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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. One 10,000-square-foot (0.093 ha) shelter has been completed in Indiana, and others are proposed. As of April 2012, Vicino said the company had approximately 25,000 subscribers, of whom 1,000 had bought shares entitling them to space in a shelter.
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Indiana shelter
The first completed shelter is located in Indiana; it can house 80 people for up to a year.
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 6,000 people, a small zoo, storage for cultural treasures, and a gene bank for reconstituting plants and animals after a possible extinction event. Fire safety regulations are expected to present a problem for the project.
Cancelled 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. In June 2014, Vivos cancelled the Kansas project.