Luxury cruise line Ponant Americas has come up with the world’s very first underwater lounge that’s named the Blue Eye Lounge and has been created in collaboration with French architect and oceanographer—Jacques Rougerie. Sitting two-to-three metres below the water level within the ship’s hull, the lounge is 127 metres in length and features two giant curved portholes measuring 1.6 metresx3.4 metres, designed in the shape of a cetacean eye. Sound, transmitted via hydrophones, will be captured across a five-kilometre radius of the ship and there will be “body listening sofas” that vibrate discreetly to promote “corporal resonance” (where sound waves are transmitted across the body), allowing passengers to experience the rhythms of the ocean and its marine mammals by “listening through their entire body”. The Blue Eye Lounge can accommodate up to 184 passengers in 92 cabins and will be made available on Ponant’s fleet of four new luxury yachts to be launched in 2018 and 2019.
