SeaOrbiter is a unique vessel in the world, developing a new concept for man’s underwater observation, continuously twenty-four hours a day. It will permit a better understanding of marine phenomena and a new inventory of ocean wealth for the preservation of its resources, as well as those of our planet. It is at once a revolutionary and indispensable human adventure for future generations.

It is also a true platform of communication, within educational reach, the motor of a new adventure proposed to men around the Mediterranean, Europe and the world to fully understand the ocean and its ecosystems, to respect and to live in harmony with them. SeaOrbiter is today accompanied by a large committee of internationally renowned experts coming from multiple domains of state-of-the-art competence, as well as by numerous manufacturers linked to maritime technologies throughout the world. This project, of great symbolic weight, created by architect Jacques Rougerie, is above all a “gift to the generations to come”. By combining the latest technology and the taste for adventure, we propose to them a maritime adventure unique since Cousteau.

To promote a message of hope for humanity. Thanks to the vessel conceived by architect Jacques Rougerie the “aquanauts”,true “astronauts of the sea”, will permit the public to participate continuously and in real time in the observation of the subaquatic world and in the life at the heart of the marine environment. The internet, a necessary complement to this tool, will provide discussion forums and exchanges which will contribute to the emotional and coalescing development with the marine element. As such, Humanity will be more inclined to preserve its immense territories that have resources yet to be exploited – notably biomedical – and that participate in the construction of climatic phenomena. With SeaOrbiter, France provides a structuralizing project susceptible of changing the behaviour of man in their relationship with the resources of the Planet, one of which is the ocean. This is one of the objectives of the European Union with its policy on the Sea.

It is also a priority in France which expressed itself recently with the launching of the “Grenelle de l’environment” or Grenelle Environment Round Table. Finally, it is a major axis of the Union Project of the Mediterranean established by President Nicolas Sarkozy. For SeaOrbiter is apt to unify man, institutions and nations for one common objective: our future. For all these reasons, this revolutionary project, for which the technological feasibility is abound and has been validated by the best maritime specialists including DCNS, must be provided for in the future cooperative programs being considered for the construction and the preservation of better environmental and secure quality in the Mediterranean basin.

However this will be a first step, because the focus is to eventually provide a “vessel” by ocean or by interior sea. Today SeaOrbiter is already a global project.Here we have a fantastic opportunity to place France at the heart of the development programs in the domain of sustainable technologies in the world. This project is the project of a multidisciplinary team that was built after eight years of work at that came together around an idea and a dream long held by Jacques Rougerie. Well known in France and in the world for the many marine related projects he has completed, he has just been recognized by his peers who have recently elected him to the Institute of France – Academy of Fine Arts.

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