Vivos (underground shelter)
Vivos, also known as The Vivos Group, is a California-based company founded by Robert Vicino that proposes to build hardened underground shelters designed to withstand future disasters and life-extinction catastrophes.[1] One 10,000-square-foot (0.093 ha) shelter has been completed in Indiana, and others are proposed.[citation needed] As of April 2012[update], Vicino claimed that the company had approximately 25,000 subscribers, of whom 1,000 had bought shares entitling them to space in a shelter.[2]
Locations
Indiana shelter
The first completed shelter, located in Indiana;[3] was built during the Cold War to withstand a near direct-hit from a 20-megaton nuclear bomb.[4] With accommodations for 80 people, the Indiana complex has a few spots left, due to member relocations, and family changes.[5][6]
Vivos Europa One
Vivos plans to convert a surplus Cold War Soviet-built underground complex of 250,000 square feet (2.3 ha) located in Rothenstein, Germany, into a luxury shelter to house up to 1,000 people, a small zoo, storage for cultural treasures, and a gene bank for reconstituting plants and animals after a possible extinction event.[7][8][9] Fire safety regulations were expected to present a problem for the project requiring a fire sprinkler system throughout the facility.[9]
Vivos xPoint, South Dakota
In 2016, Vivos acquired a former US Army Base formerly known as Black Hills Ordnance Depot, located in South Dakota, with 575 concrete and steel underground bunkers that were originally built by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1942 as a military fortress that stored explosives and munitions. Since 1967, when the base was retired, the base was used as a cattle ranch. Vivos has repurposed the base into the "largest private shelter community on earth", for as many as 5,000 people to survive virtually any catastrophic event and the aftermath. Each bunker is 80' x 26.5' capable of comfortably accommodating up to 24 people with a supply of food, water, fuel, and hygienic supplies for a year or more. A 99-year lease on a bunker costs $1,000 a year, plus a $25,000 deposit paid up-front. “xPoint” was coined as the: Point in time that only the prepared will survive.”[10][11]
Atchison, Kansas shelter
In 2013, Vivos acquired the purchase rights to a large portion of the Atchison Storage Facility, a 2,700,000-square-foot (25 ha) former limestone mine in Atchison, Kansas, formerly owned by the US Army, and announced plans to convert it into "the world's largest private underground survivor shelter", housing 5,000 people.[6][12] In June 2014, Vivos cancelled the Kansas project due to Army geologists' concerns about the structural stability of the former limestone mine having experienced a number of dome out[13] collapses of the limestone.[14][15]
References
- ^ "Vivos Underground Shelter Network for surviving in style". Coolest Gadgets. June 29, 2010. Retrieved June 30, 2010.
- ^ Hoffmann, Maren (April 11, 2012). "Können Sie die Sonne sehen? Dann sind Sie verwundbar". Manager Magazin (in German). Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "Strategically Located in Central Indiana". Vivos. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
- ^ https://www.eurasiareview.com/14042016-elite-buying-bomb-proof-survival-bunkers/
- ^ https://www.theindychannel.com/news/photos-live-through-your-worst-catastrophe-in-underground-indiana-shelter#
- ^ a b "Vivos Survival Shelter and Resort a massive doomsday shelter made from old Army facility". CBS news. Associated Press. June 20, 2013. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ Dobson, Jim (June 12, 2015). "Billionaire Bunkers: Exclusive Look Inside the World's Largest Planned Doomsday Escape". ForbesLife. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
- ^ Anderson, Brad (September 7, 2015). "Billionaire Reveals Ultra-Luxury Bunkers in Germany". GTSpirit.com. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
- ^ a b Lachmann, Anne (July 2, 2015). "Amerikaner will Luxus-Bunker in Thüringen bauen". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ http://www.businessinsider.com/vivos-xpoint-doomsday-shelter-photos-2016-12#since-1967-when-the-base-was-retired-the-bunkers-have-been-gutted-vivos-group-acquired-the-property-in-2016-and-repurposed-it-as-the-ultimate-shelter-community-4
- ^ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2016/10/07/exclusive-look-inside-the-worlds-largest-underground-survival-community-5000-people-575-bunkers/#7501a2c016e4
- ^ Tecklenburg, Zach. "Underground doomsday shelter to open near Atchison, Kansas". KSHB. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
- ^ http://kcur.org/post/age-anxiety-apocalypse-proof-bunkers-kansas-sell-3-million#stream/0
- ^ "Vivos Kansas". Vivos. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
- ^ Rosenfeld, Everett (July 3, 2014). "Apocalypse later: Largest bunker scrapped". CNBC. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
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