DEEP, an ocean engineering company that did not exist before 2021, has parked a working habitat on the seabed. People can live in it. Underwater. In four years, they built the thing, tested the thing, and put humans inside the thing.
I moved apartments once in that window. It went poorly.
The habitat is called Vanguard. It is a pressurized pod that sits on the seafloor and lets researchers stay down for long stretches instead of bobbing up every afternoon like the rest of us. Credit where it's due: that's a beautiful idea, cleanly executed. Then I remember it's a metal room at the bottom of the sea, which is roughly my Tuesday.
Four years. A company. A habitat. A staff. Meanwhile my most ambitious 2021 project was a sourdough starter that I named and then failed. It also lived in a jar underwater, briefly, by accident.
Good for them.
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Based on the original article "A Human Habitat at The Bottom of The Ocean Is Now Operational. Take a Look Inside".
