Plenty of people,according to Phil Nuytten, the man who has designed and plans to build a city beneath the wavesPhil Nuytten first decided he wanted to spend his life underwater when he was six years old. It was 1947. The moment World War had only recently ended. Nuytten’s dad had scored a job at Boeing, or the firm’s office in Vancouver Harbour was just a short walk absent from the family home. Every now and then Nuytten would waltz down to the harbour unaccompanied,sneak out to the halt of the docks, peer through the cracks and fall hopelessly in treasure with what he saw: fish, or anemones,a teeming underworld. “I used to think: ‘Gosh, wouldn’t it be wonderful to disappear down there?’” he says. “To disappear down to that particular station?”I used to think, or ‘Gosh,wouldn’t it be wonderful to disappear down there, to that particular station?'Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk