French Ship Joins Japanese Project to Explore Seabed
United Press International
TOKYO —
A French survey ship equipped with an advanced submarine craft arrived in Japan Friday to participate in a joint Japanese-French exploration of the sea bottom around Japan beginning June 1.
The 2,200-ton Nadir, carrying a deep-sea submersible, pulled into Shimizu west of Tokyo to prepare for the two-month survey.
The project is the second phase of a joint Japanese-French undertaking, dubbed “Kaiko” (sea trench), designed to collect data that could some day help predict killer earthquakes.
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