Geo (dive boat)
Geo is the name of the first manned German research submarine . It was mainly used for marine biology research. From 2003 to 2015 the boat was an exhibit in the German Maritime Museum in Stralsund ; from 2015 it will be exhibited in the Deutsches Museum in Munich .
history
The behavioral researcher Hans Fricke , who financed the boat himself, observed the coelacanth, which was considered to be extinct at the time , on board the Geo together with his colleague Jürgen Schauer in the summer of 1987 on the lava cliffs of the African Comoros islands in a rock cave about 100 meters below sea level .
In 1988, after 800 diving trips and a total of 2,350 hours underwater, the Geo was replaced by the Jago submersible and decommissioned.
The diving boat has been shown as an exhibit in a hall at the Nautineum in Stralsund since the mid-1990s . In January 2008 it was presented at the “ boot ” trade fair in Düsseldorf . On March 27, 2008 the boat was brought from the Nautineum to the construction site of the Ozeaneum and placed in the future exhibition hall by means of a crane. It was presented here together with other deep-sea research equipment in the glazed foyer area until January 18, 2016. The diving boat was transported to Munich in January 2016; in Munich it is to be part of an exhibition on pioneers in marine research.
A model of the Geo (original scale) is in the Haus der Natur Salzburg .
Technical specifications
- Length: 2.60 meters
- Height: 2.20 meters
- Weight: 2 tons
- Crew: 2 people
- Dive time: up to 5 hours
- Immersion depth: max. 200 m
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ostsee-Zeitung Stralsund, January 18, 2016