New footage from Mashable shows a wild new project developed by DEEP, an ocean engineering company founded in 2021. Its pilot habitat, called the “Vanguard,” recently went online some 56 feet underwater, off the coast of Florida’s Tennessee Reef. Still, as Mashable notes, the DEEP Vanguard marks a notable entry into the deep-sea housing market, representing the first privately-funded undersea habitat installed in US waters in decades. “It’s been over 40 years since we’ve had an undersea habitat built for humans and launched,” DEEP’s director of scientific research Dawn Kernagis told NPR in an interview. Whether there’s enough interest from research teams and funders to justify the enormous venture remains to be seen.