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Marine Shelter

Marine Tent

Khushi Sharma

Selin Cakar

SJ Han

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Table of Contents

What is it ?

Where is it ?

  • Gulf Of Mexico
  • Gulf Coast Research Laboratory

Different Ocean Zones

Environmental Difficulties

Who is it for?

Marine Biologist

  • Sylvia Earle

Rendering

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What is it?

A Sea Tent for Marine Biologists to research the deep-sea animals. More than 80% of the ocean remains unexplored. Because it is difficult to protect what we don’t know 7% of the world’s oceans are designed as marine protected areas. But we need more investment and stations for the researchers.

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Where is it?

This Marine Shelter is designed to be sitting on the surface of the Deep Sea in the Gulf of Mexico.

The University of Southern Mississippi has a Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, we aim to place a Deep Sea tent below this laboratory so that researchers and biologists can reach the location easily and conduct their research both above and below the water.

Gulf Of Mexico

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Gulf Coast Research Laboratory

The Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (GCRL) is a marine/ coastal research and education enterprise sited in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. GCRL is a unit of The University of Southern Mississippi's College of Science and Technology.

  • Center for Fisheries Research and Development
  • Marine Education Center
  • Thad Cochran Marine Aquaculture Center

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Different Ocean Zones

  • The epipelagic zone (upper open ocean) : the part of the ocean where there is enough sunlight for algae to utilize photosynthesis (the process by which organisms use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide into food).

  • The mesopelagic zone (middle open ocean) : It stretches from the bottom of the epipelagic down to the point where sunlight cannot reach.

  • The bathypelagic zone (lower open ocean): This zone starts at the bottom of the mesopelagic and stretches down to 4000 m (13,000 feet). It is the largest ecosystem on earth.

  • The abyssopelagic zone : It stretches from the bottom of the bathypelagic to the seafloor. This zone is characterized by a relative lack of life. It truly is the abyss.

  • The hadopelagic zone: Where deep, wide trenches occur in the otherwise flat seafloor, the open water that fills them is the hadopelagic zone. By this definition, all of the deepest parts of the ocean conclude in the hadopelagic. This a special zone that only exists in certain places around the world.

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Environmental Difficulties

  • Temperature
  • Pressure
  • Oxygen Levels
  • Health issues due to the lack of oxygen include buildup of carbon dioxide and lactate in the blood, followed by loss of consciousness due to central nervous system hypoxia.
  • Travel/ Transportation
  • Auvs- Programmable, robotic vehicles and Submarines

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Who is it for?

  • Marine Biologists
  • Research Teams
  • Divers

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Marine Biologist

Sylvia Earle

Sylvia Earle is an American Marine Biologist, explorer, author and lecturer. She has been a National Geographic explorer-in-residence since 1998. She is popularly known as ‘Her Deepness’.

She has enjoyed an illustrious career in marine biology, with a role in the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere before she co-founded Deep Ocean Engineering which designed and built a state of the art research submarine known as Deep Rover.

The Deep Rover

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