An underwater home

[AptaMer]

This place resonates with me, it would be nice mer home. What a privilege for that freediver to be able to visit there.


http://youtu.be/BU4a4DNpwDg

[Nyx]

Oh god that is beautiful. It's a pity they are taking it down <:|

[Ashe]

So cool! I would love to do what that woman does one day :)

[spottedcatfish]

I saw this a while back... The ending is soo sad. I hope they get enough funding to build a new research center some day.

[AptaMer]

Hmmm, it looks like FLorida International University has been able to rescue Aquarius, at least through 2013, while it works out a way to make it self-funded.

http://aquarius.fiu.edu/news/2013/fiu-to-operate-aquarius-reef-base/

It looks like it may be possible for private entities to pay to use the Aquarius habitat. I wonder if it would be possibe for private groups to visit & live there for a holiday?

9395

You've gotta admit, this would be one cool place to put on a Mer gathering :) I wonder what the stuffy scientist types would say, though, if a pod of mers visited the habotat just to frolic in the coral gardens?

[Nyx]

I say someone should tell them that a bunch of mermaids would love to pay to stay a few days > w<

[Mermaid Pickles]

That'd be awesome.

[Merman Dan]

While we're at it... the H2OME (http://www.ussubstructures.com/h2o.html)

http://www.ussubstructures.com/USSStructures-H2OME-bkg-stat.jpg

Now that's a beach house I'd invest in!

[MermaidSaph]

This place resonates with me, it would be nice mer home. What a privilege for that freediver to be able to visit there.


http://youtu.be/BU4a4DNpwDg
At 1:15, I was laughing. Underwater watering can! ....How would that work?

[OceanWhisper]

^^ The same way that Spongebob gets underwater fire and electricity to work, that's how :lol:

[OceanWhisper]

Merman Dan--- Oooooh! Pick me! Pick me!! I want one!

[Mary Marine]

I just keep thinking of this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3Yq4AGmOo

[Amphitrite]

Woooow that is beautiful. How sad that it is being taken down. What will happen to the surrounding life?

[Echidna]

Great video. Awesome freediving skills!

I'd prefer something less tech-looking though. H2OME is better, but still has this human vibe.
I love things that look like nature, or a perfect replica, or are designed to blend into the environment.

Now I only need gills.

[MermaidBrandie]

Great video. Awesome freediving skills!

I'd prefer something less tech-looking though. H2OME is better, but still has this human vibe.
I love things that look like nature, or a perfect replica, or are designed to blend into the environment.

Now I only need gills.

Any home or think put under water would eventually be over taken by marine life so no matter what it looked like at the beginning, it would soon look natural.


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[OceanWhisper]

Like shipwrecks ^.^ I love how corals and seaplants just go *whoosh* and grow on them XD

[SeaDragon Mermaid]

While we're at it... the H2OME (http://www.ussubstructures.com/h2o.html)

http://www.ussubstructures.com/USSStructures-H2OME-bkg-stat.jpg

Now that's a beach house I'd invest in!

WHY MUST YOU TORTURE ME???

[Merman Dan]

Underwater House from 1965 (http://www.northdevonjournal.co.uk/Underwater-house-used-1965-experiment-survived/story-27741704-detail/story.html)