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Aquinaut Fabian Costto urges urgent ocean action at United Nations Ocean Conference
Summary
At a media session during the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, aquanaut Fabian Costto described living and working underwater, recounted leading a 31-day mission at the Aquarius laboratory and called for accelerated investment and action on ocean health, saying some restoration efforts fail to address root causes.
Fabian Costto Aquinaut, introduced at a livestreamed SG media zone session during the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, urged faster, larger and more deliberative investment in ocean protection and described the unique scientific value of living and working from undersea saturation habitats.
"An aquinaut by definition is someone who trains to live and work underwater based out of an undersea marine laboratory in saturation," Fabian said, explaining that saturation missions allow scientists to trade surface access for extended, hands-on time at depth. He said he led the longest mission at the Aquarius undersea laboratory — "31 days in…
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