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| red seastar underwater restaurant |
There are few places to dine where the table next to you is a colorful school of fish passing, and a window next to your silverware leads out to the Red Sea. Each table of the restaurant has two large windows, one at its side, and one above the table. At night, the coral gardens around the Red Sea Star are softly illuminated with a light, designed not to disturb the fragile eco-system.
The Red Sea Star is a combination of two areas, one above and one below the surface. Above the surface, there is the Metro Bar, which offers great views of the Gulf of Aqaba. Below the surface, the underwater area roughly resembles the shape of a star, hence the name of the place. Besides an underwater restaurant, the complex also holds an underwater bar with a similar decoration, including a floor covered in sand to complete the sea experience.
Ten years ago, when it was created, it was the world’s first and only underwater restaurant. Although its design is probably a bit over-the-top in its “under the sea“ theme, it nevertheless remains one of the most unique restaurants in Israel.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/red-sea-star
| somebody said: | it is closed |
Yes, it is closed. This is a good example why seasteading on base of marine steel structures is not feasible. It was built from marine steel plating - steel needs to go to drydock and get sandblasted and then re-painted. Aditional you do ultrasound on the plating to see if it still has the required minimum thickness or if it is compromized by marine corrosion to the point where it needs to be replaced ( cut out with a torch and replaced by new, thicker plating) - well this is what you do with ships and barges. But how do you get a tower with a coral garden as ballast to a drydock to do this process ? - you simply can’t do it - so you need to close it down permanently for security reasons once the plating becomes critical (after 15 years of service life) - this is a shame for a little restaurant - but imagine what it means for a floating city !!! you can’t get it to drydock and replace the underwater plating - you have to scrap the whole city after 15 years.
Therefore the postulate:
Seasteading will not happen on base of marine steel technology as we know it from ships barges and oil rigs.
The point that the Red Seastar Underwater Restaurant makes is, that you can have a working business with just having a nice underwater window that allows visitors to stay dry while having a glimps into the underwater world.
• Solving the seasteading technology bottleneck trough advanced cement composite technology. Floating structures with a service life of millenia. ( Better the technology of Venice )