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...desperate need to anticipate future quakes is one reason JAMSTEC built the Shinkai 6500 submersible, which can go deeper than any other piloted craft in the world. On its very first series of missions in 1991, Shinkai found unsuspected deep fissures on the edge of the Pacific plate, which presses in on the island nation from the east. The vessel has also discovered the world's deepest known colony of clams (at a depth of more than 20,000 ft.) and a series of thickly populated hydrothermal vents...
Paradoxically, forcing submersible design into the competitive marketplace may prove to be a boon to underwater research. A new version of Shinkai 6500 would cost perhaps $100 million and require a new surface ship as well. Says Hawkes, who designed Deep Flight and will put it through its initial paces: "That's so expensive that they'll only build one, which means it could only be in one place at a time." Deep Flight, he says, could cut through this impasse. "If we're successful, it will show that we can access the bottom of the ocean in vehicles costing...
Meanwhile officials of Mukden's Chinese Provincial Government had fled in headlong fear. (No. 1 Committeeman: Mr. Quan Shinkai, once chief secretary to the late, barbaric War Lord Chang Tso-lin.) They were replaced by an un savory group of Chinese calling themselves the Peoples Preservation Committee who seemed disposed to declare the secession of Manchuria from the rest of China. Other secessionist movements were reported (by the Japanese press) in such leading Manchurian cities as Harbin and Kirin. Finally in Tokyo suave General Jiro Minami, Japanese War Minister credited with secretly ordering the whirl wind Japanese occupation of Manchuria...
...year is 1916 and Li, now in his second term as vice president of the Chinese Republic, takes the last hurdle to power, when death comes to President Yuan Shinkai...
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