{"id":5293,"date":"2018-01-21T13:12:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T13:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=5293"},"modified":"2018-01-21T13:12:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T13:12:31","slug":"china-launches-new-scientific-research-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2018\/01\/21\/china-launches-new-scientific-research-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches new scientific research ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese university has launched a new deep ocean scientific research ship in Shanghai.<!--more-->The Ocean University said on Tuesday that Dongfanghong Number-3 ship is 103-metre-long and 18-metre-wide with a weight of 5,800 tonnes. It has a maximum speed of 15 knots, Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel will be put into service by the end of the year, said the university, adding that \u201cDongfanghong Number-3 would work with other scientific ships to conduct surveys and analyses of air, water and the seabed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The 2,500-tonne Dongfanghong and 3,500-tonne Dongfanghong Number-2, built in the 1960s and 1990s, respectively, made a great contribution to ocean research in China.<\/p>\n<p>IANS<\/p>\n<p>Picture source: Alamy Image<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese university has launched a new deep ocean scientific research ship in Shanghai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5295,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions\/5295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}