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Date of publication: 27 April 2009
Aramid holds on to the deepest diver
High-performance Technora para-aramid fibre is being employed by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) for the 160-metre secondary cable of a deep-sea probe called ABISMO – automatic bottom inspection and sampling mobile.
