/sci/ - Science & Math

This underwater community stuff is really cool but I don't see any reason why it would be a necessity, and rather just for the hell of it. If you wanted to build an actual sustainable offshore community outside of any country's EEZ it would seem to me to be far easier to go with platforms even at considerable depths, maybe anchored with cables or something like the mobile offshore base concept the US Navy considered for period. I understand the argument that it would likely require more materials to build, but I really don't see a community of people living permanently living in a bunch of pods the size of small dorm rooms being happy without a sizable platform to surface to.