Teresa McKinna

Jules' Undersea Lodge is a piece of history, and is operated as a "living museum" from the Golden Age of Diving. Originally designed in the early 1970s by diving pioneer Ian Koblick, it was first deployed as the mobile undersea habitat "La Chalupa" in over one hundred feet of water off the coast of Puerto Rico. It carried a full range of subsea scientific equipment as well as innovations such as mini wet-sub and breakaway decompression chamber escape capsules. The La Chalupa mission was the subject of a half-hour television documentary in 1971, still available on DVD.Jules' Undersea Lodge was refitted and refurbished in the early 1980s as the first true ambient pressure habitat available to the general public. It has operated continuously in Key Largo, Florida for over twenty-five years. It has a perfect safety record, and thousands of satisfied guests who have experienced the wonder and delight of actually eating, sleeping, and living underwater, just as the first "Aquanauts" did in famed habitats like Conshelf, Sealab, and Tektite during the 1960s.Visit us, dive into history and walk in the footsteps of legendary explorers like Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Edwin Link, and Ian Koblick at the one and only, world-famous, Jules' Undersea Lodge.