Posted on 07/10/2021 7:52:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin
With a staggering depth of 60 meters (196 feet), the pool, part of the new Deep Dive Dubai attraction — has stolen the record from Poland's Deepspot, which has a depth of over 45 meters (148 feet).
The Deep Dive Dubai pool is filled with 14 million liters of fresh water — the volume of six Olympic-sized swimming pools — and is at least four times bigger than any other diving pool in the world. Guinness awarded it the "Deepest swimming pool for diving" title on June 27.
Water temperature is maintained at 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), a comfortable temperature for wearing a thin wetsuit or a swimsuit.
Divers can explore "abandoned" sunken city apartments and play underwater pool in the arcade. State-of-the-art lighting and sound systems have been fitted inside the pool to create different atmospheres.
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Watch: Sunken city inside world’s deepest pool in Dubai; explore houses, play games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTG8hTw_tWA
It is good to know that the huge increase in dollars flowing into the Middle East intentionally caused by the Biden administration screwing up the petrol industry... is being used for such a worthy endeavor.
It must be nice to be so rich you can waste all that water. Meanwhile, here in the desert West of the USA...
Where do you get the huge amounts of energy to power desalination? Certainly not windmills and solar panels.
Well, it keeps divers from peeing in the ocean.
They need sharks.
It dont havre to be fresh drinking water
Wow…I’d love to know how the maintenance is performed to cleanse the water. That much and that deep? Has to be a well designed system to prevent bacterial colonies and amoebas taking up residence in small pockets. Anyone who’s maintained a domestic swimming pool can relate to how fun that is in a hot environment.
Looks pretty cool to me. 196 feet is way deeper than most divers go.
They just get really big buckets of chlorine from walmart.
Never scuba’d, but looks to me like one of those “you darn well better know what you’re doing” things.
Better idea. Don’t drain the existing reservoirs out into the sea during times of drought. Like they have done already.
about 90F too warm...
I’ve actually seen that plant (from a ship sailing by). It’s enormous producing roughly 500M US gallons of freshwater a day. And, as big as it is, Saudi Arabia has one or two plants that are 3x the size. Desalination is critical in the Middle East and growing in other parts of Asia and Africa. Even Israel has desalination plants.
Yep, way deeper....70’ deeper. 40M/130’ is the limit for compressed air. Anything over is no longer ‘recreational diving’ and instead becomes ‘techinical diving’ which requires considerably more certification and generally requires the use of mixed gas (trimex). They likely stopped digging at 196’ because at 197’, you need hypoxic trimex, which gets stupid expensive.
I’d much rather spend my underwater time off Taiwan by the light house. Super clear water and lots of things to look at.
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