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12/3/2013

 
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How would you like to take a holiday in a luxury hotel under the sea? That's what Deep Ocean Technology is proposing. The Polish company is planning an underwater hotel called Water Discus. It can be towed to a suitable location and placed on supports on the sea bed. Apparently, the technology needed to build underwater rooms is well-established and proven.

The hotel is made up of an underwater disc containing 22 bedrooms with sea views, connected by lift and stairs to a similar disc above the surface containing other hotel facilities, rather like a dumb bell. On arrival, guests will be given basic instructions on how to dive to a depth of about 10m (33ft), as that provides a good color environment in sunlight. Lower than this removes everything but blue.

Then, the guests can gaze outside at waving seaweed and relax while fish swim by. See more here.


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One of the biggest challenges designers faced was to muffle the inevitable noise that an underwater hotel generates. That is important because a noisy environment would disturb and scare away fish and other marine creatures. This would defeat the purpose of building an underwater hotel in the first place. This problem has been overcome by careful design from the beginning, ensuring that items like lavatories, pumps and air conditioning equipment that generate noise are placed at the centre of the underwater structure.

The other difficulty is weighting boxes containing everything that needs to be placed in the rooms daily and lowering them underwater. Seems like an awful lot of bother. Why can't they build a shaft with pulleys, like the old-style dumb-waiter used in mansions when plenty of servants attended to every guest's wish?

So, those people who like a challenge can take a break at an underwater penthouse suite, rather than facing the blue grotto in Egypt's Red Sea, where more than a hundred testosterone-charged men and one woman have been lured to their death.

I won't be staying in an underwater apartment. It sounds way too expensive and risky.


Raphael Love link
12/2/2013 07:21:15 pm

This looks like it would be an awesome trip to go on... I am sure that they will be booked solid upon opening.

PIXIE WILLOW
12/2/2013 07:24:32 pm

awesome, I'd so go here for a visit x

Sophie Bowns link
12/2/2013 08:17:12 pm

I'd love that! It sounds amazing & a once in a lifetime experience :)

Alana link
12/3/2013 05:13:49 am

It sounds amazing, and I almost think it will be booked solid. Would I be a guest? Would depend on the cost. Being underwater like that doesn't frighten me. I grew up in New York City and am used to travel (by subway) in tunnels under rivers.


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