Today (18th), the world's most advanced and China's first self-developed ultra-deepwater ocean drilling ship was officially named "Dream", and will start its first trial voyage in Nansha, Guangzhou in the near future, which also marks an important step in China's deep-sea exploration capacity building.
CCTV reporter Wu Tianbai: The total tonnage of the "Dream" is 33,000, with a total length of 1798 meters, 32 meters wideWith a cruising capacity of 8 meters and a cruising range of 15,000 nautical miles, it can work at sea for 120 days continuously, making it the only drillship in the world with a drilling capacity of 11,000 meters.
As the world's most advanced ocean drilling ship, the "Dream" not only has the deepest drilling depth in the world, but also has the world's largest and most comprehensive shipborne laboratory, covering nine laboratories such as marine science, microbiology and paleomagnetism.
Lei Yong, Commander of the "Dream" Project Department of the Guangzhou Oceanic Bureau of the China Geological Survey: "The main work of the "Dream" is to carry out the drilling mission of the ocean science program, penetrate the earth's crust and enter the upper mantle, enter deep exploration, and deep development, which is the dream of all human scientists, so we named it Meng.
According to the plan, the "Dream" will also complete relevant preparations at the dock and set sail on December 22 to complete the first sea trial mission.
Lei Yong, Commander of the "Dream" Project Department of Guangzhou Oceanic Bureau of China Geological Survey: The trial voyage is divided into several steps, and our first trial voyage is the power trial of the ship to see if the entire power system can meet our requirements and meet the indicators we designed. After that, there were two more dynamic positioning trials, as well as drilling and drilling rig trials.
Ocean Drill Vessels: The only means of sampling deep into the seabed.
"Dream" is an ocean drilling ship, this type of research ship has always been called the "crown" of the marine science community by scientists, so what is the scientific value of this type of ship?What can it do in the future?
Ocean drilling refers to the drilling of the seabed in order to study the composition and structure of the earth's internal materials and the mineral resources contained in the deep seabed. Ocean drilling ships are the integration of high-tech global deep-sea exploration and are currently the only means of deep seabed sampling. At present, more than 20 countries in the world have participated in the international cooperation program of ocean drilling, and only three countries have the ability to develop ocean drilling ships, and China is one of them.
"Dream" has the ability of unlimited navigation area in the global sea area and the drilling capacity of 11,000 meters in the sea area, and will mainly undertake the ocean scientific drilling tasks in major national scientific and technological projects and international major science programs in the future.
Zhou Chang, the main person in charge of the "Dream" Command of the China Geological Survey of the Ministry of Natural Resources: It is called the "Marine Science Mobile Laboratory", and the data needed in various marine fields must be analyzed through it, and where does this data analysis come from?From the drilling rig, the core was collected, to the on-board laboratory, the scientists in the command hall came together to study the data and draw scientific conclusions, which is a basic function of the ocean drilling ship.
At present, the drilling support vessels, two deep-water research docks, and the core bank with the world's largest storage capacity have all been put into use, which can provide strong offshore and shore-based support for the future operation of the "Dream".
Zhou Chang, the main person in charge of the "Dream" Command of the China Geological Survey of the Ministry of Natural Resources: From drilling, core extraction, experiments, to core storage, the entire working process of the drill ship, it forms a complete set of teams, representing an important set of teams in the field of deep-sea exploration in China.