India, Aug. 20 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:
The design and integration of the human submersible (MATSYA-6000) to carry three persons to a depth of 6000 meters, completed by the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Chennai, under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, as part of the Deep Ocean Mission. The wet harbour trials of MATSYA-6000 were successfully conducted in January-February 2025 at L&T Shipbuilding Facility in Katupalli, near Tamil Nadu.
MATSYA-6000 is designed to include scientific pay loads to align with India's scientific exploration and observation activities for deep-sea living and non-living resources, including biodiversity and deep-sea minerals.
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