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Diving away to Key Largo

Where: Key Largo, fl, United States, 33037

We had it all...just like Bogie and Bacall...sailing away to Key Largo.

Though this photo looks like it was taken back in the early eighties when "Key Largo" was buring up Casey Kasem's top 40, Jules' Undersea Lodge still claims to be the only underwater lodge in the world (for now). Guests don a scuba suit and dive down to their room where their marine environment come equipped with limitless air supplied by 100 foot long hookah lines.

The Lodge began as the La Chalupa research labratory, and underwater habitat used to explore the continental shelf off the coast of Puerto Rico.

All that and co-developer Ian Koblick says, "Marine life is actually enhanced by the presence of an underwater structure, Jules' Undersea Lodge serves as an artificial reef, providing shelter and substrate for marine animals. And the flow of air to the Lodge constantly adds oxygen to the entire surrounding body of water, creating a symbiotic relationship between the technology of man and the beauty of nature."

Whoa. That is some deep theorizing Mr. Koblick. Well, it seems to have worked, as the romance of this modern day Atlantis light has attracted, yup you guessed it, underwater brides and grooms.

Sleepin' with the fishes will run you $395 a night.

Wonder how this underwater original will hold up when Hydropolis opens.