
There's a spa floating in the middle of Lake Erie. It has a sauna, a steam room and even a cubicle filled with snow. Upstairs, there are luxury lounges, a huge library, a curated art collection by notable artists, and a panoramic lecture theater with floor-to-ceiling windows. Passengers are busy dining, surrounded by sommeliers, in fine restaurants.
One deck below, there's a pristine, state-of-the-art laboratory full of high-tech equipment, and two multimillion-dollar submersibles can take passengers down 1,000 feet (300 meters). A team of scientists is sifting through water samples and analyzing them in real time, looking at the genetic fingerprints of plankton as it floats through the water.