DEEP, a private organization based in the UK, is working towards establishing a permanent undersea colony for scientific research and exploration. The project aims to create a network of submersible vehicles and underwater bases, distancing itself from the focus on tourism seen in companies like Oceangate. DEEP remains tight-lipped about its funding sources, but the project is backed by a single anonymous investor with deep pockets.
Rush's company, Oceangate, made its money by courting wealthy clients and taking them on trips to the undersea site of the Titanic's wreckage. Rush's role in the business ended when he and several paying customers were lost in a catastrophic implosion of their submersible, the Titan, during a dive to the Titanic in June 2023. The Oceangate disaster cast a pall over the underwater tourism industry which, prior to the deadly debacle, was relatively unknown to most Americans.
However, there are many private sector undersea projects still barreling forward and one of them is called DEEP. DEEP's primary goal is to establish a permanent undersea colony for the purposes of scientific research and exploration. The effort has sought to distance itself substantially from companies like Oceangate, which has been accused of cutting corners on safety. DEEP has partnered with an international accreditation agency, Det Norske Veritas (DNV), to ensure that its vehicles and underwater structures follow established and robust safety regulations. Instead of focusing on tourism, the organization says its primary goal is to create an aquatic base from which humans can enhance their understanding of the ocean. “The goal is to live in the ocean, forever. To have permanent human settlements in all oceans across the world,” DEEP states. The technological innovations necessary to accomplish that ambitious feat involve the creation of new submarines (which the company refers to as “sentinels”) and a network of undersea bases (which it refers to as “sentinels”). DEEP has, where you can see a fairly open and transparent account of its various engineering processes and difficulties. The company currently has a base of operations in Gloucestershire, a western county in Britain near the Welsh border. There, the company has its own 80-metre-deep lake where it can test its submersible vehicles and build out its vision for aquatic civilization. The base also has a “training school,” where participating scientists can undergo education about how to live and work in underwater environments. The Guardian reports that DEEP also has a mysterious, deep-pocketed donor. The outlet writes that the installation is “funded by a single anonymous private investor with deep pockets who wants to put hundreds of millions of pounds (if not more) into a project that will ‘increase understanding of the ocean and its critical role for humanity'” The outlet adds that DEEP’s leadership team “remains tight-lipped not only about the amount (they will only say it is substantially more than the £100m being invested into the Deep campus near Chepstow) but also about the investor’s identity. Whoever is behind it, the size of the investment means that an ambitious-sounding idea appears to be swiftly becoming a reality.” The Guardian, which recently took a trip to DEEP’s Gloucestershire base, reports on some of the sights and sounds at the unique location, including a mock-up structure designed to mimic the company’s “sentinel” underwater base: “Standing outside the full-size underwater house gives an instant idea of the incredible scale of the undertaking. The main recreational area is a six-metre diameter hemisphere, and the porthole windows mean that when the real thing is submerged there will be an inescapable feeling of being surrounded by the ocean and its inhabitants.
UNDERWATER COLONY DEEP SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OCEAN EXPLORATION SUBMERSIBLES TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION
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