The first step in the Deep Sentinel program, one of the most ambitious ocean-engineering projects in decades, will be completed this year. This initial step, called Vanguard, will shelter three aquanaut-scientists at depths of 100 meters. Eventually, the project will create a modular underwater habitat system that will let scientists live underwater for weeks at a time.
  • itsonlygeorge@reddthat.comEnglish
    31·
    6 days ago

    If your looking for me
    You better check under the sea
    Cause that is where you’ll find me
    Underneath the
    Sealab, Underneath the water
    Sealab, At the bottom of the sea.

    About 4 years late, but whatever.

      • Furbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        Add in “But harvesting it angered the psychic primordial shark that we worship as a god.” And you’ve got the rough plot for the water planet from Kotor 1.

  • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    14·
    7 days ago

    This is for the oil and gas industry.

    Ain’t nobody paying for an underwater habitat for researchers when all researchers do at depth is take photos and samples, which can be done by an ROV.

    Oil and Gas OTOH need deep see divers to do welding and other maintenance all the time.

  • eleitl@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    6 days ago

    A friend of mine has just broken the record of 100 days living under water. He is aiming for 120 days.

  • WhatSay@slrpnk.netEnglish
    15·
    7 days ago

    I’ve been playing lots of Oxygen not Included, so… Yeah good luck, what could go wrong?

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    7 days ago

    Ocean horizons 2.0 I hope.

    Elon is probably the only superhero who could actually go there an show them all! Definitely not just any rich guy could do it.

        • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
          9·
          6 days ago

          What part of the opening rationale was incomprehensible?

          “With current diving at 150 to 200 meters, you can only get 10 minutes of work completed, followed by 6 hours of decompression. With our underwater habitats we’ll be able to do seven years’ worth of work in 30 days with shorter decompression time. More than 90 percent of the ocean’s biodiversity lives within 200 meters’ depth and at the shorelines, and we only know about 20 percent of it.”

            • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
              6·
              6 days ago

              Humans are the ones tooling and retooling these units for specific purposes, which can be done far more efficiently in situ in an underwater habitation. Along with any other human activities that will be occurring, such as immediate study in a dedicated lab facility.

  • KillerTofu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2241·
    8 days ago

    Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? ‘No!’ says the man in Washington, ‘It belongs to the poor.’ ‘No!’ says the man in the Vatican, ‘It belongs to God.’ ‘No!’ says the man in Moscow, ‘It belongs to everyone.’ I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose… Rapture, a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, Where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well.