China builds benthal observation system to study oceans

Chinese scientists have finished building the country's first benthal observation system to study the deepest zones of the oceans.
The system located in waters near the city of Sanya in Hainan Province is part of efforts to build a large-scale benthal observation network, according to a source from the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Benthal refers to the deepest zone or region of the ocean.
The system was jointly designed by the CAS South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, the Shenyang Institute of Automation and the Institute of Acoustics, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.