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“Space flight is unforgiving. It is inherently dangerous.  If you get careless, it will kill you, more so than most other activities on earth, except underwater cave exploration.”  
Dr. James Oberg, NASA 

Our oceans comprise 4/5th of the planet. 95% of the world’s oceans remain unexplored. In the 1960s Jacques Yves Cousteau pushed human limits to explore the most extreme and remote underwater environments.  Television audiences around the globe tuned in to catch a glimpse of the wonders of the world undersea.  But since the days of Cousteau, underwater exploration has all but come to a grinding halt.  There is no inner space equivalent to authentic outer space exploration.

 BUT NOW, all of that has changed.  NASA astronaut, aquanaut, environmentalist, mathematician, and fighter pilot Captain Scott Kelly is picking up where Cousteau left off, expanding the very meaning and significance of human exploration in the 21st century.  

EXPEDITION EARTH

With this groundbreaking filmed series Expedition Earth, Captain Kelly will be continuing his life’s quest to push human and technological limits while exploring the most extreme and remote underwater environments on planet Earth. Captain Kelly is bringing outer and inner space together, all in the name of the science of exploration. To explore more we have to become better explorers.  

The uncharted frontiers of planet Earth — its underwater caves, its oceans, its hidden landscapes — all of these places serve as an extreme environmental research habitat.  We need to continue to explore the unexplored, and perfect our process of getting “there,” wherever  there may be.  Whether it’s the remote Chinese caves of Du’An, the deep reaches of Kimbe Bay in Papua New Guinea, or the uncharted depths of Lake Baikal in Russia, our team will set its course and get there.

F-Stop Productions is currently seeking to raise $40,000 by November 5th, 2020 to fund the research, writing, and development of the grant application to the National Science Foundation. In our National Science Foundation grant application, we will be requesting $2.5 million to complete our film.