I Stay In The World s Oldest Underwater Hotel

I'm about 25 feet underwater and I'm gonna stay in an underwater hotel. This is crazy! Without a doubt the most important step in undersea living occurred in 1986. Jules Undersea Lodge, the first and only commercially operated undersea home of the future. Gone are the uncomfortable habitats designed for work. Jules Lodge provides luxury inner space accommodations. It's got to be the craziest thing that I've ever done. 27 feet down below us in that lagoon is the hotel where I'm going to be staying tonight. It does come fully equipped. I've got a little bit of gear to take down with me. Obviously the camera gear. I've got a laptop because you're probably thinking how on earth do you get all your stuff down there? Well I've got some clothes that are going to be flat packed and all my equipment is going to go in a waterproof container. At least I hope so. So I've got to get my diving gear on and get down there. I'm slightly nervous. Come on. So when I resurface tomorrow I will be a fully fledged aquanaut. An aquanaut is someone who has spent at least 24 hours in an underwater structure at the same pressure as the surrounding water such as Jules Undersea Lodge. So before it was a hotel obviously it was an oceanic laboratory underwater and also a guy broke the world record for staying down there. I think he stayed down there for like a hundred days or something like that which was incredible. So just quickly while I'm under there there will be someone consistently monitoring the undersea hotel and that is going to be Ricky who's going to be in the command module or the command van which is there and Ricky is literally just over there and he's going to be helping me get down there today. The hotel is like just where those bubbles are coming up. So behind me is Ricky. He's also going to sort me out with some food when I'm down there and apparently the food when you're underneath that much depth is supposed to taste even better than it does up at the surface. It's a bit like airplane food where your taste buds change as you go down. So we're going to get suited up we're going to head in the water. Apparently the water's so warm I don't need to wear a wetsuit which is nice because I'm not a big fan of wetsuits anyway. But all the stuff that's got to go down there Ricky not only has to... are you all going to do it in one go? Usually yes. Wow so he's going to take everything with me. I've got my laptop, some clothes, some toiletries and also look out for me because I've done diving before. I'm a little bit familiar with it. We've gone through what we do in a situation or health and safety and all that kind of stuff. We've done all of that. So the only thing we need to do now is get suited up. Fully waterproof right? I've got my laptop in there. It's doubly waterproof as far as I got in a dry bag. Oh okay cool. So everything's in there all good to go? Yep yep. Got some milk, some sodas. Wow look at that you can really get a lot in there. Have you had any strange demands? Can I bring my vape? Really? You're gonna bring your vape to a scuba tank. An underwater scuba tank. Not a good idea? No. I guess it's not the craziest question but it just baffles me that that's what people are thinking about. Yeah. So ready to go down. Not the best look I know. Ricky you can assume there's no like crocodiles or anything? Oh well we do have crocodiles here in South Florida. Have you seen any crocs in here or anything? Not in this particular spot but in this area yes. Can I just say Ricky looks great as a diver however I haven't, I've decided not to wear a t-shirt. I look like an idiot. You've got it going on. You're Mr Cool and I look like yeah Mr Muscle. I'm ready to go. Now it's pretty murky down there. I'm going to be taking the GoPro with me but there's a line going all the way down to the habitat which will actually help us to get down there and guide us because obviously I guess the water can be quite murky but it's quite clear-ish today. So let's go. Are you ready Ricky? Yes sir. As I headed down deeper I did find myself getting a little bit too close to the wall and was scratching myself and kicked up a lot of the debris and then my GoPro started going wrong. This looks like a cool effect but it wasn't done on purpose. I did start to panic a little bit though as we got very deep and underneath the lodge itself. Wow that was crazy. Just excuse my swimming shorts. So this is the entrance to the hotel. As you saw I came up and you go out. It's kind of scary knowing that you know in the middle of the night if I had an emergency that is the only way out. Kind of scary and it's also where I'll get a special delivery later on. So you'll have to excuse my appearance. I was told to pack light down here because it is quite warm but also because the very small amount of packaging that I can bring down here. A bit noisy in here. This is the Moon Bay and apparently it gets that name because when this was out in the ocean the moonlight used to reflect off the seabed and then obviously bounce up in here and that's how the phrase Moon Bay came into, well something like that anyway. And back there we've got four doors. The bedroom, the kitchen and living room area and then those two doors. So welcome to the kitchen stroke dining room. Let me show you around. So let me just close this up. Obviously there's air conditioning so I want to keep it nice and cool. It's crazy when I first got in here the sun was overhead. Obviously it's moved over now so there's less light coming down here. So it's starting to get dark already. There's fish that go past here every so often and it is so typical that as soon as I go to record a blooming fish it swims out the way and I can't see it. But how cool is this? Like a nice little seating area. You can just sit here and and look out. Very Jules Verne. Welcome to the kitchen stroke living room. Actually this is pretty long, big and spacious. Kitchen up here. A couple of very interesting tabletops. His and hers. A very nice long sofa and a view out of the window. Now apparently being down at this depth I've been told that you can often get the munchies and they have given me so much food it's ridiculous. Let me show you around. First of all we've got a TV with YouTube. You've got all your apps on there as well. You've got Netflix, you've got Amazon Prime which is pretty good. Some storage space down below. Movies and music this says. Well there's no movie or music but there's bags and bags of crisps and also a few soda cans. Now what really blows my mind is this. It's a fridge and it's a fairly new fridge. Knowing the fact this was built what in the 70s. How on earth did they get this fridge down here? But they did and inside we've got a freezer and a fully stocked fridge and obviously the price that I've paid for this for one night all of this is complimentary and all for me. You can see there's quite a few cans. There's water, there's even some milk, bits of butter, some mayonnaise there just in case. So some historic pictures of when this was a research lab. Look there you go. I love UNO. Can't play it on my own though. Some cards and some crayons. That's where the air conditioning comes out but look how spacious the kitchen is. Talk about a gift basket. Look at the goodies in there. We've got cookies, peanut butter cheesy toast crackers, more crackers, there's Cheerios, there's Oreos, there's even some breakfast cereal in here as well. On top of that there are even more crisps just there. All my cutlery just there. I've got a coffee machine which I'm looking forward to using because in here is all your tea and your coffee including loads of these capsules to go in that coffee machine. Dunkin Donuts coffee medium roast. Oh original blend. French vanilla. That will be nice. Now for lunch they gave me this roast beef grab and go sandwich which apparently from the local deli which is quite nice and they also gave me this salad. I think this has been left over from Christmas and they've also given me loads of muffins. All the plates are up here. Being in the Florida Keys look very apt with the plates with the coconut trees. Very nice. A couple of mirrors. Branding is on point. Look at that with the cups, the glasses. Someone's wine down here. Purified water if I wanted to have a drink as well. Two sinks just to show you that the water is running fine and then we have a microwave. More dishes. Trash goes in there and then there's first aid. Look Rick is outside. He's cleaning the windows. You've missed a bit Rick. You missed a bit. What is that? Over here I've got my depth counter which hopefully won't go any lower than it already is because we're at the bottom of the lagoon which is around about 22 to 25 feet on there. Look at that. Can you imagine being that depth? I've got a phone to speak to the surface. Rick will be able to talk to me on the video call there if I want to. Temperature. The router obviously for my TV so I can watch a movie on there and look at that. The perfect movie to watch whilst underwater. They've got more. Check it out. They have got underwater movies like The Abyss. Hello down there. The Little Mermaid. This is brilliant. Spear. That's underwater. Finding Dory. Pirates of the Caribbean although Sleepless in Seattle isn't. I don't think I want to watch that down here. Two lies. That was my Arnold Schwarzenegger impression. I just want to say a massive thank you to today's sponsor Odoo. 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I could fit one two and you could probably get a third person maybe just sitting down there but yes I have already had a shower because when I surfaced I just wanted to get the salt water off me. Nice lot of shower. There's even shampoo, conditioner and shower gel in a dispenser there. Let's go into the bedroom. By the end of this I'll be able to get through here a lot more gracefully than I'm doing. So the bedroom area it's got a little sink, running water. Crazy. Running water. Underwater. Messing with my mind. Again can't see any fish. So this is the sleeping quarters and actually comfortably you could probably get around about six people down here. You could probably get two people in this double bed and there's a single bed up here and there's the same over in that room too but let me show you around. That's obviously to block out the window if there's too much light coming in. That bed's not made up though. This is ready to go bed test. This is nice and comfy. Apparently I was told that you get the best sleep of your life down here whether that's because of the pressure or the filtered air. I don't know but I'm looking to see if that's true. So hopefully I'll have a good night's sleep but you can hear the noise from the moon bay a little bit but I have got some ear plugs so that shouldn't be a problem. You may notice all of this is thick carpet. The kind of carpet that I've got in my house actually on the floor. It's really nice and thick. Got a fire extinguisher there. Here's the phone if I wanted to speak to the surface if I have any problems. There's a tv here. There's a couple of towels. There's a little mirror there if you want to do your hair in the morning. Some extra blankets and actually this door closes off. Wow there's the pipe for the air conditioning coming out. Imagine putting your head there and laying on that. There is another tv here as well unbelievably. A nice big bed and again another lovely view. They all have pretty much amazing views from whatever side you're staying in even in the kitchen too. There's another sink there as well. A little mirror and then also access into the moon bay if I want to. Apparently the reason why it looks like it's getting dark but it's not. I just spoke to the guys up top and they've got a thunderstorm going on so that's why it's looking darker than it was. There's a thunderstorm going on up there and down here it's completely and utterly calm. Branding is on point. You know it's crazy to think that it's just going to be me and you down here for 17 straight hours. Obviously the youtube video is not going to be 17 hours long. I'll obviously have to endure that myself and show you the best bits. I'm going to make a coffee. Does this work? Which way does this go in? Coffee that. They've got a record book so every person that stays in Jules Undersea Lodge signs this book and this dates back to 2014. I think they've got like six or seven of these. They've got literally so many different people writing their experiences in here from other youtubers to people from all over the world. We've got people here from Italy, Scotland, obviously all over the United States, Florida, Miami, obviously, Chicago, New York, Australia, Austria. Did I just hear a beep? So the broad range of ages of people that have stayed down here is quite crazy to be honest. Obviously you've got to dive down here so you have to be obviously a certain age but teenagers come in here for parties and stuff like that. People have had their honeymoon down here. I don't know if anyone's got married down here. Maybe they will do soon. I'm not sure. So I'm looking out the window because time is fast approaching five o'clock and at five o'clock I've got delivery. So when I arrived they said what would you like for dinner? Obviously they gave me limited options for being down here but in theory anything takeaway I could get delivered. So I ordered a pizza pepperoni and yeah I'm gonna have a pizza delivered when I'm 25 feet underwater. That's crazy. I did check my app to see if Deliveroo or Just Eat would deliver but it couldn't find the location. I've now been down here for around about two hours and every so often I still feel like I need to pop my ears so I haven't fully acclimatized to the pressure yet because every so often I need to equalize. There's the fish. Oh you can't see him. So the dive down here was quite scary. I'm not gonna lie. I did freak out a little bit however it was when Rick said do you want to have a kind of like a swim around the the lagoon a little bit more and check out the outside of it and I was like yeah cool. I kind of got freaked out. I'm not gonna lie. I went pretty much down to the lagoon we kicked up quite a lot of sediment. I found it difficult to see. It got kind of dark and I was freaking out and so I kind of had to get Rick's attention and basically just say get me out of here and he had to grab me basically and get me back to reception and he did that quite quickly but I was freaking out and I thought to myself oh my god Tim you just need to calm down and just breathe gently breathe gently. I mean the thing is I did all my training I've done all my training so I know how to get like the water out of a mask and to equalize and stuff like that but I don't think I've ever really had panic attacks but I definitely was having one out there and it's freaking me out knowing that in the morning I've got to do that again. I've definitely got a friend this little fish he keeps coming up. So you know when you put an order in for a takeaway and you're patiently waiting for the doorbell to ring well this is a little bit different. I'm waiting for Ricky to appear with the pizza. He's just called to say that he's on his way down. I was at the wrong window. Here he is with the pizza. I can't believe we rehearsed that and I was at the wrong window. I'm sorry. What's the craziest thing that people have ordered down here? So we used to do an ultimate romantic package where I would cook lobster and steak. Wow. And then I'd bring it down and I'd get dried off and I'd serve it to you with asparagus or bacon wrapped asparagus. Yeah looks good pepperoni pizza and it's still nice and hot. Yes. That has got to be a first getting a pizza delivered underwater. I like pizza anyway but that did taste pretty good. Right I think we'll watch a movie in bed and then I'll get some sleep but luckily I did think about this and I thought to myself you know there might be a lot of noises in an underwater hotel. I bought some earplugs with me so I might have to use them. Apparently there's bioluminescence in the water that does glow if it gets heard a strange beeping noise I'm not quite sure why. It's weird since I've sat on this bed I've almost felt like vibration like it's moving. It's obviously not and I'm trying not to get too freaked out because I'm looking well outside I can't see anything because it's pitch black. I'm hearing some different noises that I didn't hear earlier. They're coming from the window. I don't know whether it picks it up on the microphone but it's similar to if you was in a caravan or an RV and it started lightly spitting. That's the noise that I can hear and it's coming from the window but then I heard it at the top. I'll try not to get too freaked out. If it gets much louder I might have to ring up top and see if that's normal. I'll say good night. Outside is not outside. Outside is deep underwater. Most people that come down here and sleep have some of the best sleeps they've ever had so I'll let you know how it goes in the morning. I'm just trying not to think where I am trying not to think where I am. I'm just in a bed in a house. I'm not 20 something feet deep underwater. Good night. Morning. I didn't have the best sleep of my life but it was an alright sleep once I kind of got used to the noise of the vessel. I don't know what to call it. Submersible habitat. Did I have any weird dreams that I'm down here and I had to get out? Thankfully no. Let's get some coffee. I think I've got the hang of this now. Maybe not. It's still dark outside. Okay who's for coffee who's for tea. Do you know what? Because the coffee for me in America is so smooth I'm gonna have a cup of coffee this morning. Plug it in would help. Especially when I think it's working correctly it's not. You have to put more water in it. My only complaint is I just wish the coffee would be a little bit hotter. It's kind of lukewarm at best. I can't remember if I said yesterday but this book has been filled in since 2014 and out of all these pages I'm gonna be the last person that writes in this book right at the bottom. So I feel privileged. I've got to just try and think what to say. Howdy. I just put how great my night was and how surprisingly not lonely I was bearing in mind now I've been in here for 17 straight hours on my own. It's gone quite quick. I thought it would like be a real drag in here on my own. I mean they've got Netflix, they've got YouTube, they've got Prime. I had my laptop down here so I did a little bit of work and because luckily I'm still a little bit jet lagged to be honest. I kind of went to bed at about 9 30. Woke up at 4 30. I mean it's still dark outside. Ricky said he's gonna call me at eight o'clock so I can pack all my things. So I've literally just got to get everything packed and then which I'm hoping I do correctly because it's got to be waterproof and then we'll surface back up to the top. Breakfast options are there's a couple of boxes of cereal over there. I think they're out of date and there's some muffins that you gave me yesterday so I might chow down on one of them. That was my stay in an underwater hotel. What an experience. I was down here for around about 18 hours. Tell me what you thought in the comments. Would you stay here? Please make sure you give the video a thumbs up. Remember if you haven't already to hit that subscribe button, click the notification bell and I'll see you next time.