Under the Sea

So there is an underwater lab and living arrangement the size of a school bus 63 feet below the ocean’s surface in the Florida Keys. How is it I didn’t know about this? It has room (close quarters though) for 6 and one of the researchers that’s been in there studying the reefs for effects of climate change is none other than Jacques Cousteau’s grandson, Fabien Cousteau. Fabien has spent almost a month there and says that they have collected an incredible amount of data in that short time there. The habitat is called Aquarius Reef Base and it has been the temporary home to aquanauts and scientists sine its deployment in 1993. Universities, government agencies and private industry have conducted more than 120 missions to discover, preserve, train and innovate. More than 600 scientific research papers have been published based on Aquarius science. Aquarius Reef Base is not only one of a kind; it’s also the world’s only undersea research laboratory.