{"id":28467,"date":"2024-09-18T17:44:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T21:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/?p=28467"},"modified":"2024-10-28T10:57:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T14:57:48","slug":"fall-2024-undersea-cousteau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/fall-2024-undersea-cousteau\/","title":{"rendered":"The Undersea Vision of Fabien Cousteau"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
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PROTEUS\u2122 \u2014 the undersea equivalent of the International Space Station \u2014 will speed scientific discovery and may even spur medical breakthroughs.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

AN INTERVIEW WITH FABIEN COUSTEAU AND BRIAN HELMUTH <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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This past June marked the tenth anniversary of Fabien Cousteau\u2019s Mission 31, during which he led a team of aquanauts on an extended research operation on the ocean floor aboard the Aquarius Reef Base off the Florida Keys. Cousteau\u2019s 31 consecutive days aboard Aquarius demonstrated how underwater habitation can speed scientific discovery significantly. He and his team accomplished three years\u2019 worth of research in one month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cousteau\u2019s team also broadcasted their activities nonstop, keeping their underwater mission \u2014 and ocean intrigue \u2014 in the public eye. In this way, Mission 31 also served as a tribute to Cousteau\u2019s grandfather, who raised awareness about marine conservation and research through his own underwater adventures, as well as the popular television series \u201cThe Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.\u201d In the early 1960s, Jacques Cousteau\u2019s team also developed Continental Shelf Station I, II, and III off the coast of France, and the elder Cousteau himself had worked in \u201cConshelf\u201d II for 30 consecutive days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fabien Cousteau aboard Aquarius during Mission 31. The month-long research expedition delivered his vision for the next generation of an ocean science center \u2014 PROTEUS\u2122. Credit: Fabien Cousteau\/\u00a9 Kip Evans, Mission31.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As Mission 31 engaged students around the world, it also ignited Fabien Cousteau\u2019s vision for the next generation of an ocean science center \u2014 PROTEUS\u2122<\/a>. This seafloor observatory and research platform will serve scientists, innovators, and others in the search for solutions to critical concerns, such as food sustainability and climate impacts, as well as opening new avenues to medical discoveries and other advances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PROTEUS\u2122 team recently completed mapping the site of the research observatory\u2019s proposed location at a marine park off the coast of Cura\u00e7ao. Already, PROTEUS\u2122 has captured collective imagination as \u201cThe ISS of the Ocean,\u201d and in November, Cousteau and his chief scientific officer, Brian Helmuth, will be panelists for the NC Coastal Conference<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helmuth, a former member of the National Sea Grant Advisory Board, has served for 25 years at the Marine Science Center at Northeastern University. Cousteau\u2019s adventurous background \u2014 as aquanaut, oceanographic explorer, environmental advocate, and founder of both the Fabien Cousteau Ocean Learning Center and the PROTEUS\u2122 Ocean Group \u2014 has included an estimated 25,000 hours underwater. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cousteau and Helmuth talked with Coastwatch<\/em> three days before the PROTEUS\u2122 team reconvened in Cura\u00e7ao to plan their next steps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fabien Cousteau: \u201cWhy are we not leveraging all the tools at our disposal to explore, to congregate with, to learn from, and to bring back solutions from our life support system \u2014 the ocean?\u201d Credit: PROTEUS\u2122 Ocean Group.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fabien, we\u2019ve just marked the tenth anniversary of Mission 31. How did that experience help shape your early thinking about PROTEUS\u2122? <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FABIEN COUSTEAU:<\/strong> Mission 31 was a culmination of a lot of questions I\u2019ve had in my head since my first dive, when I was the ripe old age of 4 years old, which can be summarized now into two main issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, why are we not leveraging all the tools at our disposal to explore, to congregate with, to learn from, and to bring back solutions from our life support system \u2014 the ocean? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, do people still care? Does the general public \u2014 as it did in the 60s and 70s \u2014 still get just as fascinated and care about ocean mysteries, ocean discoveries, and our ocean connection? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you look at all the lifeless brown rocks in space, and all the hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars that we\u2019ve spent as a global society in space exploration, it just further highlights why this planet is so unique. Why are we not spending at least as much in ocean exploration? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In one month aboard Aquarius for Mission 31, Cousteau and his team accomplished three years’ worth of research and reached 100,000 students around the world. Credit: Fabien Cousteau \/ PROTEUS\u2122 Ocean Group.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And why does this kind of tool \u2014 an underwater research station or underwater \u201ccolony,\u201d if you want to call it that \u2014 why has that kind of approach been neglected? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s only one habitat that\u2019s publicly accessible, that we know of, that still functions as an underwater research station in the entire world. And that\u2019s Aquarius. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I had the wonderful opportunity and privilege to meet some very special people a couple of years prior to Mission 31, including Brian and his intrepid coworker, Dr. Mark Patterson [now at Northeastern University and serving as chief robotics officer for the PROTEUS\u2122 team], who was at the time on a mission with one of our close friends, Dr. Sylvia Earle [Time Magazine\u2019s first \u201cHero for the Planet\u201d in 1998 and the first woman to serve as chief scientist for NOAA]. <\/p>\n\n\n

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And having had the opportunity to go down and visit them for a glorious 47 minutes on Aquarius during their five-day mission, I realized that this was a very special place. This kind of platform is a very unique type of approach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It started my journey to look at how do we accomplish something with a fairly economically-sized habitat or platform?<\/em> And how long can we do that for?<\/em> And what can we learn from it?<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Barrel sponge reef, photographed by by Jessica Torossian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mission 31 ended after 31 days, because it pays homage to my grandfather\u2019s 30 days with Conshelf II, and it also gave us enough time to really see if we could leverage that kind of platform in various ways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks not only to the team that I led in saturation to become aquanauts, but to the full surface crew from Northeastern University, Florida International University, the U.S. Navy, and others, we were able to accomplish the equivalent of about three years\u2019 worth of research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, second, we were able to reach over 100,000 students live. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, this is 2014, and this is 9 miles offshore, at the bottom of the sea. For the first time in my life, we were able to have wi-fi and 24\/7 live-streaming from an expedition. And so, we had curious people looking in at what these aquanauts were doing at 3 o\u2019clock in the morning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, also, we\u2019re able to connect with students from all six continents. That was really neat, you know, students outside the water column asking questions to the aquanauts. We had coms in our helmets, so we were able to do a live stream to a group in China, to a group in South America, and so on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fabien Cousteau: “Illustration and storytelling are just as important as the science behind all of this.” Credit: PROTEUS\u2122 Ocean Group.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The enthusiasm \u2014 the Aha! <\/em>moment that you see on their faces \u2014 was just proof positive that you can engage the general public in ways that make them understand and appreciate our connection with the ocean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is also a very valuable tool to be able to understand more comprehensively about conservation, about the importance of science and math and technology, and engineering, as it pertains to this extreme environment we call the ocean world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Really, you know, everything including what is a seemingly-trite action of the boom of a Goliath grouper. We had a prototype camera, which at that point could shoot 20,000 frames a second. We can show the boom of that Goliath grouper and that cavitation bubble hotter than the surface of the sun, for a split second. So, people get fascinated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ll see the microcosmic when we\u2019re looking at the biomechanics of the mantis shrimp trying to hunt \u2014 with this punch stronger than a .22 caliber bullet. Illustration and storytelling are just as important as the science behind all of this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so that\u2019s what not only started our journey toward PROTEUS\u2122 but got me really fascinated with underwater habitats as the missing tool in the toolbox. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brian Helmuth (here, conducting a plankton tow) is chief scientific officer for PROTEUS\u2122 Ocean Group and will be a panelist with Fabien Cousteau at the NC Coastal Conference<\/a><\/strong>. Photo credit: Stephen Price.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The potential of PROTEUS\u2122 for \u201cdisruptive scientific breakthroughs\u201d has drawn a lot of attention. Brian, from your perspective as the chief scientific officer, could you tell us about what you see as the project\u2019s capacity for discovery over the next few years? <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BRIAN HELMUTH: <\/strong>Living underwater and saturation diving is not just an incremental step. It\u2019s a massive step change that provides opportunities. You\u2019re not just conducting science, but understanding the ocean, and I really don\u2019t think there\u2019s any other way to do it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been able to do a couple of saturation missions in Aquarius, and you get the \u201cgift of time,\u201d which is what Sylvia Earle calls it, where you have extended bottom time, and have the ability to deploy very sensitive instrumentation, which you can run back to the habitat. So, you can continuously collect data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You also really have a cognitive shift in how you view your surroundings \u2014 Fabien, I don\u2019t know if you felt this \u2014 where, after about three days, you become almost actively hostile towards the surface world, and you feel like you\u2019re part of that ocean ecosystem. I mean, we would name the fish. The fish would become comfortable with us. They\u2019d follow us around. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My first mission in St. Croix, we had a pod of dolphins that would wait for us to come out of a habitat. And they would follow us around. I did one mission where a giant moray eel would come over and sit between my legs and watch me do science. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Concept art (here and lead image above) for the PROTEUS\u2122 underwater research station. Credit: Yves B\u00e9har and fuseproject \/ PROTEUS\u2122 Ocean Group.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And it provides insights that otherwise are just not possible, certainly not from barreling down there as a surface diver, trying to do everything before you run out of air and run up to the top. But also possibly by not using things like remote or robotic vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We like to say that no kid ever wants to grow up to be a robot. Robotics and automation are fantastic, but there are things that humans are really good at doing on the fly, as far as decision making, as far as changing the course if things aren\u2019t going the way you\u2019re expecting, that really provides those Aha! <\/em>moments of science that we all crave and love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so, I\u2019m absolutely convinced that living on the seafloor is the most sorely-needed tool right now. Fabien\u2019s grandfather built Conshelf in the 1960s, followed by SEALAB [which the U.S. Navy constructed]. Aquarius is a fantastic platform, but it\u2019s really not all that different from its predecessors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mean, it\u2019s a small environment, where you\u2019re living with five of your closest friends, and I can say, after 31 days Fabien looked pretty ragged when he came out of it after a month on the seafloor. I know he didn\u2019t want to come up, but he looked pretty ragged. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brian Helmuth: “When we spend time on the seafloor, we know that those ocean conditions are changing constantly… You\u2019re experiencing ocean weather and what that does to the marine life around you.” Concept art for the PROTEUS\u2122 underwater research station. Credit: Yves B\u00e9har and fuseproject \/ PROTEUS\u2122 Ocean Group.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What if, instead \u2014 and this is what really draws me to Fabien\u2019s vision \u2014 we think of this as living on the seafloor as part of the ecosystem in a habitat? You can live comfortably, you can do so sustainably, so that you can really explore the ecosystem as a member of it doing research. I don\u2019t see any other comparable method out there right now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are so many avenues of exploration. Climate science, for one thing \u2014 we talk about climate in terms of global average temperatures, you know, a 1.5\u00b0 C increase in average surface temperature on the planet. That means nothing to most people. And honestly, it doesn\u2019t mean anything to an animal or plant in the ocean either. They\u2019re not experiencing climate. They\u2019re experiencing weather, driven by climate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, when we spend time on the seafloor, we know that those ocean conditions are changing constantly. If you\u2019re living on the seafloor, you are seeing those 24\/7 changes. You\u2019re seeing the changeover in the biota as you have the daily migration up from deeper waters. You\u2019re experiencing ocean weather and what that does to the marine life around you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, imagine you\u2019ve got a fully kitted-out laboratory on the station where you could look at gene expression, physiological changes, in real time to match with those weather data that you\u2019re collecting using a sensor network. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s also the discovery of natural products. Right now, the cure for cancer is probably in the ocean, but the way we\u2019re collecting samples is we\u2019re going and we\u2019re grabbing them. And bringing them to the surface, and we hope that things don\u2019t explode before we can get a sample out of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All the gene expression is changing by the time you get to the surface. Nothing is natural for that organism. The chemicals it\u2019s producing, the genes it\u2019s expressing are totally different than on the bottom. Again, what if we did it on the bottom, in situ<\/em>, under natural conditions? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We could do that with PROTEUS\u2122, in the lab and outside of the lab, as part of this kind of ecosystem that we\u2019re planning to build. So, I get really excited about this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fabien, could you please talk about why education and awareness are as vital to your vision for PROTEUS\u2122 as the science? <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FABIEN: <\/strong>It\u2019s been three generations of trying to connect people to the importance, the beauty, the fragility, and the interconnectivity of ocean and human, ocean and all life \u2014 our interdependence with regard to that amazing environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel there\u2019s a combination of challenges that we have emotionally and psychologically with this understanding. Storytelling plays a fundamental role, but by and large there have been a select few people who can \u201canthropomorphize\u201d the ocean in a way that the average person gets without sacrificing scientific value and accuracy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fabien Cousteau, during site mapping for the location of PROTEUS\u2122. Credit: PROTEUS\u2122 Ocean Group.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The importance of the ocean can\u2019t be overstated. But the way it\u2019s been delivered to the average person who\u2019s not a scientist, who may not even be inclined to go to the ocean for any kind of activities, unfortunately has been mostly about urgency, mostly about science but in a way that\u2019s very dry and very negative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And when we\u2019re facing some of the fundamental challenges we are now, raising the alarm bells over and over and over again for the last couple of decades, I see a lot of people just kind of disconnect on the emotional level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, the flip side of this is many of us look forward to vacations on the beach somewhere where there\u2019s an ocean nearby. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How does the ocean make you feel when you walk? And the beach, when you\u2019re sitting with a glass of wine watching the sunset over the ocean horizon? How does it make you feel when your children are splashing around in the ocean? Or snorkeling and looking at really crazy, beautiful, unique species that exist nowhere else in the known universe? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How does it feel when you touch an octopus tentacle with the tip of your finger and watch it curiously feeling you out and assessing who and what you are \u2014 and watching it puzzle solve during this time, even though it\u2019s a different kind of intelligence? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fabien Cousteau, mapping the marine park that will be home to PROTEUS\u2122. Credit: PROTEUS\u2122 Ocean Group.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Those things are economic intangibles that when we talk about the ocean, we need to incorporate into the understanding of why that place is so important. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For so long, for decades, we\u2019ve been using this as a seemingly endless resource and as a garbage can. And now we\u2019re looking at the repercussions. And we\u2019re waking up to a lot of challenges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order for us to get the vast majority of the public engaged in solution-building and implementation, we have to be able to let them fall in love with the ocean. My grandfather said very simply, back when I was growing up, that people protect what they love, they love what they understand, and they understand what they\u2019re taught. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more you get people interested, the more likely that you are to have new recruits for science, for engineering, for technology, for the arts, for all sorts of really fundamental things in our everyday lives. If we can use the ocean as that conduit, then we can also shepherd their appreciation and their protection for our large support system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brian Helmuth: “For Mission 31, we connected to several museums around the world \u2014 the aquanauts on the bottom and the surface team \u2014 and were able to have schoolkids ask questions. Now, imagine if we can have them driving submersibles underwater and actually conducting scientific research.” Credit: Mission 31.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Brian, some of your work in the academic sphere has addressed what Fabien has just described \u2014 how storytelling and the use of art can infuse conservation efforts. What have you learned about that process that can help bring not only broader awareness but meaningful awareness about ocean ecosystems, climate change, pollution, contaminants, and so on? <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BRIAN: <\/strong>I served on the National Sea Grant Advisory Board for eight years, and I\u2019m a huge fan of the Sea Grant model [a collaborative approach of scientists and specialists partnering with coastal communities on research, outreach, and education]. I love the quote from Fabien\u2019s grandfather. I think the way we view it now is: how do you co-develop solutions? How do you find the things that matter to people by working collaboratively with them? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so, I think one of the big visions we have for this adventure with PROTEUS\u2122 is how to bring the rest of the world along \u2014 not as passive observers, but as participants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, how do we use things like storytelling and \u201cdigital twins\u201d [virtual representations of physical objects or systems]? What we\u2019re trying to do is increase the connectedness that people have to the ocean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over my career, I\u2019ve spent a lot of time coming up with, I think, very clever ways of solving ocean problems only to get really frustrated when nobody uses them. Science and technology only get you part of the way. It\u2019s that community engagement. It\u2019s the co-development of solutions. It\u2019s listening to people\u2019s needs as your starting point that makes all the difference in the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fabien Cousteau: \u201cAs an extreme environment, the ocean is a perfect analog 
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PROTEUS\u2122 is not just thinking of the science. It\u2019s thinking how do you couple that with storytelling in a way that makes it collaborative? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Mission 31, we connected to several museums around the world \u2014 the aquanauts on the bottom and the surface team \u2014 and were able to have schoolkids ask questions. Now, imagine if we can have them driving submersibles underwater and actually conducting scientific research, by analyzing some of the photos and the videos, having them inform some of the scientific experiments that get done on the seafloor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s the kind of next-gen approach that we want to take, that\u2019s collaborative in nature. And again, I think, it really fits well with that Sea Grant model of looking at people as part of the ocean rather than as something separate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re looking at PROTEUS\u2122 as a convening space across a wide range of organizations and people. We understand the power of working with government agencies, but also with the private sector, also with NGOs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I really think part of the power of PROTEUS\u2122 is the ability to bring together the strengths of those different areas. So, how do we look for solutions in ways that look under every rock, and are as inclusive as possible, and do things in a way that hasn\u2019t been done before? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe ISS of the Ocean\u201d \u2014 this characterization of PROTEUS\u2122 as the ocean\u2019s equivalent of an international space station reflects the natural associations people make between sea and space exploration. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FABIEN: <\/strong>We saw this in the 60s and 70s, and now we\u2019re starting to see a resurgence of those comparisons in 2024. The ISS is certainly a major platform and player in the storytelling aspect of space exploration, and so to transpose it into the ocean is just a natural progression of things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there\u2019s a reason to call PROTEUS\u2122 the \u201cISS of the Ocean.\u201d It\u2019s very much as modular and complex, and we are in just as much of an extreme environment as we would be in space. Arguably, it would take just as long to bring back someone who may need some attention at the surface as it would to bring back someone from the ISS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those extreme environments have a lot of similarities and analogs. If you are in almost any kind of carrier, there\u2019s no substitute for having live-fire exercises. You know, it\u2019s great to be able to do dry runs in safe environments, but before you send hundreds of millions of dollars and personnel into space, it would be great to be able to make sure that those people and that equipment are ready for any and all types of situations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so, as an extreme environment, the ocean is a perfect analog for training all sorts of different disciplines, including, of course, space exploration and colonization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except, I will say we have a lot prettier view, along with things to interact with. And we also have a lot of those aliens that they\u2019re still looking for in space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Related:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PROTEUS\u2122 Site Mapping video<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coastwatch <\/em>on an ocean-born medical safety test: \u201cBlood Draw at the Horseshoe Corral\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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