WEBVTT - TechStuff Classic: Sleeping Underwater 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.800 Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio. 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:14.600 Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:17.640 Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with I Heart Radio 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:20.919 and I love all things tech. This time for a 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:25.480 classic episode. This episode originally published on October twenty one, 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:30.440 two thousand thirteen. It is called Sleeping Underwater, and it 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:34.559 is not a reference to the Godfather and Sleeping with 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:36.960 the Fishies. Honestly, I don't remember if I made that 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:39.479 reference in the episode or not. Let's listen in and 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:44.839 find out. I remember reading about these proposed underwater luxury hotels. 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:48.560 We're talking like five star hotels with all the amenities, 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:53.519 or or totally submerged in the case of one of them, 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:57.080 which those one I'm specifically thinking of the Poseidon we'll 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:59.440 talk about in a little bit later in the podcast. Yeah, 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.120 they started playing that in two thousand or two thousand one, 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:06.080 two one, I think, and it still doesn't exist. As 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.080 it turns out. When we started doing research for this, 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.600 we were like, oh, none of these really exist yet. 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:12.480 There are a few that you can stay in that 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.960 are real, right, They're not the super luxury hotels though, Well, 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.520 there's one that is a super luxury hotel that does 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:22.800 have an underwater restaurant. And then there's one that has 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:26.200 the underwater room because there's the Atlantis, but it's not 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.840 a completely submerged hotel the way the Poseidon is supposed 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:31.920 to be. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. We are, 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:34.480 we are getting weight ahead of ourselves. Um let us 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.800 let us start. Well, Okay, what do you want to do? 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:39.760 You want to talk about the problems here. Yeah, let's 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.240 talk about the problems. Okay. So, Lauren, if I were 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.200 to tell you that you are going to go and 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.600 sleep with the fishes, you would probably think I was 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.480 going to put a hit on you, you know, Godfather style. 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:53.720 But if I were to say, no, no, no, I 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.480 mean that there's this hotel that's underwater where you can 0:01:56.520 --> 0:02:00.160 fall asleep underwater and wake up to looking outside all 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.080 these gorgeous fish, you realize that there are some issues 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:05.560 you've got to work out too before anyone is comfortable 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.080 staying in that space. I would I would ask, how 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.919 am I going to breathe? I enjoy breathing. That's something 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.160 I do. Every top of the list is the breathing problem. Yeah, 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.120 As it turns out, I don't know if you guys 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:19.040 know this. We don't breathe water so well. We like 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:23.360 air that has a mixture of some pretty typical gases 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.760 that you find on our atmosphere. It's very convenient for us, 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.240 seeing as how this is where we live. But if 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.520 you go underwater, you know, if you get that challenge. 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.720 So you have to find a way of supplying breathable atmosphere. 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:36.880 You have to find a way of maintaining pressure. Uh. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:41.360 And and to prevent front water pressure from breaking the 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:44.800 the the confines of your habitat, right and killing you, 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.880 because I could see above you can't breathe water, so yeah. 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:51.160 So and if you're deep enough, then the pressure alone 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.320 could kill you. Although for the habitats we're talking about, 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:58.880 you're in semi shallow water, shallow not to not like 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.799 you're waiting around in it. But we're talking maybe thirty 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.960 to fifty ft deep something along those lines, not you know, 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.160 a thousand meters below the surface of the ocean. Right. 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.040 This is partially because water exerts more pressure on us 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:16.200 than air at atmosphere pressure. Yeah, So the deeper you go, 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.560 the more pressure you feel, right, So, I don't know, 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:23.919 we talked before the podcast, you have not seen the Abyss. Right. So, 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.359 in the ABYSS, you have these characters who are going 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:30.880 on these deep, deep, deep ocean UH missions, and at 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:35.560 one point they start to experiment with a liquid oxygen. 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.200 The reason why they're using a liquid oxygen is because 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.280 if they were to go out in a diving suit 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.440 under the amount immense pressure that they would be under 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:47.400 as soon as they left the confines of their submersible, UH, 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.760 all that air would end up dissolving into their blood 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.720 and they die. So they they have come up with 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.640 this liquid stuff that would allow them to breathe. Well, 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:58.680 we don't really have the liquid stuff that we can 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.240 do like on the level that they did in that movie. 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.480 Right that there is research with liquid forms of I 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.200 do not have the name of it right in front 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.960 of me, but it's some kind of flora carbon actually, 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.040 which which is weird and interesting to me, but it's 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:17.240 it's a pressurized liquid ish gas and very strange. I 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.400 don't know how that would feel. Doesn't seem comfortable to 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.680 me personally, but right, so, so the problem when you 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.039 go deep enough, I mean, once you're getting down to 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.039 like three or ninety something like that, some of the 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.960 gases that you're breathing, especially nitrogen, are going to dissolve 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:34.279 into your blood and tissues, which is okay for a 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:38.240 short period of time, but it's very bad in the 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.960 long term and be when you go back up to 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.200 the surface. If you don't take steps to decompress, it 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:49.040 can turn back into nitrogen bubbles and forming in in 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.760 your tissue and blood and make you extremely sick. It's 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.160 called it's called the bends or a decompression sickness, right, 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.400 and it can be deadly. I mean, that's we're talking 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:59.599 serious stuff here, right, right. It sounded like when you 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.279 hear like always got the bends, you might get the 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:05.280 idea that, yeah, I just I guess did you did 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:09.839 you just eat something? Exactly? What's going on? Are you 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:13.119 a crazy straw? What happened? No, it's very serious stuff. 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.880 It's actually one of those things that divers have to consider. 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:18.320 It's when if you've ever been diving, then you know 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:20.719 all about this. If you've ever heard people talk about 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.120 how you have to take dives in very gradual stages. 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:27.440 You can't just swim straight down to the bottom of 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.160 the ocean floor in a very deep area and then 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.839 swim right back top. You have to you have to 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:36.080 be much more careful or else you can suffer from it. 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:37.480 And that's a huge part of your training when you 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.080 go scoopid diving, right, and you have to occasionally go 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:44.040 into something like a decompression chamber where the pressure inside 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:47.280 the chamber is controlled so that it will allow you 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:51.479 to get back to the surface pressure and then you 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:55.520 can go outside and not not suffer from decompression sickness. 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:57.679 So that's clearly one issue is you got to figure 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.960 out not just the breathing, but also how do you 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:02.640 do this in a way where people are not going 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:06.600 to suffer decompression sickness as soon as they transfer from 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:11.120 being underwater to being within the hotel environment or the 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.039 habitat environment. Right. So and so there are two ways 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.600 that you can pressurize an underwater cabin, and those are 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.480 to the water pressure that's surrounding the habitat, in which 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.479 case you're gonna want to use it in only very 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:25.120 shallow situations and again have some kind of decompression process 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:29.320 if if necessary, or to pressurize this container to the 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:32.800 surface atmosphere using airlocks, right, and that would be like 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.880 a submarine, a submarine is pressurized to the surface temperature, 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.400 which is why when a submarine comes back up, it's 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:41.599 not that you know, suddenly all the sailors on board 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.279 have to go through a decompression chamber or else they'll 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.960 all suffer from the bends. It's because that submarine itself 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.800 is pressurized to the surface pressure. It's similar to what 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.799 we see with airplanes, to the pressurized cabins and airplanes 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:58.359 to maintain a certain within a certain parameter UH closeness 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.040 to the surface pressure so that you don't have these 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.479 problems that you would suffer otherwise. Now, all of what 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:07.560 we know about this pressurization and the the gases that 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.760 you can breathe when you're underwater started. The research really 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:15.560 started in about the nineteen fifties. The principle of saturation diving, 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:20.400 which is that prolonged exposure to UH to pressurized gases 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:22.560 that's going to build up nitrogen in your system, was 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.120 proposed by Captain George F. Bond, who is a U. S. 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:30.200 Navy physician, and that's what really kicked off the ability 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:34.040 for us to start doing research with with underwater habitats. 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.600 And this was becoming important because of a little thing 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.800 called the Cold War in the space race. Oh yeah, 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.880 I remember that. I mean, also environmentalism was was on 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.520 the rise, and people were becoming really interested in all 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.840 of the life in oceans while to study that. Yeah, 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:52.920 that was still I would say that that really got 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.080 a lot of traction in the seventies, apart from one 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.920 specific person who anyone who's familiar with marine biology knows 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:06.960 the name, Jacques Cousto right, was certainly instrumental in six Yeah. Yeah, 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.840 So his work in the sixties certainly went a far 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:15.280 away to giving us a greater appreciation and understanding of 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:19.520 underwater environments. And in fact, um he started looking into 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:23.280 an underwater habitat right, Right, in nineteen sixty two, he 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:28.800 started launching experiments in these pressurized underwater trips. Uh. He 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.320 created the con Shelf one, which was a free standing 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:36.280 structure down about thirty six ft under under the water, 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:38.840 and and divers lived in it for about a week. 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.120 So nineteen sixty two, that's pretty that's that's fairly impressive. 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:43.960 I mean, considering that, you know, you're you weren't going 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:48.520 to have many Apollo astronauts going up until wait, wait, 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:50.880 I guess, I guess about that time well, they're starting 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.560 the training programs. Anyway, it wasn't until the late sixties 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.800 that you really got them into going out into orbit. 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:00.679 But yeah, so so you've got this this underwater habitat 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.079 staying there for about a week, which that plays into 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.680 our discussion on underwater hotels. That's you know, a typical 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:10.560 vacation stays is a week long. So it's funny to 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:15.360 think that scientific research here, specifically looking into marine environments 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:19.600 of marine life, is somewhat of paving the way underwater, 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:24.680 as it were, to underwater tourism and underwater hotels. Absolutely. Yeah. 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.600 There was another man named Edwin A. Link who was 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.600 um who who was another oceanographer who was working in 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:32.520 the same field at the time. One of his projects, 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.320 called The Man in the Sea would in nineteen sixty 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:38.240 four get adopted by the U. S. Navy and that 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.240 would turn into the Sea Lab program that you guys 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.120 might have heard of. Yeah, I remember that show on 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.800 Cartoon Network. No, no different, different, different Sea Lab, although 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.199 they did have at some point a trained dolphin that 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:54.840 would run errands for them. Wow. Really, I I don't 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:56.400 know what to say about that. That was That was 0:09:56.440 --> 0:10:00.400 Sea Lab two in nineteen sixty right, and so then 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.400 you've also got uh, I mean Custo continued work of 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:08.120 creating the conell three. Uh, there was the more sea labs, 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.360 as I recall, So we have this development where we're 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.800 learning more and more about how to create habitats that 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:19.160 can safely house people for a certain length of time, 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:22.120 increasingly long periods of time throughout throughout the sixties, we 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.760 went from that first initial week two up to a 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:28.920 month and more so right right there was Um, there's 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:32.200 one in particular I want to talk about, but I 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:33.679 want to I want to give you the opportunity to 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:35.800 get through the sixties and seventies first before I jump 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.400 into it, because I'm going to talk about the Noah one. Okay, 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:42.560 I think, go go for it, alright, alright, So, so 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.560 again sixties and seventies, we see more and more of 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.400 the same sort of environments used for Are these habitats 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:54.520 used for scientific research? Noah establishes one called Aquarius off 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:59.319 the coast of Saint Croix, and Aquarius is one of 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:04.800 the two underwater habitats that are still really actively used 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:09.320 these days. Um. The other one is now called Jewels, 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.640 but it's it's now privately owned. It's now privately owned 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.840 and operated as an underwater hotel. But it didn't start 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.040 off that way. He started, right, It started off as 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:19.959 one of these research habitats, and and all of these 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.960 that we've been talking about have been research habitats, you know, 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.000 kind of based on ocean life, but also kind of 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.600 based on exactly how can we do this crazy keeping 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:32.720 people underwater? Right? Right? So the Jewels Undersea Lodge was 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:36.760 named after, of course, Jules Willisberne and his leagues under 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.240 the sea. Right, although this one is not twenty leagues 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.760 under the sea, certainly not. It is less than that semifically. 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.600 It's I think it's twenty one below the surface exactly. 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:49.199 It is twenty one. The services the world's first underwater hotel. 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:55.200 It was originally called La lupa research lab. Yes, it 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.920 was rendered. It was created in the nineteen seventies and 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.920 then renovated into a hotel in the nineteen right. And 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:05.040 you it's it's scuba focus. It's really for scuba enthusiasts. 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.679 I think you don't have to have Scooba certification to go, 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.080 but they will make you take a training course just 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.360 to make sure that you're dive down because you have 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.920 to scuba dive into the hotel. That's the only way 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:16.960 to get there. The way it works is that they 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.320 have a wet room. That's that's called wet room because 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.679 that's where you go to when you when you come 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:23.480 into the hotel, and that's where you end up storing 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.280 all your scuba gear. And the entrance is what's called 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.840 a moon pool, which I just love how romantic and 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.679 lovely that name is, which is really a hole cutting 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.840 the floor. It's much nicer than hole cutting the floors. 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.800 Names go and uh and right. It's it's compressed, I think, 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.440 to the to the water around you. So you shouldn't 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.400 stay in there very very long. And the idea is 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.800 that you you swim underneath the structure, you come up 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.320 through the moon pool, you pull yourself out, kind of 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.360 like pulling yourself out of a swimming pool, and then 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.880 you are inside the hotel and uh, you know again, 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:59.080 it's it's that that water pressure specifically, because if you 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.439 were at serve this pressure, then you have to worry 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.959 about decompression. Uh. If you can then take off all 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.240 your gear, take a hot shower, and then move into 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:11.040 one of the other two rooms inside the Jewels. UH 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:14.640 motel is what I've seen it referred to by other 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:18.120 underwater hotel companies. Uh it is. If you want to 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.640 know some statistics. It's fifty ft long, which is about 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:24.040 fifteen meters. It's twenty ft wide that's six meters, and 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:28.160 eleven ft tall, which about three point four meters. It was. 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.120 It's off the coast of Key Largo in the Florida Keys, 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.320 made famous, of course by the Beach Boys in their 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:40.679 song Anyway, so that you uh, you know, like you said, Lauren, 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:42.800 you have to get there by diving. Whether or not 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.400 you're certified doesn't matter. They can put you through that course, 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:47.160 but you have to get there by diving. They don't 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:50.719 have some other means of getting you there. I think 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:55.680 that originally they had let guests go down breathing through 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:59.520 a tube a pipe that was piping oxygen down like 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:03.559 snoop diving, which is a combination snorkeling and scuba, right, 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.560 But due to safety concerns they moved it to a 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:10.359 full exactly. That sounds like that was a good idea 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.559 moving it um it's uh, you know, once you get 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:17.080 in there, you've got some interesting amenities. They have windows 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.560 that look out their forty two inches in diameter or 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:22.000 um uh, it's the way wait, I wrote down how 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:25.800 many how many centimeters? A hundred seven centimeters? I'm looking 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:27.720 out for you guys. I just I can't make the 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.600 conversion in my head yet. I'm not that good. Um. 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:34.720 Other amenities include things like air conditioning and an entertainment center. 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:39.440 The picture I saw was was an old uh caval 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.840 ray tube television showing I think it was the Abyss 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:48.760 actually on pause. Um, but anyway, it's the You also 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:52.880 can have meals delivered down there, including from the tower 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:56.560 of Pizza Um restaurant. I know because I actually looked 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:58.720 into this to see. You know, I was curious to 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:00.400 see how much it was. Did you see how much 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.360 it costs to stay there? I did not, or if 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.080 I did, I did not make a noteworka. So it's really, 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.080 you know, when you think about it, you're staying underneath 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:08.560 the ocean. So first of all, when we're going to 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.120 talk about these other underwater hotels in the moment, we're 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:15.000 talking about super luxurious experiences. At least that's the idea, 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:19.800 and so they tend to be pretty pricey, with one 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:24.440 in particular really breaking the bank on a per night's stay. 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:28.240 But the Jewels Undersea Lodge, if it's if it's a 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.920 party of two, it's a d dollars per night. So 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:35.160 that's a party of two. That's expensive. But you're talking 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.320 about being underwater as a unique experience right now, right, 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.640 So uh, if it's three to but it gets lower 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:44.640 per person if you add more people. So if you 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.480 have three to four people staying there, it ends up 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:49.880 being three fifty dollars per person instead of four hundred 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:53.480 per prison. If you have five to six people staying there, 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.240 it's three hundred dollars per person. However, you are then 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.960 staying with five to six people in a tin can. Well, 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.600 you know, not all of us, everybody, Lauren, So you 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.840 know we can get along some of us with lots 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:08.600 of people in an enclosed space. This open floor plan 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.640 that we have in our office is really keyed up 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:15.160 us on our anxiety levels and aggression levels have gone 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.760 out the charts. I have to say, I'm pretty cranky. Yeah, 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.080 this is only the first day, Lauren. We've got lots 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.160 more of these to look forward to Succa. You have 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:24.680 to deal with me. There's some behind the scenes stuff 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:28.600 from how stuff works right there for you guys. So anyway, yeah, 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:32.440 not not so expensive. Comparatively speaking, it is very expensive 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.880 our hotel room, but for a hotel room underwater, as 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:38.880 it turns out, not so expensive. Um so that's That's 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:40.360 kind of the first one I wanted to talk about 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.160 because it was a direct descendant. In fact, it was 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:48.920 one of these underwater research habitats. Okay, it's Jonathan from. 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.800 If I could tell Jonathan from anything, it would be 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:55.080 you know, prepare for the worst. But hey, let's just 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.280 take a quick break and we'll be right back with 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:07.360 this classic episode. All right, So now we're gonna talk 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:11.120 about some other underwater hotels. There is one other one 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.679 that we can talk about that's actually running. It's working. 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:16.480 You can go and you can book a room there 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.000 if you wanted to, or the room there. There's only one. 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:20.840 There's only the one. This is called the utter In. 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:24.320 It is in Sweden on Lake something or other. I 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.320 can't pronounce it. I'm not even gonna try, Like Millaren, 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:29.560 Let's let's say that is that is the English looking 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.840 pronunciation of that name, which is probably completely incorrect because, 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:37.800 as we have previously learned in the pan episode, Sweden. 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:40.720 Be crazy. Yeah, we we are. Our mouths don't make 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:44.720 those sounds utter in obviously that that means otter. In 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:49.800 it's is otter. So it's about otters. It was created 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.120 as an art project in the year two thousand by 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:55.639 Mikhail Genberg. And okay, so so it's got it's got 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.480 an above above surface part in a below surface part 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:00.720 above above ground above sir, as I keep wanting to 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:03.480 say ground, there's it's kind of like a red shed 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:05.199 with a deck around it. Yeah, it looks like it 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:08.600 looks like it's got a little floating dock that's got 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.240 nothing but a little tiny red shack on it. So 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:12.840 if you were looking at it just from the surface, 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:16.080 you think that is the weirdest looking thing I've ever seen. 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.440 It's just floating out there on the lake. And what's 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.200 that very small barriage which with a very small wood 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:23.200 shed on it. Um it does have you know, a 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:25.520 little bit of a deck for sun chairs or something. 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:27.240 You can fit a good few sun chairs out there. 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:30.840 And then there's a tube leading below the surface. You 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.800 can go down a ladder through this tube into what 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:37.120 I believe is a single room. It does not look 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.520 terribly roomy, no, I think it's a room. It has 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:42.560 two beds and a few picture windows that will let 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:46.560 you look out into the lake. As of as it 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:50.399 listed for UM, I think a thousand, seven hundred and 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:55.400 fifty dollars for seven nights. Okay, so I'm not bad. 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:58.840 It's actually cheaper than the Jewels one if you're looking 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:02.240 to stay for a week, uh if you. But however, 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.840 you're pretty much left up on your own here. You 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:09.040 can opt in to getting food delivered to you for 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.879 an extra charge. Where I think, I think it's row 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:15.200 about distance to them. Yeah, they give you an inflatable 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:18.800 canoe where you can you can row back to shore 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:20.720 so that you can go and get things like food 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:24.840 or entertainment. It is. It is pretty impressively creepy looking. Actually, 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:26.920 I have to say I was looking at some pictures 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:31.480 of the interior and the lake is a very living lake, 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:34.960 and so it's a little bit briny. It's kind of 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:39.080 grayish and greenish, lots of allergae, lots of fish. Yeah, 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:41.000 it gets very dark at night, and I'm sort of 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:43.440 uncomfortable with that. Yeah, the idea that you, yeah, you're 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:45.880 not getting any starlight or moonlight down there. I mean, 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:47.760 it was the same sort of thing with the Jewels one, right, 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:51.760 like the Jewels Hotel that if you ever see pictures 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:54.160 of it, you see these big round windows since looking 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:58.120 onto very green water, you know, and it's it's not 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:00.920 like it's not the kind of don't think about those 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:04.200 Caribbean beaches or the ones and you see in Southeast Asia, 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:08.440 whereas that crystal blue water, it's not like that. So anyway, 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:10.920 the those are the two that you could actually book 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:13.239 a room at right now and go and stay in 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:15.760 right now, the Jewels and the other. But therefore, for 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:18.359 a room underwater, there are a couple other hotels that 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:23.800 do have portions something underwater, like the Atlantis Hotel in Dubai. Specifically, 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:26.879 there are two Atlantis resorts. There's one in Dubai and 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:29.080 there's one in the Bahamas. If you ever look at 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:32.200 this thing, it looks like two giant wings and the 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:35.639 center of it um has sort of an outline that 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:39.119 looks like an Arabesque tower with a sort of a 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:42.160 bridging kind of section on the very top. That will 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:44.920 come in into play in just a second, because I've 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:47.600 got a tangent that I have to talk about. But anyway, 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:51.359 it has two suits, the Poseidon and the Neptune. Very clever. 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:56.000 The Posidona Neptune suites are multi floor suites and part 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:59.520 of it is above the level of a lagoon that 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:03.040 it looks out over, but the bottom floor is actually 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:07.120 under the surface of the water line and has windows 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:11.719 look out into the lagoon. So according to one picture, 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:15.600 although I couldn't find any confirmation on the actual Atlanti site, 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:18.160 it was one of those pictures where I wondered if 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:20.919 it was a an artist rendition or if it was 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:24.479 actually this was really taken inside the suite, and one 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:27.479 of them that showed a bedroom where the entire bedroom 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:31.240 was submerged in the lagoon, so you you are looking 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:33.120 out like when you look up from your bed, you're 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:36.520 looking at the aquarium essentially, or in the inside the lagoon, 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:38.520 so you're looking at all the sea life swimming around you. 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:41.399