China offers Thai scientists a research base in Antarctica
- Thailand has sent scientists to join explorations by the Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition since 2016
- A China-Thailand joint laboratory has been set up at China’s Great Wall Station in Antarctica
Diving in cold waters in a place as remote as China’s Great Wall Station is dangerous, but observing how the animals there behaved underwater could help humanity prepare for the effects of climate change, Suchana, an associate professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, said.
“I dived in front of the station so that I could explore what was inside,” she said in an interview in Bangkok. “Since the Chinese team had never dived there before, they asked Korean and Chilean counterparts, whose stations were not too far away, to help me.
“In Antarctica, each station or country cannot work alone.”
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She said she retrieved an expensive water quality measuring device that had been accidentally dropped into the ocean for the Chinese team during the dive.