JACQUES COUSTEAU’S GRANDSON WANTS TO BUILD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION OF THE SEAOff the coast of Curaçao, at a depth of 60 feet, aquanau...

Published on by

JACQUES COUSTEAU’S GRANDSON WANTS TO BUILD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION OF THE SEAOff the coast of Curaçao, at a depth of 60 feet, aquanau...
JACQUES COUSTEAU’S GRANDSON WANTS TO BUILD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION OF THE SEA
Off the coast of Curaçao, at a depth of 60 feet, aquanaut Fabien Cousteau is looking to create the world’s largest underwater research habitat. Fabien Cousteau's Proteus will be the first underwater research habitat built in decades. (Concept designs by Yves Béhar and fuseproject)

In 1963, a saucer-shaped, yellow submarine returned from the depths of the Red Sea and docked to an underwater research center, 26 miles off the coast of Port Sudan and 33 feet below the surface. Aboard it was legendary explorer and oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, who captured the imagination of millions with his Oscar-winning documentary World Without Sun. "This is the first time an undersea boat has had an undersea base," Cousteau narrated as his slender figure climbed out of the submarine and into Continental Shelf Station Two, the underwater station that served as home and laboratory to five aquanauts for one month.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/jacques-cousteaus-grandson-wants-to-build-international-space-station-of-the-sea-180975635/

Media

Taxonomy