At DEEP, we are on a mission to

Make Humans Aquatic

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.”

John F. Kennedy

Imagine if our sole means of exploring the rainforest,

were to abseil through the canopy,

spend a few minutes observing the forest floor,

before having to re-fuel, re-supply and re-deploy.

Imagine how many life-saving drugs we’d be yet to discover.

Or how little we’d know about our planet’s carbon cycle.

At

We are developing the tools, procedures and skillsets

that will make exploration of our oceans

as ubiquitous as terrestrial exploration is today.

Because we believe that the answers to mankind’s biggest problems,

will be found in our planet’s most diverse, and inspiring, biosphere.

INTRODUCING:

SENTINEL

A system of configurable, customisable and flexible subsea habitats

that enable humans to live, work and thrive,

anywhere on the Continental Shelf.

Making Humans Aquatic

DEEP has embarked on a multi-generational mission to make humans aquatic, with Sentinel as the first major milestone along this path.

Here are all the components DEEP is developing to help make Sentinel a reality:

Chalk Render of a woman behind a corral reef
Chalk render of a woman doing yoga

Chalk render of a woman's face partially submerged in water
Chalk render of a woman in diving kit
Chalk render of a submersible
Chalk render of a woman looking out the Sentinel window

When it comes to DEEP, a love for the ocean goes without saying. But it goes much further, too; to all of humankind and all of life itself. Because when we start there, the possibilities are endless – and we can find in the farthest reaches of the ocean, the answers to humankind’s most troubling challenges. Sharing this passion is fundamental to how successful DEEP will be. As this journey unfolds and evolves we pledge to:

  • Publish insightful data about the ocean.
  • Lead the way in advocacy for its exploration.
  • Support others who share our passion and drive, and think about the world like we do.
  • Establish The Aquan Network, to connect like-minded people, keep them up to date on the DEEP mission, and organise inspirational events with the great and good from this industry, and beyond.

To live, work and thrive subsea, and to do so for the extended periods that DEEP will enable, requires a level of physical and mental fitness unlike anything else. Such are the pressures on mind and body that the DEEP Institute exists to prepare people for whatever comes – in an environment that’s unlike anything else.

DEEP Institute provides you with:

  • Physical preparation that makes sure people are fit to swim, confident getting themselves out of trouble, and comfortable helping others.
  • Mental preparation that equips people with all the tools and coping mechanisms they need for potentially stressful situations and spending prolonged periods subsea.

DEEP Institute‘s Human Performance courses will be available to view and book soon.

Once mental and physical fitness levels are optimised, they need complementing with the requisite dive skills. This starts with comfortable around water before moving on to the varying skills and demands of free-diving, open-circuit diving that uses a regulator, and the closed-circuit diving that uses a rebreather to maximise the length of time its user can spend subsea.

The DEEP Institute’s Vocational Training programmes will be available to view and book soon.

Comfort, performance, and warmth. The three fundamental characteristics that inform the development of the Suits that DEEP requires. In its proprietary programme, DEEP Research & Innovation explores the best-performing materials and optimal equipment that will enable people to spend more time subsea than ever before. Specifically, without any compromise whatsoever on comfort, performance, or warmth.

DEEP’s Research Team is actively engaged in a program to determine the highest-performing materials for Suits available, and in development, today. 

Now that people have the right strength of mind and body, along with the equipment that will get the best out of both, they need to safely and efficiently travel subsea. DEEP Institute teaches them to pilot, maintain and support a sub deployment. And because the world of subs needs democratising, DEEP is designing and building the future of subs. By reducing cost and complexity, subs are open to a much wider audience than ever before.

Find out more about DEEP’s Submarine programme. 

The final layer. The next generation. The focus of everything that comes before it, lives inside it, and swims around it. These flexible, modular subsea habitats radically transform our relationship with the underwater environment. They enable humankind to exist subsea for longer than ever before, to live, work and thrive in the ocean in a manner that has until now been impossible. As the culmination of everything else, giving humankind this ability, possibility and potential changes everything. This is DEEP.

Find out more about Sentinel. 

“…we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.”

John F. Kennedy
America’s Cup Dinner, September 14, 1962