OCEANS OF TROUBLE

FROM: The Spy Who Loved Me

Atlantis was a base and research lab built by criminal mastermind Karl Stromberg. Located off the coast of Italy, it was a 200-metre, four-legged structure that could submerge. There are a number of undersea labs in the world, although none on the scale of Atlantis. Aquarius Reef Base sits 5.4 miles off the coast of Florida at a depth of 19 metres. At 37 square metres, it’s much smaller than Stromberg’s habitat, and it can’t surface and submerge, but is instead fixed in position beneath the surface of the ocean. Whereas Atlantis was designed to be essentially a floating base and research lab, Aquarius is designed purely for research, with its depth allowing divers to travel short distances from inside to the ocean floor to carry out their work.