New DEEP Sea Underwater Habitat Announced
handout artists' impression of one of the bedrooms in a typical configuration of DEEP's Sentinel System. Each room enjoys the view through a huge viewport overhead, and lots of space for personal items and storage. A touchscreen device may be used for communications and entertainment. A new deep-sea habitat project has been launched by ocean technology and exploration company, DEEP, which has announced its intention to create a permanent human presence under the oceans by 2027. The project is already two years in development, with its base located at the former British National Diving and Activity Centre (NDAC), an 80m-deep, 600m-long flooded quarry in Gloucester, England, which suddenly announced its closure in February 2022. The centrepiece of DEEP’s project is Sentinel, a customisable capsule system designed to be ‘modular, scalable, autonomous, recoverable, re-configurable and re-deployable.’ Sentinel can be tailored to the individual needs of its users, be that a single installation or a network of segme
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- ILEA003322736
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- 2024/9/19 00:00:00
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- Abaca Press / Kyodo News Images
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