A floating golf course ?

[Hum]

Golf course designers are a borderline crazy breed to begin with, but even by their standards, this is off the wall: plans for an entire floating golf course in the Maldives. The creation of the Maldivian government, Troon Golf and Waterstudio, a Dutch architecture firm, the $520 million course is designed to combat a problem that the rest of us don't yet have. In short: the Maldives are about to sink below the ocean. :huh:

The Maldives, a collection of almost 1,200 islands in the Indian Ocean, have an average elevation of just five feet above sea level. And whether or not YOU believe in climate change, the folks there do, and they've got a lot more reason to take it seriously than the rest of us do. Accordingly, they've begun plans to create a series of floating islands to stave off imminent apocalypse. (A golf course wouldn't be high on our priority list in such a scenario, but hey.)

The course will be made up of a series of islands with multiple holes on each island. Ah, but how do you get between holes? Glad you asked. The answer, of course, is UNDERWATER TUNNELS.

The entire project will be carbon neutral, developers claim. Construction will begin later this year, with the course ready by the end of 2013 and the entire complex ready by 2015. Start saving now.

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[.Neo]

The article makes no sense whatsoever.

[Hum]

^ The article or the idea ? :laugh:

[.Neo]

I can understand the benefit of having things float on water rather than just to reclaim land.

However saying they're building a floating golf course because " the Maldives are about to sink below the ocean" makes no sense.

[DocM]

There are cities & countries that are expanding their usable space by using floating artificial islands, so why not?

[Hum]

... the Maldives are about to sink below the ocean.

I wonder if one day, Maldives will be just a myth.

[Knife Party]

The article makes no sense whatsoever.

well since the island is slowly sinking as they suggest, and construction of a golf course shown to be 'low priority' as mentioned, my guess would be foreign contractors, investors and the government are using this as investment leverage. They start building climate proof tourist based establishments, they get to control and claim larger chunks of the market or revenue before everyone else hones in. I mean things do kinda look like this, why if on the priority list would they splash so much for tourism ventures if the 'maldives are sinking'....