Tag: Underwater

  • Japan Has Big Plans for a Super Cool Underwater City

    Japan Has Big Plans for a Super Cool Underwater City

    Wild ambition often leads to some pretty radical developments and some of those include building expansive underwater hotels and if the Japanese have it their way, a whole city. But it’s also ambition that takes an idea that’s perhaps already in motion and builds upon it making it bigger and maybe better than the original.

  • Get a room to sleep with the fishes at Maldives’ upcoming Water Discus Hotel

    Get a room to sleep with the fishes at Maldives’ upcoming Water Discus Hotel

    There’s something to be said about the calm, serene blue waters of the Indian Ocean above or below it. The guys who work at Deep Ocean Technology, a deep-sea engineering company from Poland that also dabbles in architecture, seem to think that there’s much more to it than just water skiing or scuba diving among…

  • Powerbreather Sealed Snorkel makes your time underwater worthwhile

    Snorkelling has always seemed like a tedious task, given the fact that one needs to surface time and again to get a dash of fresh air besides the use of that clumsy pipe-like apparatus you’re required to use. Recently, we stumbled across an innovative touch given to this recreational activity, called the Powerbreather. In essence…

  • Tempo Trainer Pro keeps time for you under water

    Those who like doing some exercise regimes under the surface of water are often caught wanting more. That’s where the Tempo Trainer Pro comes in with all that you would want from a waterproof pace coach. It fits in securely under the swimmers cap and transmits an audible tempo beep. The battery of the trainer…

  • Now choose travelling using waterways with CAT Aqua Car

    Now choose travelling using waterways with CAT Aqua Car

    Travelling by the rail or the road can have its own painful delays that are ever effective in bringing one’s plans to a standstill. That’s when you go in for something as versatile as the CAT Aqua Car. It’s a new means of using the city’s waterways and saving time, loads of it, from getting…

  • SeaLife Mini II camera in nearly ‘indestructible’

    SeaLife Mini II camera in nearly ‘indestructible’

    A camera normally goes through a rather rough ride, especially when it gets branded as ‘rugged‘ and tough. The SeaLife Mini II is true to its name with the ability to survive durability tests and live to tell the tale. It matters to deep sea divers since it holds till 130-feet depths with an impenetrable…

  • Plans for Dubai’s Underwater Utopia: Hydropolis, Still on Hold

    Plans for Dubai’s Underwater Utopia: Hydropolis, Still on Hold

    Dubai is a country with seemingly endless development possibilities on land, in the water and under the sea – or so it was hoped by the designers of Hydropolis, an underwater world first conceived of in 2006, put on hold in 2008 and today, as unreal as the mythical Atlantis. Hydropolis was going to be…

  • The eco-friendly underwater sea scooter by Design Icon

    The eco-friendly underwater sea scooter by Design Icon

    Now here’s something that will give the lovable dolphin, Free Willy, a run for his money, and fish treats. The next time you plan to take a dip in the ocean, quit looking for mermaids, dolphins or giant sea-turtles to ride on. Simply hop aboard this eco-friendly scooter designed by Design Icon. Using an electric…

  • Navy scientists develop underwater laser communication technology

    Navy scientists develop underwater laser communication technology

    A better tool for underwater acoustics has been developed by the researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory. The new system will use laser light to create sound underwater from a distance. If this works properly then the floating buoys will be a thing of the past if planes will have to communicate with submarines. Well…

  • SM 2000 Underwater Surveillance System by Kongsberg

    SM 2000 Underwater Surveillance System by Kongsberg

    To ensure that your private beach stays that ways i.e. private, you may want to install the SM 2000 Underwater Surveillance System by Kongsberg. Although recommended for use at commercial piers, government and military vessels, cruise ships, terminals, and other such place, it works well at private beach getaways too; ask the oil sheik who…