Im-possible moorings and mobilities: the story of Jules’ Undersea Lodge, the world’s only fully submerged hotel

Phillip Vannini and April Vannini

Mobilities, 2025, vol. 20, issue 5, 719-733

Abstract: This paper shows how and why it is ‘im-possible’—i.e. simultaneously possible and impossible—for humans to travel and stay underwater by narrating the story of how Jules’ Undersea Lodge was designed and how its guests can remain there for relatively long periods of time. Drawing from interviews with its designer, Ian Koblick, reflexive ethnographic material collected at Key Largo’s (Florida) Jules’ Undersea Lodge in the early spring of 2024, and an interview with Joseph Dituri—who in 2023 set a world record for the longest time spent in an underwater habitat – we conceptualize im-possibility as a dialectical tension between possibility and impossibility.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2409639

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