Colombo Dockyard builds and delivers Underwater Restaurant Structure for Maldivian resort

The Under Water Restaurant Structure at Colombo Dockyard premises prior to being towed to Maldives 

Aartistic impression of UWR in seabed 

Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC) has contracted with Promonant Pvt Ltd (client) of Maldives for the design, supply of materials, fabrication, towingand providing installation guidance of an Underwater Restaurant Structure (UWRS) planned to be placed at Aanugandu Falhu Island in the Republic of Maldives.

Amidst an extremely difficult period in the country caused by the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic, CDPLC managed to complete the 440T steel structure within just seven months including the design and successfully dispatched the UWRS to Maldives on 18th February this year. The UWRS has reached Maldives on 22nd February 2022.

CDPLC is yet to accomplish the task of guiding the client’s team to safely submerge this structure and place on seabed of Lagoon 17, Aanugandu Island. The client expects this to be a major tourist attraction for their newly developed resort. Once commissioned and put into operation, this will be the largest Under Water Restaurant in Maldives with a seating capacity of 48 persons with viewing gallery to all guests simultaneously. 

The concept design originated from the Client which was converted into an engineering marvel with the design developed by AKDA Engineers Lanka Pvt Ltd headed by A.K. Diyabalanage and Colombo Dockyard design team carried out the detail/ production design. 

Colombo Dockyard completed its first ever Underwater Restaurant Structure (UWRS) project in 2018 to the Uthuru Maafaru Islands of Maldives. The proven capability of CDPLC has made this new client to place its confidenceon CDPLC to build another UWRS for its hotel chain‘Atmosphere Hotels & Resorts’ in Maldives. 

This Under Water Restaurant will add yet another feather to the portfolio of luxury resorts with exotic underwater dining experience of Atmosphere Hotels & Resorts. 

CDPLC is the pioneering Shipbuilding, Ship repairing and Heavy Engineering facility in the country and operates in joint collaboration with Onomichi Dockyard Company Limited of Japan with Sri Lankan Government institutions having a shareholding of 35 percent. 

As a shipbuilding, ship repairing and heavy engineering company in Sri Lanka, CDPLC continuously proves its excellence by successfully securing and executing global projects and earning much needed foreign exchange to the country.