How it was 12.04.2002 (2002)

The program topic is "MIR DEEP-SEA VESSELS".

After the premiere of one of the highest-budget Hollywood films, "Titanic", sensational news flew around the world.

All underwater filming of the film was carried out using Russian deep-sea manned unique vehicles "MIR" with a design diving depth of up to 10 thousand meters, which have no analogues in the world.

The first "Mir" vehicles were created in 1987 and opened the way to study more than 95% of the entire ocean area.

They allowed researchers to get closer to previously inaccessible areas of the ocean floor.

With their help, mineral deposits were discovered.

And the environmental situation near the sunken submarine "Komsomolets" in the Norwegian Sea was also studied.

They were also used to survey the submarine "Kursk" ...

However, in recent years, Russian scientists have been using these unique vehicles for scientific research less and less: there are simply no funds.

But "MIRs" have become very popular in the West.

True, mainly for filming at great depths...

Guests in the studio: Igor Mikhaltsev - Doctor of Technical Sciences, Anatoly Sagalevich - Head of the Laboratory of Deep-Sea Vehicles of the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yuri Bogdanov - Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences.

Video: Underwater filming of the sunken ship "Titanic", deep-sea vehicles "Mir".