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travel and to spend that we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the edges 0. team of chinese scientists are traveling to places no human has ever been. in banking on a daring deep sea mission in the hunt for rare resistance and new spaces. on this episode of one a one east we go on board with some of china's top engineers and scientists as they explore the depths of the indian ocean.

i think oh sorry sorry sorry the house which they might turn if say. oh my i want to find out how to start my. chinese doing laps of a chinese research ship in the middle of the indian ocean. the ocean and the ship engineering in college a lot of my classmates. have no chance so god bar the sheep. has a chance. she's a trainee submersible pilot and she's anxiously awaiting her 1st ever deep sea dive which no woman from china has ever done before. she's part of china's mission to be a world leader in these final frontier. there in a rice against countries like russia india and japan. if she gets

the chance to dive she'll go nearly 3 kilometers under the sea to search for new mineral resources and signs of life. maybe i can friend a song new alamosa new plans and it's a scene that is granted before by humans but i read it and it made me. and i. was. there have animal you know words and their music johnny and wow it's cool that. she's working alongside 95 crew members on this ship just 4 of them when. they're also carrying fixed long a 3 person submersible that can take researches deep under the sea than any other machine on. looking for the nation the forms of walking

a slow ward where we've my feet come the fall we feel we're being might be coming from that's cool part. of the 4 women on this mission one of them is a microbiologist dr who will study whatever life forms are brought to the surface plants and animals including tiny microbes known as. they come hand though mario are a high temperature and the are a price and they kind use it's more of basic count processor nutrient too so i and that's kind of where that leaving and that's carlo come on where the e.q. where you are is similar to what was happening you opinions years old when there was no. i live in the earth is 6 i see me you look for the live well me me me me is years old goal or to look for their lives us me when the company to different for the recess is a. while many scientists believe evolution began

deep oceans the creatures found may be the most basic and systems of the mind morning. and there is one type of habitat in the deep ocean where you expects to find an abundance of them. there is a big here will say that all kinds of life or might be from title what has all one it's a week where the lad was already making the news in years i'll go and i know they are the other girl i always had told it was size whoa off to. the yeah we shoot you make science very exciting which is such a these exciting this is what i want to size and i feel exhausted i feel alive i feel myself well i'm too sighs everyone's anxious to get the 1st dive underway you want samples of marine life down there.

easy and the other trainee pilots want to see how it's really done else it's very hard and it's and the hostage this mission professor tao wants to find hydrothermal vents and shot the size of their mineral deposits is a very exciting because this is the 1st patent for the indian ocean for the chinese and the the 1st time for the balance for us hydrothermal vents like springs of burning hot water heated by deep sea volcanoes the law of ones will guide us to our target extinct things like an extinct volcano mt chimneys have cooled off. leaving rich law is of mineral deposits for the taking getting too close to a live event could endanger the sob and its crew but the rewards of exploring any event are enormous. kobolds manganese compact and other precious metals is

a very very quickly it's better for us to to search for the hottest we'll feel good and the loss on the sea floor. on about to see them explore the dragon vent field an area known for underwater volcanic activity. it's near where the antarctic australasian and african tectonic plates me. even if it be down to a dragon feel. the fear when tao will pilot the 1st dive one of only 2 pilots qualified to drive the submersible jour own. he's the expert training young recruits like he. i hope will do we'll go out forever quickly quickly and yes i mean that time maybe maybe they can. just use my 40 dives we only have 2 professional pilot and. a

lot more than that to me and also you know more than into our country so i think there's a. responsibility to me even knows that one day soon it will be her turn in the driver's seat for style maybe it's a lost interest. so i laid off it right. finally the ship is in position. the submersible has been checked and food is ready to pilot the 1st dive. he'll be going really 3 kilometers under water. the crew have enough oxygen and to last him 10 alex. but lots can go wrong in that time.

it takes over an hour to reach the bottom of the our ship. the deeper the submersible goes the dock cat and colder. dropping to 2 degrees celsius. 4 hours pass with little signs of life. then the tains lead geologist professor tao spotted something. we see a lot so much so soon so i think that's the area we're looking for. water. only model the area is teeming with life which means they must be close to hydrothermal vents. though we are very lucky we found at the. edge of the big

freeze there that's the area where we have thought that's the very excited. at last they spot the veins or. do need to be careful as they move the sob closer to the boiling hot water. when you'll was with a walk when was very busy very busy. you needed to construct all your and it's. the submersible is built to withstand extreme elements but it has an achilles heel it's window is. the water spewing from a hydrothermal vent can reach 400 degrees celsius. if they get too close the plexiglass windows would melt and the sub would implode. but furnishings to get close to the bed to take a sample of the crust. but

there's a problem. then realized that are left to the been there was on the 1st black smoke. another the same time all or right window was was aware america goes to the vent on the ocean current has pushed the sob over the stream of a vent the window may not withstand the hate adjuster. us into. he manages to move away. but then not out of danger yet. to get the sobbed. back to the surface they need to drop to haiti wise. but only one white with a sense that it's nothing. special fos may

be left in the ocean. the submersible has 7 directional propellers 2 of these are off with rusty but they designed for steering around the ocean floor north for pushing the south up $3000.00 maces with white still attached i was right about it because of just. cannot fail. cannot anyone. to stop it barely moves. and by now they've been under for almost 10 al it's. all soon to run out of.

the sod stocks rise he says. finally breaks the surface. when this obvious safely back in it's quiet on the table realizes how lucky they ahd to be alive on the ball was 35 but not all of them but what goes through the window more than your head under the bed of the book the most dangerous. oh. so dangerous. event scorched the sob just sent to me to his from its window where it right close to the mountain so you always get down there when they hit it by the very very close 3 of them oh oh. oh no food noise how close he came

to disaster to die and his thoughts turned to his family back home in china. how he only one and a half years old. father yes i mean daddy. he's dedicated his life to this job that he loves but it's come at great personal cost. rule mr manning seems like my 1st song it's. just the best of my song even made me so professed to marcescens. d'souza to her if i have a choice to tough less in the fields or how to stay with my son to stay with my. parents food looks forward to the day he's trying to ease will step up and start piloting their own missions. just one ta status as well and then there are

a bit of those uncomfortable i lost the strong i tell myself again ok i must do it. it's my job. but before you get a chance to dive experienced a must try it again the. day yet to bring back any samples. so the damage is repaired and excitement builds for the next dive but. this time biologists. doctor is anxious as she waits for a doctor and say. this guy is making sound even. at 6 of them. though this is really the 1st time that this kind of women's

violet. light. you see the search all. alive there must be a story it must be worrying much different than what we see on that or we or the apple media at least and i loud the weirdos. are mad so i'm. the sampling micro-organisms from 100. will give insight into origin of life itself. but they need to get the samples safely to the sun. out of the crowd of our outfits and so i feel. pretty sure that's transferred the response be to these things. that. i was. so stressed i just saw.

the sob is in position. to you is the moment of truth. the way he are the way. it's been 3 hours it's. been the submersible starts transmission. the gathering samples from nearly 3 kilometers below what happened. it worked. her. finger. when they bring mr george ya think straight yes and here we

describe the sound was on the scientific away from. also smile it's a which kind of compound in my eye yet it really and it was some godly place. we put this in the my mouse baby with well 7 i do it at least. specially designed equipment has carefully preserved live organisms under the same extreme high pressure conditions as where they live in the deep. space of the ice. oh there's about a little girl and you know we can look at what good it will be is. very exciting. as it turns out minerals at this low spreading ridge are is rich as predicted making dragon field a prospect for mining. but what's even more valuable is the discovery that many

creatures here are different types of crabs snails and worms and more all of them than biologists ever expected and this is so good he this is only the no yes it is amazing. and the sad most on the buy it has will be these are people to do our a while before we use the interest the nothing michael uses sample for their own research so we're talking about deep sea finding new enzymes and compounds that might help with medicine and the other and the about x. after you take them for a long time you've got resistance for the back and about apes the only need to look for a new form of them were to go play me to the sea. in the middle of the ocean a 5 week mission can feel more like 5 months. especially

for young chinese like. who up until now have done all their training on land. was the longest to be out at sea. and our part of the ship before you are sometimes now but sometimes. the sails are revealed the areas crash. by this thing and the whole. now are forcing. whiting patiently each x. who will dive next. she's been told it's her turn tomorrow she'll have the chance to experience something few humans ever will. she be going to the bottom of the deep ocean

alongside a pilot and a scientist to put all her training into action. to put that into perspective there are more people going into space than there are going into the deep ocean. is about to become the 1st chinese female to do it. she invites me inside the saab for her final driver. ok. it's to. point. of the spear yeah. wow. and you spend 10 hours you.

go to. may be. just my of the me but maybe alito exciting and i comes to me very soon so take house in my new clothes and buried in the mirror and then. each one of them. and this look here are good for. the chinese flag in there. i like it. that they become the training part of it i bring that one day there but it's there and don't fall. sets for myself you must be strong strong and strong there's no time for me to think think think either of course of course afraid alito

alito yes to be honest. a little afraid. as dawn breaks the crew is pretty the same. after years of training this is the 1st time he will be involved in an actual deep same mission. today she won't be drawn back to tame the testing her ability to cope with extreme conditions from the. cold more than me. is sorry for us is so if we are fast.

walks on so we know it's a serious nor light but i can see that ending most bling bling bling bling bling me 1st won't. see in your eyes. his fiery exciting. cancer or any other word. you think yes i. do love. wired. i'm fond of big fish the fish is just so glad. i'll stay in this area. or. may find being alive. i'm tired of the small. of the window and the we

can see anything. everything goes to plan and he copes well with the pressure and impresses her around her shipmates away some back on board to celebrate the town i hope to have a pick filter and have been in. ottawa. yes. china is leading the global race to explore the dates they are mine but it faces growing competition from other countries. it's truly the last frontier. and china hopes their discovery will benefit the whole.

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