Unchanged for 500 Million years, the Chambered Nautilus embodies the principles of South Coast Engineering Group. Always a plan for future expansion, there are typically 4 compartments in a newly hatched specimen and over 30 compartments in a mature Nautilus. This creature occupies only the outer compartment and each time a new one is built, the old one is sealed off. Not only a shelter for protection, but a mechanical device, the shell’s inner compartments are filled with gas to maintain a neutral buoyancy at depths of 1500 feet or more. The Nautilus can then freely move about by jet propulsion and by displacing or injecting fluid into the outer cavities. In this way, South Coast Engineering Group strives to create flexible, dependable mechanical systems within structures while preserving the beauty of the form in which they function.

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