir deepwater vehicles caused this itinerary.
The first dives of the deepwater vehicles with crews onboard are
scheduled for July 29, the organizer of the expedition, a State Duma
deputy and the chairman of the recently formed Foundation for the
Promotion of the Lake Baikal Preservation, Artur Chilingarov, told
Itar-Tass. "The crews were approved for the first dives of the Mir
deepwater vehicles in the Baikal Lake," he said. According to Chilingarov, the head of the deepwater vehicle laboratory of the Shirshov Oceanology Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Anatoly Sagalevich, the chief of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Promotion of the Lake Baikal Preservation, Mikhail Slipenchuk and an official will be the first to dive in the Mir for four hours on July 29. The second crew consists of the Mir pilot, Yevgeny Chernyayev, a deputy and a member in the expedition of the Academician Fyodorov research vessel to the North Pole and in the diving mission of the deepwater vehicle Mir-1, Vladimir Gruzdev, and the director of the Baikal Institute of Nature Management of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Arnold Tulokhonov.
According to Chilingarov, "For the first time the deepwater vehicles Mir will dive not from a specially equipped vessel, but from a barge converted for the needs of the expedition." The diving mission is specific, as the deepwater vehicles "will operate in the fresh water" for the first time ever, the expedition organizer said.
Upon results of the expedition a scope of practical measures and
recommendations will be drafted to contribute to the preservation of the Baikal Lake, Chilingarov said.
Meanwhile, the Mir deepwater vehicles will dive to 1,600 meters to the Baikal bottom setting the world record of diving in fresh water lakes.
Prince Albert II of Monaco, the Japanese Association of Baikal
Programs, the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural
Knowledge and other authoritative international organisations, nature
conservation units and experts will participate in the expedition.
