海底殖民已不遥远？

Dennis Chamberland是当今最卓越的海底探险者之一。他和NASA合作开发了许多很酷的项目，包括水下的栖息地和植物培育实验室。他收割了第一批生长于海床的人工培育的农作物。在佛罗里达州的基拉戈（Key Largo, FL）海岸附近他建立了可供两人居住的海底栖息站，这一类似小型永久性潜水艇的设施已被包括James Cameron在内的许多未来探险家访问过。他的下一目标是在十年内建立世界上第一个永久性的海底殖民地。这段视频形象地阐述了他的浩大工程。这并非浮华的“形象工程”。地球上最大的生物群系中的四分之三生存于海洋，不为我们了解却面临生存环境不断恶化的威胁。建立海底殖民地，让人们能够居住、生活于其中，将会有效增强对全球海洋环境的监测和保护。The Aquatic Life of Dennis Chamberland: One Man's Quest to Colonize the Sea
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Watch our documentary “The Aquatic Life of Dennis Chamberland” above. Full screen recommended.
Dennis Chamberland doesn’t just want to live underwater: he wants anyone to join him. And he’s determined to make that a reality within a decade.
Chamberland joined NASA as a bioengineer in the mid ‘80s, just as the manned space program was starting to thunder forward. But rather than looking up to the stars, he began looking down – deep down. As a developer of the agency’s Advanced Space Life Support Systems, which monitors the safety for all off-planet habitation pursuits, Chamberland soon became a lead proponent of research on an idea being floated by NASA at the time: using the sea as a testbed for space exploration. Before long, this homegrown explorer would become one of the country’s leading proponents of undersea habitation, and an advocate for what he calls the “space-ocean analog.”
An aquanaut and Mission Commander on seven NASA underwater missions, Chamberland has also pursued landmark research in bioengineering and become a prolific writer ofscience books and sci-fi novels. But it was his work for NASA that resulted in his harvesting of the first agricultural crop in a manned habitat on the sea floor, and led to his designing and construction of the Scott Carpenter Space Analog Station, a two man undersea habitat off Key Largo. The little permanent submarine has been visited by a range of curious futurist explorers, including James Cameron and TV producer Rod Roddenberry, Jr.
Chamberland’s next goal, he explains in this episode of Motherboard: colonizing the sea. To move humans to an underwater “Aquatica,” as he calls the habitable regions of the ocean, he launched the Atlantica Expeditions, which are attempting to build the first underwater settlement for permanent human colonization. This isn’t a glossy sci-architectural lark or a toe-dip. Starting with the premise that nearly three quarters of our planet’s largest biome have long remained invisible – and are increasingly endangered – the Atlantica project seeks
“a human colony whose primary purpose it is to monitor and protect this most essential of all the earth’s biomes. Soon, beneath the sea, families will live and work. Children will go to school. A new generation of children will be born there – the first citizens of a new ocean civilization whose most important purpose will be to continuously monitor and protect the global ocean environment.”
Set to commence by next year, the first expedition will be initiated by the submersion of the Leviathan, a small underwater habitat that can house up to four people. He’s not only certain that the colonization of the ocean floor is imminent; he’s making it happen.
Watch the documentary above, see Chamberland’s blog and dive into more Motherboard episodes in our archives.
source: http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/3/10/the-aquatic-life-of-dennis-chamberland-one-man-s-quest-to-colonize-the-sea
我的一些看法：
目前来说还不现实
有很多的问题需要解决，我看了他的视频，发现一些问题：
1.光照问题，势必要居住在浅海处，保证人体光照需求，而浅海在海洋面积中只是一小部分。
2，居住材料问题，他居住的铁罐子可以明显看出锈蚀迹象，而采取防腐措施必将造成一定的海洋环境污染。
3，能源供应问题，成本问题。
4，突发灾难应对以及造成人员材料比地面上更高量级的损失问题。