SeaOrbiter Program Document by Jacques Rougerie

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Jacques Rougerie, a visionary architect to serve a new vision of underwater exploration SeaOrbiter is the culmination of over 30 years of research dedicated to bionic marine architecture and exploration of the undersea world. Internationally renowned for his achievements such as the Sea Pavilion in Kobe, Japan, the Underwater archaeological museum of Alexandria in Egypt or the Kochi Oceanarium in India, he is also the architect for the main French sea centers Oceanopolis in Brest and Nausicaa in Boulogne sur Mer, the underwater habitats Galathee and Hippocampe and the innovative vessels Aquascope and Aquaspace.

«It is from the ocean that will be born the destiny of civilizations to come»

International Ambassadors & Advisors Inheritors of the great Human adventure and holders of the pioneers’ spirit for the XXIth cetury

Around SeaOrbiter is gathered an international multidisciplinary team eager to lead one of major adventures at the beginning of the XXIst century HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, Prince of Monaco

« The SeaOrbiter vessel is an extraordinary tool that will offer to the general public a new vision onto the oceans and its underwater world. A highly technological oceanic exploration vessel and the only one of its kind in the world, it will enable each of us to dive at the heart of this world still widely unknown with a proximity and over time periods never reached to date”.

Daniel S. Goldin, Former NASA Administrator, Relationship with USA

“SeaOrbiter provides exciting opportunities for exploring the last truly unknown frontier on Planet Earth, our oceans. A fleet of these advanced research platforms will enable broad access to new knowledge and contribute to practical applications, major innovations and improved stewardship of the oceans for enhancing the quality of life for all of humanity. SeaOrbiter also offers astronauts an unconstrained training platform that could be used to simulate many of the demanding and complex operating conditions of life in a confined and isolated environment that they may encounter on future space missions.” SeaOrbiter Ambassador and Advisor for US strategy, international scientific strategy and relations with the space agencies

Sylvia Earle, Explorer-in-residence National Geographic, Marine sciences

“SeaOrbiter is the only vehicle in the World allowing observing continuously the oceans and their Abyss, unexplored for more than 90%. SeaOrbiter enables to discover new species, to better understand deep-sea ecosystems while offering new potentialities to observe the Planet Ocean with a new vision, hence creating passion and vocations for all explorers and adventurers of the unknown worldwide.” SeaOrbiter Ambassador and Advisor for Oceanic Exploration

Thierry Pilenko, Technip CEO, Industry, Offshore & underwater engineering

« SeaOrbiter is both a technological challenge and a feat in terms of architecture and engineering, notably underwater. Through its innovation in all these areas, it offers a new exploratory approach of the ocean and opens a door onto sustainable exploitation of its resources, particularly in the abyss, in accordance with the principles of sustainable development.” SeaOrbiter Ambassador and Advisor for Industrial Strategy

Discover a complete list of our Ambassadors on www.seaorbiter.com

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THE SEAORBITER PROJECT IN A FEW WORDS

SeaOrbiter is a new human adventure dedicated to the Planet. It is part of the history of the great explorations of our universe led by illustrious predecessors and great adventurers such as Jules Verne, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Jacques Piccard ... It also constitutes a new planetary challenge. Its purpose is to foster the emergence of a new relationship between man and the sea by the awakening, awareness and action of all to meet tomorrow’s every requirement for a future based on the precepts of sustainable development, particularly related to the sea. JOINING SEAORBITER IS THUS: • • • • • • •

Participating in the great adventure of human exploration in the 21st century Boarding to explore the last frontier on earth Recognizing that human survival depends on preserving the oceans Meeting the global challenge for a better understanding of this universe still widely unknown Living under the sea 24 hours a day over long periods at the very heart of the oceans Residing in a nomadic underwater home wandering amidst the mightiest of gardens: the ocean Allowing better commitment from the younger generations with regard to the planetary challenges of tomorrow • Promoting awareness for sustainable integration of the ocean in our attitudes and behaviors to come SAILING WITH SEAORBITER IS MOVING FROM: • • • • • •

Discontinuous observation to continuous observation of the underwater world Erratic intrusion to a perfect symbiosis with the marine ecosystem Passive observation to proactive monitoring of the ocean Complex oceanic penetration to easy and permanent access to the underwater world A linear approach to the ocean to a real three-dimensional understanding of it The remote maritime adventure to a network of sentinels serving the Blue Planet

SEAORBITER HENCE ALLOWS: • • • • • • •

Implementation of a change in relationship between man and the ocean Development of a planetary educational plan concerning the oceans Establishment of an international scientific research and technological programs More sophisticated understanding of the mechanisms linking the ocean and the earth’s climate Testing of human behavior and ability to live in space related underwater extreme environment Emergence of new vocations and new expertise Production of interactive multimedia programs accessible to all

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A HUMAN ADVENTURE DEDICATED TO MEN AND THE PLANET Imagine… Imagine a silvery ship, drifting with the currents at the very heart of the oceans.

sentinels where scientists will, in real time, be able to enhance their monitoring throughout the blue planet. Towering at 58 meters in height, this true polyvalent experimental laboratory, exemplary in terms of sustainability, will allow testing of many innovative technologies, notably those linked to the use of renewable marine energies and will allow the opening of new area of application in the field of the marine molecules, whether for human sustenance or the pharmacopeia of tomorrow.

The ocean, ¾ of our planet’s surface, cradle of all living things, also embodies our future. At the dawn of the third millennium, SeaOrbiter announces a new generation of exploration vessels ITS ROLE: To encourage dream and give rise to vocations for the new generations in order for them to create their own tools in favor of awakening, sensitization and action of all for the integration of the ocean in our attitudes and behaviors to come.

Equipped with multiple sensors and linked with satellites and automatic buoys networks, it will allow reinforcement of scientific knowledge about oceanic impact on the atmosphere and the planet’s climate changes.

ITS MISSION:

Amidst its many applications, SeaOrbiter embodies a revolutionary yet logical osmosis: the union of the abyss and the cosmos. Fitted with a pressurized module serving as a true space simulator, SeaOrbiter will enable astronauts to test their ability to live in an extreme environment and carry out experiments and tasks just as they would do in space.

To explore the ocean still widely unknown in order to refine knowledge about marine ecosystems, to better understand the influence of oceans on climate notably in the current context of global warming. Tomorrow, for the new meriens civilization, it will allow long term stays for a large family of explorers, continuous day and night observation of the seemingly endless wealth of marine life forms, permanent and easy access to the undersea world, allowing perfect symbiosis with the aquatic universe…

It will also allow underwater archaeologists to spend more time over remains of ancient times and wrecks of the past centuries. All tests carried out at Marintek, Europe’s largest simulation laboratory located in Norway, proved successful. The greatest storms could not affect SeaOrbiter’s stability nor hinder its operations.

All these features make SeaOrbiter the first nomadic home wandering amidst the mightiest of gardens: the ocean.

Bearing the spirit of adventure which lives on in humanity, SeaOrbiter has been conceived to give a basis to a large educational plan concerning the oceans.

A true sentinel arising above the main oceanic streams, it will host an amazing human adventure where science, education and communication will play a key part just as they did in the great maritime explorations of the past centuries.

SeaOrbiter, a multidisciplinary scientific vessel and a tremendous teaching and educational tool for sustainable development will contribute, thanks to renowned scientific bodies, the World Ocean Network and their many international research programs, to set up and develop a new relationship between men and the ocean.

Onboard this ship, and for the very first time in the world, a crew of 18 to 22 will be able, and over very long periods, to live under the sea, 24 hours a day, and continuously observe the underwater world. With one vessel drifting in each main ocean and major seas, SeaOrbiter will set up a new standard of communication through a true network of

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Allowing reinforcement of marine values and better commitment from the younger generations with regard to the planetary challenges of tomorrow, this vessel will also enrich our knowledge and enlighten our hopes with the promise of new horizons.

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THE PROJECT’S CONCEPT SeaOrbiter is an exploration vessel and a drifting sub-marine as well as marine observation platform permitting the in-situ and a continuous observation of the marine ecosystem, the monitoring of the physical and chemical parameters of the ocean /atmosphere interface and the development of research on human behaviour in extreme situations.

ORIGINALITY

ADDED VALUE

The original idea and design of the vessel created by Jacques Rougerie goes back to Jules Verne on the one hand, and inscribes itself on the other hand in the coherence of French expertise in this type of activity. Expertise recognized in the entire world for almost 100 years.

SeaOrbiter, by its conception, authorizes a continuous observation of the ocean and of the submarine world and over long periods that could be extended to an entire year. Today, no other technological observation platform for the ocean or oceanographic ship follows the same standard of coherence of observation of marine and sub-marine phenomena.

It was all of his experience that permitted him to conceive of this vessel that drifts without perturbing the environment and where the adventure is lived on the inside as well as on the outside of a platform giving unrestrained access to the underwater world.

Thus, there is a complementary nature between SeaOrbiter and the tools furnished by organizations such as Marine Nationale or the IFREMER in France (for example: “Pourquoi pas?”, recently built) or other reputed organizations in the world, as in Japan with the laboratory ship “Chikyu”, in the United States with the programs “Scripps”, “Wood’s Hole” and the NEEMO installations and others still in Scotland.

In addition, the SeaOrbiter concept is characterized by an assembly of innovating new technologies and of the creative genius of its designer, allowing the combination of tools and of observation spaces often unique in the world and authorizing at times an unheard of boldness with regard to the observation of the live marine environment.

FUNCTION

It follows the line of Bathyscaphe, the first observation submarine in waters of great depth, of the Cousteau adventure and its induced developed technologies, of the groups of solitary or team navigators that cross the seas in search of a better understanding of their reality in order to master it - in extreme conditions at times – thanks to highly innovative and performing boats.

This observation and exploration vessel will permit the welcoming of multidisciplinary teams coming from multiple domains of scientific research, helping in this way to develop the necessary transverseness of scientific disciplines for understanding the complexity of climatic, biological, atmospheric and natural marine phenomena.

This is the case with SeaOrbiter today.

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Many great European and international institutions of national research have already shown their interest in using this platform. Programs of research are currently being defined with many Universities and research centers.

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EDUCATIONAL AND PUBLICITY RANGE By the nature of its design and the objective of its mission, SeaOrbiter is also an excellent academic tool about the marine environment, its environmental and climatological components address all generations. Thanks to collected images that accompany the comments of observer- aquanauts, SeaOrbiter will contribute to the awakening of minds to what is at stake in the conservation and the responsible use of the marine environment. Indeed, thanks to the technologies of numerical imaging it will furnish a resource that will favour a sensitive, even coalescing relationship, for the public with the marine environment. This is by no means a small stake for the latter. ECOLOGICAL AND PLANETARY RANGE Drifting according to the great marine currents, SeaOrbiter has its place in all the great oceans and in all the most important interior seas. Being linked with an observation satellite network, the SeaOrbiters of tomorrow will permit the continuous observation of the biggest climatic phenomena and the setting up of a preventive system reducing the risks run by the populations living on the coast (i.e. 70% of the world populations).

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THE EXPLORATORY MISSIONS The SeaOrbiter project has brought together men and women who share a common dream in terms of the progress of mankind and his environment: the quest for knowledge and experimentation that has always helped humanity to develop from its origins, to extend its horizons and push its limits ever further. LIFE UNDERSEA AT THE HEART OF THE OCEAN : A WORLD PREMIERE THANKS TO A UNIQUE PRESSURISED MODULE

Just as space exploration undeniably transformed mankind’s perspective of planet Earth, it is certain that a better understanding of our planet’s oceans through the study of the undersea depths of the marine world represents one of the major challenges of the 21st century.

SeaOrbiter has a multi-level atmospheric pressure module and a pressurised module. The latter is open undersea, allowing the 6 to 8 aquanauts to live permanently at the heart of the ocean and to have immediate access to the marine world.

Despite the fact that the world’s oceans cover no less than 70% of the surface of our planet, we know very little about these vast expanses of water. However we do know that they play a crucial role in our everyday lives and in our future: the major currents regulate our climate, they provide us with an ever greater source of food thanks to the development of aquaculture, the molecules that we continue to discover in the oceans contribute to healing our illnesses and will most likely continue to do so far into the future, and what’s more important the new life forms that we discover in the depths call into question our pre-established ideas…

The lock chamber connects with the atmospheric pressure upper decks housing the crewmembers in charge of logistics and responsible for preparing supplies for the aquanauts. This integrated undersea habitat is also a real space analog, favouring the organisation, over long periods, of experiments, model testing and analysis in terms of confinement and in terms of the crew’s reactions to life in this extreme environment. That is why the international space agencies are likely willing to participate to some unique undersea living world records.

The SeaOrbiter project is based on an innovative technological approach that has resulted in a new generation of ocean exploration vessels, a human adventure in the spirit of the great multidisciplinary explorations of past centuries. It will allow its crew members to benefit from an overall vision of the underwater world and will allow them to actually observe, listen and live 24h a day and during long terms periods, under the sea.

In fact the astronauts involved in the NASA’s NEEMO programme are already preparing long distance crewed journeys from their fixed undersea habitat.

SeaOrbiter is a unique vessel whose technology allows mankind to live at the heart of the world’s oceans, to drift within the major oceanic currents, to carry out observational studies and enjoy a direct and permanent access to the marine environment. In that sense, SeaOrbiter is truly a unique mean of communication, of sensitization and of education upon the theme of the oceans. SEAORBITER IS AN INHABITED AND ROBOTIC DRIFTING OCEANIC VESSEL The 51 m-tall semi-submersible vertical structure includes a submersible section of 31m. The vessel is kitted out with oceanographic observational and sonic equipment coupled with satellite facilities. It can house an international team of 18 people among those 6 scientists who will benefit from the platform to proceed into various research programs with regards to SeaOrbiter’s observation and analysis abilities. ©SeaOrbiter® - 2015

OBSERVATION: LARGE PANORAMIC WINDOWS AND ACOUSTIC SENSORS

for tomorrow’s food or pharmacopeia • Climate studies via observation of currents: temperature, CO2 impact, ocean/atmosphere gas exchanges, calibration of satellite measuring equipment

SeaOrbiter is an exploration vessel designed to allow observation both above and below the surface of the ocean. The section that remains above the surface houses the navigation and communication equipment. It has an open-air deck for observing cetaceans and documenting migrating species. The submerged section can be considered as a mobile observatory. In addition to its large portholes, this observation post has vast panoramic windows that give the crew a superb and constant view of the surrounding marine life.

The communication and educational approach focuses on: • Raising awareness amongst younger generations regarding the importance of scientific knowledge of the world’s oceans and the human adventure and technological challenge that it represents • A record-breaking journey: the first round-theworld trip ‘drifting’ with the oceans’ currents, the record of the longest period spent by man ‘under the sea’ • News releases about the expedition via media, films, press, and Internet coverage • Exhibitions in museums, aquariums, Oceanographic Institutes and Marine life centers.

Furthermore the vessel’s general acoustic pollution is minimal and creates the ideal conditions for observation of undersea sound activity. The automated measuring equipment allows the scientists to obtain in situ analysis of the water samples taken. Deep underwater exploration tools such as remote cable-operated, robotic video cameras, manned pocket submarine or AUV’s will extend SeaOrbiter’s investigation possibilities up to 6000 metres.

We hope that the SeaOrbiter’s missions will be regarded as universal and international, both in terms of their management and in terms of the release of the information about the discoveries that are made. The missions represent an experimental platform for French research bodies (Ifremer, Comex, the Institute of Research and Development, CNES, etc.), European bodies (European Space Agency) and International bodies (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Scripps, University of Hawaii, Kordi, etc.), all of which have already expressed their interest in the project.

PROGRAMMES AND MISSIONS SeaOrbiter reveals oceans to a new generation of residents, otherwise known as aquanauts: i.e. scientists, explorers or simply visitors to the undersea world. With a key task : to inform and educate public at large about the ocean and its role into the planetary system. The main scientific missions revolve around: • Mankind living under the sea: studies led in parallel with space agencies on the physiology and the psychology of a crew living in a confined environment for long periods of time. • Exploration of seamounts and deep seas • Studies of marine biodiversity: the oasis of life in the ocean environment as a result of the phenomenon of aggregation linked to drifting structures, resource management, exploration of seamounts • Sampling of biodiversity and marine molecules

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THE EDUCATIONAL AND PEDAGOGICAL PLAN A true exploration vessel dedicated to education towards sustainable development applied to the ocean, SeaOrbiter is also a platform for global awareness of the beauty, usefulness and fragility of the undersea world in the planet’s dynamics. Human experience but also great tool for teaching the scientific and human dimensions of the ocean, SeaOrbiter will reinforce the teaching of marine values for a better involvement of young generations with regards to the global challenges of tomorrow. All educational programs will be guided by the SeaOrbiter Charter of the Sea which will define precisely the objectives: • Allow young generations around the world and the general public to understand the ecological issues of oceans • Transmit the passion for the oceans • Raise awareness of its importance in the balance of the planet. Four lines of approach may be preferred and used to develop the educational component of SeaOrbiter: • Better knowledge of marine and underwater ecosystems • Better understanding of the mechanisms that take place into those ecosystems • Continued observation of these environments • A long immersion under the sea with men who explore the underwater world. To educate is first to introduce the general public, especially children, to this unknown world that is the ocean, to its beauty, its usefulness and fragility, making them participate in this incredible exploration, this unique discovery. It is also acting as part of any governmental or international initiatives, established to alert the stake holders and policy makers about the importance of changing our attitudes and behavior with regard to the marine world. To better educate we must also better communicate with the international scientific community and provide some aid to decision makers, at a scientific, economic or political level. This communication may also make use of large educational networks such as the World Ocean Network, which includes most major centers of the sea, large aquariums, science centers... Provoking awareness: that is the ultimate goal of the SeaOrbiter educational program. The vision of the ocean offered by this program is neither radically new, nor solely ecological strictly speaking, purely industrial or commercial. But this vision involves man in his responsibility to preserve this ©SeaOrbiter® - 2015

critical ecosystem for the balance of the whole planet, whether for regulating its climate, preserving its biodiversity (particularly species within the framework of human consumption), the discovery of biomedical resources or tomorrow’s energy... all parameters which determine the balance of human populations and their future. The educational approach of SeaOrbiter therefore argues for finding a new equilibrium to establish on the basis of a new relationship of trust and respect to be developed between humans and the marine environment. Wanting to be simple, fun and interactive, this approach focuses on modern communication tools, notably the Internet, which will promote the development of an active community based on the SeaOrbiter Charter. Being able to follow the adventure “live“ this community will forge many links stimulating the intellectual curiosity of users, enhancing their creativity, motivating their involvement in educational activities implemented by schools. The system allows to establish educational partnerships in direct connection with national education bodies (Ministry of Education, National Institute of Education for Sustainable Developments, School at Work !, CRDP ...) and international (UNESCO ... ) which may take the form of calls for educational projects or allow development of specific tools and educational materials, in conjunction with stakeholders from the scientific community. We may also distinguish the educational efforts that will eventually be conducted by the SeaOrbiter team (organization of exhibitions, conferences, meetings with crew members and media sponsors of the expedition ... in partnership with sea centers, museums, schools or universities) that will ultimately end up with teaching materials that would be made available to teachers.

This database would of course include materials developed around the SeaOrbiter project himself: • All books, films, CD-ROM, and press articles about the • SeaOrbiter expeditions. • Documents on oceanographic missions that are carried on board and coming from partner institutes • Documents on space travel in partnership with NASA

SeaOrbiter can thus present itself as a supplier of new educational content but also as a unifying media for existing content. SeaOrbiter.edu is destined to become a web portal for educational activities conducted around the themes of the sea and the environment. Its general principle is to provide access to a high quality and large database from which teachers will develop their own educational projects.

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Finally, the extensive media coverage of the project must serve to strengthen the establishment of partnerships with major TV channels and their educational programs like National Geographic, Discovery Channel, or their counterparts in Europe, Middle East and the Far East.

A UNIQUE INNOVATIVE COMMUNICATION ADVENTURE SINCE COUSTEAU’S SeaOrbiter combines high technology and the taste of adventure to deliver a message of hope for the future generations: BETTER UNDERSTANDING THE OCEAN TO PRESERVE IT BETTER

And of partners: • Industrial partners having own needs for communication • Institutional partners who are going to relay the educational or scientific adventure • Media partners who want to interest the general public notably by using the very current themes of preserving the marine environment, of sustainable development applied to ocean, all issues associated with sure core values which are maritime exploration and adventure, discovery of the underwater world, human adventure with numerous faces …

SeaOrbiter is first of all a large oceanic exploration and an unique human adventure under the sea combined with a plan for an international and multidisciplinary adventure devoted to science, to education and to the awakening onto the marine world. His potential of communication is therefore numerous and capable of interesting various targets: • The general public • Schools • Companies • Companies with high technological and industrial potential • Companies with strong high-tech added value • Firms engaged in the track of the sustainable development • Communication companies

As for a possible industrial partner, its communication can count on several levels of information: • The highlighting of its avant-gardism « know how «, of its commitment into innovative technologies, of the needs for the firm to put forward the imperatives of the green economy and of the development of a conscience for the preservation of the environment and its natural resources, particularly in terms of reasoned consumption.

The scientific, technological and human project of SeaOrbiter gives though a universal potential for communication thanks to: • A vessel with a huge symbolic force in design • A growing interest from the general public about preservation of the ocean and its resources • A very long trip capable of provoking the interest of the public on a long term basis

A COMMUNICATION TOOL FOR INVOLVED COMPANIES Regarding a potential industrial partner, the corporate communication can be developed through different levels of activation: • The demonstration of an innovative “know how”, of a commitment towards innovative technologies, of a consciousness of the greeneconomy imperatives and the development of a societal consciousness regarding environment preservation and its natural resources, notably in terms of sustainable consumption • The building of an eco-participative image which reflects its own commitments in the vision it has for its future development • The putting forward of dynamism of the firm and of its spirit of adventure • Global opportunity to better position its image through the public as through the economic and industrial world

The communication around the SeaOrbiter program is therefore based on a principle of a proactive and pedagogic multimedia platform allowing the planetary broadcasting of scientific and general public information, notably centered on education in the sustainable development, which will be transmitted by many partners and numerous potential relays of communication. This media power is a true key world for the SeaOrbiter adventure. SeaOrbiter, communication platform therefore addresses to a broad sphere of publics: • Researchers, academics, scientific community … • Schools, high schools and educational plans … • Cultural Networks and information networks linked to maritime domain • General public ©SeaOrbiter® - 2015

This firm communication can therefore be cut up in two parts: External: • Technological and Human Know-how • Dynamism of the directions of the firm • Respect for the principles of the sustainable development

Internal: • Feeling of membership in a tremendous adventure • Commitment towards the principles of sustainable development • Motivation of the wage earners

INTERNET: THE PASSPORT FOR THE SEAORBITER ADVENTURE The future website is naturally an essential tool to assure an interactive monitoring and an interest of the project from the general public via the Internet so as to: • Provoke the curiosity of the general public on a regular basis • Assure the monitoring of the adventure in realtime • Offer cartography and tracking by Argos beacon • Allow video-conferences or chats with the crew • Give the possibility of reading the biweekly log • Allow the dispatch of alert mail as soon as an event takes place onboard

In a general aspect, the communication around SeaOrbiter gets organized around 4 key values: • Sensitization onto the marine world and a better management of the oceans for a transmission of its natural wealth to the future generations • A big technological challenge and innovative research programs particularly linked to the use of renewable marine energies • Advances and scientific discoveries in the domains of dynamic oceanography, marine biodiversity, impact of the ocean on the regulation of climate • A big human adventure and a permanent presence of man under the sea

Though, SeaOrbiter.com will have to be able to: Drive emotions • Provision of multimedia tools • Broadcasting of sounds issued by the marine mammals o Visioning of photos and videos of the adventure • Participation in live meetings with the crew

This communication will be based on several waves of communication displayed over several years. Communication around SeaOrbiter using alternately these 4 key values and their potentials of communication will allow:

Gather enthusiasts’ community • Online Creation of a virtual community • Association in the adventure SeaOrbiter and signature of the «Charte SeaOrbiter» for the preservation of the oceans • Participation in forums and signatures of the Visitors’ book

• Keeping the attention of the public by varying editorials • Reinforcing the permanent interest for the mission As for the communication means, they will be of several lines: Tools for firms: • Conferences and House organs • Meetings with the team and the crew • Customized receptions and parties • Merchandising and direct Marketing Pedagogic tools: • Pedagogic booklets for schools • Pedagogic leaflets for the teachers Educational tools: • CD-ROMS, books, holiday notebooks • Meetings with the personalities linked to the project (J.L. Christian, B. Piccard, J.L. Steven) • Conferences in the centers of the sea, universities … • Internet website SeaOrbiter.com

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Internet is therefore an inevitable element communication tool and will have to allow the implementation of some actions for: • Sensitizing the future generations by the educational plan • Provision of the educational and pedagogic equipment intended for the teachers and edited by professionals • Online reports of educational plans led onto the topics of the sea by other teachers • Online encyclopedia of the sea • Provision of classes on environment • Provision of pedagogic games Implicating the partners • Delegation for the writing of editorial • Publication of specialists’ stories • Popularization of scientific information for the general public Enlarging the name of SeaOrbiter • Supply contents to partners’ websites • Links towards or from non-specialized web portals (eg. Yahoo!) • Links towards or from specialized web portals (eg. LEMONDEBLEU.COM) • Links towards or from partners’ websites (eg. NationalGeographic.com)

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A SENTINEL’S WORLD NETWORK SeaOrbiter, «Sentinels of the Sea and Sentinels of Climate» offer a supplementary device to other tools, equipments or expeditions which are used to observe and to understand the functioning of our planet.

It is an equipment which can allow France to play its leading role shared with the United States, two countries which dispose each of most maritime large territories in the world, and of other countries, in the implementation of large programs for Climate observation and monitoring of its evolution which the international community must imperatively set up in order to be pertinent in its future actions.

Indeed the implementation of such network, giving the possibility of the permanent presence of man «in situ « in every ocean and major sea, allows to extend the spectra of their observations and measurements on the basis of a common research platform, emphasizing so the possibilities of analysis and of comprehension of some scarcely identified or still partly unknown phenomena.

Indeed, the notion of a monitoring network, already developed by the implementation of some automated technologies of which the systems of fixed or drifting buoys, is of a key importance for the monitoring of the oceanic parameters linked to exchanges between the ocean and the atmosphere as for the noting down of their variations having a direct impact onto the modifications of planetary climate.

This possible network organization also allows foreseeing a direct scientific, technical and exploratory communication between the marine shuttles which will be able to confront, on a daily basis and in real time, their hypotheses, their discoveries, their analyses, at the same time as these will be delivered to the international scientific community, as to the general public.

By launching in the next months, the first prototype of SeaOrbiter, thanks to the support of the highest authorities in France, the French government will be able to boast a concrete, innovative and important initiative, to assert its will to act in concrete terms in favor of climate, of its evolution and to carry a vision of future for the sea and for the planet.

This availability of an information harvested by every crew of each shuttle reinforces the notion of a network of collecting SeaOrbiters which will distribute their information via the big networks of scientific or general public communication such as the World Ocean Network which gathers across the world most big aquariums, Sea Centers, museums of science and culture linked to maritime domain.

It is indeed the whole Sea planet that is concerned, notably five big oceans, and the main seas, among which the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea. It is therefore, a dozen models of SeaOrbiter which could be launch before five- six years, reinforcing so the means of observation of big climatic evolutions and allowing the international community to have a better access to the knowledge of the marine world and to its living biodiversity.

Their added value on the chain of value for oceanographic observations is, on this occasion, widely proved to be and supported by many scientific organizations, in France as in the world. « They are thousands, in campaign on the oceans, in laboratories, on poles, in the Arctic or in the Antarctic, which make us carry a new vision onto the underwater world. Technological stake is the nerve of war. The improved means of observation will draw the new cartography of the oceans.

SeaOrbiter, the Sentinel of the Sea, is for sure a technological, social, ethical, sustainable, innovative project, with strong economical and media impact and with strong geopolitical stake. It is a project that many countries already «adopted” through Internet and a numerous amount of articles published across the world. It is a «waking dream» to take the membership of the people and to invite them «to enter in symbiosis with the Planet». (Michel Serres).

Research is international; it is its force. The ocean is worldwide spread, it is its freedom… the good news there, to know more about the sea, comes from satellites. The intimacy between the sea and the atmosphere is not any more to show. » (In« The Sea, the next challenge, remarkable work of synthesis of Yann de Kerorguen, published in June, 2009)

It is a project which puts France at the heart of the world politics in favor of maritime continent and climate. It is bearing the whole French know-how, brought to the planet. It allows France to retrieve an international leading role in this essential domain which deals with the future of our Planet and the future living conditions of the men who will live there in a pacified realm.

SeaOrbiter completely meets this technological stake and the necessary link to be established between the observation of the universe and the world of the marine abysses. ©SeaOrbiter® - 2015

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MAIN PROSPECTS FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION SeaOrbiter is a private project for ocean exploration dedicated to awareness and education in sustainable development applied to the ocean. It is hence offering services to the French and International scientific community to give researchers extended time to work at sea and an opportunity to place onboard a range of multidisciplinary research programs that will be carried out by a crew of six scientists working just the same way they would onboard the collaborative scientific platform of the International Space Station.

- Perform continuous observations of open water - Carry out measures of biodiversity or collection of physico-chemical data through specific devices placed onto the underwater stabilizing disc at - 12 m • Proactive and permanent observation through large underwater observation platform, 24 hours a day and over long periods by operators on board.

Though, SeaOrbiter complements other currently available ocean observation tools that are being used by the marine scientific community (research vessels, automatic buoys, satellites, private expeditions ...). However, the specificity of SeaOrbiter and «differentiating added value» - compared to a conventional research vessel in particular - is based on a number of parameters related to its concept and design: • Lengthening the time of measurement and observation : by drifting in the water body, SeaOrbiter eliminates much of the constraints related to ship operating (fuel, time, working hours, overboard, divers or submarines operations) and allows scientists: - to devise new research programs over three months, six months or more - to re-evaluate current research on a longer term - to use underwater exploratory devices over longer periods of time and optimize their data collection - to enable a more continuous calibration with satellite networks and automated buoys - to increase opportunities for in situ observations and measurements underwater • Materializing a transect at the interface atmosphere / ocean this is proposed by the hull of SeaOrbiter allowing incorporation of sensors over a height of 51 m (20 m above the water 31 meters below the surface). The drifting mode brings in the dimension of marine route, the platform can therefore record data in the three dimensions covering three major domains: the underwater realm, the air and the air-water interface. • Extending the research area to the underwater world: the hyperbaric laboratory allows scientists to engage themselves in saturation diving, a field that eliminates much of the time and depth of dive constraints, and allow them to dive at ambient pressure and relative depth as much as they wish to: ©SeaOrbiter® - 2015

• Avoidance of acoustic interferences due to refine immersion in the water column

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In summary, beyond its specific characteristics, SeaOrbiter combines the advantages of an oceanographic vessel (onboard laboratory, pro-activity of scientists on board, human and technological diving means), an underwater laboratory Aquarius type (constant immersion in the Underwater World and virtually unlimited possibilities for dive experiments) and a buoy system (automated measures survey, multiple types of measurements, data transmission ...). This vessel is also simultaneously a platform dedicated to education through a global system of multimedia data links. It is proposing a new approach for studying the ocean through full integration of the chain of measurements on all marine dimensions, combined with the possibility of proactive analysis by scientists on board, and dissemination of data worldwide.

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IDENTIFICATION OF SOME RESEARCH TOPICS: BIODIVERSITY • Continuous measures of plankton concentration, continuous analysis of planktonic species, fine regional mapping of plankton populations and impact of ocean currents. Calibration of satellite data • Monitoring and understanding of the behavior and migration processes in many organisms, from plankton to large marine mammals • Assessment of acoustic environmental biomass (plankton, pelagic fauna ...) and analysis of patterns of communication and tracking of marine mammals • Marking and ultrasonic monitoring of large pelagic • Assessment of the fisheries resource by effect of

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FAD (Fish Aggregation Device) (eg tuna populations) Studies of the creation of an open water food chains and establishment of food webs by FAD and aggregation effect of marine life Differential sampling in ocean currents of microscopic plankton (picoplankton, nanoplankton, cyanobacteria, bacteria, viruses ...) and influence of offshore primary production marine areas. Genomics and biomedical importance of these organisms Studies of the interaction between primary production and ocean dynamics in the phenomena of organic food export from surface to the deep zones and abyssal sediments, particular study case of offshore marine deserts Spatial and vertical distribution particularly in species of microplankton in a broad sense Study of offshore surface pollution (oil and surfactants in particular) and their impact on water bodies, pelagic communities, composition and quality of plankton and their effect on food chains and fish resources

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY AND DYNAMIC • Monitoring the development of water bodies and different levels of turbulence • Monitoring and evolution of physico-chemical based upon the dynamics of currents • Calibration and validation of satellite data CO ² AND CLIMATE • Studies in small, medium and large scale water / air exchanges, particularly in terms of greenhouse gas • Monitoring the concentration of subsurface or intraoceanic CO ² • Measurement of ocean acidification parameters and mapping approach of dead zones or areas in the process of acidification • Calibration of meteorological satellite data PSYCHOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY AND HUMAN SOCIOLOGY IN RELATION TO SPACE MISSIONS • Study of the physiological behavior of Aquanauts in a saturated environment over a long period • Study of the psychological behavior of a crew in confined and complex environment • Research on communication with a crew living in an isolated and remote • module • Research on telemedicine and telesurgery in an isolated and complex environment SOME ALREADY IDENTIFIED SCIENTIFIC PARTNERS

grams on board to be done in full accordance with the major international research programs in the field of marine sciences. This can be based on the following points:

France : Ifremer – Alliance for environmental sciences / CNRS - INSU / IRD / CNES / Météo France Europe: ESA / Wegener Institute USA: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution / Scripps Oceanographic Institution / University of Hawaii /NOAA / Nasa Korea: Kordi Japan: Jamtek

• International coordination of a call for projects and on studies of the natural environment • Coordination with the major international marine related scientific organizations some of which having already been identified and approached by the promoters of the project and with whom SeaOrbiter may have cooperation agreements • Coordination with Eurofleet or any other International research vessels organization for a complementary action in either direct (ships and cruises) or indirect (embedded hardware) research means • Collaboration on communication aspects, scientific mediation and awareness-outreach of public at large and schools in particular

COLLABORATION PRINCIPLES The SeaOrbiter team wishes to bring together all the representatives of the French, European and International scientific community in order to set up an International scientific committee. In a second step, the scientific committee will be expanded to include members representing the major international scientific program partners of SeaOrbiter.

It is also envisaged to integrate, within the SeaOrbiter Scientific Committee, some broad vision research bodies(such as engineer and design schools or international space agencies). Indeed, beyond the specific marine programs,

By entrusting oceanographic institutions the responsibility of leading the scientific program committee for SeaOrbiter, the SeaOrbiter team wants the definition and the orientation of research pro©SeaOrbiter® - 2015

and beyond the bond of calibration and validation of data from the full range of satellites carrying a variety of oceanographic and Climate related studies, there is a need for coordinating a call for ideas for the development of science in a more universal approach.

This platform would include a human performance analysis of a crew subject to extreme conditions, reproducing the stress of space flight, as a number of opportunities to test innovative design solutions incorporating close-loop or cradle to cradle principles so important for the future of space exploration.

A large number of applications and operational fields are indeed concerned such as: • Resistance of materials • Challenges of construction in extreme environments, including marine and underwater ones • Renewable energy, including those coming from the sea • Advanced electronics in complex and hostile (marine) environment • Onboard robotics • Complex communication systems either for live program broadcasting or for inner vehicle and inner space security monitoring • Physiology of man in confined and complex environment • Medical and surgery with use of telerobotics • Human nutrition in extreme environment • Conditions of life in a complex environment • Integration of the global observing systems (satellites) and in situ observing systems • Design of embedded closed loop systems with consideration of the recyclability of materials, life systems, waste... • Implementation of complex operational approaches in the design of complex systems • Analysis and total reduction of induced disturbances by analysis systems and their instrumental components in the operational field in the spirit of “Planetary Protection” set by space agencies Part of this research could in fact be conducted in close collaboration with space agencies, such as Nasa and Esa, which have already shown great interest into the project as «ISS training analog» and with whom the SeaOrbiter team is also developing a collaborative approach based on scientific programs involving both technology and man. Initiated through the NASA/Neemo program that the SeaOrbiter team has followed for several years, this research is based on the implementation of a platform for training astronauts in analogy with the future ISS operations.

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RESEARCH ON TOMORROW’S MARINE FOOD Strong threats pressure the world fisheries today: exhaustion of fish stocks, rarefaction of marine resources, scheduled disappearance of marine food biodiversity if we do not change our food habits and therefore the mechanisms of market which are in order. Today the market is principally based on a dozen of key species when more than about fifty are available. It is commonly accepted that 70 % of big size fishes have been caught, a problem for recruitment of the juveniles and for the regeneration of some populations, and that 80 % of the species targeted by the world fishing industry are exploited to their maximum. Aquaculture, supposed to represent an alternative solution to the exhaustion of wild fish populations, is still unable to set up adequate food chains or to offer alternative species which are not top chain carnivores highly demanding in terms of energy transformation for their growth (salmon, bar, turbot). It therefore amplifies the phenomenon of impoverishment of the oceans. Indeed bycatch fishing – who do not enters the riddle of the market of consumption or distribution but is transformed into flours for aquaculture when it does not serve for feeding intensive chicken farming – also threaten the natural food chain and therefore participates into the modification of the ecosystems and in the total disappearance of marine resources and of biodiversity. It is therefore about time to invent new sustainable fishing techniques and to develop an aquaculture based on principles that it must feed a continuously increasing population and from which the demand in proteins issued from the sea will be exponential in years to come, animal farming on Earth reaching its own borders. Without speaking about access to marine resources which must, in an ethical way, be guaranteed to the coastal populations in developing countries. A solution to solve part of the problems of human food for tomorrow therefore stands in our capacity to invent these new techniques of sustainable marine animal farming.

Due to its mission and its conception, SeaOrbiter, a drifting laboratory platform may also well serve as an open sea oceanic farm. The principle of fish aggregation device (FAD) which results into developing a natural ecosystem and a food chain under a floating object is well known and yet a most ancient time used technique for the gathering of fish by the ancestral fishermen of Polynesia or of the Caribbean.

nerals wealth and with the help of the sun favor photosynthesis. On the basis of Marine Thermal Energy (MTE) and of thermal pumping, this system also allows assuring natural air cooling of the vessel. Created out of innovative eco-materials these developments favor the production of biomass (seaweed and fish) for scientific observation or, like marine «kitchen gardens», to be harvested and eaten. The only action of man is therefore to create and to dispatch these habitats in favor to the development of marine life.

With the intention of exploring new protocols for marine farming in order to prepare a more sustainable human food industry, SeaOrbiter will study all principles allowing developing open water natural food chains and creating naturally based largescale marine proteins development.

The expertise of Egis is in conception and sizing of this type of equipment, according to different environments and various species potentially met by SeaOrbiter.

SeaOrbiter could therefore be a support tool for a marine biological production created and favored by man across: • Developments supporting marine biodiversity and possible to install on submerged parts of the vessel. Two types of artificial habitats can though be created: eco-reefs for grown-up species, micro-habitats for juveniles. To optimize attraction and installation of larvae then of juveniles on micro-habitats, specific equipments will be arranged in the deep-sea larvae sub-surface concentration zone. These habitats must be conceived for types of species known to be represented on the path of SeaOrbiter. • A revolutionary system of natural fertilization of surface waters by creation of a micro upwelling. Principle results in a direct pumping of deep sea nutriments (Nitrogen, Phosphorus), intended «to boost» the development of the phytoplankton around SeaOrbiter (activating islet of marine productivity). This principle is simple as once in surface, these waters diffuse their mi-

Objective is to show how the sea can be «farmed» to feed humanity by using the crew of SeaOrbiter as the first user, in the spirit of marine - ranching (extensive open sea marine aquaculture) developed by Japan for more than50 years to assure self-sufficiency in marine products. Tools developed by Egis Eau and which could be adapted to the project are: • Artificial habitats for mature fish and micro-habitats for juveniles • Biogenic Eco-material • A FENES fertilization system by natural enrichment of surface oceanic waters, coupled with TPS (thermal pumping system) and / or pico power station working by Marine Thermal Energy (MTE))

PLATFORM FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF OCEANS AND CLIMATE The oceans absorb at least a quarter of the emission of carbon produced by man and which are responsible for global warming. However, the oceans have never been taken into account until then in negotiations on this topic. Despite their importance in the regulation of climate, the oceans remain extremely badly known in this register. For example, scientists have only recently discovered the problems of acidification of the oceans, which change directly the chemical composition of these huge masses of water and threaten the balance of many marine ecosystems. This phenomenon remains still insufficiently known but marine zones become so acid that the growth of organisms with calcareous skeleton (corals, mollusks as oysters or mussels, algae) is seriously threatened, what would eventually have a direct impact on Earth’s oxygen production by the marine phytoplankton. The effects of acidification of the oceans could therefore be as serious as those of global warming. But observations still miss.

A plan for fighting against global warming was set up in 2003 by the ministry of ecology and sustainable development, with intention to assure stability of greenhouse effect gases production in a first stage, then to enhance a reduction of these emissions. And yet once again, the climate of the Earth results from complex interactions principally between the atmosphere and the oceans. It is therefore necessary to multiply the possibilities of measures and of observations and to help financing tools allowing welcoming these types of programs.

Financed by the EU, the EPOCA plan (European Project on Ocean Acidification) started in June, 2008 and its results are to enable Europe for references and orientations during post Kyoto negotiations. The recognition of the oceans in this mechanism was one of the purposes of the Ocean Day organized by the Global Forum for Oceans and Coasts (UNEP) during the Copenhagen summit after the International Conference of Manado, in May 2009, which final statement ratifies «the importance of the oceans in the fight against global warming and the necessity to protect them». Already, on January 30th, 2009, more than one hundred and fifty scientists of the sea had issued a worldwide warning by making public the «Statement of Monaco» which called the political leaders to limit CO2’s emission in order to fight against global warming. GIEC has established several scenarios based on different hypotheses taking into account technological progress, implementation of different energy resources, demographic evolution... Whatever is the predicted scenario, an increase in temperature is to envisage, stronger in the 21th century than in the 20th century. Consequences of global warming about which we now know that there is no tendency but growing and persisting, will therefore be heavy for humanity. In France, further to a law issued by the Senate, a national observatory on the effects of global warming in France and in its overseas departments and territories was created in 2002.

Co-sponsored by the intergovernmental oceanographic Commission (IOC) of the UNESCO, Argo, the international network for ocean’s observation and its network of 3000 autonomous floats gave new outlines concerning correlation between the ocean and the atmosphere and allowed making huge progress in the representation of the oceans thanks to models linking ocean and atmosphere.

It is there that the essential link with satellites and network set up on the other hand by the international space agencies among which ESA, a member of the Committee on the satellites of observation of the Earth and therefore a member of the Worldwide System of observation of climate with element concerning satellites. These last tears, the observation of the Earth was a real actuality issue for ESA with the launch of the first Metop satellite, one of the most powerful satellites for meteorology and climatology, and on the other hand the sending onto orbit in 2008 of two satellites conceived to improve our understanding of the mechanisms which govern our planet: GOCE (Gravity field and steady-steady Ocean Circulation Explorer) notably capable of measuring the circulation of the oceanic flows, true regulator of planetary climate, and SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity), designed to decode the cycle of water by drawing the first global map of soil humidity and surface seawaters saltiness.

A pilot plan of worldwide systems of climate and oceans’ observation, Argo integrates with the processes of a new operational oceanography of which SeaOrbiter could be, tomorrow, one of the essential supplementary links. Indeed, this type of oceanography is linked to climatic stakes and tries to set up a network of observations and permanent measures which allows having an instant frame of the situation in water volumes and currents, in support of research programs on the understanding of the oceanic circulation and as a supplement to data acquired by satellites. SeaOrbiter could therefore perfectly welcome such programs based notably on the implementation of different technologies peculiar to profilers (drifting probes capable of performing preprogrammed cycles of descent down to 2000 m of depth by measuring parameters in immersion to establish a profile of ocean - temperature, pressure and saltiness), to fixed buoys, fitted with automatic instrumentation such as meteorological and hydrologic sensors capable of measuring the temperature of the water at surface and at 10 depth levels down to 500 m, to probes XBT which give a profile of temperature down to 1500 m.

Last, ESA has placed order for the first “Sentinel” satellite intended to take over Envisat instruments starting 2011. Between the «Sentinel of Space» and the «Sentinel of the Ocean» the similarities in studies and in measures of the marine environment are in the middle of global step towards the understanding of the mechanisms which condition, for the most part, the future of humanity.

The interest of SeaOrbiter is to be able to multiply the sources of measures and to speed up the process of real-time transmission in order to be able to quickly incorporate gathered data in the models of prediction.

SEAORBITER ORGANIZATION

SEAORBITER’S TEAM : Jacques Rougerie: Founder and President Bill Todd: Mission & Operations Director Pierre-Armand Thomas: Engineering & Technical Director Ariel Fuchs: Executive Director Pierre Barthes: Communication Advisor Ludovic Lainé: International Development Advisor Camilla Hall: Business Development Advisor Jean-Marie Job: Legal Advisor

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA COVERAGE Quantitative Analysis Daily and Weekly Press:

More than 1 000 articles within more than 50 countries

Magazines:

More than 250 articles within 30 countries

Radio:

More than 40 broadcasts within 10 countries amongst which China, Japan, Korea, USA, England, Switzerland, India, ...

Internet:

Up to 88 100 results on Google in 2015

Television:

More than 50 TV shows within 20 countries amongst which USA, Canada, Korea, Japan, Australia, Germany, and the major French TV news.

JACQUES ROUGERIE

AN ARCHITECT WITH A STRONG PASSION FOR SEA AND SPACE

A visionary architect, Jacques Rougerie entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1964. Fascinated by the adventure of Cousteau and the first underwater houses, he undertook a course of study at the Oceanographic Institute of Paris in 1970 joining at the same time the University of Vincennes for Urban Planning and the School of Arts and Crafts. Pursuing his two passions, he travels the world in the footsteps of the sea communities to study their ethno sociological traditions, visiting the most advanced countries in the field of offshore technologies. A DPLG architect in 1972, he devoted himself, at first, to develop projects specifically sea orientated. He created the Centre for Architecture for sea of space in 1974 before founding the Jacques Rougerie Architects Associates Agency. Jacques Rougerie dedicates considerable time to his teaching activities in France and abroad. Awarded by the International Union of Architects in 1981, he was elected in 2008 at the Institut de France - Academy of Fine Arts. Among his accomplishments: the underwater houses Galatea (1977), Hippocampus (1981) and soon Seaspace, all of them dreamed, designed and tested by the architect himself. 2013 will see the completion of one of his flagship projects, the drifting vessel SeaOrbiter, which represents the culmination of thirty years of research around bionic architecture. In 1992 he has participated in the US in the 71 days world record for an under the sea stay with fellow friends Rick Presley and Yann Koblic into the underwater habitat “Chaloupa”. Every year since 2003, he has participated in the NEEMO under the sea training program for astronauts into Aquarius underwater laboratory off the coast of Florida. In the areas of education and culture for the discovery of the marine realm, Jacques Rougerie has also built the Pavilion of the sea in Kobe, Japan (1981), Nausicaa National Sea Centre in Boulogne sur Mer (1990 - 2000), and Océanopolis Sea Centre in Brest (1991-2000). Within space he created the satellite of the Symphony for the Earth (1986) and the Solar Sailing Spacecraft (1989). He is currently working on several major projects including the Caribbean Sea Centre, Martinique (Achievements 2014), and the Museum of Underwater Archeology of Alexandria (Egypt 2015) ... (www.rougerie.com) Worthy descendant of Captain Nemo and his creator Jules Verne, Jacques Rougerie is above all a passionate of the human adventure. He has always been inspired by the imagination of the great writer from whom he draws his fervor and his faith in the future and has adopted his maxim: «Anything one man can imagine, other men can make it real.»

Aquaspace

Observation Trimaran

Aquascope

Underwater Observation Trimaran

Galathea

Underwater Laboratory and Habitat

Realized and experienced marine and underwater projects during the past 20 years

Ocean Observer

Aquabulle

Mobile Underwater Habitat

Underwater Observatory

Inside of Ocean Observer

ÂŠSeaOrbiterÂŽ - 2015 Hippocampe Underwater habitat

Inside of Hippocampe

International high seas floating university - more than 700 meters in diameter and a capacity to welcome more than 7 000 people

Ongoing International Projects

Extension on the sea of the Monaco Principality

Sting Ray Hotel

- 2015 TheÂŠSeaOrbiterÂŽ Underwater Archaeological Museum of Alexandria - Egypt

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City in the Ocean

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