Colonize The Ocean - Shorts : The History of ASC
From Colonize The Ocean by Colonize The Ocean
June 8, 2026 · 8 min
About this episode
Brendan shares the origin story of Atlantis Sea Colony, detailing its evolution from a high school dream to a practical underwater habitat project.
**🌊 The 30-Year Journey of Atlantis Sea Colony | From High School Dream to Real Underwater Habitats | Colonize the Ocean Podcast** In this special history episode, Brendan shares the full origin story of Atlantis Sea Colony (ASC), going all the way back to the mid-1990s. As a high school kid in landlocked Illinois who grew up drawing scuba divers and dreaming of the ocean, everything changed after watching *SeaQuest DSV* and *The Abyss*. What began as a powerful “God moment” vision and hand-drawn designs in a high school drafting class has grown into a 30+ year mission to build practical, modular, one-atmosphere manned underwater habitats. Brendan breaks down how the original grand sci-fi domed underwater city concept evolved over the decades — first into spheres, then into smaller, more realistic and buildable modular platforms after realizing the original dream was simply too expensive to start with. He talks about early research (pre-internet library hunts), reaching out to experts once the internet arrived, a pivotal meeting with a Houston engineering firm that gave him a real target price and goal, years of investor conversations, Patreon support for operations, and the…
People in this episode
Host: Brendan
Topics covered
- underwater habitats
- history of ASC
- modular design
- ocean exploration
- fundraising
- engineering
Keywords
- Atlantis Sea Colony
- underwater habitats
- modular platforms
- ocean
- engineering
- fundraising
- history
- design
- research
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Atlantis Sea Colony
Books & works: SeaQuest DSV, The Abyss
Places: Illinois
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