Exclusive | India's Indigenous Submersible Matsya-6000 To Undertake First Manned Sea Mission In July

India’s first manned deep-sea mission is scheduled to begin next month using the indigenously developed submersible vehicle, Matsya-6000. Developed by the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), a Union government institution based in Chennai's Pallikaranai, the submersible is designed to carry three scientists to depths of up to 6,000 metres beneath the ocean surface. Deep-sea research focuses on regions located more than 200 metres below the ocean surface, which is completely dark, has near-freezing temperatures...