Student projects, Water craft

Designing a marine wildlife tourism vehicle

Tourism is becoming popular as average income of people rise and its popularity caused by social media,
more people want to travel and explore, but a lot of times, trying to follow the trend, the travelling results in damage to wildlife and nature, which is not what they intend. Motorboat tourism, sea worlds and open aquariums where tourists are allowed to touch and interact with animals, may result in tourists enjoying the experience, but the animals, no matter how it is portrayed, are suffering. Maybe some of us can now relate to a fraction of that, by being experiencing quarantine, not
being able to interact with anyone else, or go outside a small fixed area, such is the case for many such
places. This project tries to address marine tourism, and how it can be made enjoyable to tourists, while
not disturbing the animals that they intend to observe

Submitted by: Gyandeep Singh, MDes (2019-21), IIT Bombay
Guided by: Prof. Sugandh Malhotra