World’s deepest indoor dive pool open in Dubai

[hedonist222]

I'm wondering how it would be economically viable. I got that it could be useful for specialized training but doesn't seem like there is a market of regular people big enough to sustain it. Playing pool underwater is an interesting novelty but my interest in going underwater is seeing the weird stuff (not human) that lives there and what the world looks like down there.

That's why they won't sustain it from my interest but perhaps there are others.

Thinking they must have a full time crew of people ready to rescue people given the depths.

A lot of landlocked neighboring companies will jump on this for dive training / tourism packages.
Lets go to Dubai to for training in the deepest pool (confined water training), then open water training on the coast.
Couple that with Dubai's tourism and even medical tourism.
A lot of these people also happen to have friends or family in the UAE. So its even a familial visit.

The pool isn't for the UAE - its for people who love to visit Dubai.

 

[Ulfhedinn]

I did not know that Dubai had medical tourism. Interesting.

 

[Akimbo]

I wonder if there is a treatment chamber?

 

[Degenerate]

I wonder if there is a treatment chamber?

According to this article, there is: https://www.timeoutdubai.com/sport-wellbeing/sport/470618-deep-dive-dubai-opening-dubai

Deep Dive Dubai includes what will be the region’s most advanced hyperbaric chamber to treat any unwanted cases of the bends, and divers are promised plenty of additional surprises in the submerged city.

 

[Couv]

Would love to see a pool like this built in the states. Not sure what it has not.

Any billionaires listening?

Well, there is hope. Check this out.
DEEP ZONE Aquatic Center

 

[hedonist222]

I wonder if there is a treatment chamber?

Dubai has a hyberbaric chamber and theres another navy one nearby as well.

 

[Shasta_man]

<<Deep Dive Dubai includes what will be the region’s most advanced hyperbaric chamber to treat any unwanted cases of the bends, and divers are promised plenty of additional surprises in the submerged city.>>

Glad to hear they have a chamber nearby. Given the accessible depth I think the number of incidents will be greater than zero.

I did get a chuckle out of the way the sentence above was written:

<<unwanted cases of the bends>> Are the bends ever wanted?

<<plenty of additional surprises>> so hurray you get the bends and what other great "surprises"?! Shark bite, OOA, mugged in the underwater city?

Obviously they did not write that sentence with my active imagination in mind.

 

[Akimbo]

Obviously they did not write that sentence with my active imagination in mind.

Or even worse, ScubaBoard.

 

[flyboy08]

Last time in Dubai arrived at 1am and it was 117 degrees out....never left the airport though...liked to go visit.

Fresh water sharks scare me.

 

[rob.mwpropane]

It feels like a practice site for the rich and famous, almost like "we despise your quarries and swim holes, so we built this!".


I would dive it and enjoy it, but it's not real. The novelty would wear off pretty quick I think. More of a bucket list thing, and nowhere near the top.