{"id":112126,"date":"2020-08-29T09:22:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T16:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/ambitious-designs-for-underwater-space-station-and-habitat-unveiled"},"modified":"2020-08-29T09:22:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T16:22:37","slug":"ambitious-designs-for-underwater-space-station-and-habitat-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/ambitious-designs-for-underwater-space-station-and-habitat-unveiled","title":{"rendered":"Ambitious designs for underwater \u2018space station\u2019 and habitat unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ambitious-designs-for-underwater-space-station-and-habitat-unveiled2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sixty feet beneath the surface of the Caribbean Sea, aquanaut Fabien Cousteau and industrial designer Yves B\u00e9har are envisioning the world\u2019s largest underwater research station and habitat.<\/p>\n<p>The pair have unveiled Fabien Cousteau\u2019s Proteus, a 4,000-square-foot modular lab that will sit under the water off the coast of Cura\u00e7ao, providing a home to scientists and researchers from across the world studying the ocean \u2014 from the effects of climate change and new marine life to medicinal breakthroughs.<\/p>\n<p>Designed as a two-story circular structure grounded to the ocean floor on stilts, Proteus\u2019 protruding pods contain laboratories, personal quarters, medical bays and a moon pool where divers can access the ocean floor. Powered by wind and solar energy, and ocean thermal energy conversion, the structure will also feature the first underwater greenhouse for growing food, as well as a video production facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty feet beneath the surface of the Caribbean Sea, aquanaut Fabien Cousteau and industrial designer Yves B\u00e9har are envisioning the world\u2019s largest underwater research station and habitat. The pair have unveiled Fabien Cousteau\u2019s Proteus, a 4,000-square-foot modular lab that will sit under the water off the coast of Cura\u00e7ao, providing a home to scientists and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1633],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}