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Abject
Accretion
Actant
Aeration
Aerobic
Algae-boosted
Animal
Anthropomorphism
Anti-Continuous Construction
Apocalypse
Aquaculture
Aquanaut
Ark
Artificial Intelligence
Autopoiesis
Assemblages
Asymmetry
Atrophy
Attraction
Autarchy
Automata
Automation
Autosymbiosis
Bambassador
Bathyscaphe
Bioconurbation
Biomedia
Bionics
Biosphere
Biotechnique
By-product
Capacity
Actant
Coisolation
Composting
Conservative Surgery
Consumer Envelope
Consumption
Continuous Construction
Conurbation
Correalism
Cultural_Memory
Cybernetics
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Cyborg
Dispositif
Diving Saucer
Dross
Earthship
Ecocatastrophe
Effluvium
Egosphere
End-use
Entanglement
Eutopia
Feedback
Foam
Folk
Gadget
Garbage House
Green Cyborg
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Holism
Homogenization of Desire
Hostile
Human Affect
Hybridized Folk
Hydroponic
Hyper-Materialism
Information Economy
Inner Space
Interama
Intra-Uterine
Maque
Megalopolis
Min-use
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Monorail
Multi-Hinge
Non-Design
Oceanaut
Oppositional Consciousness
Organic
Ouroboros
Panarchy
Parasite
Perceived Continuation
Permanence
Place
Prototype
Post-Animal
Reclamation
RI: Data Farms
RI: Garbage and Animals
RI:Shipbreaking
RI: Toxic Sublime
Sampling
Scale
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Simulacrum
Simulation
Soft Energy
Spaceship Earth
Submersible
Superwindow
Symbiosis
Synthetic Environment
Technocratic
Technological Heredity
Technological Sublime
Telechirics
The Sublime
Thermal Panel
Actant
Thing-Power
Thinking Machines
Tool
Toxic Withdrawal
Turbulence
UV-Transparent Film
Vibrant Matter
Waste
Work

Aquanaut

Aquanaut derives from the Latin word aqua ("water") combine the Greek nautes ("sailor"), by analogy to the similar construction "astronaut". Approximately 70 percent of the Earth is covered by water such as an ocean, sea, lake or river. Underwater environment has a lot of potential sources which can enrich our lives. So, voyage to the under the sea was long-cherished desire of human and people imagine it even in science fictions or movies. An aquanaut is any individual who remains underwater, exposed to the ambient pressure, long enough to come into equilibrium with his or her breathing media. Usually this is done in an underwater habitat on the seafloor for a period equal to or greater than 24 continuous hours without returning to the surface. The term is often restricted to scientists and academics because super tiny malfunction of their equipment such as inaccurate mixture of gas for respiration calls fatal accident or illness.1 Thus, aquatic inventor devised various aquatic equipment from small and sophisticated object to large scale of habitats. In France, Cousteau developed three Conshelf habitat that provided an ambient-pressure dry environment with living quarters, research spaces, and dive platforms for work excursions outside.2 Desire of realization of the aquanaut not only influenced on development of advanced aqua equipment but also arouse the possibility of self-sustainable life in extreme environment.

1. Jacques Cousteau, “The Ocean World” (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1979), pp. 256.
2. Ibid.