Fabien Cousteau, grandson of famous explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, is constructing a state-of-the-art research facility — 60 feet below the surface of the ocean
That’s a serious upgrade for underwater habitats, which in the past have ranged in size from a minivan to a large school bus. “Most of the habitats were purpose-built for one mission or set of missions,” says Fabien, who founded the New York-based non-profit organization Fabien Cousteau Ocean Learning Center in 2016. “They were never conceived as an International Space Station, something that’s to be deployed for a longer period of time.
Another aspect of that tradition is that Proteus will include a video production facility, capable of broadcasting from the ocean in 16K resolution. It will be, Fabien hopes, a modern-day version of the TV specials his grandfather pioneered, which inspired generations of marine explorers to enter the field.
“I like to describe Aquarius as living in a Greyhound bus,” says Patterson, a professor and associate dean at Northeastern.Proteus aims to overcome those limitations. While Aquarius is about 400 square feet, Proteus will be about 4,000 square feet—the size of a large house. This will allow space for a laboratory, a medical bay, the video studio, living and sleeping quarters and even a hydroponic greenhouse so that aquanauts can have fresh food.
Of particular interest for the project is to encourage pharmaceutical research and drug discovery. The FDA has approved twelve marine-based drugs since 1969,maintained by Alejandro Mayer, a professor in the department of pharmacology at Midwestern University in Illinois. These include compounds that treat cancer, pain and herpes that have been derived from various fish, sea sponges and other marine animals. There are two dozen more marine-based pharmaceuticals currently in clinical development.
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