Which of the following statements with regard to India's Deep Ocean Mission is/are correct? 1. It was launched by the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Government of India. 2. Matsya-6000 has been designed to carry 3 people for deep sea exploration. 3. Samudrayaan is a project under this mission. Select the answer using the code given below:

The Deep Ocean Mission was approved by the Union Cabinet in June 2021 and is being implemented by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), NOT the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways; hence statement 1 is incorrect. Matsya-6000 is the manned submersible being developed by the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) under the Samudrayaan project, designed to carry 3 humans to a depth of 6,000 metres in the ocean for deep-sea exploration of resources and biodiversity, so statement 2 is correct. Samudrayaan, India's first manned ocean mission, is one of the six major components/projects under the Deep Ocean Mission, so statement 3 is correct. Hence statements 2 and 3 only are correct.