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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=Japan | Ship flag={{JPN}} | Ship name= Shinkai 2000 | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard | Ship original cost=3.7billion(Japanese yen) | Ship laid down=1978 | Ship launched=1981 | Ship sponsor=JAMSTEC | Ship christened= | Ship completed=1981 | Ship acquired=1981 | Ship commissioned=1981 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned=2004 | Ship maiden voyage=1983 | Ship in service=1983 | Ship out of service=2002 | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport=Yokosuka | Ship identification= | Ship nickname= | Ship fate=Preserved at Shin Enoshima aquarium | Ship status= | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship type=Deep-submergence vehicle | Ship tonnage= | Ship displacement= | Ship tons burthen= | 9.3|m|ft|abbr=on}} | 2.9|m|ft|abbr=on}} | 3.0|m|ft|abbr=on}} | Ship power= electric motor | Ship propulsion= | 3.0|kn}} | Ship range= | Ship endurance= 80h | 2000|m|ft|abbr=on}} | Ship complement=3 | Ship sensors= | Ship armor= | Ship notes=
}} | The Shinkai 2000 (しんかい) is a manned research submersible that can dive up to a depth of 2,000 m. It was completed in 1981 and until 1991 it had the greatest depth range of any manned research vehicle in the 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 m. 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 References {{Commons category|Shinkai 2000 (submarine, 1981)}}- JAMSTEC Shinkai 2000 page
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