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| May 4, 2012 | Dubai building underwater hotels to offer enchanting holidays | | London: Architects in Dubai are all geared up to build a partially submerged hotel, complete with underwater rooms offering views of life below the surface of the sea. The ‘Water Discus Hotel’, a spaceship-shaped building perched in the water is set to be the first of several planned across the region. The designers, Deep Ocean Technology (DOT), hope the hotel will fulfil holidaymakers’ desire to explore the depths of the oceans. “Today,
the advent of new technology made the heart of the ocean a setting not only for
diving, but also for luxurious holidays,” the Daily Mail quoted a spokesperson
for BIG InvestConsult, a Swiss company behind the development, as saying. The
hotel will comprise of two main discs, one above water and one below, that will
be connected by three ‘legs’ which contain lifts and stairways to plunge guests
from the sunshine above down beneath the surface of the sea. The underwater section
is located up to 10 metres deep and is comprises of 21 hotel rooms adjacent to
the submerged dive centre and a bar. A special lighting system will illuminate
the flora and fauna outside and the highest technology in the rooms will enable
guests to zoom in and take a closer look at even the tiniest creatures using macro
photography. DOT insists that it has kept to the highest safety requirements hence
nobody needs to worry. The height of the top disc is such that it can withstand
a tsunami and any flooding, while the underwater disc automatically surfaces at
once in the event of any danger. | |
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