By AKEMI KANDA/ Staff Writer
April 19, 2021 at 07:00 JST
Locations marked with St. 8, St. 9 and St. 10 represent the seafloors off the Boso Peninsula surveyed by the Shinkai 6500 manned research submersible. St. 2 shows a location in Sagami Bay in Kanagawa Prefecture examined for comparison. (Provided by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)
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