1 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:07,240 Speaker 1: Get in test with technology with tech Stuff from half 2 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: stuff dot com. Hey there, everyone, and welcome to tech Stuff. 3 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: I'm Jonathan Strickland and I'm Lauren Vocal, and today we're 4 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:21,920 Speaker 1: gonna talk about under the sea. Life is better downwards 5 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 1: whether they give her me. Jonathan just got back from 6 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: Disney World and no wonder has really never seen. I'm 7 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:31,319 Speaker 1: still there. Really part of me will always still be there. 8 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: Um yeah, so we're talking about underwater hotels. We just 9 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 1: thought one of those things where I just went on 10 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:42,279 Speaker 1: a vacation. I went to Disney that's got a lot 11 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: of underwater theming and various parts of the park, and 12 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 1: then I went on a cruise, which happens to have 13 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:51,159 Speaker 1: a lot to do with water. UHAMI would imagine. I'm 14 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 1: actually not personally familiar with. I've never been on one. 15 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: I kind of scare me. Uh well, we went through 16 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:58,959 Speaker 1: Hurricane Karen, so that was exciting. I'll tell you more 17 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: about that after the show. Anyway, it was it was 18 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: actually a very interesting experience. Nothing negative to say about that, 19 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: but it brought me to think about, you know, some 20 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: of the more exotic kind of vacation destinations. And I 21 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:15,479 Speaker 1: remember reading back when I first started at How Stuff Works. 22 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: I remember reading about these proposed underwater luxury hotels. We're 23 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 1: talking like five star hotels with all the amenities, or 24 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 1: or totally submerged in the case of one of them, 25 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:31,320 Speaker 1: which the one I'm specifically thinking of, the Poseidon, we'll 26 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: talk about in a little bit later in the podcast. Yeah, 27 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:36,199 Speaker 1: they started planning that in two thousand or two thousand 28 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: one two one, I think, and it still doesn't exist. 29 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 1: As it turns out. When we started doing research for this, 30 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: we were like, oh, none of these really exists. Yet. 31 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: There are a few that you can stay in that 32 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: are real, right, They're not the super luxury hotels, though 33 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 1: there's one that is a super luxury hotel that does 34 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: have an underwater restaurant, and and there's one that has 35 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: the underwater room because there's the Atlantis, But it's not 36 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: a completely submerged hotel the way the Poseidon is supposed 37 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 1: to be. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. We are, 38 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 1: we are getting weight ahead of ourselves. Um, let us 39 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 1: let us start, well, Okay, what do you wanna do? 40 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: You want to talk about the problems here? Yeah, let's 41 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 1: talk about the problems. Okay, So Lauren, if I were 42 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: to tell you that you are going to go and 43 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:22,799 Speaker 1: sleep with the fishes, you would probably think I was 44 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: going to put a hit on you, you know, Godfather style. 45 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 1: But if I were to say, no, no, no, I 46 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: mean that there's this hotel that's underwater where you can 47 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: fall asleep underwater and wake up to looking outside of 48 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 1: all these gorgeous fish, you'd realize that there are some 49 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: issues you've got to work out too before anyone is 50 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 1: comfortable staying in that space. I would I would ask, 51 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 1: how am I going to breathe? I enjoy breathing. That's 52 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 1: something I do. Every top of the list is the 53 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: breathing problem. Yeah, As it turns out, don't know if 54 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:52,359 Speaker 1: you guys know this. We don't breathe water so well. 55 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: We like air that has a mixture of some pretty 56 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: typical gases that you find on our atmosphere. It's very 57 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: convenient for us, seeing as how this is where we live. 58 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: But if you go underwater, you know, you get that challenge. 59 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 1: So you have to find a way of supplying breathable atmosphere. 60 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,119 Speaker 1: You have to find a way of maintaining pressure. Uh 61 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:15,560 Speaker 1: and and to prevent front water pressure from breaking the 62 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 1: the the confines of your habitat and killing you because 63 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: you could see above you can't breathe water, so yeah, 64 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 1: so and if you're deep enough, then the pressure alone 65 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 1: could kill you. Although for the habitats we're talking about, uh, 66 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 1: you're in semi shallow water, shallow not to not like 67 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: you're you know, waiting around in it. But we're talking 68 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: maybe thirty to fifty feet deep something along those lines, 69 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 1: not you know, a thousand meters below the surface of 70 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 1: the ocean. Right. This is partially because water exerts more 71 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: pressure on us than air at atmosphere pressure. Yeah. So 72 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: the deeper you go, the more pressure you feel. Right, So, 73 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 1: I don't know, we talked before the podcast you have 74 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: not seen the ABYSS, right. So in the ABYSS, you 75 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: have these characters who are going on these deep, deep, 76 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: deep ocean UH missions, and at one point they start 77 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: to experiment with a liquid oxygen. The reason why they're 78 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: using a liquid oxygen is because if they were to 79 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 1: go out in a diving suit under the amount immense 80 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 1: pressure that they would be under as soon as they 81 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:22,599 Speaker 1: left the confines of their submersible, uh, all that air 82 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,479 Speaker 1: would end up dissolving into their blood and they die. 83 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: So they they have come up with this liquid stuff 84 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:31,600 Speaker 1: that would allow them to breathe. Well, we don't really 85 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 1: have the liquid stuff that we can do, like on 86 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 1: the level that they did in that movie, right that 87 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 1: there is research with liquid forms of I do not 88 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: have the name of it right in front of me, 89 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: but it's some kind of flora carbon actually, which which 90 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 1: is weird and interesting to me, but it's it's a 91 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 1: pressurized liquid ish gas and odd, very strange. I don't 92 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: know how that would feel. Doesn't seem comfortable to me personally, 93 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,039 Speaker 1: but it right. So, so the problem when you go 94 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 1: deep enough, I mean, once you're getting down to ninety 95 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:02,280 Speaker 1: thing like that, some of the gases that you're breathing, 96 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 1: especially nitrogen, are going to dissolve into your blood and tissues, 97 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:11,599 Speaker 1: which is okay for a short period of time, but hey, 98 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 1: it's very bad in the long term and be when 99 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 1: you go back up to the service. If you don't 100 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 1: take steps to decompress, it can turn back into nitrogen 101 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 1: bubbles and forming in yeah, in your tissue and blood 102 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: and make you extremely sick. Yeah, you get it. It's 103 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 1: called the bends or decompression sickness. Right, and it can 104 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 1: be deadly. I mean, that's we're talking serious stuff here, right. 105 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 1: It sounds like when you hear like, oh, he's got 106 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:38,160 Speaker 1: the bends, you might get the idea that yeah, I 107 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:42,599 Speaker 1: just I guess did you did you just eat something? Exactly? 108 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:45,839 Speaker 1: What's going on? Are you a crazy straw? What happened? No, 109 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 1: it's very serious stuff. It's actually one of those things 110 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: that divers have to consider. It's when if you've ever 111 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 1: been diving, then you know all about this. If you've 112 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 1: ever heard people talk about how you have to take 113 00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:00,679 Speaker 1: dives in very gradual stages. You can't just swim straight 114 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,040 Speaker 1: down to the bottom of the ocean floor in a 115 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:06,159 Speaker 1: very deep area and then swim right back back up right. 116 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 1: You have to you have to be much more um careful, 117 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 1: or else you can suffer from it. And that's a 118 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:12,840 Speaker 1: huge part of your training when you go scupid eying right, 119 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 1: and you have to occasionally go into something like a 120 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:19,039 Speaker 1: decompression chamber where the the pressure inside the chamber is 121 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: controlled so that it will allow you to get back 122 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 1: to the surface pressure gradually enough and then you can 123 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 1: go outside and not not suffer from decompression sickness. So 124 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 1: that's clearly one issue is you got to figure out 125 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: not just the breathing, but also how do you do 126 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 1: this in a way where people are not going to 127 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: suffer decompression sickness as soon as they transfer from being 128 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 1: underwater to being within the hotel environment or the habitat environment. Right. So, 129 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 1: and so, there are two ways that you can pressure 130 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: eze an underwater cabin and those are two the water 131 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 1: pressure that's surrounding the habitat, in which case you're gonna 132 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 1: want to use it in only very shallow situations. And again, 133 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: have some kind of decompression process if if nest sary, 134 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 1: or to pressurize this container to the surface atmosphere using airlocks, right, 135 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 1: and that would be like a submarine. A submarine is 136 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 1: pressurized to the surface temperature. Which is why when a 137 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:14,679 Speaker 1: submarine comes back up, it's not that you know, suddenly 138 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 1: all the sailors on board have to go through a 139 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 1: decompression chamber or else they'll all suffer from the bends. 140 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: It's because that submarine itself is pressurized to the surface pressure. 141 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: It's similar to what we see with airplanes to the 142 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: pressurized cabins and airplanes to maintain a certain within a 143 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 1: certain parameter UH closeness to the service pressure so that 144 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 1: you don't have these problems that you would suffer otherwise. Now, 145 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: all what we know about this pressurization and the the 146 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: gases that you can breathe when you're underwater started. The 147 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 1: research really started about the nineteen fifties. The principle of 148 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 1: saturation diving, which is that prolonged exposure to UH to 149 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 1: pressurized gases that's going to build up nitrogen in your system, 150 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 1: was proposed by Captain George F. Bond, who is a U. S. 151 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: Navy physician, And that's what really kicked off the ability 152 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: for us to start doing research with with underwater habitats. 153 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: And this was becoming important because of a little thing 154 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 1: called the Cold War in the space race, Oh yeah, 155 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 1: I remember that. I mean also environmentalism was on the 156 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 1: rise and people were becoming really interested in all of 157 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 1: the life in oceans. While to study that, yeah, that 158 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 1: was still I would say that that really got a 159 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: lot of traction in the seventies. Apart from one specific 160 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: person who anyone who's familiar with marine biology knows the 161 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 1: name Jacques Cousteau, right, was certainly instrumental in six. Yeah. Yeah, 162 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 1: so his work in the sixties certainly went a far 163 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: away to giving us a greater appreciation and understanding of 164 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: underwater environments. And in fact, um he started looking into 165 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 1: an underwater habitat right right in nineteen sixty two he 166 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 1: started launching experiments in these pressurized underwater trips. Uh. He 167 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:06,560 Speaker 1: created the con Shelf one, which was a free standing 168 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: structure down about thirty six ft under under the water, 169 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:13,079 Speaker 1: and and divers lived in it for about a week. 170 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 1: So O, that's pretty that's that's fairly impressive. I mean, 171 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 1: considering that you know, you're you weren't going to have 172 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: many Apollo astronauts going up until wait wait, I guess, 173 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: I guess about that time, Well they're starting the training programs. Anyway, 174 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 1: it wasn't until the late sixties that you really got 175 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 1: them into going out into orbit. But yeah, so so 176 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 1: you've got this this underwater habitat staying there for about 177 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: a week, which that plays into our discussion on underwater hotels. 178 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: That's you know, a typical vacation stays is a week long. 179 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: So it's funny to think that scientific research here, specifically 180 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 1: looking into marine environments of marine life is somewhat paving 181 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 1: the way underwater as it were, to underwater tourism and 182 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 1: underwater hotels. Absolutely. Yeah, there there was another and named 183 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 1: Edwin A Link who was um who who was another 184 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: oceanographer who was working in the same field at the time. 185 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 1: One of his projects called The Man in the Sea 186 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 1: would in nineteen sixty four get adopted by the U. S. 187 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:14,079 Speaker 1: Navy and that would turn into the Sea Lab program 188 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 1: that you guys might have heard of. Yeah, I remember 189 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 1: that show on Cartoon Network. No, no different, different, different 190 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:22,559 Speaker 1: Sea Lab, although they did have at some point a 191 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: trained dolphin that would run errands for them. Wow. Really, 192 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,200 Speaker 1: I I don't know what to say about that. That 193 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 1: was That was Sea Lab two in nineteen sixty right, 194 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: And so then you've also got uh, I mean Custo 195 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 1: continued work of creating the CONSW three. Uh. There was 196 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 1: the more sea labs, as I recall. So we have 197 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 1: this development where we're learning more and more about how 198 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 1: to create habitats that can safely house people for a 199 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 1: certain length of time, increasingly long periods of time throughout 200 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 1: throughout the sixties. We went from that first initial week 201 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:02,839 Speaker 1: two up to a month and more. Right right there, was, Um, 202 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 1: there's one in particular I want to talk about, but uh, 203 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 1: I want to I want to give you the opportunity 204 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: to get through the sixties and seventies first before I 205 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:11,319 Speaker 1: jump into it, because I'm going to talk about the 206 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 1: Noah one. Okay, I think, go go for it, alright, Alright, So, 207 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:19,679 Speaker 1: so again sixties and seventies, we see more and more 208 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:22,079 Speaker 1: of these same sort of environments used for Are these 209 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 1: habitats used for scientific research? Noah establishes one called Aquarius 210 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 1: off the coast of Saint Croix, and Aquarius is one 211 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 1: of the two underwater habitats that are still really actively 212 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:43,560 Speaker 1: used these days. Um. The other one is now called Jewels, 213 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 1: but it's it's now privately owned. It's now privately owned 214 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 1: and operated as an underwater hotel. But it didn't start 215 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 1: off that way. It started, right, It started off as 216 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 1: one of these research habitats. And and and all of these 217 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,200 Speaker 1: that we've been talking about have been research habitats, you know, 218 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 1: kind of based on ocean life, but also kind of 219 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:02,839 Speaker 1: based on exactly how can we do this crazy keeping 220 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:06,960 Speaker 1: people underwater? Right? Right? So the Jewels Undersea Lodge was 221 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: named after, of course, Jules Willis Vern and his leagues 222 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: under the sea, right, although this one is not twenty 223 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 1: leagues under the ce certainly not. It is less than 224 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:19,840 Speaker 1: that sifically, it's I think it's below the surface exactly. 225 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 1: It is The Surfaces, the world's first underwater hotel. It 226 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 1: was originally called La Chaupapa Research Lab, Yes it was. 227 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 1: It was created in the nineteen seventies and then renovated 228 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,440 Speaker 1: into a hotel in the nineteen eighties. And you it's 229 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:39,559 Speaker 1: it's scuba focus. It's really for scuba enthusiasts. I think 230 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 1: you don't have to have SCOOP certification to go, but 231 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 1: they will make you take a training course just to 232 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:46,679 Speaker 1: make sure that you're dive down because you have to 233 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 1: scuba dive into the hotel. That's the only way to 234 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: get there. The way it works is that they have 235 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 1: a wet room. That's that's called wet room because that's 236 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:56,200 Speaker 1: where you go to when you when you come into 237 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 1: the hotel, and that's where you end up storing all 238 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 1: your scuba gears. And then entrance is what's called a 239 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 1: moon pool, which I just love how romantic and lovely 240 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 1: that name is, which is really a hole cutting the floor. 241 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:09,560 Speaker 1: It's much nicer than hole cutting. The floors names go 242 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: and uh and right. It's it's compressed, I think, to 243 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 1: the to the water around you. So you shouldn't stay 244 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 1: in there very very long. And the idea is that 245 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 1: you swim underneath the structure, you come up through the 246 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 1: moon pool, you pull yourself out, kind of like pulling 247 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 1: yourself out of a swimming pool, and then you are 248 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 1: inside the hotel and uh. You know again, it's it's 249 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:33,839 Speaker 1: that that water pressure specifically, because if you were at 250 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 1: surface pressure, then you'd have to worry about decompression. Uh. 251 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 1: If you can then take off all your gear, take 252 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:42,000 Speaker 1: a hot shower, and then move into one of the 253 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: other two rooms inside the jewels. UH. Motel is what 254 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 1: I've seen it referred to by other underwater hotel companies. 255 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 1: Uh it is. If you want to know some statistics, 256 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 1: it's fifty ft long, which is about fifteen meters, it's 257 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:59,079 Speaker 1: twenty ft wide that's six meters, and eleven ft tall, 258 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 1: which about three point four meters. It was. It's off 259 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 1: the coast of Key Largo in the Florida Keys, made 260 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 1: famous of course by the Beach Boys in their song Anyway, 261 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 1: so that you uh, you know, like you said, Lauren, 262 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 1: you have to get there by diving. Whether or not 263 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 1: you're certified doesn't matter. They can put you through that course, 264 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 1: but you have to get there by diving. They don't 265 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 1: have some other means of getting you there. I think 266 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: that originally they had let guests go down breathing through 267 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 1: a tube, a pipe that was piping oxygen down like 268 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 1: Snooba diving, which is a combination of snorkeling and scuba, right, 269 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: But due to safety concerns, they moved it to a 270 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 1: full exactly. That sounds like that was a good idea. Yeah, 271 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 1: moving it. Um, it's uh. You know, once you get 272 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 1: in there, you've got some interesting amenities. They have windows 273 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 1: that look out their forty two inches in diameter or 274 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 1: um uh the wait wait I wrote down how many 275 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:00,040 Speaker 1: how many centimeters? A hundred seven centimeters. I'm look it 276 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 1: out for you guys. I just I can't make the 277 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: conversion in my head yet. I'm not that good. Um. 278 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 1: Other amenities include things like air conditioning and an entertainment center. 279 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: The picture I saw was was an old uh caval 280 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 1: ray tube television showing I think it was the ABYSS 281 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:23,000 Speaker 1: actually on pause. Um. But anyway, it's the You also 282 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: can have meals delivered down there, including from the tower 283 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: of Pizza Um restaurant. I know because I actually looked 284 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 1: into this to see, you know, I was curious to 285 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 1: see how much it was. Did you see how much 286 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 1: it costs to stay there? I did not, or if 287 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 1: I did, I did not make a network. So it's really, 288 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 1: you know, when you think about it, you're staying underneath 289 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 1: the Ochian. So, first of all, when we're gonna talk 290 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 1: about these other underwater hotels in the moment, we're talking 291 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 1: about super luxurious experiences. At least that's the idea, and 292 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 1: so they tend to be pretty pricey, with one in 293 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:58,680 Speaker 1: particular really breaking the bank on a per night's day. 294 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 1: But the Jewels Undersea Lodge, if it's if it's a 295 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 1: party of two, it's eight hundred dollars per night. So 296 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 1: that's a party of two. That's expensive. But you're like, 297 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: you're talking about being underwater as a unique experience right now, right, 298 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:15,840 Speaker 1: So uh, if it's three to but it gets lower 299 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: per person if you add more people. So if you 300 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 1: have three to four people staying there, it ends up 301 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 1: being three fifty dollars per person. Instead four hundred per person. 302 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 1: If you have five to six people staying there, it's 303 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 1: three hundred dollars per person. However, you are then staying 304 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:33,200 Speaker 1: with five to six people in a tin can. Well, 305 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 1: you know, not all of us hate everybody, Lauren, So 306 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: you know we can get along some of us with 307 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 1: lots of people in an enclosed space. This open floor 308 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 1: plan that we have in our office is really keyed 309 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 1: up us on our anxiety levels and aggression levels have 310 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: gone off the charts, pretty cranky. Yeah, this is only 311 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:54,720 Speaker 1: the first day, Lauren. We've got lots more of these 312 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: to look forward to, Succa. You have to deal with me. 313 00:16:57,400 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 1: There's some behind the scenes stuff from how stuff works 314 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: right there for you guys. So anyway, yeah, not not 315 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:07,400 Speaker 1: so expensive. Comparatively speaking, it is very expensive our hotel room, 316 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:09,720 Speaker 1: but for a hotel room underwater, as it turns out, 317 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:13,399 Speaker 1: not so expensive. Um So that's that's kind of the 318 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 1: first one I wanted to talk about because it was 319 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:18,160 Speaker 1: a direct descendant. In fact, it was one of these 320 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:21,680 Speaker 1: underwater research habitats for us to talk about the other 321 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:24,919 Speaker 1: underwater hotels, the one that exists and then the several 322 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,439 Speaker 1: that are proposed before we do that. I want to 323 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:31,639 Speaker 1: take a quick break and thank our sponsor. All right, 324 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 1: so now we're gonna talk about some other underwater hotels. 325 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:37,119 Speaker 1: There is one other one that we can talk about 326 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 1: that's actually running. It's working. You can go and you 327 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 1: can book a room there if you wanted to, or 328 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 1: the room there. There's only one. There's only the one. 329 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:47,120 Speaker 1: This is called the utter Inn. It is in Sweeten 330 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:50,239 Speaker 1: on Lake something or other. I can't pronounce it. I'm 331 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 1: not even gonna try, like Millaren, Let's let's say that 332 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:55,719 Speaker 1: is that is the English looking pronunciation of that name. 333 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: It is probably completely incorrect because, as we have previously 334 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 1: learned in the episode, Sweden be crazy. Yeah we we are. 335 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 1: Our mouths don't make those sounds utter in obviously that 336 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 1: that means otter in it's the cool So it's about otters. 337 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:16,280 Speaker 1: It was created as an art project in the year 338 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 1: two thousand by Mikhail Genberg. And okay, so so it's 339 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:22,720 Speaker 1: got it's got an above above surface part in a 340 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 1: below surface part above above ground, above surface. I keep 341 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:27,879 Speaker 1: wanting to say ground. There's it's kind of like a 342 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 1: red shed with a deck around it. Yeah, it looks 343 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 1: like it looks like it's got a little floating dock 344 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:35,959 Speaker 1: that's got nothing but a little tiny red shack on it. 345 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:37,919 Speaker 1: So if you were looking at it just from the surface, 346 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,160 Speaker 1: you think that is the weirdest looking thing I've ever seen. 347 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 1: It's just floating out there on the lake. And what's 348 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:46,280 Speaker 1: that very small barbridge which with a very small wood 349 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 1: shed on it. Um it does have you know, a 350 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 1: little bit of a deck for sun chairs or something. 351 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 1: You can fit a good few sun chairs out there, 352 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:55,919 Speaker 1: and then there's a tube leading below the surface. You 353 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 1: can go down a ladder through this tube into what 354 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:02,200 Speaker 1: I believe is a single room. It does not look 355 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 1: terribly roomy. No, I think it's a room. It has 356 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 1: two beds and a few picture windows that will let 357 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:11,639 Speaker 1: you look out into the lake. As of as it 358 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 1: listed for UM, I think a thousand, seven hundred and 359 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:19,920 Speaker 1: fifty dollars for seven nights for one week stage, so 360 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:23,399 Speaker 1: not bad. It's actually cheaper than the Jewels one if 361 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: you're looking to stay for a week. Uh. If you, however, 362 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:30,920 Speaker 1: you're pretty much left up on your own here, you 363 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 1: can opt in to getting food delivered to you for 364 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:36,959 Speaker 1: an extra charge. Where I think I think it's row 365 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 1: about distance to them. Yeah, they give you an inflatable 366 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:43,879 Speaker 1: canoe where you can you can row back to shore 367 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 1: so that you can go and get things like food 368 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:49,919 Speaker 1: or entertainment. It is, it is pretty impressively creepy looking. Actually, 369 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:52,000 Speaker 1: I have to say, I was looking at some pictures 370 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: of the interior, and the lake is a very living lake, 371 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:59,919 Speaker 1: and so it's a little bit briny. It's kind of 372 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 1: grayish and greenish, lots of allergae, lots of fish. Yeah, 373 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 1: it gets very dark at night, and I'm sort of 374 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 1: uncomfortable with that. Yeah, the idea that you, yeah, you're 375 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 1: not getting any starlight or moonlight down there. I mean 376 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 1: it was the same sort of thing with the Jewels one, right, 377 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 1: like the Jewels Hotel that if you ever see pictures 378 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 1: of it, you see these big round windows since looking 379 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:23,200 Speaker 1: onto very green water, you know, and it's it's not 380 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 1: like it's not the kind of don't think about those 381 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 1: Caribbean beaches or the ones and you see in Southeast Asia, 382 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:33,520 Speaker 1: whereas that crystal blue water it's not like that. So anyway, 383 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 1: the those are the two that you could actually book 384 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 1: a room at right now and go and stay in 385 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 1: right now. The Jewels and the other. But therefore, for 386 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:43,439 Speaker 1: a room underwater, there are a couple other hotels that 387 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 1: do have portions. There's something underwater, like the Atlantis Hotel 388 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 1: in Dubai. Specifically, there are two Atlantis resorts. There's one 389 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 1: in Dubai and there's one in the Bahamas. If you 390 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 1: ever look at this thing, it looks like two giant wings, 391 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:00,199 Speaker 1: and the center of it um has sort of an 392 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 1: outline that looks like an Arabesque tower with a sort 393 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,879 Speaker 1: of a bridging kind of section on the very top. 394 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 1: That will come in into play in just a second, 395 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: because I've got a tangent that I have to talk about. 396 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 1: But anyway, it has two suits, the Poseidon and the Neptune. 397 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: Very clever. The Posidona Neptune suites are multi floor suites 398 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 1: and part of it is above the level of a 399 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,160 Speaker 1: lagoon that it looks out over, but the bottom floor 400 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 1: is actually under the surface of the water line and 401 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:36,199 Speaker 1: has windows look out into the lagoon. So according to 402 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:39,119 Speaker 1: one picture, although I couldn't find any confirmation on the 403 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:42,200 Speaker 1: actual Atlanti site, it was one of those pictures where 404 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 1: I wondered if it was a an artist rendition or 405 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 1: if it was actually this was really taken inside the suite, 406 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: and one of them that showed a bedroom where the 407 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:55,720 Speaker 1: entire bedroom was submerged in the lagoon, so you you 408 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,000 Speaker 1: are looking out like when you look up from your bed, 409 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 1: you're looking at the aquarium a centially or in the 410 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 1: inside the lagoon, so you're looking at all the sea 411 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,440 Speaker 1: life swimming around you. None of the pictures I saw 412 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:09,359 Speaker 1: on the actual site reflected that specific setup, so I 413 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:12,159 Speaker 1: don't know that that's really how it turned out. That 414 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 1: might have been one of those things like and what 415 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 1: it really looks like is No, you've got a window 416 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 1: that looks out into the lagoon, which still is gorgeous, 417 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 1: but it's not the same effect obviously. Um. Anyway, these 418 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,679 Speaker 1: two suites are a little a little expensive. If you 419 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 1: want to stay at either the Poseidon or the Neptune 420 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: Sweet in the Atlantis Resort in Dubai for one night, 421 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:38,879 Speaker 1: that will set you back eight thousand eight for one 422 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,639 Speaker 1: night's stay. Yeah, it's not the most expensive Sweet in 423 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:46,200 Speaker 1: the hotel I and I'm sure it's not by far 424 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: the most expensive sweet in Dubai. The most expensive Sweet 425 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 1: in the Atlantis Resort and Dubai is Remember why I 426 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,879 Speaker 1: said I had that bridging kind of section that's at 427 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 1: the very top of that Arabs tower. Well, that that 428 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:01,359 Speaker 1: bridging section is actually a suite. It's called the Royal 429 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 1: Bridge Suite. And one night's stay will set you back 430 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 1: about thirty seven thousand, eight hundred dollars for one night. 431 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:15,639 Speaker 1: So that's a good salary right there for one night's stay. Yeah, 432 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 1: that's that's much like many people's yearly k Yeah, yeah, 433 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 1: to stay for one night. Yeah. Anyway, clearly there's a 434 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,160 Speaker 1: section of the world that lives in a different bracket 435 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:31,200 Speaker 1: than I do. Uh, it's still pretty interesting, but it's 436 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: not the same thing as the submerged hotel idea that 437 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:37,680 Speaker 1: we were promised. No, and uh, well there's there's also 438 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 1: a restaurant that you can go to in a Hilton 439 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:46,200 Speaker 1: hotel out in Maldives, Maldives Islands. Yes. Um, that's the 440 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: Conrad mal Dives Rangali Island. It's it's owned again by 441 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,359 Speaker 1: the by the Hilton Hotel chain. Um. The hotel itself 442 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 1: spread over two islands connected by a bridge. Most of 443 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 1: it is top side, but it does have this this 444 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: undersea restaurant that's available. Um. It only has fourteen chairs, 445 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 1: but you can also rent it out for events for 446 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 1: an undisclosed amount of money. Undisclosed huge amount of money, 447 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,920 Speaker 1: meaning huge. The pictures of this are very similar to 448 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 1: what I was talking about about that bedroom where it's 449 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 1: the you know, because the the ceiling itself is also 450 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 1: made out of a crylic it's this arc. There's an 451 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 1: arch all the way through the dining room where you're 452 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 1: surrounded on both sides and above it's like a two 453 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:32,159 Speaker 1: seventy degree so you're you're you're looking around underwater, and 454 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,200 Speaker 1: it looks very much to me like the there's a 455 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 1: tunnel in the Georgia Aquarium in downtown Atlanta that is 456 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 1: a very similar view or um. Maybe if you guys 457 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:43,639 Speaker 1: have seen a really terrific BioShock causplay of a big 458 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 1: daddy and little sister, it took place in this in 459 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 1: the Georgia. Have you've seen the documentary Jaws three, which 460 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 1: takes place in Sea World and they walk through some 461 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: of the Sea World tunnel, same sort of thing, except 462 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 1: you know, wider. Uh So that kind of brings us 463 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:00,280 Speaker 1: to some of the ones that have been proposed, posed, 464 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,159 Speaker 1: but as far as we can tell, have yet to 465 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,880 Speaker 1: be built. In some cases have yet to have any 466 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,160 Speaker 1: work done on them whatsoever. In most cases, have yet 467 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,119 Speaker 1: to have any work done on them. And that that 468 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,120 Speaker 1: I think we should probably go ahead and just start 469 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,280 Speaker 1: with the Poseidon, because that was the one that that 470 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,119 Speaker 1: I first heard of and was so impressed by and 471 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 1: could not wait to hear. But it was originally supposed 472 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 1: to open in two thousand eight nine, I think, okay, 473 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 1: two thousand nine. Uh, as far as I know, no 474 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 1: work has really been done on the the like they 475 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 1: haven't installed any of the actual units. Now. The Poseidon 476 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,159 Speaker 1: approach was really kind of a cool idea, and it 477 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,119 Speaker 1: may still be a cool idea, like as an it 478 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,439 Speaker 1: may still be built. But the idea is that they 479 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:45,719 Speaker 1: would have an underwater corridor that was the connecting uh 480 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,960 Speaker 1: like like permanently fixed corridor underwater, and then the suites 481 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,200 Speaker 1: would be connected to it, but detachable and surfaceable in 482 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 1: case of either emergency or repair. Right, so so each 483 00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:01,360 Speaker 1: suite could be built completely separately. UH. They're neutrally buoyant, 484 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 1: so you can move them fairly easily through the water 485 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,040 Speaker 1: either up or down. You bring them down to the 486 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:11,320 Speaker 1: right level, you connect it to the corridors. The corridor 487 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 1: has a a sealed door, and so does the suite, 488 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:20,200 Speaker 1: so that you can therefore use you can pressurize it 489 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 1: to surface pressure. Right, and so the idea is that 490 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 1: you could be uh transported by submersible down to the corridor, 491 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,399 Speaker 1: You get out of the submersible into the corridor, you 492 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:32,880 Speaker 1: go to your room. The entire time you are under 493 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 1: surface pressure. You never have that decompression issue, UM, and 494 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:41,720 Speaker 1: you have this gorgeous view where you can control the 495 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 1: privacy of your room through l C d UH screens. 496 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 1: So you could actually make them opaque or transparent and 497 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 1: then either you know, look at just a little section 498 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 1: of the water, or say, you know, modesty be darned, 499 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:59,200 Speaker 1: I'm going to turn all of the walls into windows 500 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 1: for right now. And uh just you know, any divers 501 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,159 Speaker 1: are swimming by are just gonna have to They're just 502 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,640 Speaker 1: gonna have to live with the way I hang out 503 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 1: in my hotel room. Uh yeah. Those that that that 504 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 1: would be some four inch thick plexiglass windows that it's 505 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:17,720 Speaker 1: planning on using in twenty four underwater speed. Specifically, I've 506 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:21,719 Speaker 1: heard UM construction was supposed to be in Portland, Oregon, 507 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,119 Speaker 1: and you know it's still in the works. As far 508 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:27,920 Speaker 1: as I can tell, it has not started again. They're 509 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 1: they're gonna lead it over to Fiji when it's done hypothetically, 510 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 1: and it was announced in they're scouting for a second 511 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,119 Speaker 1: location that they have so much interest that they want 512 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:43,200 Speaker 1: to build two. However, also that the same year a 513 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,160 Speaker 1: Swiss firm called Strategic Hotel Consulting estimated that the cost 514 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 1: of one suite building one sweet, not staying there, just 515 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 1: building it, would be eleven point four million dollars for 516 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,600 Speaker 1: one suite, So that could end up being a huge issue. 517 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 1: If that actually is an accurate estimation, then that could 518 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: really cause problems with them building this and you know, 519 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 1: affording to build a full hotel. So we're still waiting 520 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,760 Speaker 1: to find out if that's in fact going to happen. Um, 521 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 1: there's some other cool ideas that are part of this 522 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,639 Speaker 1: hotel there they talked about Each room would also have 523 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 1: underwater lights, so you could light up the scene around 524 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,200 Speaker 1: you at night and see the fishies swimming around the night. Also, 525 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,440 Speaker 1: they would have push button fish feeders, so if you 526 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 1: wanted to feed the fish eies and and or attract 527 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 1: more fishies around your window, you push a button and 528 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 1: it shoots food out and Okay, this sounds gorgeous and wonderful, 529 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,080 Speaker 1: and the cynic in me is saying that it is 530 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 1: going to be awful for the local ecosystem. You might 531 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:48,960 Speaker 1: see a lot of obese fish like I just yet, 532 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 1: I've never seen a flounder around before. Really delicate balance. 533 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,040 Speaker 1: There's there's certainly some things that you've got to take 534 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,040 Speaker 1: into consideration. Although I supposed just the mirror, you know, 535 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:05,080 Speaker 1: anchoring of a giant corridor and twenty four submersible rooms underwater, 536 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 1: we're probably screw stuff up. There's probably environmental impact there. Yeah, 537 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,120 Speaker 1: there's also uh, you know, it's not just made of 538 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 1: acrylic obviously, it's also made of steel that steals about 539 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 1: an inch thick. It's about twenty five millimeters. For you 540 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 1: guys out there who don't follow the imperial system like 541 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 1: I do. Um. Then we've got a couple of other 542 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 1: hotels we can talk about. I mean, there's more stuff 543 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:28,880 Speaker 1: we'd say about the sign, but the biggest thing is 544 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 1: that we're still waiting on the poseidon that much information. Yeah. Yeah, 545 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 1: China has plans to build one into the cliff side 546 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 1: of an abandoned rock quarry in Shanghai heard about this, 547 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,560 Speaker 1: not at all. This is the SMaL Wonderland. And it 548 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 1: would have two submerged floors. The rock Quarries is partially 549 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:52,720 Speaker 1: flooded and so so two submerged floors, and then uh, 550 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 1: you know, down there they would have a sports complex, 551 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,160 Speaker 1: spa swimming pool, restaurant and some guest rooms and then 552 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,720 Speaker 1: top side there would be some rock climbing, bungee jumping, 553 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,040 Speaker 1: that kind of extreme sports sort of thing. It was 554 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 1: planning on opening, which looks unlikely as of right now, 555 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 1: but CNN reports that there are reports of initial construction 556 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:14,760 Speaker 1: having started. Um, which is about as vague as I 557 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,560 Speaker 1: think it deserves to be. Well, there's another one. Um. 558 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,560 Speaker 1: Did you hear about the Hydropolis underwater hotel and Resort. 559 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 1: I didn't, but that's a really terrific word. So this 560 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 1: one was proposed back in two thousand six, again in Dubai. 561 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 1: Dubai is going to pop up a lot here. Yeah. Um, 562 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 1: So this one was proposed back in two thousand and six. 563 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:37,200 Speaker 1: The projected cost at that time was either, depending upon 564 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 1: the source you read, three million dollars or three million pounds. 565 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,800 Speaker 1: That's a big difference. That is a really huge difference. Unfortunately, 566 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:45,920 Speaker 1: half the sources I looked at said one, and the 567 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 1: other half the sources said the other. And I think 568 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 1: it all depended on whether or not the person was 569 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:52,320 Speaker 1: writing in the US or in the UK. So I 570 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,600 Speaker 1: do not know which one of those figures is correct. 571 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,800 Speaker 1: I would imagine that both of them are way low, 572 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,240 Speaker 1: yea from what it would actually cost. I also, do 573 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:01,600 Speaker 1: you want to take this opportunity to say that a 574 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,400 Speaker 1: lot of our research about these hotels has come from, um, 575 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 1: perhaps less reputable sources than we would usually use, just 576 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 1: because all of these are technically fictional, right, Yeah, they're 577 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 1: just kind of ideas. Yeah. In fact, if you ever 578 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 1: do a search for underwater hotels, you're gonna come across 579 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,000 Speaker 1: all these top ten lists or seven lists or whatever 580 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: wacky travel blogs, and and most of them are talking 581 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 1: about like these hotels are either in operation right now 582 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,040 Speaker 1: are going to open it really soon. But that does 583 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,280 Speaker 1: not appear to be the case. It looks more like 584 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:33,720 Speaker 1: these are great ideas that mayhaps are before their time. Um. 585 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 1: But anyway, the Hydropolis was supposed to open years ago, 586 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,280 Speaker 1: and it has not opened yet. In fact, as far 587 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:45,239 Speaker 1: as I can tell, there's been no construction performed at 588 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:50,600 Speaker 1: all um or even plans for construction, like actual concrete 589 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 1: plans to build something. It's just been in the discussion stage. 590 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 1: But originally the ideas that it's supposed to have a 591 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:00,760 Speaker 1: land station, so you would enter this hotel through the 592 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,120 Speaker 1: land station. Then there's a connecting tunnel from the land 593 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,440 Speaker 1: station to the main hotel, and then the suites of 594 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:10,960 Speaker 1: the hotel are all underwater. Uh, and that was supposed 595 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:14,960 Speaker 1: to be two hundred and twenty suites. This hotel is, 596 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 1: if it were built, would be enormous, would be two 597 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 1: d sixty hectairs, which is about the size of Hyde 598 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 1: Park in London. Yeah. Big one night's stay was projected 599 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 1: to be at a measly five thousand five dollars now 600 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,440 Speaker 1: pocket change. Yeah, I'm sure that that number has probably 601 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,720 Speaker 1: gone up as the hotel has failed to be built, 602 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 1: but I would imagine that number is even higher now 603 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,040 Speaker 1: due to inflation if nothing else. But then we've got 604 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,240 Speaker 1: another another Dubai one right, the water discus right, and 605 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,560 Speaker 1: this is being designed by Deep Ocean Technology, which has 606 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:47,840 Speaker 1: plans to launch several of these suckers around the world, 607 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,920 Speaker 1: including one over in Maldives. Um and Yeah. This this 608 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,480 Speaker 1: plan is for twenty one rooms under the surface, plus 609 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,960 Speaker 1: a lobby and in a Scooba training pool. Useful. This 610 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,200 Speaker 1: one actually looks like imagine two frisbees. One of them 611 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 1: is above the water and one of them below the water, 612 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:07,560 Speaker 1: and they're connected by a tube, and the tube actually 613 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 1: has inside of it an elevator and stairs, and then 614 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 1: there's a few kind of outlying disc ufo kind of 615 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,800 Speaker 1: looking things coming coming off of it as well. Occasionally 616 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,120 Speaker 1: they kidnapped cows for no reason. I don't know why, 617 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:25,480 Speaker 1: you know happens. Uh. Supposedly, the latest estimate I read 618 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 1: was that it would be finished if everything goes as planned, 619 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,640 Speaker 1: by March two thousand fifteen. So we still have a 620 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:33,760 Speaker 1: couple of years to go before this thing gets built. 621 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:35,680 Speaker 1: If it gets built, keeping in mind that we have 622 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:39,720 Speaker 1: the Poseidon and the Hydropolis, both that predate the announcement 623 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:43,520 Speaker 1: of this hotel that still have not been built. UH. 624 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,960 Speaker 1: This one, that underwater portion would also be serviceable, like 625 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:51,760 Speaker 1: like those room pods from from the Poseidon and UH, 626 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: and those top side portions that the kind of outlying 627 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,280 Speaker 1: UFO things that I was talking about can be released 628 00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 1: and used its flotation for the rest of the hotel 629 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,600 Speaker 1: in case of him agency, which is important. I mean, 630 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:04,240 Speaker 1: you know, if you have an earthquake or something, or 631 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 1: tsunami or some other issue when you're right next to 632 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,239 Speaker 1: the ocean. Um. Then there's also there's one that I 633 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,080 Speaker 1: saw where I found mentions of it across the web 634 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,680 Speaker 1: except for anything that actually said it existed. There were 635 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:19,920 Speaker 1: a lot of blogs that said this is going to 636 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,359 Speaker 1: be an amazing underwater hotel, and then when I tried 637 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:26,080 Speaker 1: to actually find any real information about it, it would 638 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 1: just fade away. But it's called Reef World and it's 639 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,719 Speaker 1: supposed to be a floating hotel that's along the Great 640 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:36,440 Speaker 1: Barrier Reef in Australia, and it would have eight underwater 641 00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:39,840 Speaker 1: suites UH that you could stay in. So the suites 642 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,560 Speaker 1: themselves are submerged underwater. The rest of the hotel is 643 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,160 Speaker 1: sort of floating on the surface and even had like 644 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,840 Speaker 1: a helipad in the illustration I saw where a helicopter 645 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:52,839 Speaker 1: could land ah, But it was all artist concept drawings 646 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,320 Speaker 1: that I could see. I couldn't find any actual information 647 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,160 Speaker 1: about whether or not construction ever started. There is a 648 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:02,680 Speaker 1: Reef World UH project in Australia, but that refers to 649 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:06,359 Speaker 1: these pontoon boats that you can go out to two 650 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,840 Speaker 1: snor Cole and to explore the Great Barrier reef, and 651 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:10,840 Speaker 1: there are a couple where you can do an overnight 652 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,960 Speaker 1: stay as part of a package. But it's not it's 653 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,360 Speaker 1: about Yeah, it's a boat. It's not designed as a hotel. 654 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:20,320 Speaker 1: It's a boat. It does have it does a underwater 655 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,400 Speaker 1: viewing area. It's kind of like a like a glass 656 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,440 Speaker 1: bottom boat. But it's not a submersible. So it's and 657 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,480 Speaker 1: it's not. It's clearly not the same thing as what 658 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,840 Speaker 1: all these blogs were saying, or if it is the 659 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:34,359 Speaker 1: same thing, they scaled down big time because they went 660 00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:37,600 Speaker 1: from this massive floating hotel with a helipad to a 661 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:41,520 Speaker 1: pontoon boat that I would say is a step down 662 00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:45,800 Speaker 1: into the water, you know, And anything without a helipad 663 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,239 Speaker 1: is obviously yeah, I don't I don't stay and I 664 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,400 Speaker 1: won't stay in a holiday in unless it's got a helipad. 665 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,400 Speaker 1: It's such as the life of a podcasting, right, you know, 666 00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,799 Speaker 1: I live in a helipad. That was a terrible joke. 667 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,240 Speaker 1: That was bad even for me. I feel almost ashamed. 668 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,680 Speaker 1: If I could feel shame, I would feel it right now. Well, 669 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:05,880 Speaker 1: you know that's getting Do you have any other underwater 670 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:07,800 Speaker 1: hotels you wanted to talk about? I do not. That 671 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,799 Speaker 1: was everything on me. Yeah, yeah, there's there. Occasionally you'll 672 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:14,840 Speaker 1: see other suggested underwater hotels, but most of the cases 673 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,520 Speaker 1: it's not really an underwater hotel. And again, the ones 674 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,120 Speaker 1: I'm really interested in are these ideas that the submerged, 675 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,959 Speaker 1: the totally submerged hotel, where you you aren't just looking 676 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:27,160 Speaker 1: out into an aquarium or a lagoon, you really are 677 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,040 Speaker 1: under the ocean. I think that's really an interesting idea. 678 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,879 Speaker 1: I would be willing to try it. Lauren, you said 679 00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,040 Speaker 1: the dead's doesn't really appeal to you. Yeah, I'm kind 680 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,320 Speaker 1: of quicked out by open water. I'm not really okay 681 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,719 Speaker 1: with it. I really like breathing, and I really like 682 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:44,279 Speaker 1: walking on solid stuff. It's all they don't. They don't 683 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:49,640 Speaker 1: reject you into the ocean, I think, not on purpose. 684 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:53,719 Speaker 1: And accidents can happen. You get that champagne bottle in 685 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:55,920 Speaker 1: there and the cork explodes with just a little more 686 00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:57,360 Speaker 1: force than you were expecting the next thing, you know, 687 00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,320 Speaker 1: and acrylic panel pops in that would be an issue. 688 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,880 Speaker 1: I'm I'm sure I'm sure that they if you know 689 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,240 Speaker 1: that the safety issues are why they do not exist 690 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,440 Speaker 1: right now, and that if they were created that they 691 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,640 Speaker 1: would be very safe. I would certainly like to go 692 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,719 Speaker 1: check one out and maybe leave afterwards. Maybe not stay. 693 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,400 Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I could sleep, so uh, while 694 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:20,960 Speaker 1: I I do still want to do the tech stuff 695 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:25,040 Speaker 1: travels around looking at cool things. Idea that we have, um, 696 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,319 Speaker 1: the underwater hotel, we may just may just breeze through. 697 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:30,960 Speaker 1: I have maybe have like a five star meal. Yeah, 698 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,960 Speaker 1: I would be fine with justifive star there and then 699 00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:37,640 Speaker 1: we'll go stay at the holiday and with the helipad 700 00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:41,480 Speaker 1: that works, I can I can deal with that, all right. Well, anyway, 701 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,000 Speaker 1: this wraps up our discussion about underwater hotels. 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