Once the team of sea explorers has perfected safe launch and recovery of the submarines, they'll run a series of tests underwater.
The team will descend to 300m - well into the ocean twilight zone - to search for new species and do a"health check" of the ecosystem.
Sky News is on a ground-breaking mission to the twilight zone to discover new species in the Indian OceanRandy Holt, one of the pilots from Global Sub Dive, is looking forward to diving in an area that has never been explored before. He has done more than 350 dives to depths of up to 1000m .
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