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Who is on board
Personnel
Lloyd Godson: Project Leader and Australian Geographic “Live your dream” Wildest Adventure Competition Winner
In 2003-2004, Lloyd completed a Graduate Certificate in Antarctic Studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. This included a 10 day field course at Scott Base, Antarctica, comprising a mix of analytical projects, interpretative exercises and sessions, Antarctic field training and the experience of living and working in the polar environment. For his Supervised Project in Antarctic Studies, Lloyd produced a set of three interactive DVDs titled, ‘Antarctica through Their Eyes’, earning him a distinction in the course overall. He was also required to submit a personal experience project and a media report.
Lloyd has completed the Certificate IV in Business Management with the Murray Hume Business Enterprise Centre and currently operates an electronic communication business, E-Go Live, which specialises in interactive online educational programs. He recently won the $50,000 Australian Geographic “Live your dream” Wildest Adventure Competition for The BioSUB Project.
Carolina Sarasiti: Marketing and Web Design Carolina has completed a Bachelor of Business Administration (Marketing) at the American College of Greece, Athens, and a Masters in Copywriting at the Academy of Communication, Italy. She is fluent in four languages (Greek, Italian, English and German) and has experience working for internationally renowned advertising companies and as a freelance copywriter. She recently completed her Open Water SCUBA Certification and hopes to visit Lloyd while he is living underwater in the BioSUB. Carolina is responsible for the design and maintenance of the E-Go Live and BioSUB websites. Partners
Descend Underwater Training Centre (UTC): Underwater Construction and Hyperbaric Chamber Support
Des Walters: Diving Safety Officer Des is a company Director and founder of the Descend Group. He has been diving for over 35 years. Des' very first open water dive was a yacht salvage and he has been involved in all facets of the Commercial Diving Industry since then. His amazing range of diving and diving related qualifications make him possibly the most qualified Instructor in Australia.
Wonga Wetlands and AlburyCity Council The Wonga Wetlands Community Advisory Management Committee consists of members from AlburyCity Council, La Trobe University, Charles Sturt University, Descend Dive, Splitter’s Creek Rural Fire Brigade, Murray - Darling Freshwater Research Centre, NSW Fisheries, Bungowannah / Splitters Creek Land Care Group, a Wiradjuri Elder and Community Representatives.
The Wonga Wetlands have offered us their premises for the accommodation of the Biocoil. School groups visiting the Wetlands are able to learn all about the Biocoil and the BioSUB Project as well as organise special presentations by Lloyd.
Rural Containers: Underwater Habitat Construction Rural Containers have constructed the underwater habitat from plans submitted to them by Lloyd. They donated the scrap metal that was used in the construction of the BioSUB. They did a great job of welding the frame onto the habitat under the watchful eye of Gus and Mabo.
Cascade Advanced Biology Class: The Biocoil
The Biocoil is technically known as a photosynthetic bioreactor.
It’s an Advanced Biology Class project that has been in place for
more than a decade at Cascade High School. It all started when
a group of Advanced Biology students, affectionately know
as the "Sewage Sisters", discovered the Biocoil technology in a
National Geographic while looking for a solution
The current Advanced Biology students (pictured left) have a new challenge! They are modifying their Biocoil design to act as Lloyd’s life support system and they are then flying all the way to Australia to share their knowledge with local students by building the life support system of the BioSUB.
Kneeling left to right: Amanda Brown, Jasmyn Bennett Standing left to right: Caitlin O'Brien, Abby Raiser, Jordan Small, Charles Haley, Keith Nyeki, Ben Woodward.
Alex Sarasitis, the founder of Trygons Designs is the engineer of the BioSUB. With his experience in designing underwater housings and spearguns he designed his first underwater habitat. After a thorough research and study he developed a design with a very high level of safety.
Draeger Safety Pacific Pty Ltd: Pioneering Solutions for Your Safety.
Clearpond Australia have kindly donated three solar submersible water pumps for circulating the algae in the Biocoil system. Lloyd wanted a pump that was energy efficient but highly reliable. Oase provided the solution with the Aquasolar 1500 pumps.
Molecular Products and Chem-Supply are also part of our safety back-ups. They specialise in manufacturing chemical absorbents, chemical based devices and catalysts, for emergency air purification. Molecular Products have recently developed the CASPA device, designed to remove respired CO2 to maintain a safe and breathable environment in a confined space like an underwater habitat. With the help of Chem-Supply, they have donated two CASPA units to the BioSUB.
Jonathan Whittlesea Jonathan is a well respected draftsman and is developing his skills in computer based 3D modeling. He has done an amazing job generating 3D models of the BioSUB, both inside and out. Check out some of his beaut designs here.
Solarco Albury - Adelaide Hills Solar Solarco from Albury has only recently become a sponsor of the project but their contribution has been amazing. Thanks to Solarco, Albury the habitat will be powered by 1KW of solar panels that will charge enough batteries (sponsored by Adelaide Hills Solar) to sustain 2 weeks of living underwater. This way there will be sustainable energy from the shore to provide the lights for the algae, the life support system. In addition to that, they will keep the algae pumps going as well. This way Lloyd will probably only have to ride his pedal-powered bike to charge his laptop inside his habitat.
EFOY, the latest generation in SFC fuel cells, is sponsoring us a quiet, maintenance free and unaffected by weather energy solution. An EFOY fuel cell generates, apart from electricity, only water and carbon dioxide making it ideal for our 'green' project. EFOY 1200 with a capacity of 1.2kWh per day will work in conjunction with the solar panels to keep the habitat self-sustaining and environmental friendly.
When you are underwater and you want to go on the web, you definitely need Telstra and NextG wireless communication. During the 2 weeks while Lloyd is going to live in his underwater habitat, he will be able to communicate with schools all across Australia by doing live talks and presentations as well as answer questions to students. So, sign in for our live underwater sessions from the Bigpond, thanks to Telstra Countrywide and Bigpond.
Air2Water from the USA is providing us with the perfect solution to solve two major challenges! Drinking water and humidity. Utilizing innovative technology the Dragon Fly M18 device extracts moisture from the air and gives out fresh drinking water! A very smart device that can be customized to fit any home, office or even an underwater habitat.
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Dräger is the known brand of a world leader in the development and
manufacturing of the highest quality gas detection, breath alcohol
detection and personal protection equipment. The Dräger X-am 7000 is
the innovative solution for the simultaneous and continuous
detection of up to five gases. To learn more about this portable
multi gas instrument and how it will keep Lloyd safe underwater,
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a backup for air supply Lloyd will be using the
