ENGINEERING Fitzroy Engineering DELIVER UNDERWATER RESTAURANT TO MALDIVES Over the evening of Tuesday 9th February, the latest big fabrication project to come out of Fitzroy Engineering made its way slowly to Port Taranaki. Following the usual route via Devon Road, Northgate, Hobson Street, Molesworth Street and St Aubyn Street, the 450 tonne Underwater Restaurant headed to the port for shipping to its destination in the Maldives, Indian Ocean. Designed by leading aquarium and underwater restaurant design engineers, MJ Murphy Ltd 14 March 2016 from Auckland, this underwater restaurant (UWR) will be the second only of its type to be deployed anywhere in the world. MJ Murphy Ltd were also the designers of the first UWR (now world famous, called Ithaa… also in the Maldives for a different resort), and have been involved in the design of many major public aquariums around the world, similar to Kelly Tarltons Underwater World in Auckland. This new UWR will be delivered to site by heavy lift ship and lowered onto specially prepared piled foundations on the edge of a beautiful coral reef at Huravalhi Island in the Maldives, where the clients, Champalars Holdings Pvt Ltd are building a complete new luxury resort. As many scuba divers will attest, the water in the Maldives is especially clear and the corals and fish life astounding. The UWR will sit alongside the steeply descending coral reef, so that all diners can view the corals and the fish they attract. For the deep open ocean side, special concrete platforms have been developed by MJ Murphy upon which the corals from under the UWR have been replanted, and are now waiting in the sea for the arrival of the UWR. These ‘coral garden’ platforms will be lifted off the seabed and bolted to the ocean-side of the UWR once in place, so that diners on the ocean side also get an amazing view of corals and attracted fish life. Fitzroy Engineering project manager, Adrian Van’t Hof says “the amazing 5m wide x 130mm thick acrylic arches covering the UWR have been designed by MJ Murphy IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY Installation of the 130mm thick acrylic arches to the UWR
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