First aquanaut emerges from two weeks of underwater living

Lloyd Godson, an Australian marine biologist with the BioSUB project has been living underwater for two weeks. His home was this underwater room fully-equipped with internet access, an electricity-generating exercise bike and an algae farm. Some of the stuff on board was pretty innovative, including the ‘biocoil’ photosynthetic bioreactor developed by a high school in Idaho. From what I can gather, the point of the experiment was to show how people can create sustainable ecosystems underwater and live without bringing all their gases/needs with them. Now this is me thinking out loud, but could this be the key to living in similarly hostile environments like space?

There are a lot of interesting things to learn about this, so start out by reading this TreeHugger post about the project before it started and this one about the end of it. There’s also this short report from ABC Australia.

posted by Alex Herder on 19 April 2007
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