Couple Plans To Live Under The Ocean

[The Straight Story]

Couple Plans To Live Under The Ocean

COCOA, Fla. -- Today, the Chamberlands live under the sunny, blue skies of West Cocoa. Soon, they hope to gaze up through aqua-gray tints of Atlantica, the world's first permanent undersea colony.

They're determined to do so by 2015, somewhere off east Central Florida, maybe even Brevard County. They've signed up 13 others to live with them in cylindrical steel modules, 200 feet down and tapping into the Gulf Stream for energy, oxygen and scientific discovery.

The Chamberlands envision quarters safe enough for children. Even their cat, Snickers, will go with them, transported in a submarine-like cylinder with a glass bubble port, Local 6 News partner Florida Today reported.

"Now we seem to be focused and preoccupied on space, but the ocean cultures are coming and they're coming fast," said Dennis Chamberland, a contract manager for NASA who's designed prototypes of advanced life support systems for the moon and Mars. "It's inevitable."

http://www.clickorlando.com/family/26515393/detail.html

[Skidmore]

1. That's way too much water for this prairie girl.

Need land under my feet.

[shraby]

2. What do they plan to do with their waste..human and otherwise?

Vent it into the ocean? Pipe it to a waste water plant on land? Recycle it? Not mentioned also in the article is what do they do about supplies needed? A trip to the store when out of stuff to eat or toilet paper is a whole different matter.

[The Straight Story]

4. might be more about that on the website for the colony:

http://www.underseacolony.com/

[Bluenorthwest]

11. The current record for living underwater is 69 days

the first mission of this project shoots for 90 days. This is not so much new activity as it is more and better activity. One assumes such things as planning for dinner are similar to being in places like space or Antartica, you take what you need.

[asjr]

3. What will they do if they have

to repair the roof?

[stuntcat]

5. smart

good idea, I'm into it :headbang:

[eShirl]

6. I see James Cameron and Gene & Majel Roddenberry's son are involved

http://underseacolony.com/core/bio_cameron.html

http://underseacolony.com/core/bio_roddenberry.html

[MineralMan]

7. Hmm...I browsed through their site. Long on concept, short on

details. There is, however, the expected donations page. Blue sky, apparently, doesn't just exist above sea level. Pretty website, though.

[FLPanhandle]

8. It will take prodigious amounts of energy to live like that.

Not exactly a Green lifestyle.

[ixion]

10. it would depend on how that energy is derived

simple usage is not the issue. It's HOW the energy is created. Sure, efficiency is important. However, if you have the available energy in renewable fashion, it would still be a green endeavor.

[ixion]

9. outstanding.

glad to see others re-thinking how we live day-to-day. :applause: :woohoo:

[d_r]

12. Hope they include a hotel

there was tv show when I was a kid about under water houses. Not man from atlantis another one. Can't remember what it was called.

ETA http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=underwater+hotel&cp=9&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=5Go0TbzpLI6SgQfMs8nrCw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCcQsAQwAA&biw=948&bih=472

[Downtown Hound]

13. Looks like Andrew Ryan's Rapture is about to become a reality...

Thumbs up to you if you understood that reference.