#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.