The Hunt is On!

[odidio]

Still into the coasters eh !

@ GR@PH;<'S,     how about a double ended car.

[Aaron Hulett]

Yeah - in about a week and a half I go back to Cedar Point for closing weekend - amazing how the year flew by already.

[odidio]

how about a double ended car.

How about a helicopter flying upside down.

[babyoh]

how about a pic of....

SUPERMAN flying upside down
(if that's too hard, give me ANY superhero, upside down)

[Temmu]

i tried google & yahoo; that's what came up...

how about an underwater "hotel" - one that's 30meters or more deep, accessable only by swimming... :)

( i know of two...)

[Ripley]

Underwater hotel at or deeper than 30 meters?  Had to get my calculator out...100 feet???

Wouldn't seem that many "hotel go-ers" would manage 30 meters deep, so here's a guess:

Sealab II!! https://www.keyportmuseum.cnrnw.navy.mil/html/sealab_ii.htm  
Actually there were 3 "Sealabs" that were deeper than 30 meters, but better trivia w/ the second one  :lol:
SEALAB II was launched in 1965, and unlike SEALAB I included hot showers and refrigeration. It was placed in the La Jolla Canyon off the coast of California, at a depth of 62 m.

They had this cool porpoise named Tuffy that delivered supplies from the surface to Sealab II while the Navy was experimenting with sending divers to deeper and deeper depths for longer and longer periods of time. One of these divers- the former astronaut Scott Carpenter- had just set a world record: he spent thirty days in the ocean at a depth of 200 feet.
A pre-arranged phone call to the White House was planned. The idea was to have President Lyndon Johnson offer Commander Carpenter a formal congratulation.  But, at the time of the call Carpenter is in the decompression chamber breathing helium (to offset the bends)...and we all knows what happens when we do the helium thing and try to talk!  :hysterical:
I have a link to the actual "Mickey Mouse" sounding call, but didn't work for me.  Maybe you'll have better luck: http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/991015.stories.html


OR Temmu, if you are looking for a true underwater hotel...how bout Jules Undersea Lodge!! which is 30 feet, not meters, but ya do swim there!

                                                                     

They even have a "Mer-chef"  :lol: that dives down and cooks a gourmet meal for ya!!!  Or you can even pick up a phone, order pizza and have it delivered down!
Each of the bedrooms and the common room is equipped with telephone, intercom, VCR/DVD and a stereo sound system.
Save your  :2cents: :2cents: :2cents: cuz it's $445/person and $80 more for a 3 hour quickie course to do the swim down and back, if you aren't a certified diver.

So check out this link at Jules Undersea Lodge http://www.jul.com/frontpage.html and click on the pink dot on the far left for your bedroom "view"...and then back space and click on the pink dot on the far right...and imagine...after a wonderful day of diving, kicking back, watching your fav DVD movie like "The Abyss," and waiting for the mer-chef to arrive and cook you a steak & lobster meal!!!

Either of those 2 guesses work?

                                                                           

[babyoh]

ripley,
how embarrassing for the guy who spoke to lyndon, with the "chipmunck" helium voice.
*
the jules verne lodge sounds good - we should plan a trip there! (but, those pink-dot pics gave me CLAUSTROPHOBIA!)

i also found info about a PLANNED undersea hotel called POSEIDON

...um, isn't Poseidon part of the name of a movie about water and DISASTER....? maybe they should name the undersea resort the TITANIC.
* where are we now??

RIPLEY - what do you want a photo of???

[Ripley]

@babyoh, I'm up for an trip under the sea ANYTIME!  Since you are leaning toward the more 5-star underwater hotels like Poseiden Bahamas, or the Poseiden planned for Fiji, take a gander at the Hydropolis in Dubai at $5,500 for an overnight.  No swimming to get there...grab a train thru a tunnel 20 meters down.
http://www.crescent-hydropolis.com/
http://www.impactlab.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7128

@Temmu, loved this "hunt" topic...in fact, I've found the next career change I want to make...DELIVERING Pizzas to those placing orders from the Jules Undersea Lodge!!  :gwave:  :tease:



Speaking of claustrophobia, how bout
           a scuba diver
           in a cenote
           with BOTH stalagmites AND stalactites in the pic?

[Temmu]

very nice research, ripley and babyoh!

ripley when you find out how to keep the pizzas dry, lemme know, and i'll go into business with you! :)

yes, the posidon adventure, jules vern, jacques cousteau, and "ice station zebra" were amongst my favorites.  and, i'd hoped to see much more undersea development, but that all stopped years ago, and the some of the shells of those explorations are now hotels, as you all have seen.

[Temmu]

a sea monster.  real or fiction.  really monstrous.

[Coldmoon]

"Godzilla" Fossils Reveal Real-Life Sea Monster

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/11/1110_051110_sea_monster.html


I wonder if anyone remembers a frisky group of Badgers and a snake...?

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[Ripley]

It's real Not fiction!

Here's the gig, you drive 2 hours out in the jungle, like say in the Yucatan Penisula, and find a Cenote
(underground Caverns that have since totally filled with water over the years...there are miles and miles of these underground tunnels/caverns),
make your way thru dark NARROW tunnels and then before the beam of your flashlight...
a BIG, and I mean BIG, "room"...expance, opens up, and you are looking at what seems to be fiction  
The montrous part is to maneuver thru this "history" underwater and leave it un-disturbed.
<Sorry, triggered a walk down memory lane cuz my wetsuit and fins are both black & PINK...kinda looks like me!

Coldmoon, argh! Would not have wanted to meet up with "Godzilla"/sea monsters...AKA crocodyliforms, as they call it..."It had a head like a carnivorous dinosaur and a tail like a fish. With its massive jaws and serrated teeth, it preyed on other marine reptiles."
However,

I wonder if anyone remembers a frisky group of Badgers and a snake...?

Not triggering anything for me...so still open to comment...

Also Temmu, what's your fancy for the next Hunt?

[Coldmoon]

Hi ripley,

Not triggering anything for me...so still open to comment...

Just a hint  :wink: - Ask Jerry and Doc if they remember this (especially Doc as he once gave me the link to see it  :lol:)...

[Eric the Red]

I wonder if anyone remembers a frisky group of Badgers and a snake...?

Ah, you mean this Weebl cartoon

Can you find me a London Transport double decker bus now serving as a restaurant?

[Temmu]

does that cartoon have an end?  looks like an endless loop... :o