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JAMSTEC's Kaiko reaches the Challenger Deep floor

1995 · Recorded · culture

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The Japanese remotely operated vehicle Kaiko descends to the floor of the Challenger Deep, reporting a depth commonly cited around 10,911 m and returning sediment samples. It demonstrates that robots, not only crewed spheres, can work at full ocean depth - and adds another value to the widening set of published depths.

Source

JAMSTEC (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology) · JAMSTEC Kaiko programme records, March 1995 Challenger Deep dive — https://www.jamstec.go.jp/e/about/equipment/ships/kaiko.html; loss of the vehicle described in Nakajoh et al., "Loss of the full ocean depth ROV Kaiko, Part 1: ROV Kaiko — a review", ISOPE (2004)

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Subject

Challenger Deep · ZONE_HADAL