Deep sea settlements where thousands of people live

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In his office with a two-story wooden workshop in the industrial sector of the North Coast of Vancouver on the Canada-US border, near where he grew up, Phil Newton sat.

He is over 70 and now seems ready and quick-witted to tell his story in the style of ancient sailors. He is one of the world's great ocean explorers. During his six-decade career, he has developed diving technologies that carry industry-specific specifications, designed diving devices that have become essential to many navies and scored the world's first diving operations.

Phil Newton was 16 years old when he first decided that he wanted to spend his life under the sea in 1947. World War II was over. Newton's father took a job at Boeing and the company's office in Vancouver Harbor is close to the family home.

Often Newton went to the port on his own and sneaked to the end of the docks and stared through the cracks with passion with passion to the fish and anemones and the underworld crowded with beings «My God, is not it wonderful to dive into the depths? And I go to that deep place? ”He was thinking.

Undersea settlement
Newton was exploring oil fields, surveying dams, touring submarine manufacturing sites and exploring wreckage. His research company, Nowitco, is proud of a list of clients including the BBC, Greenpeace and film director James Cameron - Newton presented the ideas and equipment for Abyss and Titanic and both remain friends.

Newton is also developing equipment for the US space agency and training astronauts because the seabed looks similar to the surface of Mars. Newton never attended university. He taught himself; however, the experiences he gained from exploring the oceans were enormous.

Newton is now embarking on a project that is likely to go down in history, a vast underwater settlement that has taken decades to develop and will give humanity a safe haven if things do not go well on Earth.

Work on the miniature starts later this year, and the wider settlement will be built soon after. As long as things go as planned, hundreds and thousands of people will begin to migrate to the sea floor to live their lives on the ocean floor in the same way they do above ground, and within a short period, many will follow.

It is difficult to determine whether everything is going according to plan. James McFarlane of the International Engineering Submarine Company says it is a harsh environment. There is salt water and rust. When you deal with life, things get expensive very quickly.

However, Newton remains adamant about his decision. He devoted his entire life to developing methods that allow man to spend a great deal of time under water, often at enormous depths. He is now in the final stages of the task of moving humanity to the bottom. “I have this wonderful picture in my mind. A young child sits on his father's knee just as I was doing and points to the roof of this home and says, "Is it true, Dad, that people were living upstairs?"

 

Previous experiences
In 1962, a French couple, Albert Falco and Claude Wesley, spent a week in a small environment co-designed by French explorer Jacques Cousteau. It was 33 feet below sea level near Marseille and looked like an aquatic space station.

The following year, Cousteau persuaded a five-person team to live for a month under the Red Sea on the coast of Sudan. Two years later, he developed a third base, known as Conchilph III, which was installed more than 300 feet below the surface of the water on the coasts adjacent to Nice. A six-person team lived there for three weeks. They were leaving the base every day to work on a model of three-dimensional oil platforms, as if it were hoped that the po[CENSORED]tion would be able to do similar work in the future, at which point the platform will be real.

Soon after, additional environments emerged on the coasts of Bermuda, California and Germany, which were funded by governments, wealthy businessmen or petrochemical companies; there was considerable optimism at the academic level. Here, a better opportunity for scientists to study the depths of the dark ocean and seafarers to study anatomy and energy companies to explore alternative resources and divers to reach depths record.

In the 1960s, everyone working in ocean activities thought there would be underwater cities in a short period of time, but that did not happen as Newton comments.

At the end of the 1960s, the race to colonize the ocean floor slowed down and finally vanished, and the construction and management of these settlements was more expensive and costly. Lack of natural light can provoke tenants mad. Because the bases were built under normal pressure, the decompression periods were lengthy and risky.

Teams would spend weeks at any base, conduct tests, learn more about the limits of human endurance and re-emerge slowly and sometimes never again. Those environments were abandoned one by one. Research institutions have directed their funds to other aspects. Government agencies have turned their attention to space. Space has replaced the oceans as the ultimate human destination.

Stunning Cousteau Stories
At the time, Newton was still a novice in ocean activity, and he began working on the concepts that were later praised; The subject became a sort of obsession.

What if he could create a less expensive environment for construction and management? What if he could find a way to reproduce the natural light that man needed to live comfortably? What if he can overcome the problems caused by the enormous pressure of the deep ocean? What if he could do what Costo and his contemporaries could not do: to convince society of the idea of living 3,000 feet below the sea?

By the late 1960s, he began work on his own settlement, which he referred to as the Alpha Spring Base.

He occasionally writes his ideas on paper scraps and combines them into cumulative assumptions together. At times, a blueprint has made tremendous progress and enables it to understand what went wrong when someone was trying to live in the deep sea. There were successes and failures over half a century.

Life Support System
Thus Newton plans to build the settlement. First, he will search for equipment in what he calls a "cemetery," a vast place to store disposed devices, then locate a set of saturation tanks and turn them into residences, laboratories, a series of locks and a submersible barn, and each tank is welded to the next. Later, the structure will be equipped with a Stirling engine capable of generating the electricity needed to create artificial sunlight and allow people to grow crops and enable them to break water into hydrogen and oxygen.Newton conveys this latest information and says, `` This is the life support system. ''

Later, the settlement is transferred to open water, most likely to the 154-km Juan de Foca Strait, which flows into the Pacific Ocean south of Vancouver Island. It will be submerged until it reaches the sea floor a few thousand feet away, and is then installed alongside a hydrothermal opening - an undersea water spring. The spring will give the base its name, hot emissions will run the Stirling engine and mineral-rich sediments will be explored. The po[CENSORED]tion will sell pure cobalt to buyers above water. Newton will not make any financial gains from the project. Funding comes from government agencies, although Newton will drop the demand for a formal statement on whether a large part of the metal can be fixed to the ocean floor.