We visited DEEP’s campus near Bristol, UK – the company on a mission to get people to live under water, for months at a time, by the end of this decade.
We submerged underwater to see where professionals working on DEEP’s habitats will perform their technical dive training, and were shown around a full-size replica of the company’s first habitat, Sentinel, which, once completed, will be able to house humans up to 200 meters subsea.
0:00 Intro
0:30 Submerging at DEEP’s campus
1:08 Why not test in the ocean?
1:36 Sentinel: the first deep sea habitat
2:26 Jacques Cousteau’s ConShelf
3:18 Technological evolution
3:45 3D-printing
4:21 Scientific work in the deep ocean
5:36 Getting the next generation excited about the ocean
6:53 Should deep sea access be democratized?
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@ChiPhanNgococ
September 21, 2025 at 8:00 am
Keep up the good work! Your ideas and style keep the standard of content high.🍊😨🎄
@lukewilliamrimmington
September 21, 2025 at 8:01 am
This some Simpsons tomfoolery right here. I love it.
@camelxravennova
September 21, 2025 at 8:02 am
Can’t wait for seasteading libertarian cities
@JuicedPegasus
September 21, 2025 at 8:03 am
Rapture
@Nicolas-uu3jr
September 21, 2025 at 8:31 am
everyone is making apocalypse houses…
@ericlotze7724
September 21, 2025 at 8:39 am
Not necessarily…moreso for Research Bases (like the ISS is for space but for the Ocean) and Vacations (think Scuba Diving or Charter Fishing…but underwater)
@Nicolas-uu3jr
September 21, 2025 at 8:53 am
@@ericlotze7724 & they work great for an apocalypse 😀
@EhCloserLook
September 21, 2025 at 8:32 am
So… Bioshock is becoming reality?!?!?
@TheAdnanmajor
September 21, 2025 at 9:22 am
Yup and only the top 1% will be living in there.
@Heyo_Easy
September 21, 2025 at 8:34 am
Why did they sray in con shelf for only 69 hours?
@Heyo_Easy
September 21, 2025 at 8:39 am
I love the idea, but these days, I just feel like it’s all grifts for investment dollars into so.wthing that won’t ever actually go anywhere😢
@Jumbo_storm
September 21, 2025 at 9:17 am
Wait… We get Subnautica IRL before Subnautica 2?
@Fonis13
September 21, 2025 at 9:38 am
Would You Kindly…
@jorianx2197
September 21, 2025 at 9:42 am
No thanks
@Royce16727
September 21, 2025 at 10:37 am
To answer your final question: no, probably not. I mean, depending who else was going to be living down there with me: maybe? If I’m going down there with Sydney Sweeney and Rihanna and Jessica Beal: for sure. Other fun, personable, but not as attractive people: maybe. Average looking, anxious, and defensive people: definitely not. Lol
@76Series-tu8gg
September 21, 2025 at 11:29 am
Seaquest DSV vibes
@quinnmcdonald3763
September 21, 2025 at 12:23 pm
As long as catastrophic failures may exist…I would say bad idea.
@GeektusMaximus
September 21, 2025 at 12:31 pm
There is always a ancient monster or alien base that screws up these underwater bases. That or genetically modified shark.
@GeektusMaximus
September 21, 2025 at 12:30 pm
Billionaire homes or niche rich vacation hotels. About as likely as a city floating on a ocean. I do like near future Scifi though.
@r9999t
September 21, 2025 at 12:39 pm
Delay maintenance on your typical house, maybe you have a small problem, delay maintenance on your underwater home, maybe you die. Living under water sounds cool, it also sounds incredibly stupid.
@More_Row
September 22, 2025 at 12:16 pm
Indeed, one of those things that sounds interesting but probably gets old fast.
But it all has start somewhere if bio shock is the aim that is.
@bertopugliese5767
September 21, 2025 at 12:41 pm
Thalassophobes everywhere: “Really? They want us inside a submerged, pressurized metal container?”
@TechyA-k9q
September 21, 2025 at 1:08 pm
I’m not exactly thrilled about this idea after the whole titan submarine implosion in 2023
@teamtaka7
September 21, 2025 at 1:54 pm
The difference is we aren’t going anywhere as deep where the water pressure is too intense. This should be fine for regular ocean floor level where there are lights and beautiful sea creatures and corals.
@fatal3713
September 21, 2025 at 3:02 pm
I’m bringing my own controller and my sister.
@nriik4081
September 21, 2025 at 4:08 pm
We got Rapture City before gta6…
@kheankimhong
September 21, 2025 at 6:21 pm
😊😊😊❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉congratulations
@chemjam92
September 21, 2025 at 8:03 pm
20000 inches under the lake?
@BretHart-w7h
September 21, 2025 at 10:23 pm
Bioshock…my thoughts exactly.
@docjoesweeney
September 22, 2025 at 1:49 am
With so many drowning in debt, its not much of a change…
@DanH-u3f
September 22, 2025 at 4:42 am
You have to decompress at the surface or get the deadly bends.
@coreymatthews92
September 22, 2025 at 8:14 am
“I’ve been to the year 3000, not much has changed but they lived under water”
@morvens
September 22, 2025 at 9:26 am
SOMA vibes
@DABOYDJEM1
September 22, 2025 at 10:49 am
Practice for space travel
@joehopfield
September 22, 2025 at 11:27 am
Misleading title, this group sounds like a scam. Nobody’s gonna live underwater long-term, it’s expensive, inefficient, bad for your health. Also permanent mildew and athletes foot.
Modern technology lets us see and do more without putting humans underwater. This is a scam or another tech bro reinvention of all technology. All the money. , This project is just burning it
@joehopfield
September 22, 2025 at 11:28 am
Seriously,cnet, Is this an AI marketing piece? Pure garbage.
@SiXiam
September 22, 2025 at 12:46 pm
No moonpool no sale.
@FlyerScott
September 22, 2025 at 4:53 pm
Was thinking the same thing, where’s the moonpool?
@dalemsilas8425
September 22, 2025 at 3:21 pm
I call it, rapture!😂😂😂😂
@Censorshift
September 22, 2025 at 3:33 pm
I chose…. Rapture
@stijnhaki
September 22, 2025 at 3:57 pm
you know it’s bs when they want to 3D print this stuff. they have no clue what they are doing.
@polyesterShark
September 22, 2025 at 4:07 pm
everyone’s first joke is Bioshock but ever heard of a book called Dark Life?
@rajathnavas
September 22, 2025 at 6:29 pm
I am searching for James Cameroon in the comment section
@NoobNoob1986
September 23, 2025 at 5:06 am
You have to go deep deep deep to find him
@kalebvroom8985
September 22, 2025 at 9:08 pm
no not bioshock but subnautica
@HydroWorldOutlookHub5769
September 23, 2025 at 12:40 am
6:56 Ideally, yes. But we all know that the reality is going to be far more complicated. Realistically we’re talking at least 20-30 years before living underwater becomes affordable to *anyone* outside of the richest and wealthiest people in the world. And remember, before we can live underwater, we’ve gotta get there first. Submarines are expensive, and there’s not a lot of them out there that are designed for civilian use while being economical and affordable. We would need to essentially build large submarine buses to ferry people from the underwater habitats to onshore harbors and seaports, essentially creating a whole new public transit system that operates underwater, which carries its own set of expensive costs and challenges.
Increasing submarine traffic to that level would require the maritime authorities would all have to get involved, and there would need to be safe and efficient procedures for evacuating the habitat if a ship or aircraft sinks from the water’s surface. Adding wing-in-ground-effect craft to the mix in the maritime world will only increase sea traffic and proportionately increase these safety risks even further.
So yes, I support it. Yes, it could be cheaper than going to space. And yes, its theoretically achievable with the technology we have at this point, but it will probably be at least 2045 or 2050 before living underwater even comes close to becoming an affordable reality, and many people living today, unfortunately, may not live long enough to see it depending on how much time it takes for the immense costs of subsea technology to drop far enough down into the realm of scalability and affordability.
@GIONATION5
September 23, 2025 at 3:30 am
No gaming controllers, please 🙏🏻
@Offandgone
September 23, 2025 at 6:13 am
Nice big Windows. You’re going to have to clean those everyday
@mattbrown8139
September 23, 2025 at 8:03 am
No mention of SeaLab? Did I miss something?
@Абдулло-щ3е9э
September 23, 2025 at 8:59 am
Why? Like bro I just want universal healthcare.
@SpiderxPunk
September 23, 2025 at 9:21 am
*Underneath the Seaaaalab, underneath the water of the seaaaalaaaaaab.* 🎶
@teyleen
September 23, 2025 at 10:05 am
Ayeeee can’t wait for the movie
@adamjoseph4768
September 23, 2025 at 10:43 am
why?
@AsiMidAme
September 23, 2025 at 11:54 am
Sounds like an insane waste of money… sitting in one spot under the ocean and spending huge amount of funds to do what underwater bots are already doing at much deeper waters. In space the astronauts move and are not stationary, but honestly most of their work is to babysit the International space station, not much reserch is needed from them, that why they have youtube channels to pass their time…
@MrTacoman1003
September 23, 2025 at 11:58 am
Nope
@_immortal9934
September 23, 2025 at 12:13 pm
Ocean gate 2.0
@williamcarlson3527
September 23, 2025 at 12:15 pm
this is cool
@dannyarcher6370
September 23, 2025 at 12:42 pm
It’s not much? It’s more than two and a half times the maximum depth an Advanced Open Water PADI diver can go.
@dannyarcher6370
September 23, 2025 at 12:43 pm
I love her accent. Especially the way she pronounces ‘habitat’.
@suplementosive2059
September 23, 2025 at 1:29 pm
Mientras no se metan en problemas con los hipotéticos atlantes y supietan manejar su entropia como startreck los replicadores de alimentos y recicladores de alimentos para reciclar todo tipo de desechos orgánicos e inorgánicos en grado civil controlado todo lo anterior no creo que tengan mucho problema, pero si juegan a ser dios o cosas como bioshock entonces minimo les van a observar como resident evil revelations 1, sugerencia.
@andrewjohnson4021
September 23, 2025 at 2:11 pm
You can barely house humans on the surface without having issues how is this something that is even feasible or possible? And we already know about their underwater cities that they already have and other locations to. We’re not dumb
@andrewjohnson4021
September 23, 2025 at 2:14 pm
No there are people and beings that have already built underwater structures under lakes all over the place. You wouldn’t even know that they’re there. And most times you don’t even enter it through the lake you enter it from a side property on the shore that goes to the under lake basin. If I were somebody who was going to hide technology that didn’t want any one of you to find under the lake would be one of the best ideas. Most of your systems wouldn’t be able to scan far enough.
@maxloewe1
September 23, 2025 at 4:08 pm
I don’t buy the 3D-printing part. What they show is not 3D-printed and why should this shape be impossible with conventional manufacturing?
@liamcollinson5695
September 23, 2025 at 4:12 pm
I could maybe understand this in a clear lake with fish and other aquatic life but a dead dark water filled quarry just doesn’t sound appealing whatsoever