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15th June 2014

Frenchman's Plan For 'Starship Enterprise Of The Seas'

#NewDesign - The Verge has some beautiful artists' renderings of a proposal for an amazing ocean laboratory that's been dubbed 'the Starship Enterprise of sea exploration'.

The brainchild of architect and oceanographer Jacques Rougerie, the SeaOrbiter is the culmination of 30 years of research into undersea habitats and, if realised, would employ the latest in solar and wind power technologies to sustain itself in the ocean with minimum impact on the environment.

Rougerie hopes to have a prototype craft ready to launch by the end of 2016, provided he can raise the $46 million required for the project.

The Verge has much more on the story HERE.

Published in Marine Science

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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago