The city, designed to be safe from typhoons and earthquakes, would house 4,000 permanent residents and 1,000 visitors and would become a hub for new deep sea industries, including research, tourism, energy and resource businesses.
While Ocean Spiral is a concept and there aren't any current plans to bring it to life, it does give us a glimpse into how the deep sea could solve some of the greatest challenges we face on terra firma. Shimizu calls the deep ocean "the earth’s final frontier" and believes we could provide food, sustainable energy, clean water and other resources, as well as a place to store and process CO2.