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'SeaOrbiter' | Jacques Rougerie | 59m | 2013-2014

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'SeaOrbiter'
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Crew: 18
Total height: 59m
Cost: €35M /$52.7M
Delivery: October 2014
Life expectancy: 15 years
Architect: Jacques Rougerie
Below sea level height: 31m
Above sea level height: 28m
Construction to start: April 2013
First scientific voyage: June 2015
Construction site: Cherbourg (hull) /Saint-Nazaire (equipment)
The SeaOrbiter, also known as Sea Orbiter (two words), is an ocean going research vessel set for launch in 2013. Similar to a space ship, the SeaOrbiter is planned to allow scientists and others to live on a residential & yet mobile research station positioned under the oceans' surface. The station will have laboratories, workshops, living quarters and a pressurized deck to support divers and submarines.

SeaOrbiter is a project of the "Floating oceanographic laboratory" organisation. It is headed by French architect Jacques Rougerie, oceanographer Jacques Piccard and astronaut Jean-Loup Chretien. The construction of the Oceanographic Laboratory started in 2011. The cost is expected to be around €35 million ($52.7 million.)




'SeaOrbiter' & Jacques Rougerie, its architect





'SeaOrbiter' Official Website HERE
 
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