India’s Samudrayaan set to explore ocean bed by 2025 end: Kiren Rijiju

New Delhi, 10/3: India should be able to send its scientists to study the deep ocean 6 km under the sea surface in its own Samudrayaan by the end of next year, Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju has said.

In a video interview to PTI, Rijiju said India’s deep-ocean submersible Matsya6000, which will take humans up to a depth of 6,000 meters under the sea, was ‘well on course’ and could be tested by the ‘end of this year’.