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For other people named William Stone, see William Stone (disambiguation). William Stone (born 1952), known as Bill Stone, is one of the world's foremost expeditionary cavers, exploring deep caves, sometimes with remotely operated vehicles. He has participated in over 44 international expeditions. Stone's dream is to one day explore interplanetary space and to be involved in the first privately funded lunar colony, the mentalist![1] Contents 1 Biography 2 MK1 Rebreather 3 TED Appearance 4 References 5 External links // Biography Stone, who earned a Ph.D. in Engineering, is President and CEO of Stone Aerospace.[2] He has developed a highly advanced AUV, DepthX, to explore the world's deepest caves.[3] This has evolved into a new and entirely separate project with Professor Peter Doran of the University of Illinois at Chicago named Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic Antarctic Explorer (ENDURANCE); it is funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation, with the goal of exploring Lake Bonney in the Antarctic . One of Stone's underground adventures (in the storied Sistema Huautla in Oaxaca, Mexico) is chronicled in his book, Beyond the Deep: The Deadly Descent Into the World's Most Treacherous Cave (2002),[4] which he co-authored with Barbara am Ende and Monte Paulsen. Stone was an active caver in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Outing Club[5] while studying for a B.S. in Civil Engineering, awarded in 1974.[6] Recently, Stone has been involved with developing a next-generation LIDAR system for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, as well as with the DepthX program at NASA, which seeks to develop a robot to autonomously scour the seas of Jupiter's moon Europa for signs of microbial life.[7] MK1 Rebreather In 1987 Bill Stone achieved fame within the diving community when he demonstrated the MK1 model rebreather at Wakulla Springs, Florida in a scuba dive that lasted a staggering 24 hours.[8] TED Appearance Bill Stone gave a talk at TED2007 about exploring the world's deepest caves and frontier space travel. In the talk, Stone pledges his devotion to lead a mining expedition to the moon "to mine ice thought to be trapped on the moon's southern pole at Shackleton Crater, and to sell derived products (including propellants and other consumables) on the moon and in low earth orbit (LEO) to international consumers."[9] References ^ "Bill Stone, High-tech Explorer". http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/9905/profile.html.  ^ "Stone Aerospace". http://www.stoneaerospace.com.  ^ "Robot Subs in Space". http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviationspace/a2b27dedc9950110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html?s_prop16=.  ^ "Beyond the Deep: The Deadly Descent Into the World's Most Treacherous Cave Amazon.com webpage". http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Deep-Deadly-Descent-Treacherous/dp/0446527092.  ^ "Cairn, the newsletter of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Outing Club, 1974, cover drawing by Stone". http://outingclub-alpha.union.rpi.edu/cairn/vintage/1974_11.pdf.  ^ "MIT Inventor of the Week". http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/stone.html.  ^ O'Brien, Jeffrey (December 2004), "To Hell and Back", Wired Magazine, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.12/stone.html?pg=1&topic=stone&topic_set=, retrieved 12 July 2010  ^ "History of scuba diving". http://www.divesafety.net/ScubaHx.html. Retrieved 2009-04-20.  ^ "Bill Stone: Explorer, inventor and outer space dreamer". http://www.ted.com/speakers/bill_stone.html. Retrieved 2010-04-07.  External links Video of Bill Stone's presentation at TED conference Video: Journey Towards The Center Of The Earth, Google TechTalk, July 2006 Persondata Name Stone, William Alternative names Short description Caver Date of birth 1953 Place of birth Date of death Place of death This biographical article about an Earth scientist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v • d • e