Posted on 07/28/2008 6:47:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The two Russian submersibles which dived to the sea-bed beneath the North Pole last year are now attempting to reach the bottom of Lake Baikal in Siberia. Mir One and Mir Two will try to measure the maximum depth of the world's deepest lake.
A preliminary dive to test the equipment under water was postponed on Saturday because of bad weather.
Research work on the bottom of the lake is scheduled to begin on July 29. Scientists intend to go as deep as 1,700 metres to study the tectonics of Lake Baikal and to inspect archaeological artefacts. The operation, which will last till mid-September, will also provide data for geological, chemical and biological studies.
Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia is estimated to be 25 million years old. It contains around 23,000 cubic metres of fresh water - about 20 per cent of the world's fresh water and 90 per cent of Russia's. The majority of flora and fauna of the lake are unique to the area.
Scientists are still divided about how the lake originated.
(Excerpt) Read more at russiatoday.ru ...
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I hope they don’t go get Richard Basehart to drive the sub.
It contains around 23,000 cubic metres of fresh water - about 20 per cent of the world’s fresh water and 90 per cent of Russia’s.
Some how that figure is suspect to me.
Reminds me of Niagara Falls.
Niagara Falls?
Sloooooooly I turn, step by step......
I agree. 23,000 cubic meters isn't much water.
“Seaview’s job is never finished. As long as there are evil forces in the World, as long as there are secrets of nature to be probed, believe me, there’ll be work for us on missions just as vital and as dangerous as this one”. Admiral Nelson.
“NIAGARA FALLS!! Closer I come, inch by inch....!”
;^)
Anyway, I hope Lake Baikal doesn’t suffer the same fate as the doomed Aral Sea.
The article makes a basic error. The number is correct (”23,000”) but the unit of measurements ought to be cubic Km. Makes a difference.
The idiot reporter probably meant cubic kilometer. One apparently doesn’t have to understand math to be a reporter.
no, the Seaview was done when there were no longer radio tubes to blow out all over the control panel.
I remember that show when I was a kid. That’s probably dating me.
23 000 (cubic meters) = 6 075 957.2 US gallons; to put that in perspective it is about 9.4 Olympic size swimming pools.
90,000 Olympic size swimming pools...
/sarc
Remember back when he was running for president and you told him to “put a cork in it...” well, I guess he did.
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