Dubai government-backed investment company Dubai World has signed a deal with Swiss firm BIG InvestConsult AG to develop undersea hotels and floating cities including the Water Discus Hotel in Dubai, informed a report by Issac John in Khaleej Times. The Water Discus Hotel, featuring a discus-shaped residential underwater building connected to another discus above water, will be funded by BIG InvestConsult AG, which holds the technology rights. The disc, located up to ten metres beneath the surface of the sea, is composed of 21 hotel rooms adjacent to the underwater dive centre and a bar. The underwater hotels will be constructed by Dubai World’s ship building subsidiary,
Drydocks World. “The project envisages an ultimate leisure facility with a structure that is partly above water and the rest underneath - a residential underwater discus with an above water discus,” Drydocks World said in a statement. BIGInvest is acting as a representative of Deep Ocean Technology, the Polish owner behind the technology and concept of Water Discus Hotel. According to the deal, Drydocks and Maritime World have been appointed as the exclusive contractors for the construction of the new concept hotels and cities floating in the Middle East. The firm said two developments with five hotels attached to them are planned in the Middle East. The Swiss firm is eyeing the coast of Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Khamis Juma Buamim, Chairman, Drydocks World, said, “This project has seven different types of designs in the range of around USD 50 million to USD 120 million each.” “The Water Discus Hotel project opens many new fields of development for hotel and tourism sector, housing and city sector in the coastal off-shore areas, as well as new opportunities for ecology support by creation of new underwater ecosystems and activities on underwater world protection. We would like to create in the UAE the international environmental programme and centre of the Underwater World Protection — with Water Discus Hotel as a laboratory tool for oceans and seas environment protection and research,” said Bogdan Gutkowski, President, Big Invest Group. Other investors are being sought for the project with plans to extend the concept beyond the Middle East. The rooms will feature a special lighting system and miniature underwater vehicles that can be operated from inside allowing guests to take a closer look at the underwater creatures using macro photography. “The project is based on a unique concept that aims to provide the ultimate leisure experience and opens new horizons in tourism and housing in coastal areas, adding commercial value, while aiming to preserve the marine ecosystem,” said Drydocks World.
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Drydocks World. “The project envisages an ultimate leisure facility with a structure that is partly above water and the rest underneath - a residential underwater discus with an above water discus,” Drydocks World said in a statement. BIGInvest is acting as a representative of Deep Ocean Technology, the Polish owner behind the technology and concept of Water Discus Hotel. According to the deal, Drydocks and Maritime World have been appointed as the exclusive contractors for the construction of the new concept hotels and cities floating in the Middle East. The firm said two developments with five hotels attached to them are planned in the Middle East. The Swiss firm is eyeing the coast of Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Khamis Juma Buamim, Chairman, Drydocks World, said, “This project has seven different types of designs in the range of around USD 50 million to USD 120 million each.” “The Water Discus Hotel project opens many new fields of development for hotel and tourism sector, housing and city sector in the coastal off-shore areas, as well as new opportunities for ecology support by creation of new underwater ecosystems and activities on underwater world protection. We would like to create in the UAE the international environmental programme and centre of the Underwater World Protection — with Water Discus Hotel as a laboratory tool for oceans and seas environment protection and research,” said Bogdan Gutkowski, President, Big Invest Group. Other investors are being sought for the project with plans to extend the concept beyond the Middle East. The rooms will feature a special lighting system and miniature underwater vehicles that can be operated from inside allowing guests to take a closer look at the underwater creatures using macro photography. “The project is based on a unique concept that aims to provide the ultimate leisure experience and opens new horizons in tourism and housing in coastal areas, adding commercial value, while aiming to preserve the marine ecosystem,” said Drydocks World.
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