All You Need To Know About India’s Deep Ocean Mission

The Deep Ocean Mission marked a major step towards the country’s Deep Ocean Mission, also known as Samudrayaan. (File Photo)

This milestone follows weeks after Shubhanshu Shukla became the first Indian to reach the International Space Station. (File Photo)

The expedition was conducted in collaboration with France and involved two Indian aquanauts who completed separate deep dives in the French submersible Nautile earlier this month. (File Photo)

The Deep Ocean Mission, cleared by the Union Cabinet in 2021, covers crewed and uncrewed submersibles, deep-sea mining technology, biodiversity research and ocean-based energy project. (File Photo)

The mission aims to explore and utilise resources within India’s Exclusive Economic Zone and continental shelf. (File Photo)

M Ravichandran, Secretary in the ministry of Earth sciences, said the Deep Ocean Mission was carried out to gain firsthand experience before India tries the same with its own submersible, Matsya 6000. (File Photo)

“One of the verticals of the DOM aims to develop technology to harness non-living ocean resources and a submersible which can carry humans to the deepest parts of the ocean for exploration”, he added. (File Photo)