the World ocean takes up over 70 percent of the planet’s surface, but, according to scientists who studied it only for a minuscule – no more than 5 percent. We can only guess how many secrets are stored and not going so easy to give up the sea. To discover at least a fraction of the French researcher proposed to build at the bottom analogue of the International space station.
the Project received the name “Proteus” (Proteus). As seen Cousteau? The underwater laboratory is the area of over 1200 square meters. Round, with two floors, standing on special supports. Her plan to drop to a depth of 18 meters near the island of curaçao in the Caribbean sea. To live and do research at the station will be able to twelve people.
Here is almost everything you need for normal living rooms, living room for recreation, pool, by which researchers will be able to reach the bottom of the ocean. And even a greenhouse for growing vegetables.
“the Study of the ocean a thousand times more important than the conquest of space, for our survival, the trajectory of our future. It is our life support. This is the reason we exist on this planet,” – says the grandson Cousteau. According to him, the project design is ready and the installation of “Proteus” will take three years. In the underwater house scientists will be able to live for months: conduct research to study climate change, to develop new drugs.
once, in 1962, of the legendary Cousteau has launched a fantastic project team a total of three months lived in the houses at the bottom of the ocean. One of the first marine homes were designed for two people and was at a depth of about ten meters near the coast of Marseille. This project was followed by another station where Aquanauts lived the first month at the depth of 11 meters, and then two weeks at a depth of 25 meters in the Red sea.
It was like flying in space – all the first time, surprising and strange. Exciting adventure. Creating a super-laboratory at the bottom of the ocean today, the grandson Cousteau continues the family tradition. He continues to discover the unknown.
