Search｜Photos & Images & Videos｜KYODO NEWS IMAGES INC

Submersible leaves for deep-sea research trip

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Photo shows the Shinkai 6500, a Japanese manned submersible aboard its support ship Yokosuka at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology in Yokosuka, near Tokyo, on Jan. 5, 2013. The probe left for a round-the-world cruise to conduct deep-sea research aimed at studying the origin and evolution of life.

E

Deep-sea submersible to observe eels' spawning

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the manned submersible vessel Shinkai 6500 in Suruga Bay in April 2012. A Japanese team of researchers said on May 17, 2012, that they will put the submersible into deep-sea waters in the Pacific near Guam in July 2012 to conduct ecological studies on Japanese eels.

E

Astronaut Mohri returns from deep sea exploration

NAHA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Mamoru Mohri speaks at a news conferfence in Naha, Okinawa on March 14 after returning from a deep sea exploration some 6,500 meters below sea level aboard the Shinkai 6500 submersible vessel of the government-affiliated Japan Marine Science and Technology Center. ''I was able to see a wonderful world, a new universe,'' Mohri, 55, told said.

E

Astronaut Mohri returns from deep sea exploration

NAHA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Mamoru Mohri speaks at a news conferfence in Naha, Okinawa on March 14 after returning from a deep sea exploration some 6,500 meters below sea level aboard the Shinkai 6500 submersible vessel of the government-affiliated Japan Marine Science and Technology Center. ''I was able to see a wonderful world, a new universe,'' Mohri, 55, told said. (Kyodo)

E

Shinkai 6500-inside

Shinkai 6500 - Japanese submarine dedicated to deep-sea research (September 6, 1996)

E

Shinkai 6500-1

Shinkai 6500 - the submarine dedicated to deep-sea research. ( Shizuoka, Japan on September 6, 1996 )

E

Deep-sea submersible to observe eels' spawning

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the manned submersible vessel Shinkai 6500 in Suruga Bay in April 2012. A Japanese team of researchers said on May 17, 2012, that they will put the submersible into deep-sea waters in the Pacific near Guam in July 2012 to conduct ecological studies on Japanese eels. (Kyodo)

E

Astronaut Mohri explores deep sea off Okinawa

OKINAWA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Mamoru Mohri (L) waves as he prepares to ride in the submersible Shinkai 6500 on March 13 to explore ocean trenches off the Nansei Islands in southern Japan some 6,500 meters below sea level. Photo provided by the Japan Marine Science and Technology Center. (Kyodo)