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History
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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
Fate
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
The Shinkai 2000 (しんかい) is a crewed research submersible that can 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 is owned and run by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and it is launched from the support vessel Natsushima.
Two pilots and one researcher operate within a 30 mm thick High-strength low-alloy steel pressure hull with an internal diameter of 2.2 meters. Buoyancy is provided by syntactic foam.
Three methacrylate resin view ports are arranged at the front and on each side of the vehicle.
See also[]
DSV Shinkai 6500 – Japanese crewed research submersible that can dive up to a depth of 6,500 metres
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Media related to Shinkai 2000 (submarine, 1981) at Wikimedia Commons
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology vessels and vehicles
