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RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Maybe Someday?
Jules Undersea Lodge, Key Largo, Florida--sits in an emerald greed sea (emerald like pea soup) in a man-made backwater. You can stay a night or a bunch of nights, depending on the depths of your purse. It is the old Prinul habitat built originally by Perry for University of Puerto Rico. Two 8 foot by 16 foot chambers in a towable barge hull. Pretty roomy by habitat standards, and pretty nice for a special treat. They have Phil Nuyton's Sea Urchin down there, too, and a bunch of oil field equipment (bell, transfer lock, chamber, etc.,) so the tourists can try it in real life.
Vance
In a message dated Thu, 16 Aug 2001 8:05:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "Harry Spillett" <harry.spillett@bigfoot.com> writes:
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <SPAN class=660220512-16082001>Isn't there an underwater "hotel" somewhere near The Keys where people can dive to alockout and then spend a week or so down there, I think it is a one atmosphere environment but quit small, the pictures I saw looked like a caravan with a large view port from the inside.</SPAN> <SPAN class=660220512-16082001></SPAN> <SPAN class=660220512-16082001>Harry</SPAN> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-personal submersibles@psubs.org [mailto:owner-personal submersibles@psubs.org]On Behalf Of Ty Alley
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 7:29 AM
> To: personal submersibles@psubs.org
> Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Maybe Someday?
>
> Hmmm, everyone must have already turned in for the night. Anyways, I have been loosely keeping up with what's been going on with the Mars Society's Devon Island research station in the high artic. For those of you who don't know, they are conducting research in a simulated habitat to gather information of what it would be like to live on Mars. What does this have to do withhome built subs?Creating, maintaining andliving inartificial environments and atmospheres, sort of go hand and hand with subsbut even furtherwith underwater habitats. I know there has been a little discussion on habitatsbut from whatI've seen,It's just been stating that they areenormously expensive subs that don't go anywhere. With that said, I jump into my next question. Why isn't more effort by governments or whomever, spentresearching the possibilities of mans existence in the sea. Is it considered that Cousteau proved and discoveredeveryth!
ing there was to prove and d
iscover with the Conshelf project? Sort of a "been there, done that" attitude. It would seemmore logical that if"we" were to set off colonizing something other than earth, that the next step would be the sea and notsome distant planet. Is there a possibility that something, equivalent to the Mars Society, could beassembled, focusing on under sea efforts? The only habitat that I know of is the Aquarius, which is a small ambient pressure,scientific habitat. It operates ten day saturation missions in the Florida Keys. I know these are grossly expensive projects but if you look at The Mars Society's list of sponsors, it seems that they have found some grossly deep pockets as well. Speaking of sponsors, check out Pioneer Astronauticswww.pioneerastro.com . They are the company dealing with some of the environmentalconcerns of the Mars habitat. Their "Nitrous Oxide Based Oxygen Supply System" seems like it could have a very prac!
tical application in a submarine
, diving suit or habitat. Well, I can see it now. We'd all be cruising to the store indouble "deep workers", going out to the under sea park in an "Exo Suit" and commuting to work in a "K-boat". Maybe on weekends we could all meet at the under sea "Sonic" to show of our latest custom subs, with Pat reigning supreme with the "Nautilus". Oh yea, and Phil could be the Henry Ford of the sea! I'm out,it's late, Ty