JAMSTEC completed the dive surveys by utilizing both SHINKAI 6500 and HYPER DOLPHIN in order to make the image record of the observation and research in deep sea in 2006.

Blue smoker was discovered as the first hydrothermal emission in deep sea in the world. It locates at about 50 km northwest off Ishigaki Island, Japan. JAMSTEC presents it in moving image.

To promote exchanges between Japan and Kenya, spurred by the deep sea drilling vessel Chikyu's shakedown drilling work offshore of Kenya, we carried out a seminar on January 16, 2007, at the Japan Information and Culture Centre in the Embassy of Japan in Kenya.