Aquanaut
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- "Aquanauts" redirects here. For the TV series, see Aquanauts (TV series).
An aquanaut is any individual who has lived and worked in a fixed underwater habitat on the seafloor or other underwater location for a period equal to or greater than 24 continuous hours without returning to the surface. An aquanaut is distinct from a submariner in that a submariner is confined to a moving underwater vehicle such as a submarine.
The first human aquanaut was Robert Stenuit who lived onboard a tiny one man cylinder at 200 feet for 24 hours in September 1962 off Villefranche on the French Riviera.
[edit] See also
- Astronaut - a similar term
[edit] References
Miller, J.W and Koblick, I., Living and Working In the Sea, 1998
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