Post by account_disabled on Feb 19, 2024 23:47:14 GMT -5
An ocean exploration and technology company, DEEP , has revealed plans to build a deep-sea underwater habitat project called Sentinel.
The Sentinel system creates a whole new world of underwater living and working. This system is configurable and customizable and is ideally suited to accommodate short-term to semi-permanent deployments anywhere on the continental shelf.
Archeology and recovery missions that used to take months using traditional aerial diving techniques can now be completed in days or weeks with the help of a single Sentinel.
According to DEEP, the Sentinel System can be the 'International Space Station for the oceans'.
DEEP is working closely with the world's leading certification body, DNV, to ensure Sentinel is the world's first underwater habitat to achieve third-party certification. DEEP will maintain security to fulfill its mission.
Sentinel underwater habitat components can be configured, reconfigured and relocated without affecting the operation of neighboring Sentinels at depth between missions without the need to recover to the sur C Level Executive List face. It is suited to smaller, six-crew, short-term deployments such as semi-permanent, multinational, 50-crew research stations.
The Sentinel system has been designed to operate under ambient atmosphere or pressure.
The deepwater underwater Sentinel system has a comfortable sleeping quarters and two sanitary spaces providing a toilet, shower and privacy changing area, including storage lockers. In addition, the Sentinel includes an equipped kitchen that allows the crew to cook.
Additionally, the Sentinel underwater system is equipped with a mezzanine; is a flexible workspace that can be configured to fit a specific mission profile.
The Sentinels will have a useful life of 20 years and can be redeployed to different locations around the world to maximize their utilization and optimize their usability.
Sentinel power systems are based on a microgrid architecture powered by DEEP's satellite communications and renewable energy buoy.
“DEEP is leading the way in developing and expanding novel approaches for a sustained intersection between the deep sea and humanity. “As demonstrated through a continued presence in space, time and exposure to a unique environment have led to significant advances in science, engineering and the thirst to extend our reach beyond our planet,” said Dawn Kernagis. , a crew member on NASA's NEEMO XXI underwater mission, in a statement .
Steve Etherton, DEEP president for EMEA, said: “We need to preserve the oceans. To do that, we need to understand them. The oceans are at the center of many of the generational challenges facing the world, and they also offer opportunities we haven't even begun to understand.
They are the source of at least every other breath we take. They influence the climate. However, this life-sustaining ecosystem remains surprisingly unknown. “Through our innovative technology, DEEP will enable scientists to operate at depth for long periods of time and we hope, in some small way, to contribute to our understanding of this life-giving environment.”
DEEP says it aims for a “permanent human presence” under the oceans from 2027. The underwater stations will allow researchers to operate continuously at a depth of around 200m and be located off the UK coast. In addition, it will allow scientists to live underwater at depths of up to 28 days at a time.
The South West of the UK and Wales were selected as DEEP's initial base due to the unique pool of relevant expertise in marine engineering, hyperbaric and submersible diving and links to the wider UK technical and commercial diving industry.
Exhaustively exploring the entire expanse of this part of the ocean, rather than just making forays from the surface, will represent a radical change in the way scientists can observe, monitor and understand the oceans.
The Sentinel system creates a whole new world of underwater living and working. This system is configurable and customizable and is ideally suited to accommodate short-term to semi-permanent deployments anywhere on the continental shelf.
Archeology and recovery missions that used to take months using traditional aerial diving techniques can now be completed in days or weeks with the help of a single Sentinel.
According to DEEP, the Sentinel System can be the 'International Space Station for the oceans'.
DEEP is working closely with the world's leading certification body, DNV, to ensure Sentinel is the world's first underwater habitat to achieve third-party certification. DEEP will maintain security to fulfill its mission.
Sentinel underwater habitat components can be configured, reconfigured and relocated without affecting the operation of neighboring Sentinels at depth between missions without the need to recover to the sur C Level Executive List face. It is suited to smaller, six-crew, short-term deployments such as semi-permanent, multinational, 50-crew research stations.
The Sentinel system has been designed to operate under ambient atmosphere or pressure.
The deepwater underwater Sentinel system has a comfortable sleeping quarters and two sanitary spaces providing a toilet, shower and privacy changing area, including storage lockers. In addition, the Sentinel includes an equipped kitchen that allows the crew to cook.
Additionally, the Sentinel underwater system is equipped with a mezzanine; is a flexible workspace that can be configured to fit a specific mission profile.
The Sentinels will have a useful life of 20 years and can be redeployed to different locations around the world to maximize their utilization and optimize their usability.
Sentinel power systems are based on a microgrid architecture powered by DEEP's satellite communications and renewable energy buoy.
“DEEP is leading the way in developing and expanding novel approaches for a sustained intersection between the deep sea and humanity. “As demonstrated through a continued presence in space, time and exposure to a unique environment have led to significant advances in science, engineering and the thirst to extend our reach beyond our planet,” said Dawn Kernagis. , a crew member on NASA's NEEMO XXI underwater mission, in a statement .
Steve Etherton, DEEP president for EMEA, said: “We need to preserve the oceans. To do that, we need to understand them. The oceans are at the center of many of the generational challenges facing the world, and they also offer opportunities we haven't even begun to understand.
They are the source of at least every other breath we take. They influence the climate. However, this life-sustaining ecosystem remains surprisingly unknown. “Through our innovative technology, DEEP will enable scientists to operate at depth for long periods of time and we hope, in some small way, to contribute to our understanding of this life-giving environment.”
DEEP says it aims for a “permanent human presence” under the oceans from 2027. The underwater stations will allow researchers to operate continuously at a depth of around 200m and be located off the UK coast. In addition, it will allow scientists to live underwater at depths of up to 28 days at a time.
The South West of the UK and Wales were selected as DEEP's initial base due to the unique pool of relevant expertise in marine engineering, hyperbaric and submersible diving and links to the wider UK technical and commercial diving industry.
Exhaustively exploring the entire expanse of this part of the ocean, rather than just making forays from the surface, will represent a radical change in the way scientists can observe, monitor and understand the oceans.