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Only a handful of countries, apart from China, have ever developed deep sea-diving technology, including Australia, the United States, Russia, Japan, Italy, Switzerland and France. Though China was the last to join the deep-sea aquanauts, it went from a nation unconcerned with deep-sea exploration to one with one of the most advanced submersibles on Earth, able to reach 99.8 percent of the ocean floor.
But who are the brave souls who volunteer to go into the unknown, to a hell on Earth with near-freezing temperatures, no sunlight and pressure up to 1,000 times that at sea level? Unlike those who pick astronauts, the recruiters in charge of deep-sea missions do not take from a massive ocean of military pilots and engineers. Rather, they must rely on a smaller pool of marine and mechanical engineers. However, the training is no less rigorous than that faced by their comrades in space.
Two years of intense training and 119 basic requirements narrow the small batch of recruits, with anything from stuttering to body odor disqualifying many otherwise qualified applicants. The National Deep Sea center had a drive for female recruits in 2013; Tang Limei became the first woman to dive in Jiaolong that year.
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