SCIENCE
‘Nasa of the oceans’ to build sea station in Gloucestershire
Dayhouse Quarry will be the test site for Deep’s underwater habitat Sentinel, which will allow marine scientists to live and study up to 200m beneath the waves
Sentinel will be tested in the quarry by the end of next year and hopefully made seaworthy by the end of 2026. Sean Wolpert, Deep’s Americas president, said scientists had almost been moved to tears by the company’s plans
The Times
It is often claimed that we know more about the surface of the moon and Mars than about the ocean floor on our own planet.
Now a flooded quarry in the Forest of Dean is becoming the test site for a company aiming to build the international space station of the seas, to allow marine scientists to live on the sea floor for a month at a time to study its hidden depths.
More than £100 million is being invested at Dayhouse Quarry, in Tidenham, Gloucestershire, by Deep, a company aiming to radically advance how humans access, explore and inhabit underwater environments by building sub-sea research stations and submarines.
“When you look at Nasa, their mission was to make our species multi-planetary,” said Sean Wolpert,
