Abstract
The Ocean plays an important role in hosting investigations in underwater astronomy and enabling the realization of new research prospects. This paper discusses synergistic prospects of the blue economy from the perspective of underwater astronomy and scientific inquiry, technological and economic development. The presented research investigates how the synergy enhances computing applications. The paper presents the overloaded application paradigm that explores the ability of underwater telescope networks to accommodate additional applications. The investigated metrics for computing applications are the accessible computational resources, and power usage effectiveness (PUE) that is investigated in a scenario where onshore computing stations used in underwater astronomy observations are integrated with existing terrestrial data centers. This is necessary as onshore computing stations benefit from free cooling being located near natural maritime resources. The performance evaluation investigates how the proposed synergy and the emerging crowd–sourcing can enhance the observation resolution for underwater astronomy observations. Investigation shows that the synergy enhances accessible computational resources, PUE and observation resolution by an average of 48.8%, 1.6% and 41.3%, respectively.