As part of the “Marine Robotics” seminar, held under the auspices of the St. Petersburg State Maritime Technical University (MINOTS), the United Shipbuilding Corporation and the Academician Krylov Scientific and Technical Organization, Soviet and Russian scientist, Doctor of Technical Sciences, chief researcher, professor of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the RAS, Anatoly Sagalevich presented a report “Research of the ocean using manned submersibles.”
Anatoly Sagalevich completed more than 500 dives on deep-sea manned vehicles (DSV), spent over 4 thousand hours under water. At the beginning of the report, the scientist spoke about Auguste Picard, the creator of the Trieste bathyscaphe. This is the first manned vehicle that plunged into the Mariana Trench to a depth of more than 10 thousand meters. In the USSR, the first DSVs were “Pysis VII” and “Pysis XI”. They could reach a depth of 2 kilometers. Anatoly Sagalevich took part in the expedition of these devices to Lake Baikal in 1977.
At the end of the 80s, with the active participation of Anatoly Sagalevich, the Mir-1 and Mir-2 DSVs were created, designed to operate at a depth of 6000 meters.
The speaker dwelled in detail on the work that was carried out on the Mirs. The devices took part in the study of hydrothermal fields in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, as well as in the filming of the film “Titanic” with director James Cameron. By the way, Anatoly Sagalevich dived not only to the Titanic. He also explored the wrecks of the German battleship Bismarck and the Japanese submarine I-52. In addition, the famous oceanologist made 7 expeditions to the Komsomolets submarine and dived to the Kursk nuclear submarine.
In August 2007, the DSV Mir dived to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean for the first time. The device reached a depth of 4300 meters, where the Russian flag was planted. The expedition on board the DSV included Anatoly Sagalevich, Russian polar explorer Artur Chilingarov and State Duma deputy Vladimir Gruzdev. In August 2009, Anatoly Sagalevich and Vladimir Putin dived to the bottom of Lake Baikal.
The “Marine Robotics” seminar was attended by representatives of leading design bureaus, teachers and students of marine engineering universities of the city.
