🔸Meanwhile: "[Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology's submersible] “Shinkai 6500” was built in 1989. It has already made more than 1,500 dives, and 5 more years is probably the limit. If we don’t build a successor soon, there will be no more manned submersibles in #Japan, but we may not be able to build one with Japanese technology anymore" - Dr. Hiroshi Kitazato, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology https://en.friday.news/article/18569 #JAMSTEC#Shinkai6500