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Vivos (also known as The Vivos Group) is a California-based company founded by Robert Vicino, building hardened underground shelters designed to withstand future disasters and life-extinction catastrophes.[1] Shelters 10,000-square-foot (0.093 ha) have been completed in Indiana, 575 bunkers each 2,150 square feet across a former military base in [2] South Dakota, and others are in the process of construction. [3] As of September 2022, Vicino noted that the company has approximately 100,000 members, of whom more than 1,000 have bought space in one or more of the Vivos shelters.[4]

Locations

Indiana shelter

The first completed shelter, located in Indiana;[5] was built during the Cold War to withstand a near direct-hit from a 20-megaton nuclear bomb.[6] With accommodations for 80 people, the Indiana complex has a few spots left, due to member relocations, and family changes.[7][8]

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.[9][10][11] Fire safety regulations were expected to present a problem for the project requiring a fire sprinkler system throughout the facility.[11]

Vivos xPoint, South Dakota

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 $1,090 a year, plus a $55,000 deposit paid up-front. “xPoint” was coined as: "the Point in time that only the prepared will survive.”[12][13]

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.[8][14] 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[15] collapses of the limestone.[16][17]

References

  1. ^ "Vivos Underground Shelter Network for surviving in style". Coolest Gadgets. June 29, 2010. Retrieved June 30, 2010.
  2. ^ "Mock the apocalypse from the luxury of these Fallout-worthy doomsday bunkers". 3 July 2019.
  3. ^ "See inside the luxury bunkers where the super-rich reportedly plan to save themselves from a future apocalypse".
  4. ^ Hoffmann, Maren (April 11, 2012). "Können Sie die Sonne sehen? Dann sind Sie verwundbar". Manager Magazin (in German). Retrieved October 4, 2015.
  5. ^ "Strategically Located in Central Indiana". Vivos. Archived from the original on July 26, 2019. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
  6. ^ "Elite Buying Bomb-Proof Survival Bunkers – Eurasia Review". 14 April 2016.
  7. ^ "PHOTOS: Live through your worst catastrophe in underground Indiana shelter".
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Dobson, Jim (June 12, 2015). "Billionaire Bunkers: Exclusive Look Inside the World's Largest Planned Doomsday Escape". ForbesLife. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
  10. ^ Anderson, Brad (September 7, 2015). "Billionaire Reveals Ultra-Luxury Bunkers in Germany". GTSpirit.com. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
  11. ^ a b Lachmann, Anne (July 2, 2015). "Amerikaner will Luxus-Bunker in Thüringen bauen". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved October 4, 2015.
  12. ^ "These doomsday shelters for the 1% make up the largest private bunker community on earth". Business Insider.
  13. ^ "Inside the World's Largest Underground Survival Community: 575 Luxury Bunkers for 5,000 People". Forbes.
  14. ^ Tecklenburg, Zach. "Underground doomsday shelter to open near Atchison, Kansas". KSHB. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  15. ^ "In an Age of Anxiety, Apocalypse-Proof Bunkers in Kansas Sell for $3 Million". 15 March 2017.
  16. ^ "Vivos Kansas". Vivos. Archived from the original on September 11, 2018. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
  17. ^ Rosenfeld, Everett (July 3, 2014). "Apocalypse later: Largest bunker scrapped". CNBC. Retrieved October 4, 2015.

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