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進入《TAIPEI TIMES》University submersible completes record two-hour underwater dive
A researcher from National Sun Yat-sen University floats next to Taiwan’s first indigenous submarine at a harbor near Kaoshiung yesterday after a 20-minute demonstration. The vessel was developed by the school’s research team and completed a nearly two-hour dive in August. Photo: CNA
Staff writer, with CNA
Taiwan’s first indigenous mini-submarine completed a nearly two-hour underwater dive in August, National Sun Yat-sen University （NSYSU）, which developed the vessel for scientific research, announced the record-setting achievement and held a demonstration dive yesterday.
NSYSU President Cheng Ying-yao （鄭英耀） and Wang Chau-chang （王兆璋）, a professor at NSYSU’s Institute of Undersea Technology, yesterday took the two-person vessel to operate a 20-minute demonstration underwater dive in the docks of domestic shipbuilder CSBC Corp. at Kaohsiung Harbor.
The NSYSU submersible can currently reach a depth of 50 meters, but hope that in the future it will be upgraded to carry three people and reach a depth of 500m, which would be more than enough to facilitate underwater maritime surveys on offshore wind power and undertake coral reef observation, professor Wang said , who also heads the Taiwan Ocean Research Institute.
The submersible carried out its first manned underwater dive for 1 hour and 31 minutes in June. Then in August, another test dive was conducted over two days in waters off Liuqiu Island, Pingtung County, and the two-man crew remained underwater for nearly two hours, setting a new record, professor Wang Chua-chin （王朝欽）, who led the submarine development team, said.
The Kaohsiung-based university said it plans to carry out another deeper and longer dive in April next year before it starts to focus on developing a next-generation submersible.
新聞來源：TAIPEI TIMES
