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Human life under the oceans

Tech Life

BBC

Tech News, News, Technology

4.4221 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Planet Earth's oceans remain relatively unexplored. Now one company has a bold plan to build habitats for humans to live and work underwater for long spells of time. We hear about the tech challenges of life on the seabed.

Also on Tech Life, we speak to a Californian TikTok content creator, and a company benefiting from being on TikTok, as the future of the video-sharing platform in the United States remains uncertain. And who needs big crowds and long queues ? Is the future of gaming expos virtual ?

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Presenter: Chris Vallance Producer: Tom Quinn Editor: Monica Soriano

(Image: An illustration of an underwater human habitat known as a Sentinel. Credit: Deep.)

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0:00.0

On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see.

0:04.7

Hello, I'm Brian Cox.

0:05.6

And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage.

0:08.3

In this series, we're going to have a planet off.

0:10.8

I feel like Jupiter wins.

0:12.8

And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit.

0:15.9

We're talking about your bog standard.

0:17.8

Ice, not the fancy one.

0:20.1

Science with funny bits.

0:21.9

The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage.

0:24.1

Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

0:28.2

Welcome to TechLife on the BBC World Service, the programme about technology and how it affects all our lives.

0:35.4

Despite most of our blue planet being covered in water, the oceans remain

0:39.9

relatively unexplored. Now one company wants to change that with a bold plan to build habitats

0:46.1

for humans to live in and work underwater for long spells of time. We hear about the tech

0:52.2

challenges of life on the seabed. That's coming up in a moment.

0:56.5

And we speak to a Californian milk tocker and a company benefiting from being on TikTok as the

1:02.6

future of the video sharing platform in the United States remains fuzzy. And who needs big crowds and

1:09.4

long queues? Is the future of Gaming Expo's virtual? Let's begin today with a journey underwater.

1:41.4

That's the sound of equipment destined for the seafloor being tested at a flooded quarry in Gloucestershire in the south-west of England.

1:49.3

A multinational company called Deep is using this quarry to test seabed habitats for people to live and work in under the oceans.

1:57.8

Their ambitious goal is to make humans aquatic.

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