We're operating very close to the conservative end of undersea habitation. The challenges go up exponentially as you go deeper.
"Marcum "Marc" Reagan" is a Station Training Lead in Mission Operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. He leads a team of instructors who together are responsible for developing and executing complex simulations for International Space Station (ISS) assembly and operations. Reagan also serves as an ISS "Flight controller#Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM)/Capcom" from Mission Control, communicating with ISS astronauts in orbit. In May 2002, Reagan served as an aquanaut on the NEEMO/NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations 2 (NEEMO#NEEMO 2: May 13–20, 2002/NEEMO 2) crew. He subsequently served as Mission Director for multiple NEEMO missions.
More Marc Reagan on Wikipedia.The objective is to provide an analog close to space where the consequences are really life and death, ... Rookies can make their mistakes before they get to space.
The state of technology (for undersea exploration) is still in its infancy, ... We have 90 years and two countries' worth of experience in space exploration -- and maybe a dozen real serious underwater habitats. A lot more manpower and GDP has gone into space exploration.
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