Jiaolong pilot recounts journey
By Wang Qian in Qingdao, Shandong | China Daily | Updated: 2012-07-20 08:02
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Oceanaut Fu Wentao, one of 11 people in the world who has dived to a depth of more than 7,000 meters under the sea, talks with visitors on Thursday on Xiangyanghong 09, the support ship of China's manned submersible, Jiaolong, in Qingdao, Shandong province. Li Ziheng / Xinhua |
While the film director and explorer James Cameron was undertaking a 10,898-meter dive into the western Pacific Ocean in March, Fu Wentao, a 30-year-old man from Yueyang, Hunan province, was busy preparing for China's 7,000-meter dive project.
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