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This, coupled with the genuine necessity of their life support systems would greatly increase the authenticity of the program and by extension the applicability of it's findings. As the Jules owner normally covers it's operational costs by making it available to tourists as a hotel, it also has a history of brief rental by teams of scientists and there is a special rate available for that purpose. THe going rate for tourists is $300-$400 a night depending on the "package", the rate for scientific crews is dependent on their relationship with the owner and with ocean exploration but in all cases less than what tourists pay. At a depth of 25 feet (with a hatch depth of 21 feet) the internal pressure is 1.6atm, the limit below which saturation does not occur and no decompression is required to return to the surface. This makes it safer in some respects than even the existing MDRS program and (even at the tourist rate) potentially cheaper to run, provided missions are annual or monthly rather than continuous. To be clear I suggest this not as an alternative to MDRS but as an alternative to building additional analog mars stations, as it is my understanding that two more are planned.