1 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, 3 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,640 Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with I Heart Radio 4 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 1: and I love all things tech. This time for a 5 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:25,480 Speaker 1: classic episode. This episode originally published on October twenty one, 6 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: two thousand thirteen. It is called Sleeping Underwater, and it 7 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:34,559 Speaker 1: is not a reference to the Godfather and Sleeping with 8 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 1: the Fishies. Honestly, I don't remember if I made that 9 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 1: reference in the episode or not. Let's listen in and 10 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 1: find out. I remember reading about these proposed underwater luxury hotels. 11 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: We're talking like five star hotels with all the amenities, 12 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 1: or or totally submerged in the case of one of them, 13 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 1: which those one I'm specifically thinking of the Poseidon we'll 14 00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: talk about in a little bit later in the podcast. Yeah, 15 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: they started playing that in two thousand or two thousand one, 16 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 1: two one, I think, and it still doesn't exist. As 17 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: it turns out. When we started doing research for this, 18 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: we were like, oh, none of these really exist yet. 19 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 1: There are a few that you can stay in that 20 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 1: are real, right, They're not the super luxury hotels though, Well, 21 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: there's one that is a super luxury hotel that does 22 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: have an underwater restaurant. And then there's one that has 23 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: the underwater room because there's the Atlantis, but it's not 24 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: a completely submerged hotel the way the Poseidon is supposed 25 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 1: to be. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. We are, 26 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 1: we are getting weight ahead of ourselves. Um let us 27 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: let us start. Well, Okay, what do you want to do? 28 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: You want to talk about the problems here. Yeah, let's 29 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: talk about the problems. Okay. So, Lauren, if I were 30 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 1: to tell you that you are going to go and 31 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: sleep with the fishes, you would probably think I was 32 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 1: going to put a hit on you, you know, Godfather style. 33 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 1: But if I were to say, no, no, no, I 34 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: mean that there's this hotel that's underwater where you can 35 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 1: fall asleep underwater and wake up to looking outside all 36 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: these gorgeous fish, you realize that there are some issues 37 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 1: you've got to work out too before anyone is comfortable 38 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,080 Speaker 1: staying in that space. I would I would ask, how 39 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:10,919 Speaker 1: am I going to breathe? I enjoy breathing. That's something 40 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 1: I do. Every top of the list is the breathing problem. Yeah, 41 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: As it turns out, I don't know if you guys 42 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: know this. We don't breathe water so well. We like 43 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 1: air that has a mixture of some pretty typical gases 44 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: that you find on our atmosphere. It's very convenient for us, 45 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: seeing as how this is where we live. But if 46 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 1: you go underwater, you know, if you get that challenge. 47 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: So you have to find a way of supplying breathable atmosphere. 48 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 1: You have to find a way of maintaining pressure. Uh. 49 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 1: And and to prevent front water pressure from breaking the 50 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:44,800 Speaker 1: the the confines of your habitat, right and killing you, 51 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: because I could see above you can't breathe water, so yeah. 52 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: So and if you're deep enough, then the pressure alone 53 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 1: could kill you. Although for the habitats we're talking about, 54 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: you're in semi shallow water, shallow not to not like 55 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:02,799 Speaker 1: you're waiting around in it. But we're talking maybe thirty 56 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 1: to fifty ft deep something along those lines, not you know, 57 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: a thousand meters below the surface of the ocean. Right. 58 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: This is partially because water exerts more pressure on us 59 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: than air at atmosphere pressure. Yeah, So the deeper you go, 60 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: the more pressure you feel, right, So, I don't know, 61 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:23,919 Speaker 1: we talked before the podcast, you have not seen the Abyss. Right. So, 62 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,359 Speaker 1: in the ABYSS, you have these characters who are going 63 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: on these deep, deep, deep ocean UH missions, and at 64 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: one point they start to experiment with a liquid oxygen. 65 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 1: The reason why they're using a liquid oxygen is because 66 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: if they were to go out in a diving suit 67 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: under the amount immense pressure that they would be under 68 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: as soon as they left the confines of their submersible, UH, 69 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 1: all that air would end up dissolving into their blood 70 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 1: and they die. So they they have come up with 71 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: this liquid stuff that would allow them to breathe. Well, 72 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: we don't really have the liquid stuff that we can 73 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: do like on the level that they did in that movie. 74 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: Right that there is research with liquid forms of I 75 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 1: do not have the name of it right in front 76 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: of me, but it's some kind of flora carbon actually, 77 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 1: which which is weird and interesting to me, but it's 78 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 1: it's a pressurized liquid ish gas and very strange. I 79 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: don't know how that would feel. Doesn't seem comfortable to 80 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 1: me personally, but right, so, so the problem when you 81 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:24,039 Speaker 1: go deep enough, I mean, once you're getting down to 82 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:27,039 Speaker 1: like three or ninety something like that, some of the 83 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: gases that you're breathing, especially nitrogen, are going to dissolve 84 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 1: into your blood and tissues, which is okay for a 85 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 1: short period of time, but it's very bad in the 86 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: long term and be when you go back up to 87 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: the surface. If you don't take steps to decompress, it 88 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:49,040 Speaker 1: can turn back into nitrogen bubbles and forming in in 89 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: your tissue and blood and make you extremely sick. It's 90 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,160 Speaker 1: called it's called the bends or a decompression sickness, right, 91 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: and it can be deadly. I mean, that's we're talking 92 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:59,599 Speaker 1: serious stuff here, right, right. It sounded like when you 93 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,279 Speaker 1: hear like always got the bends, you might get the 94 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,280 Speaker 1: idea that, yeah, I just I guess did you did 95 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 1: you just eat something? Exactly? What's going on? Are you 96 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:13,119 Speaker 1: a crazy straw? What happened? No, it's very serious stuff. 97 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: It's actually one of those things that divers have to consider. 98 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: It's when if you've ever been diving, then you know 99 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:20,719 Speaker 1: all about this. If you've ever heard people talk about 100 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 1: how you have to take dives in very gradual stages. 101 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: You can't just swim straight down to the bottom of 102 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 1: the ocean floor in a very deep area and then 103 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,839 Speaker 1: swim right back top. You have to you have to 104 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: be much more careful or else you can suffer from it. 105 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 1: And that's a huge part of your training when you 106 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 1: go scoopid diving, right, and you have to occasionally go 107 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:44,040 Speaker 1: into something like a decompression chamber where the pressure inside 108 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 1: the chamber is controlled so that it will allow you 109 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 1: to get back to the surface pressure and then you 110 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: can go outside and not not suffer from decompression sickness. 111 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:57,679 Speaker 1: So that's clearly one issue is you got to figure 112 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: out not just the breathing, but also how do you 113 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: do this in a way where people are not going 114 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,600 Speaker 1: to suffer decompression sickness as soon as they transfer from 115 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 1: being underwater to being within the hotel environment or the 116 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,039 Speaker 1: habitat environment. Right. So and so there are two ways 117 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:16,600 Speaker 1: that you can pressurize an underwater cabin, and those are 118 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:19,480 Speaker 1: to the water pressure that's surrounding the habitat, in which 119 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 1: case you're gonna want to use it in only very 120 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 1: shallow situations and again have some kind of decompression process 121 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 1: if if necessary, or to pressurize this container to the 122 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 1: surface atmosphere using airlocks, right, and that would be like 123 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: a submarine, a submarine is pressurized to the surface temperature, 124 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: which is why when a submarine comes back up, it's 125 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 1: not that you know, suddenly all the sailors on board 126 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,279 Speaker 1: have to go through a decompression chamber or else they'll 127 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: all suffer from the bends. It's because that submarine itself 128 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 1: is pressurized to the surface pressure. It's similar to what 129 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,799 Speaker 1: we see with airplanes, to the pressurized cabins and airplanes 130 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:58,359 Speaker 1: to maintain a certain within a certain parameter UH closeness 131 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:01,040 Speaker 1: to the surface pressure so that you don't have these 132 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 1: problems that you would suffer otherwise. Now, all of what 133 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 1: we know about this pressurization and the the gases that 134 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: you can breathe when you're underwater started. The research really 135 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 1: started in about the nineteen fifties. The principle of saturation diving, 136 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 1: which is that prolonged exposure to UH to pressurized gases 137 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 1: that's going to build up nitrogen in your system, was 138 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: proposed by Captain George F. Bond, who is a U. S. 139 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 1: Navy physician, and that's what really kicked off the ability 140 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: for us to start doing research with with underwater habitats. 141 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: And this was becoming important because of a little thing 142 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 1: called the Cold War in the space race. Oh yeah, 143 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: I remember that. I mean, also environmentalism was was on 144 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 1: the rise, and people were becoming really interested in all 145 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: of the life in oceans while to study that. Yeah, 146 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: that was still I would say that that really got 147 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 1: a lot of traction in the seventies, apart from one 148 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 1: specific person who anyone who's familiar with marine biology knows 149 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 1: the name, Jacques Cousto right, was certainly instrumental in six Yeah. Yeah, 150 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: So his work in the sixties certainly went a far 151 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: away to giving us a greater appreciation and understanding of 152 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 1: underwater environments. And in fact, um he started looking into 153 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 1: an underwater habitat right, Right, in nineteen sixty two, he 154 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: started launching experiments in these pressurized underwater trips. Uh. He 155 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 1: created the con Shelf one, which was a free standing 156 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: structure down about thirty six ft under under the water, 157 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 1: and and divers lived in it for about a week. 158 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 1: So nineteen sixty two, that's pretty that's that's fairly impressive. 159 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 1: I mean, considering that, you know, you're you weren't going 160 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 1: to have many Apollo astronauts going up until wait, wait, 161 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: I guess, I guess about that time well, they're starting 162 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,560 Speaker 1: the training programs. Anyway, it wasn't until the late sixties 163 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: that you really got them into going out into orbit. 164 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:00,679 Speaker 1: But yeah, so so you've got this this underwater habitat 165 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,079 Speaker 1: staying there for about a week, which that plays into 166 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,680 Speaker 1: our discussion on underwater hotels. That's you know, a typical 167 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,560 Speaker 1: vacation stays is a week long. So it's funny to 168 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 1: think that scientific research here, specifically looking into marine environments 169 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 1: of marine life, is somewhat of paving the way underwater, 170 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:24,680 Speaker 1: as it were, to underwater tourism and underwater hotels. Absolutely. Yeah. 171 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: There was another man named Edwin A. Link who was 172 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 1: um who who was another oceanographer who was working in 173 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: the same field at the time. One of his projects, 174 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 1: called The Man in the Sea would in nineteen sixty 175 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:38,240 Speaker 1: four get adopted by the U. S. Navy and that 176 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 1: would turn into the Sea Lab program that you guys 177 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 1: might have heard of. Yeah, I remember that show on 178 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 1: Cartoon Network. No, no different, different, different Sea Lab, although 179 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:49,199 Speaker 1: they did have at some point a trained dolphin that 180 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 1: would run errands for them. Wow. Really, I I don't 181 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 1: know what to say about that. That was That was 182 00:09:56,440 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 1: Sea Lab two in nineteen sixty right, and so then 183 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 1: you've also got uh, I mean Custo continued work of 184 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: creating the conell three. Uh, there was the more sea labs, 185 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 1: as I recall, So we have this development where we're 186 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: learning more and more about how to create habitats that 187 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 1: can safely house people for a certain length of time, 188 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 1: increasingly long periods of time throughout throughout the sixties, we 189 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 1: went from that first initial week two up to a 190 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: month and more so right right there was Um, there's 191 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:32,200 Speaker 1: one in particular I want to talk about, but I 192 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:33,679 Speaker 1: want to I want to give you the opportunity to 193 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 1: get through the sixties and seventies first before I jump 194 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: into it, because I'm going to talk about the Noah one. Okay, 195 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 1: I think, go go for it, alright, alright, So, so 196 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:45,560 Speaker 1: again sixties and seventies, we see more and more of 197 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 1: the same sort of environments used for Are these habitats 198 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 1: used for scientific research? Noah establishes one called Aquarius off 199 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:59,319 Speaker 1: the coast of Saint Croix, and Aquarius is one of 200 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 1: the two underwater habitats that are still really actively used 201 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 1: these days. Um. The other one is now called Jewels, 202 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: but it's it's now privately owned. It's now privately owned 203 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 1: and operated as an underwater hotel. But it didn't start 204 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 1: off that way. He started, right, It started off as 205 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:19,959 Speaker 1: one of these research habitats, and and all of these 206 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:22,960 Speaker 1: that we've been talking about have been research habitats, you know, 207 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: kind of based on ocean life, but also kind of 208 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 1: based on exactly how can we do this crazy keeping 209 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 1: people underwater? Right? Right? So the Jewels Undersea Lodge was 210 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 1: named after, of course, Jules Willisberne and his leagues under 211 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 1: the sea. Right, although this one is not twenty leagues 212 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 1: under the sea, certainly not. It is less than that semifically. 213 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: It's I think it's twenty one below the surface exactly. 214 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:49,199 Speaker 1: It is twenty one. The services the world's first underwater hotel. 215 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 1: It was originally called La lupa research lab. Yes, it 216 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 1: was rendered. It was created in the nineteen seventies and 217 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: then renovated into a hotel in the nineteen right. And 218 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: you it's it's scuba focus. It's really for scuba enthusiasts. 219 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:07,679 Speaker 1: I think you don't have to have Scooba certification to go, 220 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:10,080 Speaker 1: but they will make you take a training course just 221 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: to make sure that you're dive down because you have 222 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 1: to scuba dive into the hotel. That's the only way 223 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 1: to get there. The way it works is that they 224 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 1: have a wet room. That's that's called wet room because 225 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:21,679 Speaker 1: that's where you go to when you when you come 226 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 1: into the hotel, and that's where you end up storing 227 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: all your scuba gear. And the entrance is what's called 228 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 1: a moon pool, which I just love how romantic and 229 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:31,679 Speaker 1: lovely that name is, which is really a hole cutting 230 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 1: the floor. It's much nicer than hole cutting the floors. 231 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: Names go and uh and right. It's it's compressed, I think, 232 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:41,440 Speaker 1: to the to the water around you. So you shouldn't 233 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 1: stay in there very very long. And the idea is 234 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: that you you swim underneath the structure, you come up 235 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:50,320 Speaker 1: through the moon pool, you pull yourself out, kind of 236 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 1: like pulling yourself out of a swimming pool, and then 237 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 1: you are inside the hotel and uh, you know again, 238 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:59,080 Speaker 1: it's it's that that water pressure specifically, because if you 239 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:01,439 Speaker 1: were at serve this pressure, then you have to worry 240 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:04,959 Speaker 1: about decompression. Uh. If you can then take off all 241 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,240 Speaker 1: your gear, take a hot shower, and then move into 242 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: one of the other two rooms inside the Jewels. UH 243 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 1: motel is what I've seen it referred to by other 244 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 1: underwater hotel companies. Uh it is. If you want to 245 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 1: know some statistics. It's fifty ft long, which is about 246 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 1: fifteen meters. It's twenty ft wide that's six meters, and 247 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: eleven ft tall, which about three point four meters. It was. 248 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: It's off the coast of Key Largo in the Florida Keys, 249 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:35,320 Speaker 1: made famous, of course by the Beach Boys in their 250 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:40,679 Speaker 1: song Anyway, so that you uh, you know, like you said, Lauren, 251 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 1: you have to get there by diving. Whether or not 252 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: you're certified doesn't matter. They can put you through that course, 253 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 1: but you have to get there by diving. They don't 254 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:50,719 Speaker 1: have some other means of getting you there. I think 255 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:55,680 Speaker 1: that originally they had let guests go down breathing through 256 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 1: a tube a pipe that was piping oxygen down like 257 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:03,559 Speaker 1: snoop diving, which is a combination snorkeling and scuba, right, 258 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,560 Speaker 1: But due to safety concerns they moved it to a 259 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:10,359 Speaker 1: full exactly. That sounds like that was a good idea 260 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:13,559 Speaker 1: moving it um it's uh, you know, once you get 261 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:17,080 Speaker 1: in there, you've got some interesting amenities. They have windows 262 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 1: that look out their forty two inches in diameter or 263 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: um uh, it's the way wait, I wrote down how 264 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 1: many how many centimeters? A hundred seven centimeters? I'm looking 265 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: out for you guys. I just I can't make the 266 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 1: conversion in my head yet. I'm not that good. Um. 267 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 1: Other amenities include things like air conditioning and an entertainment center. 268 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 1: The picture I saw was was an old uh caval 269 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 1: ray tube television showing I think it was the Abyss 270 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: actually on pause. Um, but anyway, it's the You also 271 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 1: can have meals delivered down there, including from the tower 272 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: of Pizza Um restaurant. I know because I actually looked 273 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: into this to see. You know, I was curious to 274 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 1: see how much it was. Did you see how much 275 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 1: it costs to stay there? I did not, or if 276 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 1: I did, I did not make a noteworka. So it's really, 277 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 1: you know, when you think about it, you're staying underneath 278 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 1: the ocean. So first of all, when we're going to 279 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: talk about these other underwater hotels in the moment, we're 280 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 1: talking about super luxurious experiences. At least that's the idea, 281 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: and so they tend to be pretty pricey, with one 282 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 1: in particular really breaking the bank on a per night's stay. 283 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 1: But the Jewels Undersea Lodge, if it's if it's a 284 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 1: party of two, it's a d dollars per night. So 285 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 1: that's a party of two. That's expensive. But you're talking 286 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:38,320 Speaker 1: about being underwater as a unique experience right now, right, 287 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 1: So uh, if it's three to but it gets lower 288 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 1: per person if you add more people. So if you 289 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 1: have three to four people staying there, it ends up 290 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 1: being three fifty dollars per person instead of four hundred 291 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 1: per prison. If you have five to six people staying there, 292 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:56,240 Speaker 1: it's three hundred dollars per person. However, you are then 293 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: staying with five to six people in a tin can. Well, 294 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 1: you know, not all of us, everybody, Lauren, So you 295 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 1: know we can get along some of us with lots 296 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 1: of people in an enclosed space. This open floor plan 297 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 1: that we have in our office is really keyed up 298 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 1: us on our anxiety levels and aggression levels have gone 299 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 1: out the charts. I have to say, I'm pretty cranky. Yeah, 300 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: this is only the first day, Lauren. We've got lots 301 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 1: more of these to look forward to Succa. You have 302 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 1: to deal with me. There's some behind the scenes stuff 303 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: from how stuff works right there for you guys. So anyway, yeah, 304 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: not not so expensive. Comparatively speaking, it is very expensive 305 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 1: our hotel room, but for a hotel room underwater, as 306 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 1: it turns out, not so expensive. Um so that's That's 307 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 1: kind of the first one I wanted to talk about 308 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 1: because it was a direct descendant. In fact, it was 309 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 1: one of these underwater research habitats. Okay, it's Jonathan from. 310 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 1: If I could tell Jonathan from anything, it would be 311 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 1: you know, prepare for the worst. But hey, let's just 312 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: take a quick break and we'll be right back with 313 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:07,360 Speaker 1: this classic episode. All right, So now we're gonna talk 314 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:11,120 Speaker 1: about some other underwater hotels. There is one other one 315 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:14,679 Speaker 1: that we can talk about that's actually running. It's working. 316 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 1: You can go and you can book a room there 317 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: if you wanted to, or the room there. There's only one. 318 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 1: There's only the one. This is called the utter In. 319 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 1: It is in Sweden on Lake something or other. I 320 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 1: can't pronounce it. I'm not even gonna try, Like Millaren, 321 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 1: Let's let's say that is that is the English looking 322 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 1: pronunciation of that name, which is probably completely incorrect because, 323 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 1: as we have previously learned in the pan episode, Sweden. 324 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:40,720 Speaker 1: Be crazy. Yeah, we we are. Our mouths don't make 325 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: those sounds utter in obviously that that means otter. In 326 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 1: it's is otter. So it's about otters. It was created 327 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:52,120 Speaker 1: as an art project in the year two thousand by 328 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:55,639 Speaker 1: Mikhail Genberg. And okay, so so it's got it's got 329 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 1: an above above surface part in a below surface part 330 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 1: above above ground above sir, as I keep wanting to 331 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 1: say ground, there's it's kind of like a red shed 332 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:05,199 Speaker 1: with a deck around it. Yeah, it looks like it 333 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 1: looks like it's got a little floating dock that's got 334 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 1: nothing but a little tiny red shack on it. So 335 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 1: if you were looking at it just from the surface, 336 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 1: you think that is the weirdest looking thing I've ever seen. 337 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:18,440 Speaker 1: It's just floating out there on the lake. And what's 338 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 1: that very small barriage which with a very small wood 339 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 1: shed on it. Um it does have you know, a 340 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 1: little bit of a deck for sun chairs or something. 341 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 1: You can fit a good few sun chairs out there. 342 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:30,840 Speaker 1: And then there's a tube leading below the surface. You 343 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 1: can go down a ladder through this tube into what 344 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:37,120 Speaker 1: I believe is a single room. It does not look 345 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 1: terribly roomy, no, I think it's a room. It has 346 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: two beds and a few picture windows that will let 347 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 1: you look out into the lake. As of as it 348 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,399 Speaker 1: listed for UM, I think a thousand, seven hundred and 349 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:55,400 Speaker 1: fifty dollars for seven nights. Okay, so I'm not bad. 350 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: It's actually cheaper than the Jewels one if you're looking 351 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 1: to stay for a week, uh if you. But however, 352 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 1: you're pretty much left up on your own here. You 353 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 1: can opt in to getting food delivered to you for 354 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:11,879 Speaker 1: an extra charge. Where I think, I think it's row 355 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 1: about distance to them. Yeah, they give you an inflatable 356 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 1: canoe where you can you can row back to shore 357 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 1: so that you can go and get things like food 358 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 1: or entertainment. It is. It is pretty impressively creepy looking. Actually, 359 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:26,920 Speaker 1: I have to say I was looking at some pictures 360 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 1: of the interior and the lake is a very living lake, 361 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 1: and so it's a little bit briny. It's kind of 362 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 1: grayish and greenish, lots of allergae, lots of fish. Yeah, 363 00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:41,000 Speaker 1: it gets very dark at night, and I'm sort of 364 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:43,440 Speaker 1: uncomfortable with that. Yeah, the idea that you, yeah, you're 365 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:45,880 Speaker 1: not getting any starlight or moonlight down there. I mean, 366 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 1: it was the same sort of thing with the Jewels one, right, 367 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 1: like the Jewels Hotel that if you ever see pictures 368 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 1: of it, you see these big round windows since looking 369 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:58,120 Speaker 1: onto very green water, you know, and it's it's not 370 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:00,920 Speaker 1: like it's not the kind of don't think about those 371 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:04,200 Speaker 1: Caribbean beaches or the ones and you see in Southeast Asia, 372 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:08,440 Speaker 1: whereas that crystal blue water, it's not like that. So anyway, 373 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:10,920 Speaker 1: the those are the two that you could actually book 374 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,239 Speaker 1: a room at right now and go and stay in 375 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 1: right now, the Jewels and the other. But therefore, for 376 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:18,359 Speaker 1: a room underwater, there are a couple other hotels that 377 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 1: do have portions something underwater, like the Atlantis Hotel in Dubai. Specifically, 378 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:26,879 Speaker 1: there are two Atlantis resorts. There's one in Dubai and 379 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 1: there's one in the Bahamas. If you ever look at 380 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:32,200 Speaker 1: this thing, it looks like two giant wings and the 381 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 1: center of it um has sort of an outline that 382 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:39,119 Speaker 1: looks like an Arabesque tower with a sort of a 383 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:42,160 Speaker 1: bridging kind of section on the very top. That will 384 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:44,920 Speaker 1: come in into play in just a second, because I've 385 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 1: got a tangent that I have to talk about. But anyway, 386 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 1: it has two suits, the Poseidon and the Neptune. Very clever. 387 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 1: The Posidona Neptune suites are multi floor suites and part 388 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 1: of it is above the level of a lagoon that 389 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 1: it looks out over, but the bottom floor is actually 390 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:07,120 Speaker 1: under the surface of the water line and has windows 391 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:11,719 Speaker 1: look out into the lagoon. So according to one picture, 392 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 1: although I couldn't find any confirmation on the actual Atlanti site, 393 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,160 Speaker 1: it was one of those pictures where I wondered if 394 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,919 Speaker 1: it was a an artist rendition or if it was 395 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,479 Speaker 1: actually this was really taken inside the suite, and one 396 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:27,479 Speaker 1: of them that showed a bedroom where the entire bedroom 397 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:31,240 Speaker 1: was submerged in the lagoon, so you you are looking 398 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:33,120 Speaker 1: out like when you look up from your bed, you're 399 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 1: looking at the aquarium essentially, or in the inside the lagoon, 400 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 1: so you're looking at all the sea life swimming around you. 401 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,399 Speaker 1: None of the pictures I saw on the actual site 402 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 1: reflected that specific setup, so I don't know that that's 403 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:47,679 Speaker 1: really how it turned out. That might have been one 404 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,919 Speaker 1: of those things like and what it really looks like 405 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 1: is no, you've got a window that looks out into 406 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,879 Speaker 1: the lagoon, which still is gorgeous but it's not the 407 00:21:55,920 --> 00:22:00,680 Speaker 1: same effect obviously. Um. Anyway, these two swe eats are 408 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:03,560 Speaker 1: a little a little expensive. If you want to stay 409 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 1: at either the Poseidon or the Neptune Sweet in the 410 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 1: Atlantis Resort in Dubai for one night, that'll set you 411 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:16,200 Speaker 1: back eight thousand eight for one night's stay. Yeah, it's 412 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 1: not the most expensive sweet in the hotel I and 413 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:22,160 Speaker 1: I'm sure it's not by far the most expensive sweet 414 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: in Dubai. The most expensive sweet in the Atlantis Resort 415 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 1: and Dubai is Remember why I said I had that 416 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 1: bridging kind of section that's at the very top of 417 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 1: that Arabesque tower. Well that that bridging section is actually 418 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: a suite. It's called the Royal Bridge Suite. And one 419 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 1: night's stay will set you back about thirty seven thousand, 420 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 1: eight hundred dollars for one night. So that's a good 421 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:51,359 Speaker 1: salary right there for one night's stay. Yeah, that's that's 422 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 1: much like many people's yearly y. Yeah, to stay for 423 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,160 Speaker 1: one night. Anyway. Clearly there's a section of the world 424 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: that lives in a a front bracket than I do. Uh. 425 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:07,400 Speaker 1: It's still pretty interesting, but it's not the same thing 426 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 1: as the submerged hotel idea that we were promised no, 427 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 1: and uh, there's there's also a restaurant that you can 428 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 1: go to in a Hilton Hotel out in Maldives, Maldives Islands. Yes. Um, 429 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,240 Speaker 1: that's the Conrad mal Dives, Rangali Island. It's it's owned 430 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:26,639 Speaker 1: again by the by the Hilton Hotel chain. Um. The 431 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 1: hotel itself is spread over two islands connected by a bridge. 432 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:32,000 Speaker 1: Most of it is top side, but it does have 433 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:36,120 Speaker 1: this this undersea restaurant that's available. Um. It's only has 434 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:38,960 Speaker 1: fourteen chairs, but you can also rent it out for 435 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 1: events for an undisclosed amount of money. Undisclosed huge amount 436 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,400 Speaker 1: of money meaning huge. The pictures of this are very 437 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 1: similar to what I was talking about about that bedroom 438 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,400 Speaker 1: where it's the you know, because the the ceiling itself 439 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:54,920 Speaker 1: is also made out of a crylic. It's this arc. 440 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,920 Speaker 1: There's an arch all the way through the dining room 441 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:02,280 Speaker 1: where you're surrounded on both sides and above it's like 442 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:06,920 Speaker 1: a seventy degree so you're you're you're looking around underwater, 443 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 1: and it looks very much to me like the there's 444 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,919 Speaker 1: a tunnel in the Georgia Aquarium in downtown Atlanta that 445 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 1: is a very similar view. Or um, maybe if you 446 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:18,439 Speaker 1: guys have seen a really terrific BioShock causplay of a 447 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,439 Speaker 1: big daddy and little sister, it took place in this 448 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,440 Speaker 1: in the Georgia Mark. You've seen the documentary Jaws three, 449 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:25,920 Speaker 1: which takes place in Sea World and they walk through 450 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 1: some of the Sea World tunnel. Same sort of thing, 451 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 1: except you know, wider. Uh So that kind of brings 452 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 1: us to some of the ones that have been proposed 453 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,159 Speaker 1: but as far as we can tell, have yet to 454 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 1: be built in some cases, have yet to have any 455 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 1: work done on them whatsoever. In most cases have yet 456 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 1: to have any work done on them. And that that 457 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 1: I think we should probably go ahead and just start 458 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,360 Speaker 1: with the Poseidon because that was the one that that 459 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,119 Speaker 1: I first heard of and was so impressed by and 460 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 1: could not wait to hear. But it was originally supposed 461 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 1: to open in two thousand eight nine, I think, okay, 462 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,159 Speaker 1: two thousand nine. Uh, as far as I know, no 463 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 1: work has really been done on the the like they 464 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:08,680 Speaker 1: haven't installed any of the actual units. Now, the Poseiton 465 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:11,119 Speaker 1: approach was really kind of a cool idea, and it 466 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:13,000 Speaker 1: may still be a cool idea like as in it 467 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,640 Speaker 1: may still be built. But the ideas that they would 468 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 1: have an underwater corridor that was the connecting UH like 469 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:25,160 Speaker 1: like permanently fixed corridor underwater, and then the suits would 470 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,440 Speaker 1: be connected to it, but detachable and surfaceable in case 471 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 1: of either emergency or repair. Right. So so each suite 472 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:36,639 Speaker 1: could be built completely separately. They're neutrally buoyant, so you 473 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 1: can move them fairly easily through the water either up 474 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 1: or down. You bring them down to the right level 475 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 1: you connected to the corridors. The corridor has a sealed door, 476 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 1: and so does the suite, so that air lock exactly 477 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 1: you can therefore use. You can pressurize it to surface pressure. Right. 478 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,920 Speaker 1: And so the ideas that you could be UH trans 479 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,640 Speaker 1: spported by submersible down to the corridor. You get out 480 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,120 Speaker 1: of the submersible into the corridor, you go to your room. 481 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 1: The entire time you are under surface pressure. You never 482 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:14,119 Speaker 1: have that decompression issue, um, and you have this gorgeous 483 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:18,280 Speaker 1: view where you can control the privacy of your room 484 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:21,880 Speaker 1: through l C d UH screens. So you could actually 485 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,919 Speaker 1: make them opaque or transparent and then either you know, 486 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 1: look at just a little section of the water or say, 487 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 1: you know, modesty be darned. I'm going to turn all 488 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: of the walls into windows for right now. And uh, 489 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 1: just you know, any divers are swimming by are just 490 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 1: gonna have to They're just gonna have to live with 491 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:44,359 Speaker 1: the way I hang out of my hotel room. Yeah, 492 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,400 Speaker 1: there's that. That would be some four inch thick plexiglass 493 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:52,480 Speaker 1: windows that it's planning on using in twenty four underwater speed. Specifically, 494 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 1: I've heard UM construction was supposed to be in Portland, Oregon, 495 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: and you know, it's still in the works as far 496 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:02,880 Speaker 1: as I can tell, it has not started again. They're 497 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 1: they're gonna lead it over to Fiji when it's done, hypothetically, 498 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,879 Speaker 1: and it was announced in that they're scouting for a 499 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,919 Speaker 1: second location that they have so much interest that they 500 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 1: want to build too. However, also that the same year 501 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 1: a Swiss firm called Strategic Hotel Consulting estimated that the 502 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 1: cost of one suite, building one suite, not staying there 503 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 1: just building it would be eleven point four million dollars 504 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 1: for one suite, So that could end up being a 505 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 1: huge issue. If that actually is an accurate estimation, then 506 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:41,159 Speaker 1: that could really cause problems with them building this and 507 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:45,360 Speaker 1: you know, affording to build a full hotel. So we're 508 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,400 Speaker 1: still waiting to find out if that's in fact going 509 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:52,479 Speaker 1: to happen. Um. There's some other cool ideas that are 510 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 1: part of this hotel there they talked about. Each room 511 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 1: would also have underwater lights, so you could light up 512 00:27:57,840 --> 00:27:59,719 Speaker 1: the scene around you at night and see the fishies 513 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,280 Speaker 1: swim around the night. Also, they would have push button 514 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 1: fish feeders, so if you want to feed the fish 515 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,000 Speaker 1: eies and and or attract more fishies around your window, 516 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:11,639 Speaker 1: you push a button and it shoots food out. And Okay, 517 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 1: this sounds gorgeous and wonderful, and the cynic in me 518 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 1: is saying that it is going to be awful for 519 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,679 Speaker 1: the local ecosystem. You might see a lot of obese 520 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:25,120 Speaker 1: fish like I just yet, I've never seen a flounder 521 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:30,200 Speaker 1: around before. Really delicate balance. There's there's certainly some things 522 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 1: that you've got to take into consideration. Althowiy I supposed 523 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 1: just the mere you know, anchoring of a giant corridor 524 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 1: in twenty four submersible rooms underwater, we're probably screw stuff up. 525 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 1: There's probably an environmental impact there. Yeah, there's also uh, 526 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: you know, it's not just made of a crylic obviously, 527 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 1: it's also made of steel that steals about an inch thick. 528 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 1: It's about twenty five millions. For you guys out there 529 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 1: who don't follow the imperial system like I do. We 530 00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:59,840 Speaker 1: have a little bit more to talk about as far 531 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 1: is sleeping underwater goes, But first let's take another quick break. 532 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,479 Speaker 1: Then we've got a couple of other hotels we can 533 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,480 Speaker 1: talk about. I mean, there's more stuff we'd say about 534 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,480 Speaker 1: the sign, but the biggest thing is that we're still 535 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 1: waiting on the poseidon. We don't really have that much information. Yeah. Yeah, 536 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 1: China has plans to build one into the cliff side 537 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:29,640 Speaker 1: of an abandoned rock quarry in Shanghai. Heard this is 538 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 1: the Shimal Wonderland, and it would have two submerged floors. 539 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 1: The rock quarries is partially flooded and so so two 540 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,920 Speaker 1: submerged floors, and then uh, you know, down there they 541 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,880 Speaker 1: would have a sports complex, spa swimming pool, restaurant and 542 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,240 Speaker 1: some guest rooms, and then top side there would be 543 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 1: some rock climbing, bungee jumping, that kind of extreme sports 544 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 1: sort of thing. It was planning on opening, which looks 545 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 1: unlikely as of right. Now. But CNN reports that there 546 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,560 Speaker 1: are reports of initial construction having I did um, which 547 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,400 Speaker 1: is about as vague as I think it deserves to be. Well, 548 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,320 Speaker 1: there's another one. Um, did you hear about the Hydropolis 549 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,080 Speaker 1: underwater Hotel and Resort. I didn't, but that's a really 550 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 1: terrific word. So this one was proposed back in two 551 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,080 Speaker 1: thousand six, again in Dubai. Dubai is going to pop 552 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 1: up a lot here, yeah, um, So this one was 553 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 1: proposed back in two thousand and six. The projected cost 554 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 1: at that time was either, depending upon the source, you read, 555 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 1: three million dollars or three million pounds. That's a big difference. 556 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,880 Speaker 1: That is a really huge difference. Unfortunately, half the sources 557 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: I looked at said one and the other half the 558 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:36,120 Speaker 1: sources said the other. And I think it all depended 559 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 1: on whether or not the person was writing in the 560 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: US or in the UK. So I do not know 561 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 1: which one of those figures is correct. I would imagine 562 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 1: that both of them are way low yea from what 563 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 1: it would actually cost. I also do want to take 564 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 1: this opportunity to say that a lot of our research 565 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,840 Speaker 1: about these hotels has come from um, perhaps less reputable 566 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:57,360 Speaker 1: sources than when we would usually use just because all 567 00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 1: of these are technically fictional, right, Yeah, they're just kind 568 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,600 Speaker 1: of idea is Yeah. In fact, if you ever do 569 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 1: a search for underwater hotels, you're gonna come across all 570 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:08,800 Speaker 1: these top ten lists or seven lists or whatever travel blogs, 571 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:11,000 Speaker 1: and most of them are talking about like these hotels 572 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 1: are either in operation right now, are going to open 573 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,800 Speaker 1: it really soon. But that does not appear to be 574 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,640 Speaker 1: the case. It looks more like these are great ideas 575 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:22,360 Speaker 1: that mayhaps are before their time. Um. But anyway, the 576 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 1: Hydropolis was supposed to open years ago and it has 577 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 1: not opened yet. If in fact, as far as I 578 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 1: can tell, there's been no construction performed at all, or 579 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 1: even plans for construction, like actual concrete plans to build something. 580 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 1: It's just been in the discussion stage. But originally the 581 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,880 Speaker 1: ideas that it's supposed to have a land station, so 582 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,520 Speaker 1: you would enter this hotel through the land station. Then 583 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:52,720 Speaker 1: there's a connecting tunnel from the land station to the 584 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,640 Speaker 1: main hotel, and then the suites of the hotel are 585 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:59,480 Speaker 1: all underwater. Uh, and that was supposed to be two 586 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 1: hundred twenty suites. This hotel is, if it were built, 587 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,080 Speaker 1: would be enormous to be two sixty hectars, which is 588 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:10,560 Speaker 1: about the size of Hyde Park in London. Yeah, big 589 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:14,720 Speaker 1: one night's stay was projected to be at a measly 590 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 1: five thousand five now pocket change. Yeah, I'm sure that 591 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:20,920 Speaker 1: that number has probably gone up as the hotel has 592 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,480 Speaker 1: failed to be built. But I would imagine that number 593 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 1: is even higher now due to inflation if nothing else. 594 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 1: But then we've got another another Dubai one right, the 595 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:32,200 Speaker 1: water discus, right, and this is being designed by Deep 596 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,920 Speaker 1: Ocean Technology, which has plans to launch several of these 597 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,400 Speaker 1: suckers around the world, including one over in Maldives. Um 598 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,480 Speaker 1: And yeah, this this plan is for twenty one rooms 599 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,200 Speaker 1: under the surface, plus a lobby and in a Scooba 600 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:48,719 Speaker 1: training pool. Useful. This one actually looks like imagine two frisbees. 601 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 1: One of them is above the water and one of 602 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:54,440 Speaker 1: them below the water, and they're connected by a tube, 603 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:58,000 Speaker 1: and the tube actually has inside of it an elevator 604 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:01,240 Speaker 1: and stairs, and then there's a few kind of outlying 605 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 1: disc ufo kind of looking things coming coming off of 606 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,400 Speaker 1: it as well. Occasionally they kidnapped cows for no reason. 607 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:11,880 Speaker 1: I don't know why, you know, happens. UH. Supposedly, the 608 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,800 Speaker 1: latest estimate I read was that it would be finished 609 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,400 Speaker 1: if everything goes as planned, by March two thousand fifteen. 610 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 1: So we still have a couple of years to go 611 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,080 Speaker 1: before this thing gets built. If it gets built, keeping 612 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,400 Speaker 1: in mind that we have the Poseidon and the Hydropolis, 613 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:29,600 Speaker 1: both that predate the announcement of this hotel that still 614 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:33,360 Speaker 1: have not been built. H this one. That underwater portion 615 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:37,520 Speaker 1: would also be serviceable, like like those room pods from 616 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:41,880 Speaker 1: from the Poseidon and UH, and those top side portions 617 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:43,880 Speaker 1: that the kind of outlying UFO things that I was 618 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,600 Speaker 1: talking about can be released and used its flotation for 619 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,280 Speaker 1: the rest of the hotel in case of emergency, which 620 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,200 Speaker 1: is important. Yeah. I mean, you know, if you have 621 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: an earthquake or something, or tsunami or some other issue 622 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,240 Speaker 1: when you're right next to the ocean um. Then there's 623 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 1: also there's one that I saw where I found mentions 624 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,960 Speaker 1: of it across the web except for anything that actually 625 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,640 Speaker 1: said it existed. There were a lot of blogs that 626 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,560 Speaker 1: said this is going to be an amazing underwater hotel, 627 00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,439 Speaker 1: and then when I tried to actually find any real 628 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,719 Speaker 1: information about it, it would just fade away. But it's 629 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:19,080 Speaker 1: called Reef World and it's supposed to be a floating 630 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:23,000 Speaker 1: hotel that's along the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, and 631 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:26,800 Speaker 1: it would have eight underwater suites UH that you could 632 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,799 Speaker 1: stay in, so the suits themselves are submerged underwater. The 633 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:31,400 Speaker 1: rest of the hotel is sort of floating on the 634 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,920 Speaker 1: surface and even had like a helipad in the illustration 635 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:38,799 Speaker 1: I saw where a helicopter could land. Ah, but it 636 00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,480 Speaker 1: was all artist concept drawings that I could see. I 637 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:44,920 Speaker 1: couldn't find any actual information about whether or not construction 638 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:49,640 Speaker 1: ever started. There is a reef World UH project in Australia, 639 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:53,520 Speaker 1: but that refers to these pontoon boats that you can 640 00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:55,960 Speaker 1: go out to two snor Cole and to explore the 641 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,000 Speaker 1: Great Barrier Reef, and there are a couple where you 642 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:00,440 Speaker 1: can do an overnight stay as part of a package. 643 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,160 Speaker 1: But it's not it's about Yeah, it's a boat. It's 644 00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:07,399 Speaker 1: not designed as a hotel. It's a boat. It does 645 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,359 Speaker 1: have it does a underwater viewing area's kind of like 646 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,600 Speaker 1: a like a glass bottom boat. But it's not a submersible, 647 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,880 Speaker 1: so it's and it's not it's clearly not the same 648 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,440 Speaker 1: thing as what all these blogs were saying, or if 649 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,720 Speaker 1: it is the same thing, they scaled down big time 650 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,719 Speaker 1: because they went from this massive floating hotel with a 651 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:28,719 Speaker 1: helipad to a pontoon boat that I would say is 652 00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:33,120 Speaker 1: a step down into the water, you know, And anything 653 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,799 Speaker 1: without a helipad is obviously yeah, I don't, I don't 654 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:37,680 Speaker 1: stay and I won't stay in a holiday and unless 655 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:41,040 Speaker 1: it's got a helipad, that's such as the life of 656 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,520 Speaker 1: a podcasting, right, you know, I live in a helipad. 657 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,480 Speaker 1: That was a terrible joke. That was bad even for me. 658 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,200 Speaker 1: I feel almost ashamed. If I could feel shame, I 659 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,799 Speaker 1: would feel it right now. Well, you know that's getting 660 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,640 Speaker 1: Do you have any other underwater hotels you wanted to 661 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,120 Speaker 1: talk about? I do not. That was everything on me. Yeah, yeah, 662 00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:02,120 Speaker 1: there's there. Occasionally you'll see other jested underwater hotels, but 663 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,720 Speaker 1: most of the cases it's not really an underwater hotel. 664 00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:06,879 Speaker 1: And again, the ones I'm really interested in are these 665 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:10,960 Speaker 1: ideas that the submerged, the totally submerged hotel, where you 666 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,200 Speaker 1: you aren't just looking out into an aquarium or a lagoon, 667 00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:17,080 Speaker 1: you really are under the ocean. I think that's really 668 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:20,280 Speaker 1: an interesting idea. I would be willing to try it. Lauren, 669 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:22,759 Speaker 1: you said the Dead's doesn't really appeal to you. Yeah, 670 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:24,799 Speaker 1: I'm kind of quicked out by open water. I'm not 671 00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:28,400 Speaker 1: really okay with it. I really like breathing, and I 672 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,919 Speaker 1: really like walking on solid stuff. It's a they don't 673 00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:37,160 Speaker 1: They don't inject you into the ocean. Are purpose not 674 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:41,279 Speaker 1: on purpose, and accidents can happen. You give that champagne 675 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,560 Speaker 1: bottle in there and the cork explodes with just a 676 00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:45,239 Speaker 1: little more force than you were expecting. The next thing, 677 00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,920 Speaker 1: you know, and acrylic panel pops in. That would be 678 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,359 Speaker 1: an issue. I'm I'm sure, I'm sure that they if 679 00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:53,799 Speaker 1: you know that the safety issues are why they do 680 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,240 Speaker 1: not exist right now, and that if they were created 681 00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:58,040 Speaker 1: that they would be very safe. I would certainly like 682 00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:02,279 Speaker 1: to go check one out and maybe leave afterwards. Maybe 683 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:05,399 Speaker 1: not stay. I'm not sure if I could sleep right right. So, 684 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,000 Speaker 1: while I do still want to do the tech stuff, 685 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,239 Speaker 1: travels around looking at cool things. Idea that we have, 686 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:16,399 Speaker 1: um the underwater hotel, we may just may just breeze through, 687 00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:19,399 Speaker 1: maybe have like a five star meal. Yeah, I would 688 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:24,040 Speaker 1: be fine with justifive star there and then we'll go 689 00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:26,640 Speaker 1: stay at the holiday and with the helipad that works, 690 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,440 Speaker 1: I can. I can deal with that. And that wraps 691 00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:31,680 Speaker 1: up this classic episode of tech Stuff. 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