Professor achieves an underwater first – ‘camping’
Diver Brandon Carr interfaces with an underwater robot outside of Ocean Space Habitat. Photo courtesy Jona Silvertein.
A May 2023 diving science and technology exercise successfully demonstrated the concept of an ‘underwater camping trip’.
The project took place within the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 facility, which is best known for its enclosed environments for earth science research, as well as studying human performance within such environments. The Biosphere 2 recently celebrated the recent accomplishment of enabling terrestrial Mars simulations at the Biosphere.