Atlantica Undersea Colony

Undersea Colonization and Research

We intend to live underwater.

Why? Becasue it is our responsibility

The Atlantica Expeditions will teach the methods that will allow us and other humans to continuously and comprehensively diagnose our vast planetary ocean's health using the intelligent eyes of scientists and engineers wielding the most advanced 21st century scientific tools on earth. Until now, we have been blind to nearly three quarters of our planet's largest and most important biome. But now we will see...

TIME TO MISSION START

There is a whole kingdom that lies uninhabited just beneath us.

While we live crowded and struggling on a mere 59 million square miles of dry land, this new territory of certain promise spreads out before our very eyes and unfolds to encompass an astonishing 138 million cubic miles of habitable space! I am speaking of the oceans - whose human population is now and has always been - zero. While there are a few military men beneath the waves in submarines, they have no seafloor base to call home and they are always moving and temporary visitors without even a window from which to peer out.

We're speaking of a human undersea city.

...a permanent dwelling place for people and even families. Today it is but fantasy, as it has always been. But no more. As of today, the dream of permanently settling the undersea regions of our earth has taken wings.This is the site of the Atlantica I and II Expeditions that will establish the first human undersea colony. We do not intent to establish a base or an outpost, but 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.

 

THE LATEST

EXPEDITION PODCAST
 

Check out the new
Motherboard.TV 
Expeditions Documentary!
 

To make this happen, we have assembled the most remarkable and talented team of aquanaut explorers, scientists and engineers ever gathered in history. Our team has more certified aquanauts with more logged underwater time than any other ever brought together. Our team holds an incredible slate of undersea world records in diving, duration and depth. On our team are habitat designers, submarine systems engineers and world class diving experts. If there is any team on earth that can make this happen, it is ours.

The First Atlantica Expedition Will Begin on Monday, July 4th, 2013

Three Aquanauts – Dennis Chamberland, Claudia Chamberland and Art Ortolani, will submerge in the Leviathan Habitat and set a new world’s record for uninterrupted stay beneath the surface shattering the previous record of 69 days set by Aquanaut Rick Presley. Rotating in five day visits, 24 other aquanauts will rotate through the Leviathan including scientists, teachers, journalists and even Aquanaut Rick Presley! Then in 2015 or before, the Challenger Station habitat – the largest manned undersea habitat ever built, will be launched off the Florida coast and establish the first permanent undersea human colony. Our efforts do not represent an underwater hotel, not an outpost or a way-station, not a laboratory. We are a human community. We are the first humans who will move there and stay with no intention of ever calling dry land our home again. We represent the first generation of a people who will live out their lives beneath the sea. Like the three prongs of Poseidon’s Trident, we enter the oceans as permanent residents to enable our three linked prime objectives: the carving our of a permanent human niche - so that – we can intelligently monitor and protect the ocean environment – so that – we can teach our children through our educational programs that the oceans of the earth are the essential life blood and must be understood, protected and preserved as a primary human activity. All three of these primary objectives are so linked that they are inseparable. We literally cannot accomplish the one without the other. We do not dare to dominate, we do not dare to intrude, but we set out to witness, to record and find ways to defend, shield and protect. In so doing, to teach the next generation that we are caretakers and protectors – not miners, not owners and not rulers. The age of a new kind of human civilization has dawned. With the Atlantica Expeditions, the ocean will form the frontier of the aquatic human whose new colonies will seed a new empire of human dominion of the earth.

The good thing about opening up a frontier that is many times the size of the relatively tiny land masses is that the need for talent and enthusiasm is limitless.  Whatever you do and whatever your talent  - Aquatica could certianly use your expertise. There are many ways you can become a part of this historic undertaking.

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What's Happening At 
Polaris B?

An Atlantica Expeditions Aquanaut Team will soon place data probes at Polaris B.  Click here to find out what they are looing for and to review the data as it is received and processed.

Introducing Zack Bernstein
Youngest Expedition  Member
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Atlanta based Zack Bernstein joined the expeditions on the day he was certified as a diver, just past his 10th birthday.  The Atlantica Expeditions to establish the first permanent human colony in the oceans is all about innovation and new blood, casting off the old landlocked culture and building a new human civilization under the sea. In that regard, we are always looking for young people to take on that specific challenge. Shown here is young Zack exactly one minute after he successfully completed his SCUBA certification. 

For more information on the rest of the official Atlantica Expeditions crew, click here.


 

Award Winning Crewmember

Atlantica Crewmember and Aquanaut Lloyd Godson is the 2007 winner of the Australian Geographic Society's Adventurer of the year award.  Lloyd's underwater habitat adventure captured the attention of the world as he integrated the first bioregenrative life support system component in an underwater habitat and spent 12 days living and working as an aquanaut.  Lloyd and companion Carolina Sarasiti will joins us in the 2013 Atlantica I Expedition.  Congratulations Lloyd!

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First Openings - 2015 


 Everest Mountaineer and Aquanaut Tom Whittaker working in
an Undersea Habitat designed by our Expeditions Leader and 
utilized undersea for two years involving many aquanaut teams.

Check out some of our videos and photos and our amazing cast of expeditionary crew.