At 100 metres below the surface, I can just about decipher the flecks of sunlight dancing off the waves above from my seat inside U-Boat Worx’s NEMO 2, one of the world’s most compact submersibles. There’s not much marine life at such great depths, but the feeling of the sea floor falling away into the abyss of blue is a peculiar and invigorating sensation that is exclusive to a submersible. Not even scuba diving could provide such an absorption into the ocean – it is a thalassophile’s dream – and few places on earth could provide a more perfect environment than the gin-clear waters of Curaçao.
