Sustained time underwater. No limits on discovery.
17
Meters at Tenessee Reef
5
Days
4
Aquanauts
1
Decompression
The ocean is full of wonder.
But time underwater has been the limit to understanding it.
Vanguard is changing that.
Crews of four can live underwater for five days or more. No need to resurface between excursions. No lengthy decompression after each dive.
It gives us sustained access to Tennessee Reef in Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary for research, conservation and training.
Fully autonomous. Fully connected.
Vanguard's Surface Support Bouy is a visual marker to vessels operating around Tennessee Reef, and provides life support and connectivity to the habitat below.
17 meters below the bouy, located on the edge of Tennessee Reef, within the Florida Keys National Marine Sancturary, you'll find Vanguard.
Come on in...
...the door's open.
Vanguard is maintained at ambient pressure - equal to that of the surrounding water - which enables 24/7 entry and egress via the open moonpool.
This enables teams of divers unprecedented access to the Reef, and more time and flexibility to carry out their mission.
Shoes off, please. (and gas tanks, and fins and goggles)
Climb through the moonpool and enter Vanguard via the Dive Center.
It is equipped to facilitate excursion dives that begin and end inside the habitat. Whether those dives
Close the door, Alec. There's a draft.
Alec?
The life, aquatic.
This is how we live down here.
Eat. Sleep. Dive. Repeat.
Get a good night's rest. Go again. Basically phil-Short's life.
Vanguard makes it possible.
Coral restoration
Long duration installation and monitoring of nursery-grown corals.
Marine science
Extended observation of marine ecosystems, ibncluding species and food web ecology surveys.
Climate studies
Continuous measurements tied to warming, acidification and storm impacts.
Human performance
Human physiology and performance research, generating insights applicable to clinical and extreme environment settings.
Long-term monitoring
Repeated sampling of water quality, coral health, bleaching, desease, sedimentation, and benthic change.
Extreme Environments
Supporting teams operating in isolated, high-consequence environments, including spaceflight.
