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New Bristol-made technology enables scientists to live and work on the ocean floor
A company specialising in ocean exploration technology hopes to achieve constant human presence on the ocean floor from 2027.
DEEP, an Avonmouth-based company championing ocean research, claims to be advancing their research technology in order to “contribute to our understanding of this life-giving environment”.
This technology, after two years of pioneering research, is claimed by DEEP to offer a “radically more effective way to live and operate underwater than has existed before”.
Who lives in a submersible under the sea? – image: DEEP
A new range of submersibles, dive and scientific research equipment will be used to cover the full range of oceans depths in DEEP’s aquatic habitat known as Sentinel TM.
The new technology is being combined with developed operational training programmes to shift the way in which research of the ocean can take place.
Scientists will be able to live and work at depths continuously of up to 200 metres for up to 28 days at a time.
DEEP, whose global headquarters are on Kings Weston Lane, say that the South West has been chosen as the initial base of this project due to its unique cluster of marine engineering as well as links with the wider UK commercial and technical diving industry.
DEEP’s president, Steve Etherton, said that despite the oceans “sitting at the centre of many of the generational challenges the world is facing”, this “life-sustaining ecosystem remains surprisingly unknown”.
Mike Shackleford, president of global services of DEEP added that “this is just the beginning”.
The DEEP campus in Avonmouth will provide a centre of testing research and development, as well as a development training base for national and international partners.
Main image: DEEP
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