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Simple really. For the jaded traveller, an underwater hotel on the scale of the best of Las Vegas. It is completely mobile and capable of 30 knots, underwater. Nighttime illumination provided by taxonomically undescribed creatures.
Before you insist on telling me... I already know about the Jules,
in Florida.
This one is a massive submarine, formerly the property of the navy of the USSR, now with 5 star facilities and some modifications like windows and the removal of the bulky weapons systems. It is still powered by a nuclear powerplant, though gullible patrons may believe that the 200 robot sharks they can see tethered to it have something to do with propulsion.
Luxury Submarines
http://www.ussubs.c...er/lux.phoenix.html
Or buy one of these (if you don't think it's a hoax or a scam).
Some of the pages on this site specifically suggest commercial multi-day cruising operations. [Monkfish, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]
Cruise and Submarine Adventure
http://www.bookitha...e/activity/278.html
Can't stay overnight, but there are no drownings or sappy, tedious romantic dialogue, either. [Monkfish, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]
The Artificial Reef Society
http://www.virtualc...zine/03-00/reef.htm
[Monkfish, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]
The superritzy bottom of the sea casino
http://www.halfbake...idea/Nitrogen_20Bar
The noble ancestor [bungston, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]
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Sounds like the set-up for Speed III. |
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(An excellent idea, though I would suggest Leif Erikson from Illuminatus! as a model rather than any Soviet sub, which are poorly designed for ocean viewing, and have a bad reputation in any case.) |
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Recently I've been wondering how I could afford to build the equivalent of a small submersible Winnebago. |
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This idea is like a clue-by-four. Duh! Just make it bigger, then charge admission. |
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A submariner once told me that the absolute worst thing about being a submariner - worse than the fact that you're trapped in a cramped metal tube with x number of blokes for weeks on end - is the fact that when you finally emerge from your metal cocoon, the first thing you smell, the first thing other than grease and men that you've smelled in weeks, is the sea. |
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But by the time they're leaving the hyperbaric hotel that's not the hotelier's problem, I suppose. |
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Oh yes! I have a friend who is mad keen on submarines - he'd love this. |
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Marketing would be fun.. flown over the south pole? Well this year you can travel under the north pole in five star comfort... |
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You'll be installing windows in a military submarine? You'll be entrusting civilian hoteliers with an ageing nuclear reactor posted with Cyrillic warning signs? |
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Most crucially, isn't it a cruise ship, rather than a hotel? |
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It won't be a military submarine anymore, will it? |
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There's no problem with doing a bit of maintenance, to get things back on track. Signs are fairly easy to replace, trust me. |
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The only cruise ships I can recall that do sub-marine adventures, are the Titanic and the Lusitania. |
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Perhaps you haven't heard of the Jules, in Florida? |
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It is kinda stuck to the one spot, as I recall. |
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I was just toying w/ya', thrillseeking, kind of like petting a hyena. |
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5 Star Facilities? But there'll be no windows! All the good deep sea subs/underwater cities are built with glass domes! I want to see out as far as the horizon!
<tap on shoulder, whispers in ear> Oh... the sea is pitch black at the bottom... and... whats that about depth and pressure? What? I'm confusing science fiction with real life again? |
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Will the 5-star facilities include a balcony? |
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Shark cages for thrillseekers.
Bris? |
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I'd like to see a stream or wide well in the restaurant on the bottom floor so that patrons could pick out and net their dinner. |
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I like this idea, but I have one question. What would you use the torpedo tubes for? |
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Would there be a waterfall in the lobby? |
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>> It won't be a military submarine anymore, will it? |
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The worry is that after you start cutting holes in the hull it won't be a submarine at all. |
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Still, if you're determined, there seem to be some people sinking decommissioned subs to create artificial reefs. You might hang around the site until after dark, dive down and make off with it. Make it a diesel and I'd consider booking (for your second voyage). |
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A benefit of your ridiculous idea, what I initially assumed based on the title, is the effects of a hyperbaric environment on those recovering from injuries. Although your idea is silly, it would be great way of getting some much needed R&R. |
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My question is, why does it have to go anywhere? OK, maybe about a hundred meters out of the harbor, then you just drop about 3 meters (ten feet) and slowly pull a tarp over it ("the darkness of the deep"). On day three of the "cruise", you rock it and bang on the hull and tell everybody you're being attacked by a giant squid. |
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Every couple of days you announce, "We are now entering Hudson's Bay," "We are now under the polar ice cap," "Today at noon we will pass directly beneath the North Pole!" |
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The guys who clean the toilets occasionally put on wetsuits and walk through the dining room with a bunch of "fresh-speared fish our scuba divers have brought home for dinner!" The wetsuited dudes are "former Navy Seals, and they're are always out there keeping our submarine safe. Let's give them a big round of applause!" |
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One day a Seal radios in that a rogue submarine is heading... directly for you! You tell everyone to be very quiet and that you're gonna dive to 400 meters... even though the sub is only rated for 300! (Play hull-creaking noises.) |
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After you narrowly survive ("They've launched a torpedo!"), you announce the sub has returned to normal cruising depth and you invite everyone to the ballroom for free champagne while you regale them about how that particular type of torpedo - an old Soviet model - always explodes at 350 meters. You have "experience" that you can't disclose naturally. Hint at Cold War intrigue that "will never be made public." |
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Finally, with the families watching from the shore for the safe return, you surface and everyone gets off yabbering about their marvelous adventure. |
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Also, if some passengers want to go to the North Pole and some want to go around Cape Horn, you could satisfy them both, on the same cruise. |
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Weeeeeellllllll since my baby left me...
I've found a new place to dwell... |
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//Shark cages for thrillseekers.
Bris?// |
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Egbert, I hope you were referring to Bristolz, and not suggesting that sharks be used in the performance of a bris (instinctively crosses legs). |
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"An excellent idea, though I would suggest Leif Erikson from Illuminatus!" |
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With complimentary "super-weed" on your pillow and the occasional visit to atlantis? Maybe a trip to undewater caves beneath europe. |
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I would like a 30% ownership stake in the hyperbaric hotel, given that a recent precursor, the superritzy bottom of the sea casino, was discussed last week in in the link presented above. Also presented in this topic was the even ritzier land based casino with the optional hyperbaric suite. |
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I will forego my ownership stake if this casino is presented at the beginning of a movie with ominous foreshadowing of previously mentioned robot sharks. |
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Many of you seem to have glossed over the fact that you can see out of this thing. It has windows, a la bathysphere, so the guests can enjoy the incredible sameness of deep ocean viewing. |
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