What Will the Underwater City of the Future Look Like?

3 types of ocean colonies and how they will help us survive

Courtesy of DC Comics

If you play video games, read science fiction, or watch futuristic blockbusters, you can remember a dozen submarine habitats. Gleaming skyscrapers and glass tubs of the “Bioshock” Rapture are one way to represent an ocean colony; pseudo-antic cathedrals and palaces of “Aquaman” Atlantis are another. What about reality?

If you doubt we will get an ocean colony soon, please read my article “7 Reasons We Should Colonize Oceans instead of Mars”. Let’s transform these seven reasons into criteria and see how we can design an ocean colony to meet them.

Criteria an ocean colony should meet:

1. Psychological comfort
2. Safety
3. Technology and science boost
4. Financial independence
5. Contributing to space colonization
6. Expendability
7. Increasing our chances of survival as a species

How should a settlement look to fit these features?

Up, down, or between

Terrain cities are boring. You have to build them, well, on the ground. With an ocean colony, the situation is more…