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World's Deepest Swimming Pool (w/ pics)

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  • cameron074, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41that place is amazing. i really really wanna get a diving license and go to belgium.
  • unamas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22cannonball!!!
  • daven1986, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22lets hope michael barrymore doesnt get his hands on this!!
    • Shlep, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21Please explain. . .
    • ProximaC, on 10/12/2007, -5/+34From wikipedia: On March 31, 2001, meat factory worker Stuart Lubbock died after being found floating motionless in a swimming pool during a party at Barrymore's house. His body had high levels of narcotics and alcohol as well as anal injuries[1]. Many tabloid newspapers accused Barrymore of holding drug-fuelled gay orgies in his home and asserted that he must have had some responsibility for the death.
    • maffiou, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17You'd have to live in the uk to understand... Barrymore was a huge tv personality until one of his drug fuelled gay orgy turned sour...
      A guy died in his pool, OD or murder, not clear...

      By the way google is your friend :http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2657821.stm

      Edit: Gasp Proximac faster than me...
    • crexor, on 10/12/2007, -14/+5via wikipedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Barrymore):
      "On March 31, 2001, meat factory worker Stuart Lubbock died after being found floating motionless in a swimming pool during a party at Barrymore's house. His body had high levels of narcotics and alcohol as well as anal injuries"

      i have to say ....swing and a miss with a tasteless joke.
    • Billthe4th, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1Too slow - ignore me
    • bonzooznob, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Polo!
  • Matt-lars, on 10/12/2007, -11/+55Thats deeper than a Pink Floyd song.
    • berwiki, on 10/12/2007, -4/+71^^ that comment is cheesier than provolone. ^^

    • StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2That was less funny than Letterman.

      /no, that's not supposed to be a pun
  • rarkai, on 10/12/2007, -18/+3http://duggmirror.com
  • seanmc303, on 10/12/2007, -3/+47Crap 007 blogged pictures of my secret compound's aquatic ninja training pool. Foiled again :(
    • DragonAura, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Aquatic ninjas: just add water! =D
  • jlgosse, on 10/12/2007, -28/+15I like it how over half of things that make it to the front page don't even work. Even the duggmirror doesn't.
    • KSUdesigner, on 10/12/2007, -2/+44They don't work BECAUSE they made it to the front page.
  • samadam, on 10/12/2007, -14/+3well, so much for that.
  • AmnestyGenocide, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3nice head deeeek
  • deftech, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35Those pics are sweet, I've never seen such a deep page not found error.
  • tange1, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3duggmirror = Not Found
    The requested URL //index_en/gallery2.html was not found on this server.
    :-(
  • hansondr, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3nemo33.com seems to have gone down before duggmirror could snag it. For future use in case it does get cached: http://www.duggmirror.com/offbeat_news/World_s_Deepest_Swimming_Pool_w_pics/
  • diggaccount99, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Wow... that was fast
    • IvanB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Maybe the fact that you almost gave a thumbs up to all the comments played a factor in this. Not sure about it though, but I heard the number of comments and how they were rated played in the algorithm as well.
  • j3ph, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7http://www.nemo33.com.nyud.net:8090/index_en/gallery2.html
  • NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5I'm becoming disgusted with the Digg effect. Someone needs to make a firefox plugin or something that displays the front-pages of Digg a day late. The news is already most likely not breaking and a lot of items don't have a sense of urgency. If I could wait a day to view the story more than likely it's recovered from the Digg effect by then. Someone get on that.
    • tmarcV2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21you could just read from page 3-5 or 6 every day
    • NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2No no, see the point of this extension would be to avoid seeing what stories I'm missing thanks to the Digg effect. Shoot, I'd make it myself if I wasn't so rusty in my programming skills and so out of touch with current web development standards.
    • regtools, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I agree with this entirely. Perhaps digg could provide an RSS feed which was the same stories but delayed by a day. That way we could probably actually see the stories referred to. Wouldn't be that hard to do ...
    • dch111, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Dude...you can just change your bookmark from "Top Today" to "Yesterday". Does the same thing without extra hassle.
  • Borfo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14This is just awful... I MUST see this swimming pool! I hear it is very deep!
  • ZapWizard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12People on Digg forget that Google still works?
    Images at bottom of page:
    http://subgalat.free.fr/galerie/2004_11_01_fosse_bruxelles/2004_11_01_fosse_bruxelles.htm
    • crexor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6the ones in the article are better, and higher resolution, but those definitely give an idea of what it is.
  • daveFelton, on 10/12/2007, -17/+0its funny that the page is down, everyone says the page is down, but its still getting diggs on the homepage?
    • mrlost117, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4seriously? people still dont get it? *sigh
    • Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Most people don't digg based on the strength of the article, they digg based on their interest in the article. Because even if the page is down now, they can digg it and then come back and look at their dugg list later, and possibly see the article then.
    • ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I usually only digg the things I want to come back and check out later, whether it be due to lack of time to view it now, the page being down, or just wanting to revisit.
  • Eric-tile, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2http://www.duggmirror.com/

    Edit: Link doesn't work
  • Shawankie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Bottom of the page has some pictures of the facility. The rest is in French. Seems to have a nicely stocked bar under the surface.

    http://subgalat.free.fr/galerie/2004_11_01_fosse_bruxelles/2004_11_01_fosse_bruxelles.htm
    • ThrasherC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8EVERYTHING in Belgium has a nicely-stocked bar either over it, under it, next to it, or in it. I was just there about 3 weeks ago, and I visited a church that had a bar on the bottom floor. Those people definitely know how to drink beer.
  • timmy1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=nemo+33
  • samadam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15It looks like the water level in super mario 64, with all the different levels and doors underwater.
  • supernova17, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1233 meters can't be the deepest swimming pool, NASA training pools are freaking huge comparing to this, plus who knows what Russians have for their space training
    • mrlost117, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4theres a polack joke to be had somewhere in here
    • brandonptx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I was about to say that I think the NASA training pools are bigger. Do they not house entire replicas of spacecraft or something?
    • Otto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6NASA pools are huge, yes, but not that deep. 33 meters is like 7 or 8 stories deep. NASA doesn't need them that deep, they use their pools for weightless training, and they only need them deep enough to submerge whatever space parts they are training with. Most of these sorts of things are tall, but not wide. 10-12 meters at most.
    • dognose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4My swimming pool is 170 feet deep. (man made quarry filled w/ water) Indeed, 33 meters is not the deepest.

      Of course, at 170 feet, it's really a dive pool.
    • Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Is your quarry chlorinated? Does it have a filter system?
      Just saying that a quarry is hardly a "pool". Quarry diving is fun though.
  • oGEEKGUYo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.wolfstad.com/2006/05/scuba-in-europes-largest-swimming-pool/
  • richsipe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Good pictures of the pool here: http://antwerpsailingadventures.be/Fotos/NEMO_AC/base0.html
  • HardSide, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I always figured NASA would have the deepest pool in the world, considering they use it to train for space missions. Oh well.
  • PFS1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Everytime I am in a big indoor space...a stadium or library or something like that, I always wonder what it would be like to fill it up with water and swim around in it. It's something I've been doing since I was a kid, and I have no idea where it came from, but these pics make that kind of a scenario look like reality. Pretty damn cool.
    • mindwalker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I've done that, too, so many times. Also dreamed of how fun it would be to fly around in that space.
    • Sell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4And I thought I was the only one.
    • NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Interestingly enough, the bottom portion of the Colosseum in Rome was capable of being flooded. They used to hold naval battles there as part of the games.
  • marjo9, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0pools
  • spect3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Pff the pools in Half Life are so much deeper
  • devo6273, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10All I can say is I feel bad for whoever the pool boy is.
    • lordsandwich, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2For his sake, please don't let children and incontinent adults anywhere near the pool.
  • ooduaee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+636 meters deep, video inside: http://www.marine.de/01DB070000000001/CurrentBaseLink/W26LRFT7375INFODE
    • hakluytbean, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Thx, nice vid. I was going to look for similar in the UK but I won't bother :) Got to be quite a few of these military facilities for sub-escape exercises etc.
  • queekus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This reminds me of a halflife multiplayer map where the room fills up with water. So cool, I would definately need a spear gun when diving that pool. I'm sure headcrabs are hiding around every corner.
  • Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8All the fun of scuba diving without the dreary undersea landscape.
  • jmchez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The deeest diving pool is actually in a former missile silo in Texas.

    http://www.dtmag.com/dive-usa/TexasMissileSiloTX.html
  • jerrygofixit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The sites drown... I mean, down.....no... drown is better.
  • regtools, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Apologies - this comment was put here in error but I couldn't work out how to use the edit facility to delete it, so just edited it to this meaningless message instead.
  • jessecrouch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i swear there is a turok2 partially underwater level that looks just like this.
  • hakluytbean, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Did someone say 'dreary undersea landscape' :)

    - there's the Dive Dome in the UK, 27 metres, with fake caves and 'shipwreck', tho they'll be growing their own coral. In fine British tradition it hasn't been built yet.

    Cheesy virtual tour and sales pitch: http://www.divedome.com/




    • bassgirl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ok, *that* I'd pay money to dive in. the Belgain pool seems nifty, and most likely a good place to practice skills, but only if there's just a couple of divers in there at a time. The Dive Dome actually looks like FUN. I dive because I love seeing life, and as I live and dive on Vancouver Island, usually considered the second best dive site on the planet, I'm really spoiled - thus, a sterile, although nifty, pool just wouldn't do it for me.
  • markdr123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It's like an underwater world!!!
  • keruha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The real thing, diving in the ocean, is always better. I guess this is the same as going to a climbing gym vs climbing outside -- not as dangerous and more convenient, but lacking in substance. On the side note, over 100 ft is pretty damn deep. I personally love the nitrogen narcosis at those depths.
    • grinin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was about to make my own comment on how sweet it would be to just sit down there and suck down all that mixed gas until im nice and buzzed :D
    • qazxsw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, not quite. "Mixed gas" generally means trimix(He/N2/O2) or similar - deep diving gases.
      If you want narcosis just use air.

      Looks like a waste of air though unless doing basic training. Better to go somewhere natural.
  • Squip, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i have soo got to go there sometime in my life, was only just allowed past 21m this year because of my age, so now I should be able to hit the bottom, would love to go there, the effects of nitrogen narcosis =)
    • spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Way to rip off @keruha's comment...
  • shadekeiko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5reminds me of that world in Mario 64! (you know the one where you can change the water levels.)

    Very cool - I'd love to go check that place out. :3
  • stvnly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Anyone esle thinking water temple in ocarina of time?
  • kortiz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3thats gonna need a lot of chlorine...
  • kyeetza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Reminds me of a map in quake 3 where there's water in the center and you dive down a deep vertical tunnel that leads to a regeneration powerup. Wow I need to get out more.....
  • Manguskahn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I just recently got my diver's certification last summer and went diving in Costa Maya and Cozumel (Both in Mexico). I really wasn't supposed to go deeper than 60 feet on my first few dives but half way through one of the dives I looked at my depth meter and I was at around 103 feet. XD Scuba diving at that place would be so much fun! I am guessing they test underwater equipment there.
  • Broelke4, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I just got digg #1337
  • anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3cs_underwater?
  • proplayer805, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Actually the ocean, the ocean is the biggest pool.
  • Palmetto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That place looks awesome! I'm guessing people can look in on you from the windows? Can people sleep underwater? I mean while wearing the tank and all.. that is what I would like to do. wet dreams.
    • Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1>>>"Can people sleep underwater? I mean while wearing the tank and all."

      Definitely not. Not without a) special gear and b) risking death due to compression sickness.

      You could do it in a hard suit, where you are at normal atmospheric pressure and not directly exposed to the water.
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