One giant leap for ocean exploration... what the world's first 'space station of the sea' will look like ...

[karmakramer]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1231648/One-giant-leap-ocean-exploration--worlds-space-station-sea-look-like.html

Mr Rougerie wants the ship to be a space station for the sea giving scientists an insight into the little-known world under the sea.

'At the moment, they [oceanographers] can dive only for short periods before they have to be brought back to the surface. It is as though they were taken to study the Amazon jungle and then helicoptered away again after an hour,' Mr Rougerie told The Times.

'SeaOrbiter will provide a permanent mobile presence with a window to what is under the surface of the sea.”

The architect, whose home and office are houseboats, wants to launch half a dozen of the vessels.

At the moment he says he has half the €35million (£32million) that it will cost to build the first one, and is confident of finding the rest.

The SeaOrbiter would also be a useful tool for studying the link between global warming and the oceans.

[Guest Al Hounos]

[Guest abusivegeorge]

It'll never float.

[Guest Blanket Fort Collapse]

[Guest Blanket Fort Collapse]

The seas are rising because of all the boats and junk we are putting in the sea. If all the boats, ships and junk were taken out the sea levels would fall giving valuable land back to man.

 

- Tony, Dartford, 28/11/2009 17:00

 

[kcinsu]

This didn't go so well in Sphere... :-/

[Salvatorin]

This didn't go so well in Sphere... :-/

 

it was a cool movie tho

[Guest cupajoe60]

There's already this ship that can kinda do that

 

[Guest bitroast]

can imagine sean connery in orange wetsuit mistaking this for some evil dudes base.

[Guest ezkerraldean]

if i was some kind of evil mastermind i'd definitely have one of these fuckers.

[chaosmachine]

looks familiar.

 

[Guest abusivegeorge]

There's already this ship that can kinda do that

 

 

Is that a Vertically upright boat that won't sink?

[Hoodie]

There's already this ship that can kinda do that

 

 

Is that a Vertically upright boat that won't sink?

 

it's a ship that can go upright and the other side goes underwater as a research lab thing.

 

there's already a "space station of the sea" in key west. i can't recall the name, but it's much smaller and less grandiose than that concept drawing you've got there.

 

edit: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/technology/diving/aquarius/aquarius.html

 

aquarius is what i was thinking of.

[Guest Gary C]

Deep Blue Sea

[Guest abusivegeorge]

There's already this ship that can kinda do that

 

 

Is that a Vertically upright boat that won't sink?

 

it's a ship that can go upright and the other side goes underwater as a research lab thing.

 

there's already a "space station of the sea" in key west. i can't recall the name, but it's much smaller and less grandiose than that concept drawing you've got there.

 

edit: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/technology/diving/aquarius/aquarius.html

 

aquarius is what i was thinking of.

 

Pretty kool!

[Guest bitroast]

looks familiar.

 

 

lol! one day the earth around that building will start to rumble, the land will break apart and the building will sail off, reveiling itself to be the top secret ocean exploration station it always was.

[Guest Calx Sherbet]

Al Hounos fuckin nailed it