Millions of people watched and admired the film “gravity”. The breath caught: what it’s like to be alone in outer space, in the dark, cold and with a limited supply of oxygen? However, this is only possible on the screen. After all the divers are the astronauts? They also beckon the depths without sunlight and where it is impossible to breathe without special equipment. And just for the record: all astronauts must pass through an underwater training.
The beauty and the harshness of the Barents sea showed dozens of Russian and global TV when last summer, divers from the underwater squad of the Russian geographical society. Leonov decided to record. They went from the surface to 111 m, and it became the most registered deep immersion in self-contained breathing equipment domestic production in salt water in the Barents sea. Now the Braves will be back in the Arctic, to set a new record, only in the White sea, reports the “Komsomolskaya Pravda – Murmansk”.
– We are planning to drop more than 100 meters, to make the deepest dive of the ice registered, – tells “KP” the President of the Regional Underwater Federation Murmansk region Alexey Poleschuk, one of the future participants of the expedition “the Arctic circle”.
It, what to hide, deadly journey to the depths will be one of the steps a large-scale project “13 seas of Russia”. Athletes have a goal to set records in each of the daughters of the ocean of our country.
In the White sea, as it turned out, not so easy to find such a deep place, where divers can easily operate. Then the sea is not small, up to 343 meters, but access to local Mariana basins has changed yet. But who is looking for…
But to reach and to reach places not even the biggest challenge.
– The ice is not transmit light, so we will be in the dark in mission-critical environments. We don’t know what the weather will be, waiting for us frost or strong wind. Cross-sectoral rules on diving trips and submarine work, the diving can be done up to -20 and when the wind speed of 10 meters per second. But I can say that if during our expedition the weather will be worse, we’re still going to risk it, – continues Alexey Poleshchuk. And were previously under ice diving in the White sea is approximately 90 meters. But nobody was using domestic equipment and is not fixed.
Without special training to make such a record will be difficult, although the dive team are well-matched with international qualifications. Including world champion sport diving Maxim Astakhov. Each behind a dip and there are more than 100 meters. Alex, for example, overcame 137 meters.
Risky move on the divers decided thoughtfully. Under water their lives will support the new Russian equipment. It was tested during the conquest of the Barents sea. If the word “conquest” is applicable to the element. No wonder the divers say they do not like to joke with Poseidon. In the depths of the athletes will be able to stay more than an hour. This should be sufficient, not only to achieve the necessary depth, but also to conduct there research that scientists really looking forward to.
– Institutions used to have their own diving service, which could submerge up to 40 meters and to take samples. Now this does not happen. As you know, we sink to the depths where even technology is not always good. And so it is important to make a macro aquatic organisms (aquatic life. – Ed.) at the bottom, – says our interlocutor.
To put the record divers will be able to one day, but preparation for it will take weeks. February 12, starts the expedition, and on February 17 athletes will gather at the all-Russian scientific-practical conference of the EMERCOM of Russia “Russian ice” in the center of the office “of Vyterga” (Vologda region). Not only will there be round tables, presentations and conversations, but also practice. For example, training in the Onega lake. It is now too awkward ice that will prepare divers to a severe test. Then on March 1 the expedition will travel to the White sea, where up to International women’s day, men will try to reach the cherished goal.
REFERENCE “KP”
The project “13 seas of Russia” has begun last year and will last for five years. The expedition in the Barents sea took place from 1st to 23rd July 2015 in Teriberka. Dive 111 meters divers took 101 minutes. The water temperature was +2 degrees. Everything these days has raged strong wind and rain, which were not allowed to go to sea. Despite this, at the bottom, where no foot may tread man, was a monument to fallen seamen.
Alone make this almost impossible. An experiment in the White sea decided the participants of the submarine squad led by Dimitri Schiller. Among the participants will be a member of the team of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, member of the Board of Directors of the world Confederation of underwater activities Bozhana Ostojic. A unique expedition in that it involved three regional federations President: Alexey Poleschuk, representative of the polar region Dmitry Schiller on behalf of Tatarstan and Alexander Gubin from the Vologda region.
This year, the divers will try to set records in the Kara, East Siberian, and Chukchi seas and the Laptev sea. In 2017 they are waiting for the Japanese, Okhotsk and Bering.
