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| History | |
|---|---|
 JapanJapan | |
| Name | Shinkai 2000 |
| Builder | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard |
| Cost | 3.7billion (Japanese yen) |
| Laid down | 1978 |
| Launched | 1981 |
| Sponsored by | JAMSTEC |
| Completed | 1981 |
| Acquired | 1981 |
| Commissioned | 1981 |
| Decommissioned | 2004 |
| Maiden voyage | 1983 |
| In service | 1983 |
| Out of service | 2002 |
| Homeport | Yokosuka |
| Status | Preserved at Shin Enoshima aquarium |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Deep-submergence vehicle |
| Length | 9.3 m (31 ft) |
| Beam | 2.9 m (9.5 ft) |
| Draft | 3.0 m (9.8 ft) |
| Installed power | electric motor |
| Speed | 3.0 knots (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph) |
| Endurance | 80h |
| Test depth | 2,000 m (6,600 ft) |
| Complement | 3 |
TheShinkai 2000 (しんかい) was a crewed researchsubmersible that could dive up to a depth of 2,000 meters. It was completed in 1981 and until 1991 it had the greatest depth range of any crewed research vehicle in Japan. TheShinkai 2000 was owned and run by theJapan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and it was launched from the support vesselNatsushima.
Two pilots and one researcher operated within a 30 mm thickHigh-strength low-alloy steel pressure hull with an internal diameter of 2.2 meters. Buoyancy was provided bysyntactic foam.
Threemethacrylate resin view ports were arranged at the front and on each side of the vehicle.[1][2]The deep diving submersibleShinkai 2000 iseponymous for the genusShinkai- polychaete worms of the familyChrysopetalidae. Bivalves hosting those parasitic polychaetes were collected during Dives 315 and 381 in the Hatsushima cold-seep site in Sagami Bay.[3] The submersible is also eponymous for the speciesMargarites shinkai.[4]
Preserved atEnoshima Aquarium, Enoshima Island,Fujisawa,Kanagawa
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