The Shinkai 2000 (しんかい) was a crewed research
submersible 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. The Shinkai 2000 was owned and run by the
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and it was launched from the support vessel Natsushima.
Two pilots and one researcher operated within a 30 mm thick
High-strength low-alloy steel pressure hull with an internal diameter of 2.2 meters. Buoyancy was provided by
syntactic foam.
Three
methacrylate resin view ports were arranged at the front and on each side of the vehicle.[1][2]
The deep diving submersible Shinkai 2000 is
eponymous for the genus
Shinkai- polychaete worms of the family
Chrysopetalidae. Bivalves hosting those parasitic polychaetes were collected during Dives 315 and 381 in the Hatsushima cold-seep site in Sagami Bay.[3]
The Shinkai 2000 (しんかい) was a crewed research
submersible 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. The Shinkai 2000 was owned and run by the
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and it was launched from the support vessel Natsushima.
Two pilots and one researcher operated within a 30 mm thick
High-strength low-alloy steel pressure hull with an internal diameter of 2.2 meters. Buoyancy was provided by
syntactic foam.
Three
methacrylate resin view ports were arranged at the front and on each side of the vehicle.[1][2]
The deep diving submersible Shinkai 2000 is
eponymous for the genus
Shinkai- polychaete worms of the family
Chrysopetalidae. Bivalves hosting those parasitic polychaetes were collected during Dives 315 and 381 in the Hatsushima cold-seep site in Sagami Bay.[3]