Reengineering an Iconic Sub to Explore Alien Worlds
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- Опубліковано 9 жов 2021
- Earth’s final frontier is the ocean floor. To explore these unknown depths and uncover countless mysteries, a group of engineers upgraded the world's oldest crewed sub.
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Alvin is a deep-submergence vehicle. It's a three-person machine designed to take people to some of the deepest places in the ocean. It's a 57-year-old program that has stayed operational for those 57 years and continues to make some pretty amazing discoveries.
Every time Alvin dives, we learn something new. One of the most exciting discoveries was made in 1977, with the discovery of the hydrothermal vent systems.
And even just a couple of years ago, Alvin enabled the discovery of a new deep coral environment. Because of these discoveries, Alvin is no stranger to making headlines.
For years, Alvin’s max depth was 4,500 meters, giving scientists access to close to two thirds of the ocean floor. There's always a sense of excitement and anticipation before getting in the sub, and that just comes from the fact that you are likely to see something that no one else has seen before, and potentially make an important discovery.
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“This increased depth range will give ocean scientists the ability to explore 98% of the ocean floor and study the abyssal region-one of the least-understood areas of the deep sea and home to high-temperature hydrothermal vents, submarine volcanoes, subduction trenches, mineral resources, and more.”
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“The ocean floor holds vast deposits of ores containing sought-after metals. Companies are exploring the potential to mine three types of deposits in the deep sea: ferromanganese nodules, metal-rich crusts on seamounts and sulfide deposits near hydrothermal vents along the mid-ocean ridges.”
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What do you hope Alvin will discover at 6,500 meters?
Nicely answered around minute 6 in the video.
I just hope they protect what's there that's all!
Fossils!! Of course!
Humanity
The ability for humans to destroy keeps growing exponentially
It's not at all surprising to see the mining opportunities
Just very disappointing
Explore and then leave
Humans aren't generally like that though
more sea creatures never seen
One look at the engineering on Alvin compared to Titan says it all.
Yes, this, and the various Triton models makes you realise Oceangate was just a complete joke. They weren't visionaries, they weren't 'breaking new ground'. Alvin was designed 60 years ago and is far better.
"there's no reason not to stick with this metal that is tried and true"... exactly
Even the fish have got RGB now?
Very interested in the exploration of the deep sea. Eager to see more developments.
People won't be so excited when they start mining the sea floor.
that's quick sickening to hear. they're only building this advanced machine to explore the ocean's bottom, so that they can take out more of the earth's natural resources.
@@borinvlogs not to mention that the current human population is over 4 times the IDEAL figure needed, i.e. 2 billion max, to keep the Earth sustainable for generations..
@@AifDaimon Well not exactly, Were actual gonna see a population decline cuz we have a large older population than a younger one. Most of the West and some Eastern countries have a higher life expectancy rate, which contributes to large numbers. This decade there will be a population decline and opening of immigration in many countries.
@@AifDaimon
Yeah & it's the third world that keeps overpopulating the planet.
@Dhandanaka Sinu Alvin is an instrument for scientific exploration, discovery, and conservation, NOT for mining.
Wonder how many times we'll explore the "final frontier" since as tech grows we push that frontier a little further. Seems impossible now but perhaps one day we will have technology that lets us explore the Earths crust or even the mantle or core, then that will be called the final frontier.
Imma live in the water
@@Theworldisabeautifulplaceyakno subnautica earth experience
Is lava wet?
@@ericmoyer8538 not really. It's more like taffy, usually. Though some lavas are thinner than others. I doubt any of them would be described as wet, even if you could touch them directly without burning you hand.
@@ericmoyer8538 I mean, if someone would fall “into” lava, they’d kinda fall onto a hard, viscous surface that would incinerate your nerves in seconds. LoTR lied to us, sadly.
4:31 I like how they use simple grocery store buckets with all that cutting edge tech 😆
Yeah the milk crates made me do a double take
Have you ever tried to break a milk crate? Those things are practically indestructible.
The name is "Alvin", not "Highlander"; how come there can be only one? I would like to see a whole *fleet* of these guys exploring the depths, finding new things every day.
It's going to be very interesting to see just what could be down there in the larger spectrum of organisms. I realize that we're not gonna see anything from the more famous horror movies, but they would really grab the world's attention if they found something large.
I remember Alvin as a kid and I'm nearly 50 now!!
The submarine not the chipmunk!
im 90 and never heard of it before now.
The tension is thick down there! Can't imagine the pressure on that vessel!!
Exciting is a understatement
Great presentation... well done
Can't wait to see life similar to these in Europa and all :)
play barotrauma lmao
@@babayada2015 Are you sure? What would the otherworldly lifeforms look like?
@@babayada2015 😅 i think that you might lose the content of ur house then because if cells like on earth are able to form on a place like the European volcano crust they might face the same problem as life forms on earth😅 and things can evolve independently many times, as seen on earth, so i wonder if they wouldn't form similar lifeform types down there, if they are kinda analogous to having dna they should get complicated and undergo genetic selection like we did
@@babayada2015 I agree with you. You are correct.
@@Colonies_Dev what do you mean by evolving independently? As long as the environment changes, organisms will not evolve independently
Why is there colour in absolute darkness? I'm not asking about bioluminescence but about the flora growing where no light can reach. This has always been fascinating to me.
great video_
thanks!!!
Very cool!
we get to explore the deepest Oceans and now space.... what a time to be alive
Thanks
Looking online, it looks like there's absolutely nothing original to Alvin, but since it's been upgraded each time, it's still the same submersible!
Some of those deep sea creatures look like UFOs! Extraordinary!
Nice video.
We head out to Bermuda...what could possibly go wrong??
this should be filmed for VR
We know more about space than we do our actual home.
Mining is the most disgusting distraction of the inviroment, so fortunately I really hope they do it without disrupting to much
Not "mining" there, just collecting small samples
when i was a kid, alvin was a chipmunk, look how hes grown up!
Cool
Gives us an insight into the diversity we might find in “other habitat planets”. 😊♥️
Life can't really go on very much in the vacuum of space. Perhaps you mean on other habitable planets?
@@feminico2613 Yeap, hadn’t had my first coffee, thank you. 😊
This concerns me deeply.
i want to grow up and explore the ocean
But the ocean is on you Earth :/
@@feminico2613 oh, dio. my sweet dio. i will go inside *myself*
they should have done this a long time ago
that moment when you install the Depth Module MK2 :)
I get this lol
I want an RGB fish, thanks
❤
So, this is not the Ship of Theseus. It's the Ship of Alvin.
Though I do have to say that the name makes me think of a certain chipmunk. Which isn't a bad thing, really. He was always a thrill-seeker.
I got to tour Alvin and the Atlantis support ship back into 90's truly Amazing the engineering and problem solving that went into making it such a capable submersible.
Very cool!
4:23 that reminds me of the spider on subnoutica.
Hopefully we can figure out an environmentally friendly way of mining.
i'm quite sure earth's final frontier is not deep sea, but the core
If only we could use the technology being used for space programs that would be fantastic especially if we could use capsules like the crew dragon and other spacecraft that technology for deep-sea exploration so my question is why couldn’t we
It's mainly due to the conditions of both environments. In space, you're dealing with having to keep the pressure inside of the pressure capsule, where as in a DSV, it's the other way around. And while that might sound similar in concept, you'd need different materials for the pressure capsule to make sure the vessel doesn't either cave in on itself, or expand out and tear itself apart. It's all about tension vs compression, and different materials, designs, and practices are better for each. Even down to the hatch, the hatch on a space craft needs to be designed in a way where the primary force pushing on it once it is out of the atmosphere, is the spacecraft itself. Meanwhile, Alvin uses a plug hatch, that is kept in place through the massive amount of pressure from the exterior of the craft.
I remember the first alvin releases gasoline to the ocean, because it was the way it could inmerse deep.
It is nice that people are making scientific advancements to explore the depths of the ocean and whatnot, but what people are doing less is exploring their inner hearts and making the changes to be a better human being.
Actually, I did quite a bit of that too while diving in Alvin! 😊
waiting for more comments about Barotrauma
And then later pollute it all!
It's interesting about the human pattern......first go to new unexplored places and areas....study and find interesting ecosystems ,creatures and things....and then find things of value and then mine, exploit and change the heck out of that ecosystem.....how typically human.
In an accident, I got fractured in my skull.
After the operation, there will be some empty bone space in the skull.
I want to Epi bone ( stem cell) for my skull
So they're scouting for mining areas to exploit... For the sake of the climate??? LOL
Great , mining … as if it wasn’t a problem above ground
Somewhere down those ocean depths is a used condom floating into infinity
I don’t consider it a alien world, I call it the deep sea
rgb fish
Haha.. iron modules, sure. 😉
I don't get why sending people instead of remote controlling an unmanned veichle
There are ROVs. It's just that there are certain things that are easier to do if you are actually there.
@@liem11 I thought the same, but no argument came into my mind. What can you really do at this depth? Probably the same you can do at the surface, with the exception that you don't put your life in dangerous for no reason
Untapped Resources 🤨
We always have enough money to fund expensive military weapons. How about we give these scientists even 1% of the military budget so they can build a brand new submarine to study ocean life?
India ocean
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went from cool scientific discovery to how can we extract resources…. just leave it alone
#thorium
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Lame
2024 less than a two weeks
There could be ANYTHING DOWN THERE, or even under the earth. The land dwellers are the minority; assuming there are those that dwell also in the sea, and why not assume that.
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The DSV should stop sightseeing and stick to its job.
buy SOL> buy BTC> buy XRP >buy OMG
No thank you
buy doge > everything else
Cool gear lame people ........cringeworthy
Lets be real, there is not that much more new "exciting stuff" down there....
The ocean covers 75% of the planet.
We haven’t even explored 10% of the ocean. There’s definitely space for civilizations which I’m sure there are down there
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