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Undersea Station: Portholes

(Update 15.07.2020: complete makeover of the article; replaced outdated information; added new aspects from different sources like NASA’s Human Integration Handbook, 2010)

Windows are essential and present the most important reason to operate an underwater habitat. They are necessary for operation, safety and marketing. Continue reading “Undersea Station: Portholes”

Underwater Station: Virtual Porthole

Here is an idea for a porthole where the structure of the underwater station does not allow to install one. For example on the ceiling, where penetrations of the shell should be strictly avoided in order to maintain the integrity of the emergency safety area in the upper part of the living area. The Virtual Porthole would consist of a camera on the exterior of the shell and a TV flat screen on same position inside the habitat. Continue reading “Underwater Station: Virtual Porthole”

CalamarPark.com is an independent ‘Initiative for Studies on Aquanautic‘. Our aim is to develop a new generation of modular, serial underwater habitats for human occupation with emphasis on human scale and habitability. The facility and its mobile module will be open to several interdisciplinary applications, such as underwater archaeology, specialized tourism, space training missions etc.

Within this scope we are convinced that this is the best approach to attract attention for the marine habitat and increase interest to its environmental issues.

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