{"id":167699,"date":"2023-07-17T14:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T19:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/this-underwater-base-could-become-the-iss-of-the-ocean"},"modified":"2023-07-17T14:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T19:22:23","slug":"this-underwater-base-could-become-the-iss-of-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/this-underwater-base-could-become-the-iss-of-the-ocean","title":{"rendered":"This underwater base could become the ISS of the ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-underwater-base-could-become-the-iss-of-the-ocean2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2020 underwater base.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Aquanaut Fabien Cousteau \u2014 grandson of famed ocean explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau \u2014 has announced plans to build the world\u2019s biggest underwater base for scientific research.<\/p>\n<p>He calls the facility \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fabiencousteauolc.org\/proteus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Proteus<\/a>\u201d and envisions it being the ocean equivalent of the International Space Station \u2014 a place where scientists from across the globe can work together to solve the world\u2019s biggest problems, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/articles\/climate-change-stony-coral-withstand-harsh-future\">climate change<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/articles\/supercharging-photosynthesis-can-grow-40-more-food\">world hunger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProteus\u2026is essential to driving meaningful solutions to protect the future of our planet,\u201d Cousteau said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/announcing-fabien-cousteaus-proteus-a-revolutionary-underwater-scientific-research-station-and-habitat-addressing-humanitys-most-critical-concerns-301098026.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a>. \u201cThe knowledge that will be uncovered underwater will forever change the way generations of humans live up above.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 underwater base. Aquanaut Fabien Cousteau \u2014 grandson of famed ocean explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau \u2014 has announced plans to build the world\u2019s biggest underwater base for scientific research. He calls the facility \u201cProteus\u201d and envisions it being the ocean equivalent of the International Space Station \u2014 a place where scientists from across the globe can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167699","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\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}