Inside the underwater home where people will live for 28 DAYS with tiny bedroom pods and futuristic living area

DEEP SEA is one of the least explored environments on Earth, and has been visited by fewer people than the Moon. 

So, if you think humans living on the lunar surface is a bonkers plan, try 200m beneath the ocean, where sunlight barely touches and all you can see is an inky black expanse.

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An artist’s impression of The Great Hall within the Sentinel System, which aims to be flexible for different mission typesDeep

Each bedroom will enjoy a huge view-port overhead

At 200m, the pressure is around 21 times greater than it is at the surface.

It’s at this point where nearly all light has been filtered out and the water temperature has dropped to around four degrees.

Despite these uninhabitable conditions (for humans), ocean technology company Deep has vowed to build a permanent sub-sea station to enable researchers to “continuously” operate down at that level from 2027.

Previously, underwater facilities have only been temporary.

But the base, known as the Sentinel, promises to be a scalable and redeploy-able hub for ocean research.

Going by Deep’s freshly unveiled plans, humans could be living in the oceans twilight zone – where sunlight barely reaches – in as little as four years time.

There isn’t a major lifestyle draw for humans existing this far below the oceans surface.

Forget about the glamorous underwater hotels that let you sleep next to fish in the Great Barrier Reef.

There’s minimal-style living, sleeping, kitchen and work spaces for researchers to live in during their stay.

But climate change has left researchers desperate to safeguard the ocean, and to do that, they must have to skip the – typically – more than four hour journey to the ‘office’.

Deep executive, Steve Etherton, explained: “We need to preserve the oceans. To do that we need to understand them.

“The oceans sit at the centre of many of the generational challenges the world is facing, and they also offer opportunities we have not even begun to comprehend.”

Having a base lay around 200m down will give researchers equally accessible entry to both the Twilight Zone and the Sunlight Zone, or Epipelagic Zone.

The lower Epipelagic Zone, where light and darkness meet, is where 90 per cent of marine life is found.

Though the quality of life in this dark region is likely why researchers will only be able to live in the base for up to 28 days at a time.

Following the Titanic sub disaster in June, Deep has been quick to assure onlookers that the technology behind Sentinel, its submersibles and research equipment, has been “backed up by technical and human performance training and qualification programmes (DEEP Institute), and a unique underwater R&D test and operations facility (DEEP Campus).”

Deep’s American president, Sean Wolpert, added: “Out of sight and out of mind – not having a better understanding of the oceans is no longer an option.

“We are already talking to potential international partners, and others with a long-term view of the needs of the planet, who recognise that the up-side for humanity in preserving and husbanding the oceans is now too great to ignore.

“Looking at the themes around the emerging new ocean/blue economy we hear of opportunity and solutions in pharmaceutical research, in carbon capture, in innovative medicines.”

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A simple kitchen and dining area, known as the Galley

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