
China's
scientific survey ship "Da Yang Yi Hao" departs for its 220-day scientific ocean
expedition from Qingdao, a city in east
China's Shandong Province January 8, 2007. The ship will
finish a 30,000 sea mile-voyage,
covering sea areas of the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest Indian Ocean and
west Pacific
Ocean . The ship started its
maiden long distance ocean expedition on April 2, 2005. [Newsphoto]