Maiden dive of the new MARUM-QUEST 5000

Dur­ing ex­ped­i­tion M210 of the MET­EOR, geo­chem­ical and bio­lo­gical samples will be taken from hy­dro­thermal vents along the Mid-At­lantic Ridge in the North At­lantic. The hy­dro­thermal field Me­nez Gwen was the tar­get loc­a­tion of the first dive of the ROV MARUM-QUEST 5000 at a wa­ter depth of about 830 meters. Dur­ing the dive, which las­ted sev­eral hours, the team suc­cess­fully tested the sys­tem, took samples and doc­u­mented everything.

The new diving ro­bot re­places the re­motely op­er­ated vehicle (ROV) MARUM-QUEST 4000 after more than twenty years of op­er­a­tion. In ad­di­tion to a sig­ni­fic­antly higher pay­load ca­pa­city and state-of-the-art con­trol tech­no­logy, the new ROV is equipped with more power­ful grip­per arms and a hy­draulic drive. This means that ob­ser­vat­or­ies can also be trans­por­ted into the deep sea and ser­viced there in fu­ture. The new device can now be used for a vari­ety of high-pre­ci­sion sci­entific in­vest­ig­a­tions at depths of up to 5,000 meters.

The new ro­bot's dives will be broad­cast live on the in­ter­net and an­nounced in ad­vance, provided that all tech­nical re­quire­ments are met in good time. Link to the stream: http://youtube.com/channel/UCAukXJMjnokP-n17GV80Jpg/live

 
Based on a press release from MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen.

https://www.marum.de/en/M210.html

https://www.marum.de/en/ROV-MARUM-QUEST-5000.html