Research ship Haiyang Dizhi 9 sets sail for 300-day voyage

It shoulders missions from the Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), such as testing the self-developed 6,000-meter TV grab bucket, hydrophone receiving linear array and shipborne ocean lidar system.

Haiyang Dizhi 9 is 87.07 meters in length, can cruise for up to 10,000 nautical miles and can reach a maximum speed over 15 knots per hour.

It is the only Chinese ship to carry out seismic, geological and geophysical study simultaneously.