The $500 Million Golf Course Seafloor Walkway

Dutch Docklands, a player in the world of floating technologies, or making land where there was no land, has announced its plans to build a golf course on the ocean in the Maldives. There are lots of golf courses that claim to be “on” the ocean, but this one would quite literally be “on” the ocean.  It is scheduled to open in 2015.

The concept is a series of manmade islands with one or more holes on each, linked by transparent undersea tunnels through which golfers walk or ride, sort of a golf course meets Moonbase Alpha ambition.

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My initial thought is, will this place, its structures and designs, be safe enough in these times of frequent and increasingly intense earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions?