By Dennis Chamberland
Of all 100 billion people who've ever lived, no longer a unmarried one has long past to stay completely undersea. whereas we've got had the know-how to settle this enormous, 3 dimensional area for over part a century, it continues to be empty of outposts, colonies or towns - or perhaps of a unmarried settler. whereas its substantial territory covers approximately 3 quarters of the globe, nobody has ever long past there to stick. during this publication, Dennis Chamberland strains the heritage of the aquanaut from the 1st tentative 24 hour test in 1962 till this day. strangely, a cautious interpreting of the list of humankind's penetration of the oceans unearths misdirected starts off, misunderstandings of the human's ability to conform and, ultimately, an excellent abandonment of the hunt. yet now, Chamberland unveils a visionary method and a clean, new examine earlier demanding situations that would quickly open up the expansive undersea areas referred to as Aquatica. right here will arrive twenty first century pioneers, colonists and households who becomes the 1st Aquaticans in what may well but end up to be the best human event in all of background.
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I would slide back into the habitat and, once again, feel the discomfort of passing from one medium to another. Each and every time I came up into the moonpool and broke the air-water interface, I was cold. The blast of air conditioned habitat air was even sharper than was the early morning slide into the water a half hour before. I would pull myself up, sit on the side of the moonpool, strip off my mask and shed my gear, belt and hookah hose, attaching it to the clip on the wall. If left on their own, these 100 foot hoses attached to the air compressor ashore had a bad habit of spontaneously slipping away out of the moonpool and drifting to the surface.
I would stare at them unblinking, silently and still. I waited patiently for them to inch their way closer and closer to my toes. Then suddenly, when they were but inches away, I would wave my hands wildly at them and growl and watch them scatter in half an instant out of sight. ” “Yes, dear. ” Then they would slowly return, one eye on the crazy biped – his body mostly out of the water but his giant feet poised right before them. As they returned, I would break up a saltine cracker and dribble it into the moonpool as a reward for their endurance of me and the daily rights of human-to-fish morning terror.
It is bizarre, but it is true. Why? How can this be? I must tell you that, having spent my professional career as an engineer and a scientist, I cannot put my finger on the reason. It is beyond my ability to understand and I simply file it in the category of human weirdness. Human beings are not only subject to bouts of individual oddness but, as a species, social oddness as well. It actually seems logically consistent to our culture that we are passionate students of distant planets but manifestly ignorant and wholly uncaring about our own.