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Saturday, November 23, 2013
This Starship Enterprise Of The Sea Will Launch Its Exploration In 2016
If you want to do deep sea ocean research today, you'll have to take a journey to the Florida Keys, where the world's last remaining underwater research lab, the Aquarius, is housed.
But that's soon about to change. When it's completed, the SeaOrbiter, a spaceship-like underwater vessel, will become the first ocean lab where researchers can live 24/7 over long periods of time. (The Aquarius, in comparison, goes on missions for 10 days on average.) It's the Starship Enterprise of the sea, exploring parts of the ocean where no man has gone before.
The SeaOrbiter, which is essentially a giant spaceship that existences partly underwater, is the work of Jacques Rougerie, a sea architect, and various experts, among them being the former NASA head Daniel Goldin.
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