The French government, several commercial companies and the crowd sourcing campaign which are providing the initial funding for building the vessel have got to be anxious to see it completed soon. Not that you will be in any danger of missing it when it finally does hit the waves.

The monumental Sea Orbiter is going to have a structure of 27 meters above sea level and 31 meters below sea level. There are going to be different observation decks at both above and below sea level zones.

The Sea Orbiter will have a pressurised module where aquanauts can live and work. They will be able to move freely from the module to the sea without wasting time for decompression as traditional divers have to do. This will make it possible to save a lot of time in deep sea research as they can live in the underwater module for much longer periods of time than ever possible before.

Astronauts may join the aquanauts in the deep sea module to live under pressurised space living conditions before they head out to outer space. Of course the primary purpose of the Sea Orbiter will remain to help facilitate the learning and research activities that ocean related science experiments can provide the scientists on board the vessel.