Im-possible moorings and mobilities: the story of Jules’ Undersea Lodge, the world’s only fully submerged hotel
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
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.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it