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>>5363371
>It's way too pretty to be functional for actual research. It's all fluff.

That isn't skepticism. It isn't even a rational or informed opinion. Look at the picture. It's an industrial fully crewed A-frame ship. This is what we need, today, to get a submersible into and out of the water. And it can only do it in perfect weather.

The cheat, the clever engineering way around this, is to give the submersible somewhere to surface far enough underwater that choppy surface weather cannot endanger it. And a vessel designed to be supremely stable in that rough weather. You can either achieve this by making the vessel massive, or by designing it to achieve stability through the principles Sea Orbiter's based on.

In other words it's a very efficient design for what it does; transporting, deploying and recovering a deep diving submersible in any weather with as small a crew complement as possible. Add to this saturation diving capability, with a permanent ambient pressure below water living space, and an integrated decompression chamber, and you've combined the functionality of the Aquarius, a deck mounted deco chamber, and an A-frame ship, operable by a fraction of the crew.