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There is a detailed story behind this historic venture, of course. While we developed this website to be as comprehensive as possible, we could not possibly tell our whole story in depth here online. To make up for that, we have published the detailed and in depth account of this venture in the companion book to the Atlantica Expeditions, UNDERSEA COLONIES, made availble here at a substantial discount over Amazon.com and retail book outlets. For more information, click on the button below!
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We celebrate our diversity. Our Expeditions Leader is proud of his Cherokee Indian Ancestry whose genetic tribal heritage made these expeditions possible.
As we found new human communities in the oceans - in places none of us are familiar with, we do so withcourage and with faith - mindful that we all cometogether with a rich and diverse heritage. But as we come together we bringour heritage with us, for by never forgetting what what we are and remembering where we have come from makes us stronger together as a team.
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Because 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...
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 a few military men ply 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. I am speaking of a human colony – 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 arth'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.
A VIDEO WELCOME! for a video welcome from
Atlantica Expeditions Leader
Dennis ChamberlandTo 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 August 2nd, 2010. Three Aquanauts – Dennis Chamberland, Claudia Chamberland and Terrence Tysall, 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 2013, 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.
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.
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 2009 Atlantica I Expedition. Congratulations Lloyd!Apply Now as a Permanent Colonist!
First Openings - 2013
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.
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