Factoid/2006/01/31
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< Beachapedia:Factoid | 2006 | 01
Japanese Research Ship CHIKYU: $500 Million and 210 Yards Long
- "The CHIKYU is studded with superlatives. Completed last year, the ship houses the world's biggest deep-sea drill, sports a high-tech floating laboratory and boasts a $500 million price tag... CHIKYU's mammoth drill... is capable of boring 7,000 meters -- nearly 4 1/2 miles -- into the ocean floor. - excerpt from the ENN article.
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