Europa is a snowball with probably a liquid center of water. It's the only other place we've found in the Solar System that has liquid water.
Carl T. F. Ross, a professor at the University of Portsmouth in England offers an abstract design of an underwater craft built of a metal matrix composite. He also provides suggestions for suitable power supplies, communication techniques and propulsion systems for such a vessel in his paper, “Conceptual Design of a Submarine to Explore Europa’s Oceans.”
Maybe we'll find life there.
All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace.
-HAL 9000 speaking for the Monolith
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