The Deep Dive Dubai pool is at least four times larger than any other diving pool in the world, with 14 million gallons of fresh water (enough to fill six Olympic-sized swimming pools). On June 27, Guinness named it the “Deepest Swimming Pool for Diving.”
For the time being, the facility is exclusively accessible by invitation, but it will open to the general public later this year. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai’s crown prince, and a keen diver was one of the first visitors and posted his experience on social media.
The water temperature is kept at 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), which is a reasonable temperature for swimming or wearing a thin wetsuit.
A sunken city and an underwater film studio
The indoor pool is set inside a 1,500-square-meter oyster-shaped building, which pays homage to the UAE’s history as a pearl-diving nation.
The pool’s underwater metropolis, though, is perhaps the pool’s biggest star. Divers can explore sunken city residences that have been “abandoned” and play underwater pool in the arcade. Inside the pool, state-of-the-art lighting and sound equipment have been installed to create various atmospheres.
The pool also serves as an underwater film studio, the region’s largest of its sort. In the facility, there is a media editing room available.
Deep Dive Dubai offers diving classes for both novice and experienced divers. After a visit with one of the site’s dive guides, divers can explore the pool and the underwater city on their own.
A total of 56 cameras have been mounted around the pool to ensure that divers are safe at all times. In case of an emergency, it also features the region’s most advanced hyperbaric chamber, which can hold up to 12 people.
Deep Dive Dubai director Jarrod Jablonski told CNN, “There are quite a few dive pools in the globe that are deep, but this one is so much more intriguing.” “It’s not only the deepest and largest, but it’s also the next world order due to the submerged city impact.”
“There are so many things it’s really not fair to call it a pool.”
Don’t visit the top of Burj Khalifa right after Deep Dive Dubai
The diving facility also boasts a café with wide windows and TV screens where non-diving families and friends may watch from the comfort of their own homes.
Deep Dive Dubai has issued a disclaimer on its website for people going to visit the city’s famous Burj Khalifa afterward, just in case you forget how deep the pool is.
“After diving, don’t go to the top of the tower,” it warns.
“It is suggested that you wait 18-24 hours after any dive before ascending higher than 300 meters (1,000 feet). After visiting the world’s tallest structure, however, there is no risk in diving.”