WEBVTT - Sleeping Underwater 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:07.240 Get in test with technology with tech Stuff from half 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:14.840 stuff dot com. Hey there, everyone, and welcome to tech Stuff. 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:17.720 I'm Jonathan Strickland and I'm Lauren Vocal, and today we're 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:21.920 gonna talk about under the sea. Life is better downwards 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:25.400 whether they give her me. Jonathan just got back from 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:27.680 Disney World and no wonder has really never seen. I'm 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.319 still there. Really part of me will always still be there. 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:35.760 Um yeah, so we're talking about underwater hotels. We just 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:39.640 thought one of those things where I just went on 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:42.279 a vacation. I went to Disney that's got a lot 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:45.400 of underwater theming and various parts of the park, and 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:47.600 then I went on a cruise, which happens to have 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:51.159 a lot to do with water. UHAMI would imagine. I'm 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:54.000 actually not personally familiar with. I've never been on one. 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.040 I kind of scare me. Uh well, we went through 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:58.959 Hurricane Karen, so that was exciting. I'll tell you more 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.720 about that after the show. Anyway, it was it was 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:05.480 actually a very interesting experience. Nothing negative to say about that, 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:07.520 but it brought me to think about, you know, some 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:12.000 of the more exotic kind of vacation destinations. And I 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:15.479 remember reading back when I first started at How Stuff Works. 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:19.240 I remember reading about these proposed underwater luxury hotels. We're 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:24.959 talking like five star hotels with all the amenities, or 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.560 or totally submerged in the case of one of them, 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:31.320 which the one I'm specifically thinking of, the Poseidon, we'll 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.720 talk about in a little bit later in the podcast. Yeah, 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.199 they started planning that in two thousand or two thousand 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:39.560 one two one, I think, and it still doesn't exist. 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.319 As it turns out. When we started doing research for this, 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.800 we were like, oh, none of these really exists. Yet. 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:46.720 There are a few that you can stay in that 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.920 are real, right, They're not the super luxury hotels, though 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.760 there's one that is a super luxury hotel that does 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:57.040 have an underwater restaurant, and and there's one that has 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:00.480 the underwater room because there's the Atlantis, But it's not 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:04.040 a completely submerged hotel the way the Poseidon is supposed 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.160 to be. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. We are, 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.680 we are getting weight ahead of ourselves. Um, let us 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:12.000 let us start, well, Okay, what do you wanna do? 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.000 You want to talk about the problems here? Yeah, let's 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.480 talk about the problems. Okay, So Lauren, if I were 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.440 to tell you that you are going to go and 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:22.799 sleep with the fishes, you would probably think I was 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.720 going to put a hit on you, you know, Godfather style. 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:27.920 But if I were to say, no, no, no, I 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.720 mean that there's this hotel that's underwater where you can 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:34.160 fall asleep underwater and wake up to looking outside of 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.800 all these gorgeous fish, you'd realize that there are some 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.280 issues you've got to work out too before anyone is 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.880 comfortable staying in that space. I would I would ask, 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.919 how am I going to breathe? I enjoy breathing. That's 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.280 something I do. Every top of the list is the 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:50.000 breathing problem. Yeah, As it turns out, don't know if 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.359 you guys know this. We don't breathe water so well. 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:56.680 We like air that has a mixture of some pretty 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.200 typical gases that you find on our atmosphere. It's very 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.280 convenient for us, seeing as how this is where we live. 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.760 But if you go underwater, you know, you get that challenge. 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.960 So you have to find a way of supplying breathable atmosphere. 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.119 You have to find a way of maintaining pressure. Uh 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:15.560 and and to prevent front water pressure from breaking the 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:19.360 the the confines of your habitat and killing you because 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.120 you could see above you can't breathe water, so yeah, 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.400 so and if you're deep enough, then the pressure alone 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:29.120 could kill you. Although for the habitats we're talking about, uh, 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:33.120 you're in semi shallow water, shallow not to not like 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:36.120 you're you know, waiting around in it. But we're talking 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.200 maybe thirty to fifty feet deep something along those lines, 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:42.600 not you know, a thousand meters below the surface of 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.520 the ocean. Right. This is partially because water exerts more 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:49.600 pressure on us than air at atmosphere pressure. Yeah. So 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.720 the deeper you go, the more pressure you feel. Right, So, 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:55.840 I don't know, we talked before the podcast you have 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:59.000 not seen the ABYSS, right. So in the ABYSS, you 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.920 have these characters who are going on these deep, deep, 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:06.200 deep ocean UH missions, and at one point they start 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:10.880 to experiment with a liquid oxygen. The reason why they're 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.080 using a liquid oxygen is because if they were to 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.000 go out in a diving suit under the amount immense 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.200 pressure that they would be under as soon as they 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:22.599 left the confines of their submersible, uh, all that air 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.479 would end up dissolving into their blood and they die. 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:29.000 So they they have come up with this liquid stuff 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.600 that would allow them to breathe. Well, we don't really 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.160 have the liquid stuff that we can do, like on 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.000 the level that they did in that movie, right that 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.760 there is research with liquid forms of I do not 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:41.640 have the name of it right in front of me, 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.760 but it's some kind of flora carbon actually, which which 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.480 is weird and interesting to me, but it's it's a 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:51.719 pressurized liquid ish gas and odd, very strange. I don't 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.200 know how that would feel. Doesn't seem comfortable to me personally, 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.039 but it right. So, so the problem when you go 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.560 deep enough, I mean, once you're getting down to ninety 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.280 thing like that, some of the gases that you're breathing, 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.400 especially nitrogen, are going to dissolve into your blood and tissues, 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:11.599 which is okay for a short period of time, but hey, 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.240 it's very bad in the long term and be when 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.000 you go back up to the service. If you don't 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:20.000 take steps to decompress, it can turn back into nitrogen 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:24.800 bubbles and forming in yeah, in your tissue and blood 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.320 and make you extremely sick. Yeah, you get it. It's 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.800 called the bends or decompression sickness. Right, and it can 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.960 be deadly. I mean, that's we're talking serious stuff here, right. 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:34.680 It sounds like when you hear like, oh, he's got 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:38.160 the bends, you might get the idea that yeah, I 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:42.599 just I guess did you did you just eat something? Exactly? 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.839 What's going on? Are you a crazy straw? What happened? No, 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.920 it's very serious stuff. It's actually one of those things 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.320 that divers have to consider. It's when if you've ever 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.640 been diving, then you know all about this. If you've 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.360 ever heard people talk about how you have to take 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:00.679 dives in very gradual stages. You can't just swim straight 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.040 down to the bottom of the ocean floor in a 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:06.159 very deep area and then swim right back back up right. 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.960 You have to you have to be much more um careful, 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:10.640 or else you can suffer from it. And that's a 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:12.840 huge part of your training when you go scupid eying right, 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.000 and you have to occasionally go into something like a 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:19.039 decompression chamber where the the pressure inside the chamber is 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.440 controlled so that it will allow you to get back 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.880 to the surface pressure gradually enough and then you can 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:29.920 go outside and not not suffer from decompression sickness. So 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.120 that's clearly one issue is you got to figure out 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.960 not just the breathing, but also how do you do 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.000 this in a way where people are not going to 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:41.120 suffer decompression sickness as soon as they transfer from being 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:47.120 underwater to being within the hotel environment or the habitat environment. Right. So, 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.000 and so, there are two ways that you can pressure 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.440 eze an underwater cabin and those are two the water 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:54.320 pressure that's surrounding the habitat, in which case you're gonna 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.279 want to use it in only very shallow situations. And again, 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.960 have some kind of decompression process if if nest sary, 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:06.000 or to pressurize this container to the surface atmosphere using airlocks, right, 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.400 and that would be like a submarine. A submarine is 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:11.080 pressurized to the surface temperature. Which is why when a 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:14.679 submarine comes back up, it's not that you know, suddenly 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:16.480 all the sailors on board have to go through a 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:20.080 decompression chamber or else they'll all suffer from the bends. 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:24.000 It's because that submarine itself is pressurized to the surface pressure. 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.520 It's similar to what we see with airplanes to the 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.840 pressurized cabins and airplanes to maintain a certain within a 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:34.000 certain parameter UH closeness to the service pressure so that 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:37.360 you don't have these problems that you would suffer otherwise. Now, 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:41.160 all what we know about this pressurization and the the 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:45.360 gases that you can breathe when you're underwater started. The 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:48.680 research really started about the nineteen fifties. The principle of 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:53.520 saturation diving, which is that prolonged exposure to UH to 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.440 pressurized gases that's going to build up nitrogen in your system, 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.360 was proposed by Captain George F. Bond, who is a U. S. 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:04.440 Navy physician, And that's what really kicked off the ability 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:08.280 for us to start doing research with with underwater habitats. 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.840 And this was becoming important because of a little thing 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.000 called the Cold War in the space race, Oh yeah, 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:18.240 I remember that. I mean also environmentalism was on the 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.840 rise and people were becoming really interested in all of 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:24.240 the life in oceans. While to study that, yeah, that 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.280 was still I would say that that really got a 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.960 lot of traction in the seventies. Apart from one specific 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.240 person who anyone who's familiar with marine biology knows the 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:41.200 name Jacques Cousteau, right, was certainly instrumental in six. Yeah. Yeah, 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:45.080 so his work in the sixties certainly went a far 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:49.480 away to giving us a greater appreciation and understanding of 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:53.760 underwater environments. And in fact, um he started looking into 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:57.520 an underwater habitat right right in nineteen sixty two he 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:02.920 started launching experiments in these pressurized underwater trips. Uh. He 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:06.560 created the con Shelf one, which was a free standing 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:10.480 structure down about thirty six ft under under the water, 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.079 and and divers lived in it for about a week. 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.600 So O, that's pretty that's that's fairly impressive. I mean, 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.480 considering that you know, you're you weren't going to have 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:23.040 many Apollo astronauts going up until wait wait, I guess, 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:26.480 I guess about that time, Well they're starting the training programs. Anyway, 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:28.360 it wasn't until the late sixties that you really got 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:32.080 them into going out into orbit. But yeah, so so 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:36.480 you've got this this underwater habitat staying there for about 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.880 a week, which that plays into our discussion on underwater hotels. 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.400 That's you know, a typical vacation stays is a week long. 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:48.000 So it's funny to think that scientific research here, specifically 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:52.840 looking into marine environments of marine life is somewhat paving 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:56.480 the way underwater as it were, to underwater tourism and 0:09:56.600 --> 0:10:00.440 underwater hotels. Absolutely. Yeah, there there was another and named 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.520 Edwin A Link who was um who who was another 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:05.760 oceanographer who was working in the same field at the time. 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:07.840 One of his projects called The Man in the Sea 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.800 would in nineteen sixty four get adopted by the U. S. 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:14.079 Navy and that would turn into the Sea Lab program 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.880 that you guys might have heard of. Yeah, I remember 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:20.440 that show on Cartoon Network. No, no different, different, different 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.559 Sea Lab, although they did have at some point a 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.600 trained dolphin that would run errands for them. Wow. Really, 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.200 I I don't know what to say about that. That 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:34.040 was That was Sea Lab two in nineteen sixty right, 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.640 And so then you've also got uh, I mean Custo 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:40.840 continued work of creating the CONSW three. Uh. There was 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:44.280 the more sea labs, as I recall. So we have 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:46.960 this development where we're learning more and more about how 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:52.400 to create habitats that can safely house people for a 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.360 certain length of time, increasingly long periods of time throughout 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.120 throughout the sixties. We went from that first initial week 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:02.839 two up to a month and more. Right right there, was, Um, 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.440 there's one in particular I want to talk about, but uh, 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:07.800 I want to I want to give you the opportunity 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:09.800 to get through the sixties and seventies first before I 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:11.319 jump into it, because I'm going to talk about the 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:16.600 Noah one. Okay, I think, go go for it, alright, Alright, So, 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.679 so again sixties and seventies, we see more and more 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.079 of these same sort of environments used for Are these 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:28.200 habitats used for scientific research? Noah establishes one called Aquarius 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:33.200 off the coast of Saint Croix, and Aquarius is one 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:38.640 of the two underwater habitats that are still really actively 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:43.560 used these days. Um. The other one is now called Jewels, 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.840 but it's it's now privately owned. It's now privately owned 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:50.080 and operated as an underwater hotel. But it didn't start 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.240 off that way. It started, right, It started off as 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.160 one of these research habitats. And and and all of these 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:57.200 that we've been talking about have been research habitats, you know, 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.280 kind of based on ocean life, but also kind of 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.839 based on exactly how can we do this crazy keeping 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:06.960 people underwater? Right? Right? So the Jewels Undersea Lodge was 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:10.760 named after, of course, Jules Willis Vern and his leagues 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:12.880 under the sea, right, although this one is not twenty 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.320 leagues under the ce certainly not. It is less than 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:19.840 that sifically, it's I think it's below the surface exactly. 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:24.360 It is The Surfaces, the world's first underwater hotel. It 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:29.600 was originally called La Chaupapa Research Lab, Yes it was. 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.800 It was created in the nineteen seventies and then renovated 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.440 into a hotel in the nineteen eighties. And you it's 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.559 it's scuba focus. It's really for scuba enthusiasts. I think 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.360 you don't have to have SCOOP certification to go, but 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.440 they will make you take a training course just to 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:46.679 make sure that you're dive down because you have to 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.240 scuba dive into the hotel. That's the only way to 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.280 get there. The way it works is that they have 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.760 a wet room. That's that's called wet room because that's 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.200 where you go to when you when you come into 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:57.840 the hotel, and that's where you end up storing all 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:00.640 your scuba gears. And then entrance is what's called a 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.400 moon pool, which I just love how romantic and lovely 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.320 that name is, which is really a hole cutting the floor. 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.560 It's much nicer than hole cutting. The floors names go 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.120 and uh and right. It's it's compressed, I think, to 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.920 the to the water around you. So you shouldn't stay 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.760 in there very very long. And the idea is that 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.560 you swim underneath the structure, you come up through the 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:24.920 moon pool, you pull yourself out, kind of like pulling 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:26.920 yourself out of a swimming pool, and then you are 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.800 inside the hotel and uh. You know again, it's it's 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.839 that that water pressure specifically, because if you were at 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.280 surface pressure, then you'd have to worry about decompression. Uh. 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.920 If you can then take off all your gear, take 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.000 a hot shower, and then move into one of the 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:46.760 other two rooms inside the jewels. UH. Motel is what 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:50.640 I've seen it referred to by other underwater hotel companies. 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.280 Uh it is. If you want to know some statistics, 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.120 it's fifty ft long, which is about fifteen meters, it's 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:59.079 twenty ft wide that's six meters, and eleven ft tall, 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:03.040 which about three point four meters. It was. It's off 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:06.720 the coast of Key Largo in the Florida Keys, made 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:11.480 famous of course by the Beach Boys in their song Anyway, 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.880 so that you uh, you know, like you said, Lauren, 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.000 you have to get there by diving. Whether or not 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.600 you're certified doesn't matter. They can put you through that course, 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:21.360 but you have to get there by diving. They don't 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:24.960 have some other means of getting you there. I think 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:29.920 that originally they had let guests go down breathing through 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:33.760 a tube, a pipe that was piping oxygen down like 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:37.760 Snooba diving, which is a combination of snorkeling and scuba, right, 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.800 But due to safety concerns, they moved it to a 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:44.680 full exactly. That sounds like that was a good idea. Yeah, 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.800 moving it. Um, it's uh. You know, once you get 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.320 in there, you've got some interesting amenities. They have windows 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.760 that look out their forty two inches in diameter or 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.440 um uh the wait wait I wrote down how many 0:14:56.440 --> 0:15:00.040 how many centimeters? A hundred seven centimeters. I'm look it 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:01.960 out for you guys. I just I can't make the 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.840 conversion in my head yet. I'm not that good. Um. 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:08.960 Other amenities include things like air conditioning and an entertainment center. 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:13.640 The picture I saw was was an old uh caval 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:17.080 ray tube television showing I think it was the ABYSS 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:23.000 actually on pause. Um. But anyway, it's the You also 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:27.120 can have meals delivered down there, including from the tower 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:30.800 of Pizza Um restaurant. I know because I actually looked 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:32.920 into this to see, you know, I was curious to 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:34.560 see how much it was. Did you see how much 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:36.600 it costs to stay there? I did not, or if 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:39.320 I did, I did not make a network. So it's really, 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.280 you know, when you think about it, you're staying underneath 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.000 the Ochian. So, first of all, when we're gonna talk 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.720 about these other underwater hotels in the moment, we're talking 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:49.440 about super luxurious experiences. At least that's the idea, and 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:54.640 so they tend to be pretty pricey, with one in 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:58.680 particular really breaking the bank on a per night's day. 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:02.480 But the Jewels Undersea Lodge, if it's if it's a 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:06.160 party of two, it's eight hundred dollars per night. So 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.280 that's a party of two. That's expensive. But you're like, 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:12.560 you're talking about being underwater as a unique experience right now, right, 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.840 So uh, if it's three to but it gets lower 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:18.880 per person if you add more people. So if you 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.720 have three to four people staying there, it ends up 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.520 being three fifty dollars per person. Instead four hundred per person. 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:27.920 If you have five to six people staying there, it's 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:30.800 three hundred dollars per person. However, you are then staying 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:33.200 with five to six people in a tin can. Well, 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.520 you know, not all of us hate everybody, Lauren, So 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.560 you know we can get along some of us with 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:42.560 lots of people in an enclosed space. This open floor 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.640 plan that we have in our office is really keyed 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:49.080 up us on our anxiety levels and aggression levels have 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.560 gone off the charts, pretty cranky. Yeah, this is only 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:54.720 the first day, Lauren. We've got lots more of these 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.240 to look forward to, Succa. You have to deal with me. 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.880 There's some behind the scenes stuff from how stuff works 0:16:59.920 --> 0:17:03.280 right there for you guys. So anyway, yeah, not not 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:07.400 so expensive. Comparatively speaking, it is very expensive our hotel room, 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:09.720 but for a hotel room underwater, as it turns out, 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:13.399 not so expensive. Um So that's that's kind of the 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.280 first one I wanted to talk about because it was 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.160 a direct descendant. In fact, it was one of these 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:21.680 underwater research habitats for us to talk about the other 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.919 underwater hotels, the one that exists and then the several 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.439 that are proposed before we do that. I want to 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:31.639 take a quick break and thank our sponsor. All right, 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:35.040 so now we're gonna talk about some other underwater hotels. 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.119 There is one other one that we can talk about 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:40.560 that's actually running. It's working. You can go and you 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:42.480 can book a room there if you wanted to, or 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:44.800 the room there. There's only one. There's only the one. 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:47.120 This is called the utter Inn. It is in Sweeten 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:50.239 on Lake something or other. I can't pronounce it. I'm 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.320 not even gonna try, like Millaren, Let's let's say that 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.719 is that is the English looking pronunciation of that name. 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:59.040 It is probably completely incorrect because, as we have previously 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:04.760 learned in the episode, Sweden be crazy. Yeah we we are. 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:08.800 Our mouths don't make those sounds utter in obviously that 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:13.960 that means otter in it's the cool So it's about otters. 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.280 It was created as an art project in the year 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:20.240 two thousand by Mikhail Genberg. And okay, so so it's 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:22.720 got it's got an above above surface part in a 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.520 below surface part above above ground, above surface. I keep 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:27.879 wanting to say ground. There's it's kind of like a 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.080 red shed with a deck around it. Yeah, it looks 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.680 like it looks like it's got a little floating dock 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.959 that's got nothing but a little tiny red shack on it. 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:37.919 So if you were looking at it just from the surface, 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.160 you think that is the weirdest looking thing I've ever seen. 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.520 It's just floating out there on the lake. And what's 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.280 that very small barbridge which with a very small wood 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:48.280 shed on it. Um it does have you know, a 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:50.600 little bit of a deck for sun chairs or something. 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:52.320 You can fit a good few sun chairs out there, 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.919 and then there's a tube leading below the surface. You 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.879 can go down a ladder through this tube into what 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:02.200 I believe is a single room. It does not look 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:05.600 terribly roomy. No, I think it's a room. It has 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:07.600 two beds and a few picture windows that will let 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:11.639 you look out into the lake. As of as it 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:15.480 listed for UM, I think a thousand, seven hundred and 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:19.920 fifty dollars for seven nights for one week stage, so 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.399 not bad. It's actually cheaper than the Jewels one if 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:27.320 you're looking to stay for a week. Uh. If you, however, 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:30.920 you're pretty much left up on your own here, you 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.119 can opt in to getting food delivered to you for 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:36.959 an extra charge. Where I think I think it's row 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:40.280 about distance to them. Yeah, they give you an inflatable 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.879 canoe where you can you can row back to shore 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:45.800 so that you can go and get things like food 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:49.919 or entertainment. It is, it is pretty impressively creepy looking. Actually, 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:52.000 I have to say, I was looking at some pictures 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:56.560 of the interior, and the lake is a very living lake, 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:59.919 and so it's a little bit briny. It's kind of 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:04.080 grayish and greenish, lots of allergae, lots of fish. Yeah, 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:06.080 it gets very dark at night, and I'm sort of 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:08.520 uncomfortable with that. Yeah, the idea that you, yeah, you're 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:10.960 not getting any starlight or moonlight down there. I mean 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:12.800 it was the same sort of thing with the Jewels one, right, 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:16.840 like the Jewels Hotel that if you ever see pictures 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.240 of it, you see these big round windows since looking 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:23.200 onto very green water, you know, and it's it's not 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:25.960 like it's not the kind of don't think about those 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:29.280 Caribbean beaches or the ones and you see in Southeast Asia, 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:33.520 whereas that crystal blue water it's not like that. So anyway, 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.000 the those are the two that you could actually book 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:38.320 a room at right now and go and stay in 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:40.840 right now. The Jewels and the other. But therefore, for 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:43.439 a room underwater, there are a couple other hotels that 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:47.520 do have portions. There's something underwater, like the Atlantis Hotel 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.960 in Dubai. Specifically, there are two Atlantis resorts. There's one 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:53.560 in Dubai and there's one in the Bahamas. If you 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:56.560 ever look at this thing, it looks like two giant wings, 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:00.199 and the center of it um has sort of an 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:04.000 outline that looks like an Arabesque tower with a sort 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:06.879 of a bridging kind of section on the very top. 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:09.399 That will come in into play in just a second, 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:11.800 because I've got a tangent that I have to talk about. 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:15.760 But anyway, it has two suits, the Poseidon and the Neptune. 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:19.800 Very clever. The Posidona Neptune suites are multi floor suites 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:23.800 and part of it is above the level of a 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:27.160 lagoon that it looks out over, but the bottom floor 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:31.320 is actually under the surface of the water line and 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:36.199