Engineers pose for a photo in Sanya, South China's Hainan province, in September before their expedition to the Mariana Trench. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
"We've been to the bottom of the ocean indeed. But the depth is just one of the goals for us," Ye said. "There are multiple complicated scenes in the ocean, meaning we have to develop more submersibles, adapting to those environments for future exploration."
"And I'm fairly confident that we can do that – raise our deep-sea technologies to the next level."
