It's that time again.

[Sea Bro No.1846693]

Let us discuss mankind's future beneath the sea.

[Sea Bro No.1846696]

concept art welcome, as well as photos of real undersea bases, past and present.

[Anonymous No.1846699]

what would you like to discuss?

[Anonymous No.1846694]

No reaction

[Sea Bro No.1846701]

Here's one of my favorites.

[Anonymous No.1846702]

I chose the impossible.

[Anonymous No.1846704]

>>1846693

the human body is not intended to take that much pressure constantly. hence, our future beneath the sea is limited.

[Sea Bro No.1846707]

>>1846699

Rapture discussion is fine, although that's more for /v/. Actual undersea habitats interest me more.

[Anonymous No.1846712]

im thinking

no enternace for kings

or gods for that matter

[Sea Bro No.1846720]

>>1846704

It's actually the opposite; we initially believed that certain conditions present underwater would make human habitation impractical. But one of the lessons we took away from the 1960's habitat programs was that there's a limit to nitrogen saturation. After a certain point it just stops rising, and it never reaches toxic levels.

Other issues were sunlight (corrected with new grow light tech) humidity (corrected by ceparating the moonpool, plus modern compact dehumidifiers) and temperature (which was actually intolerably hot in some cases, where habitat designs had a lot of electronic equipment on the inside running constantly. Solved via compact aircon.)

The issues that led us to abandon undersea living in the 60s have since been solved, which is precisely why there's been a renewed interest in it lately. From the Poseidon undersea resort to smaller attractions like undersea restaurants, spas and similar attractions, the lessons we've learned in past attempts to put men underwater have made it cheaper and more practical than ever, although now most of that knowledge goes towards delighting tourists rather than exploring the deep.

[Anonymous No.1846726]

read darklife, it's a great book

[Sea Bro No.1846724]

A submerged viewing station inside of a vast aquarium. Doesn't really count, but neat nonetheless.

[Sea Bro No.1846728]

A view into one of the hotel rooms at the Jules Undersea Lodge in Florida.

[Sea Bro No.1846731]

>>1846726

Ooh thanks, I will.

[Anonymous No.1846733]

>>1846731
cool

[Sea Bro No.1846734]

The interior of a 1960s habitat, one of hundreds built between the 60s and 80s. Everyone's wearing bathins tuis because as I mentioned they hadn't yet figured out the need to separate the room with the moon pool from the rest of the interior to prevent the spread of humid air.

[Sea Bro No.1846735]

The exterior of that same habitat, the Tektite II

[Sea Bro No.1846738]

Here's one of our own; the Navy's Sealab II. They built a total of three increasingly deep habitats with the goal of keeping dive teams at the appropriate pressure to retrieve warheads from sunken soviet subs at a moment's notice. According to recently declassified papers, on at least one occasion they did so, and it was a resounding success. However this project came under fire from animal rights activists for using trained dolphins and porpoises to assist divers.

[Sea Bro No.1846740]

A scientist sits in the observation bubble of MarineLab; they were testing acrylic spheres that would one day become part of a new generation of science submersibles.

[Anonymous No.1846743]

arent you worried about all the big daddies?
where is the technology for that?

i mean sure some people can survive the perils

but i doubt women and children would put up much of a fight

[Sea Bro No.1846746]

....Submersibles like this one

[Anonymous No.1846745]

>>1846738
lol, somehow reminds me of sealab 2021

[Sea Bro No.1846747]

>>1846745

Possibly because that's what the original cartoon was based on.

[Sea Bro No.1846750]

If anyone wants to see subs like this in action, descending to 3,000 feet and studying bizarre deep ocean organisms, I recommend Aliens Of The Deep.

[Sea Bro No.1846755]

Here's a novelty; one of a new class of high-speed "flying" subs that use pivoting wings rather than ballast tanks to control ascent and descent.

[Sea Bro No.1846760]

Here's another such winged, highspeed sub. Being developed in the hopes of selling it to the Military. China has expressed growing interest in mining the seafloor and presumably it would be advantageous to be able to put men on site in something small enough to resemble a shark on sonar.

[Sea Bro No.1846762]

A personal submarine, also using an acrylic bubble canopy.

[Sea Bro No.1846764]

Some scientists carrying an experiment module across the seafloor from the Aquarius habitat.

[Sea Bro No.1846768]

On to the concept art, now.

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[Anonymous No.1846786]

MARTIAN LAW

[Sea Bro No.1846795]

Welp, I give up.

[Captain Murphy No.1846798]

>>1846795
Awww, there go my nipples again!

[Anonymous No.1846836]

>my face when all the fish are dying and the underwater palaces of the future will have very boring viewports

[Anonymous No.1846838]

>>1846720

>Poseidon undersea resort

God bless the Enclave.

[Technocrat !O7iFDnU5eI No.1846874]

I remember when I used to build underwater cities, too.