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INDIA'S SAMUDRAYAAN MISSION TO STUDY OCEAN BED BY 2025

INDIA'S SAMUDRAYAAN MISSION TO STUDY OCEAN BED BY 2025

14-03-2024

What's the story

  1. India's Earth Sciences Minister shared exciting news about the country's Samudrayaan mission.
  2. India should be able to send its scientists to explore the deep sea located 6 km below the sea surface by the end of next  year. 
  3. India's Earth Sciences Minister informed that the deep-sea submersible Matsya 6000, designed to carry humans to a  depth of 6,000 meters  by the end of 2025. 
  4. After review of the project, shallow water trials of Matsya 6000 may take place early this year. 
  5. “When you talk about Samudrayaan, you are now talking about our mission to go about 6,000 meters deep into the  ocean, where even light can't reach.” 
  6. “As far as our Matsya 6000, the machine that takes humans in, is concerned, it is on the right track.
  1. Matsya 6000 is India's first manned submersible

India Is Ready to Join the Group of Elite Countries

  1. Once the Samudrayaan mission is successfully completed, India will join an elite group of countries with deep-sea crewed mission capabilities.
  2. Currently, the US, China, Russia, France and Japan have achieved successful deep-sea missions.
  3. India's entry into this elite group will demonstrate its expertise and capability to operate within such challenging waters.

Ministry of Earth Sciences

Samudrayaan Mission
  1. Samudrayaan mission aims to develop a self-propelled manned submersible (Matsya 6000) to carry 3 humans to a depth of 6000 meters in the ocean.
  2. It has a set of scientific sensors and instruments for deep sea exploration.
  3. Its operational period is 12 hours and in case of emergency 96 hours.
  4. The manned submersible will allow scientific personnel to observe and understand deep sea areas.
  5. This will increase the potential for human-rated vehicle development in the deep sea.
  6. The projected timeline is 5 years for the period 2020-2021 to 2025-2026.
  7. National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Chennai, an autonomous institute under MoES, has developed a 6000m depth-rated Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) and various other underwater instruments such as Autonomous Coring System (ACS), Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), and Deep Sea Mining System (DSM) for the exploration of the deep sea.
  8. The mission will study deep-sea resources and assess biodiversity, and look for precious minerals and metals such as cobalt, nickel and manganese. It will also mine polymetallic nodules from an area of 75,000 square kilometers in the Central Indian Ocean Basin and conduct research on climate change structures.

Treasure from the depth: Polymetallic nodules, rich in minerals like manganese and iron.

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