A british engineering and research company is unveiling a subsea human habitat, a base that four people can live and work in for missions of a week or more It's the first new underwater habitat. Once it is sealed and moved to its permanent home beneath the waves of the florida keys national marine sanctuary early next year, vanguard will be the world’s first new subsea habitat in nearly four decades Teams of four scientists will live and work on the seabed for a week at a time, entering and leaving the habitat as scuba divers Their missions could include reef restoration, species. At the center of this expansion is project vanguard, the first crewed subsea human habitat of its kind to be constructed in four decades.
Norman smith is talking about the imminent launch of vanguard, an advanced living space on the ocean floor that provides a home and work environment for researchers Vanguard, he says, is designed.
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