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This hotel used to be an underwater hotel rwanda reviews research station. It was used to explore hotel rwanda reviews the continental shelf off Puerto Rico. Research conducted while on the continental shelf living in what is now the Jules Undersea Lodge, helped to open the door to the use of nitrogen-oxygen gas mixes for deep water diving . It’s called Nitrox and many divers use it today on such wreck dives here as the Spiegel Grove and the Adolphus Busch .
This is the only underwater hotel in the world. It sits in 21 feet of water and is anchored to the bottom to keep it from floating away. It sits on legs that keep it five feet off the bottom on the ocean. This is necessary hotel rwanda reviews to allow you to enter and leave thru the bottom. The constant compressed air being pumped into the structure from the tie line to land keeps the water out and gives the occupants air to breathe. The air that is expelled into the surrounding water keeps it rich in oxygen which makes this lagoon very healthy and full of marine life.
To get to the Jules Undersea Lodge you’ll need to scuba dive down. If you’re not a certified diver there’s a quick course for you to take. When you dive down the instructor dives with you for safety purposes. If you’re a certified diver you get unlimited use of scuba tanks during your stay. You can dive until you drop.
When you enter you’re hotel rwanda reviews in the wet room. This is where all the dive gear is kept. You’re required to shower before entering the other areas of the hotel. This keeps the salt water residue out of the Lodge.
The Undersea Lodge consists of the wet room, a common area with a galley and entertainment area, and the two private bedrooms. Each bedroom has a VCR/DVD player and a stereo system. The most fun part is the big 42" porthole where you can watch the fish and marine life without getting wet. The entertainment area also has a TV, DVD/VCR player and stereo with lots of movies to choose from. The best movie is what’s playing outside hotel rwanda reviews the 42" porthole that’s in entertainment room. The galley is equipped with everything a galley should have. It’s stocked with food, your favorites, a frig, microwave over, coffee maker and all the other things a kitchen on land would have. There’s one bathroom hotel rwanda reviews and one shower to be shared by all.
The Jules Undersea Lodge is in fact an artificial reef. It attracts hotel rwanda reviews all sorts of marine life. It sits near mangroves, so most of the marine life here are juveniles. The fish use the mangroves as a nursery. The roots provide them protection form larger fish. There’s an abundance of food near the mangroves for them as well. You’ll see many juvenile tropical fish here such as snapper, parrotfish, angelfish, butterfly fish. a green moray eel and always in the Florida Keys the Barracuda. Other marine life that are attracted here are sponges , crabs , lobster , oysters, mussels, and anemones.
When you dive outside in the lagoon hotel rwanda reviews there are lots of objects worth exploring. There’s a lobster habitat, an old anchor, and a replica of a Spanish Galleon shipwreck, complete with ballast stones, cannons and Atocha Coins.
The Jules Undersea Lodge is named after the author Jules Verne. He wrote the book “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.” That's the perfect name for this hotel since it sits on the bottom of the ocean.
You can actually log dive time by staying here. You don’t need to decompress before hotel rwanda reviews returning to the surface. You can’t even think of flying for more than 24 hours after getting back onto land. When breathing compressed air for such a long period of time your body gets saturated hotel rwanda reviews with gases that need to have time to work themselves out of your body before you can safely fly in an airplane. Lots of visitors use this time to check out Key West before they leave the Keys.
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