The four pillars of Neptune’s temple - relation of the oceans to humans
25 juin 2007, 23:47, par Felix Tailliez
[...] Philippe Tailliez, another pioneer of underwater exploration, has been cherishing this idea ever since his first dives in 1937 with Jacques-Yves Cousteau. He has worked out an outline Archipelaego Project and in 1981 founded an association whose aim is "the design, construction, and experimentation of a floating inhabited archipelago extending from the heights to the depths, by means of spatial and underwater structures. Such an archipelago, dynamically anchored to the seabed, is being planned for the Pacific Ocean, outside those areas which have already been or are being appropriated by the nations of the planet for economic exploitation."
Described as "a symbol and affirmation of the common marine and spatial future of the human race, in line with the concept of the common heritage of humanity", the Archipelaego Project was favourably received by leading divers and astronauts who met at Miami in 1985, in Tunis in 1986 and in Japan in 1990, under the auspices of the World Confederation of Underwater Activities (CMAS). It is still no more than a project, perhaps even a pipe-dream. But it is not too late, nor perhaps too soon, to start to build this "last shore". [...]
[...] Philippe Tailliez, another pioneer of underwater exploration, has been cherishing this idea ever since his first dives in 1937 with Jacques-Yves Cousteau. He has worked out an outline Archipelaego Project and in 1981 founded an association whose aim is "the design, construction, and experimentation of a floating inhabited archipelago extending from the heights to the depths, by means of spatial and underwater structures. Such an archipelago, dynamically anchored to the seabed, is being planned for the Pacific Ocean, outside those areas which have already been or are being appropriated by the nations of the planet for economic exploitation."
Described as "a symbol and affirmation of the common marine and spatial future of the human race, in line with the concept of the common heritage of humanity", the Archipelaego Project was favourably received by leading divers and astronauts who met at Miami in 1985, in Tunis in 1986 and in Japan in 1990, under the auspices of the World Confederation of Underwater Activities (CMAS). It is still no more than a project, perhaps even a pipe-dream. But it is not too late, nor perhaps too soon, to start to build this "last shore". [...]
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