, ocean technology company Deep has vowed to build a permanent sub-sea station to enable researchers to "continuously" operate down at that level from 2027. Previously, underwater facilities have only been temporary. But the base, known as the Sentinel, promises to be a scalable and redeploy-able hub for ocean research. Going by Deep's freshly unveiled plans, humans could be living in the oceans twilight zone - where sunlight barely reaches - in as little as four years time. There isn't a major lifestyle draw for humans existing this far below the oceans surface. Forget about the glamorous underwater hotels that let you sleep next to fish in the Great Barrier Reef. There's minimal-style living, sleeping, kitchen and work spaces for researchers to live in during their stay. But climate change has left researchers desperate to safeguard the ocean, and to do that, they must have to skip the - typically - more than four hour journey to the 'office'. Deep executive, Steve Etherton, explained: 'We need to preserve the oceans. To do that we need to understand them. "The oceans sit at the centre of many of the generational challenges the world is facing, and they also offer opportunit){kind=link}
DEEP SEA is one of the least explored environments on Earth, and has been visited by fewer people than the Moon.
So, if you think humans living on the lunar surface is a bonkers plan, try 200m beneath the ocean, where sunlight barely touches and all you can see is an inky black expanse.
At 200m, the pressure is around 21 times greater than it is at the surface.
It’s at this point where nearly all light has been filtered out and the water temperature has dropped to around four degrees.
Despite these uninhabitable conditions (for humans), ocean technology company Deep has vowed to build a permanent sub-sea station to enable researchers to “continuously” operate down at that level from 2027.