15 storeys down: Poland to get world’s deepest swimming pool

The pool will contain 8,000 cubic metres of water, the equivalent of 25 Olympic swimming pools, and will be the centrepiece of a hotel and conference centre. It will be open to the general public, but the main market will be serious divers.

Bartek Wiecek, FlySpot’s marketing manager, told Xinhua: “Engineers will appreciate the scale of the challenge associated with the construction of such a pool. It’s a piece of extreme engineering.”

One of the retaining walls will have to resist the gravitational force of 180,000 tonnes of soil, he said.

The company also runs a wind tunnel where people can simulate parachute jumping while remaining fairly close to the ground.

Image: The Deep Joy pool in Italy (Boaretto Group Hotel & Resort)

Further reading:

• Suspended ‘Sky Pool’ will let Londoners swim in mid air
• New York tower dwellers to swim 91m in the air
• “I love it and I hate it”: swimming through the air at the Houston Sky Pool