{"id":678,"date":"2020-08-01T12:56:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T12:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2020-08-01T12:56:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T12:56:53","slug":"raising-135-million-for-deep-sea-research-facility-might-help-us-to-address-the-future-viral-pandemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/raising-135-million-for-deep-sea-research-facility-might-help-us-to-address-the-future-viral-pandemics\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising $135 Million for Deep-Sea Research Facility Might Help Us to Address the Future Viral Pandemics"},"content":{"rendered":"
Fabien Cousteau is raising millions of dollars to build the first state-of-the-art deep-sea research facility under the ocean. His efforts might be the solution for the scientists to stop the future viral pandemics we are now facing today.<\/p>\n
Fabien got his passion for underwater exploration from his early Scuba diving lessons. His grandfather Jacques-Yves Cousteau was an aquanaut and also had the desire to make deep-sea habitats.<\/p>\n
“Scuba diving is an amazing blessing, but there\u2019s a very real limit of time” – Fabien Cousteau<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In fact, Jacques-Yves Cousteau was one of the pioneers of the underwater habitat idea in the 1960\u2019s. But lack of technology was the main obstacle for him to make a futuristic underwater livable habitat we see in the sci-fi movies.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, after 60 years, his<\/p>\n
grandson Fabien Cousteau is making his dream come true by constructing the first International Space Station for deep-sea study.<\/p>\n
The station will be located 60 feet underwater of the Caribbean Sea. It will take 3 years to build the station and 12 people can live inside the habitat for weeks, even months.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of the habitats were purpose-built for one mission or set of missions. They were never conceived as an International Space Station, something that\u2019s to be deployed for a longer period of time,\u201d says Fabien<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Deep-Sea Research and The Potential Solution for Viral Pandemics<\/h2>\n
Researchers have been doing ocean habitat study for years using the platforms mainly built in the \u201960s and \u201980s. However, Aquarius<\/a> is the only remaining underwater laboratory for scientists today.<\/p>\n
Fabien calls his dream project Proteus, named after the Greek primordial sea God. He is calling his project as an ISS<\/a> of the deep-sea since ISS is a habitable artificial satellite in the low Earth Orbit.<\/p>\n