Craig is temporarily a post-doctoral fellow at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute who is looking for a permanent position. He spends most of his time balancing his overwhelming geekdom with normalcy so he can function in the real world. Luckily his wife likes his geekiness.
Peter Etnoyer is a Graduate Research Associate at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He studies deep corals and ocean fronts, and he loves to be on the water.
Kevin Zelnio is a Graduate Student Researcher at Penn State studying the ecology of hydrothermal vent and methane seep communities. He raises awareness of the plight of the spineless through folk music.
From the industrious Prince of Dubai, who brought the eighth wonder of the world-the Palm Jumeirah, comes the world's first underwater luxury hotel. The key here is luxury...this is no rennovated research shack like the Jules Underwater Hotel. This is the Waldorf-Astoria 20m down. It will include three sections: the land station, where guests will arrive, the connecting tunnel, which will transport people by train to the main area , and 220 suites within the submarine leisure complex. It is one of the largest contemporary construction projects in the world, covering an area of 260 hectares, about the size of London's Hyde Park. As always, monetary donations are welcome to send Peter and I to work on our tans, research, and a review for DSN.
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I prefer my ocean nomadism vessel to be either cutting-edge, science-driven high-tech working with nature, like the Sea Orbiter, or ancient-edge, human-driven high-tech sensing in nature, like a
Vaka, whose kin wayfound across one-third the globe for 1,000 years.
Beaucoup, as they'll no doubt say on it, Sea Orbiter pics in photo stock at Planete Bleue
[[http://www[dot]planete-bleue-images[dot]com/10,,75,[dot]html]], more organic-inspired sea dwelling designs at the architect's website [[http://perso[dot]orange[dot]fr/rougerie[dot]com/]], a cutaway of Sea Orbiter [[http://www[dot]artezia[dot]net/technologies/sea-orbiter/sea-orbiter[dot]htm"]], and two Vakas for sale [[http://www[dot]aloha[dot]net/~vaka/tmodel[dot]html]].
Off we go onto the wild blue under in cool, elegant works of art. Especially crab claw sails.
Posted by: SkookumPlanet | December 27, 2006 1:23 PM
Did Dubai also fund research that has -- at last! -- discovered a way to make water transparent?
If not, how are you going to work on your tan, 20 m down? or even up on the roof, what, 5 m down?
I mean, the amount of time you can hold your breath is a LOT shorter than the amount of time that any measurable UV will hit your skin, even under just 2 m of coastal seawater.
Even with a hookah rig, you'd have to stay there for DAYS. You'd get wrinkly.
Posted by: Steff Z | December 27, 2006 5:53 PM
The tanning would obviously occur at the surfce hopefully with some drink with an umbrella in it. What is the liquour of choice in Dubai?
Posted by: CR McClain | December 27, 2006 8:49 PM