Jun 25 2008World's Deepest Pool Lacks A High Dive
The world's deepest swimming pool (108 feet) resides in Brussels, Belgium and serves as "multi-purpose diving instruction, recreational, and film production facility."
The pool itself consists of a submerged structure with flat platforms at various depth levels. The pool has two large flat-bottomed areas at depth levels of 5m (16 ft) and 10m (32 ft), and a large circular pit descending to a depth of 33m (108 ft). It is filled with 2,500,000 liters of non-chlorinated, highly filtered spring water maintained at 30°C (86°F) and contains several simulated underwater caves at the 10m depth level. There are numerous underwater windows that allow outside visitors to look into the pools at various depths.
While that's cool and all, where the hell is the high dive? You can't have a pool that deep and not have a high dive, it's blasphemous. I mean, WTF? Oh well, I'm still gonna sink my girlfriend's body in the deep end.
Hit the jump off for a bunch more pictures.
Pool [anvari]
Thanks to Olivia, who has blinded me with her natural mermaid beauty
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Reader Comments
1. Stuey - June 25, 2008 2:00 PM
That pool scares me
2. Adam - June 25, 2008 2:04 PM
Hope no one pees in it or they'll have to drain it.
3. Que - June 25, 2008 2:16 PM
Que swimming!
4. Julian - June 25, 2008 2:16 PM
@2 I was just thinking the same thing. I'm not allowed back in my community pool because apparently theres some rule about peeing in it. I think that's total BS cause kids are in there all the time and the def pee in it. For some reason (obviously racist because I'm white) they can pee while there in the pool but I can't pee from the diving board. Bullshit. . . If I were R. Kelly they wouldn't have said anything. I was aiming for their backs not their faces. unlike R. Kelly I gotz mad class yo.
5. Swimmerifick - June 25, 2008 2:44 PM
Umm..hellooo..they put that chemical in the pool that automatically turns red whenever it comes into contact with pee. At least that is what my swimming instructor told us kids. We never peed in the pool because who wants a red cloud of shame around them? The instructor never did answer my question about all those warm water pockets that formed around the littler kids though.
Hmmmm
6. ren - June 25, 2008 2:52 PM
send in the piranhas!
7. Monketron - June 25, 2008 3:13 PM
i would wait until there are a lot of people in the hole, then cover it with something heavy.
8. guate6 - June 25, 2008 3:13 PM
Cool Pool
9. Nat - June 25, 2008 3:23 PM
@ #5, Your swimming instructor is full of shit.
10. Stolencheese - June 25, 2008 3:42 PM
Does this remind nobody else of Zelda: Ocarina of Time where you had that really deep swimming pool with a shark behind the cage, It was in some house by the lake. It was awesome!
Nobody?
11. Momboelitist - June 25, 2008 3:57 PM
We used to have a pool like this in our back yard....and by pool I mean a slip and slide.
Oh, also, peeing on a slip and slide actually makes it slipperier and slidier! Who knew?
12. Derek - June 25, 2008 6:07 PM
The damn thing looks like a submerged cubist house.
13. pdrunk - June 25, 2008 6:56 PM
So you're saying I should get bigger Swimmies.
14. Lynz - June 26, 2008 12:26 AM
OLD. I saw this back a few years ago.
But it's the coolest god damn thing I've ever seen. I want it.
15. Joey - June 26, 2008 1:06 AM
That thing is crazy. I couln't even imagine the sense of vertigo you'd get swimming over that deep pit and looking down. I'll stick to the local 12 foot deep pools, thanks.
16. m_munroe - June 26, 2008 1:46 AM
amazing! i want to go scuba swimming in it! lol
better hope it never springs a leak....
17. Stuey - June 26, 2008 8:45 AM
@5, there is no such chemical. they tell that to kids to scare them. Watch Mythbusters
18. Richthegringo - June 26, 2008 9:46 AM
Seeing as I can't swim, I'd uber-drown in that pool!!!
19. MCNewYork - June 27, 2008 11:22 AM
my ears would be popping like crazy!
p.s. there are a lot of sharp corners in that pool.
20. cold_snap - June 28, 2008 12:05 PM
this looks one of the levels in mario 64 where you hit the button and the water fills up the whole level.
21. quinnny - July 4, 2008 10:15 PM
ahhhh it looks f***in scary as hell :0
i wouldnt even want to stand on the side lmao
22. gypsy - July 17, 2008 9:54 AM
i'm not very good at math, but i thought the stupid salt water pool in chile was 115 ft deep--isn't that deeper than 108 ft. . .?
23. Grace Jonas - September 7, 2008 12:21 PM
i would love 2 swim in that pool
24. N!@H - October 14, 2008 3:11 PM
this is the deepest swimming pool ive ever seen!I would be afraid to swim in it!
25. james - March 18, 2009 9:08 AM
ya i work at the pool place and thay do no put chimicls that tern red
26. james - March 18, 2009 9:12 AM
ya that is a bunch of s
27. Cesca-taylor - June 11, 2009 2:11 PM
WoW..
II would do anything to swim in that. Its amazeeee :)
28. jhon - July 3, 2009 6:55 PM
that is so cool!