Deep Sea Submarine International Expedition

China’s Jiaolong submersible completed it’s 14th dive of the 2024 Western Pacific Expedition on Friday, marking the successful conclusion of the international dive work on this voyage, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources.

With eight foreign scientists and three scientists from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region aboard, Jiaolong deep-sea manned submersible dived toward six seamounts and one ocean basin in the Western Pacific.

According to the scientific expedition team, the seamounts in the Western Pacific have high biodiversity, with significant differences in the distribution of species and composition of organisms on different sides of seamounts and in different water depths.