On diving station – underwater restaurant »under«, Lindesnes
The first underwater restaurant in the world was opened last March in the Norwegian municipality of Lindesnes under the name of »under«. The concrete structure was prefabricated on a floating dock, then pulled to its final location and sunk into the sea there.
Lindesnes is located on Norway‘s southernmost point; there is a lighthouse that is very popular with tourists and marks the Skagerrak strait running between Scandinavia and Denmark. Not far away, the coastal village of Båly was undergoing urban redevelopment over the last ten years; with the Havnhotell, the two brothers, Stig and Gaute Ubostad, had an upscale middleclass hotel built there. In 2016, they were ponding in a small group over the question of how to attract additional guests to the archipelago region of Norway‘s south coast. A friend suggested that they might extend the existing...
