Ocean Outpost The Future of Humans Living Underwater /

Ocean Outpost is an undersea roadmap charting the future of man's exploration of Earth's last vast unexplored territory. To realize the goal of an extended human presence underwater a wealth of new technologies will be developed, such as new manned and unmanned submersibles, advanced propu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Seedhouse, Erik (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edición:1st ed. 2011.
Temas:
Oceanography.
Engineering.
Life sciences.
Social sciences.
Humanities.
Science.
Mathematics.
Ocean Sciences.
Technology and Engineering.
Life Sciences.
Humanities and Social Sciences.
Physical Sciences.
Mathematics and Computing.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the Author
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • List of panels
  • List of abbreviations and acronyms
  • Section I Diving
  • Chapter 1:No Limits freediving
  • Chapter 2: Technical and saturation diving
  • Part II Manned Submersibles and Undersea Habitats
  • Chapter 3: Hardsuits
  • Chapter 4: Manned Submersibles
  • Chapter 5: Personal Submersibles and underwater flight
  • Chapter 6: Ocean outpost
  • Part III Ocean Exploitation
  • Chapter 7: Deep-sea mining and energy exploitation
  • Chapter 8: Ocean medicine
  • Section IV Revolutionary Undersea Medicine
  • Chapter 9: Liquid breathing and artificial gills
  • Chapter 10: Becoming homo aquaticus
  • Appendix
  • Epilogue
  • Index.

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