2011-01-01 to 2012-12-31

The project general objective is to allow any internet user subscriber, anywhere even in a beach, through his computer, tablet, mobile or Dolphyn, to "dive" virtually in selected diving sites around the world. There, dedicated underwater robots, teleoperated via the internet by this user, alone or in a Team, under the control of local diving instructor, will be able to explore the diving site. He will get - by the quality of images, by instant access to knowledge of scientists or to expertise of professional divers, by the opportunity to play games where fiction and reality get mixed, a feeling that his experience has a value at least comparable if not superior, to an actual dive in the real site, which costs are 20 or 30 times higher and which risks aren't negligible. If and when virtual diving offered by Digital Ocean, will become in the international market, a serious alternative to real diving, the project would have reached its objective.