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Ocean Outpost

The Future of Humans Living Underwater

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Erik Seedhouse

    1. Canada Toronto, Defence Research & Development, Toronto, Canada

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  • Identifies key determinants of life or death in the extreme environment of the deep ocean Addresses the myriad of technologies required to sustain life at the ocean's depth Provides unique insights into near-future diving medicine, technology, submersibles, and undersea habitats Describes how people are trained to "fly" the new breed of underwater submersibles

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Diving

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. No Limits Freediving

      • Erik Seedhouse
      Pages 3-18

    3. Technical and Saturation Diving

      • Erik Seedhouse
      Pages 19-44

  3. Manned Submersibles and Undersea Habitats

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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  4. Manned submersibles and under sea habitats

    1. Hardsuits

      • Erik Seedhouse
      Pages 47-59

    2. Manned Submersibles

      • Erik Seedhouse
      Pages 61-74

    3. Personal Submersibles and Underwater Flight

      • Erik Seedhouse
      Pages 75-94

    4. Ocean Outpost

      • Erik Seedhouse
      Pages 95-124

  5. Ocean Exploitation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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  6. Ocean exploitation

    1. Deep-Sea Mining and Energy Exploitation

      • Erik Seedhouse
      Pages 127-140

    2. Ocean Medicine

      • Erik Seedhouse
      Pages 141-150

  7. Revolutionary Undersea Medicine

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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  8. Revolutionary under sea medicine

    1. Liquid Breathing and Artificial Gills

      • Erik Seedhouse
      Pages 153-165

    2. Becoming Homo Aquaticus

      • Erik Seedhouse
      Pages 167-178

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 179-187
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About this book

One of the greatest scientific and technological achievements of the 21st century will be to cast a light on the eternal darkness of the deep ocean and this book identifies the key determinants of life or death in its extreme environment. Dr. Erik Seedhouse examines how individuals survive free dives to 200m, how humans adapt to breathing exotic gas mixes at depths exceeding 700m, and how technological innovation will enable humans to enter unendurable realms. The book describes the problems unique to the hostile environment of the deep ocean, such as decompression sickness, discusses how the human body responds to increased pressure, and what happens when adaptive mechanisms fail. Ocean Outpost describes how the technology will evolve, how crews will be selected and trained and what a typical underwater mission will entail. The book also chronicles the frontiers of diving medicine that will eventually take humans into the midst of a world we could once only guess at.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Canada Toronto, Defence Research & Development, Toronto, Canada

    Erik Seedhouse

About the author

Dr. Erik Seedhouse is an aerospace and hyper/hypobaric research scientist specializing in space life sciences and diving physiology. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physiology while working for the European Space Agency between 1996 and 1998. In 2001, he established the Freediving Research Project while working as a co-director of the Extreme Physiology Program at Simon Fraser University. In 2005, he worked as as Astronaut Training Consultant for Bigelow Aerospace, for whom he wrote the Spaceflight Participant's Flight Surgeon's Manual. He also developed astronaut-training protocols for future spaceflight participants and wrote and edited several chapters of Bigelow Aerospace's Astronaut Training Manual. Considered a world authority on the subject of space tourism, the author recently wrote the Encyclopedia Britannica defintion of the subject. In 2009 he was selected as an astronaut candidate in the final group of thirty being considered for selection by the Canadian Space Agency. He has professional scuba-diving certification and has made more than 300 dives over 25 years.

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