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  • Since Trieste's historic descent, a robot called Kaiko has explored more of the hadal zone, discovering a fragile, floating world of jelly life, insubstantial organisms that are able to exist only because the water is so still that currents don't tear them apart.

    Where Wonders Await Us Flannery, Tim 2007

  • However, 35 years later, a Japanese remote-controlled vehicle called Kaiko returned, setting a depth record for unmanned exploration.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2009

  • The deepest point in the Mariana Trench lies some 10,911 meters (35,840 feet) below sea level as recorded by the Japanese probe, Kaiko, on March 24, 1995.

    Ocean 2008

  • Later this summer a Japanese robot named Kaiko will attempt the first return to the Challenger Deep.

    Into The Challenger 2008

  • The last section of the article Watson had just read from said that the Japanese crew member with appendicitis had been winched aboard a rescue helicopter from the spotter vessel Kaiko Maru about fifty nautical miles south of Tasman Island.

    The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

  • Three days later, the Robert Hunter ran down the spotter vessel Kaiko Maru in waters beset with ice.

    The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

  • Three days later, the Robert Hunter ran down the spotter vessel Kaiko Maru in waters beset with ice.

    The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

  • The Kaiko Maru limped back to Japan at five knots with a damaged propeller.

    The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

  • The Kaiko Maru limped back to Japan at five knots with a damaged propeller.

    The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

  • He pulled a newspaper story off the Melbourne Age website and announced that the Kaiko Maru would be arriving on Christmas in Hobart, Tasmania.

    The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

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