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Deep Dive Dubai is the deepest swimming pool

The pool descends 60.02 metres below the surface of the water Opened in 2021, the pool in Dubai holds about 14 million litres of water and reaches a depth of 60.02 metres, roughly the height of a 20 storey building. It is built as a sunken city with abandoned rooms and a dry chamber for decompression. Freedivers use it for training, and the water is held at about 30 degrees Celsius. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The pool descends 60.02 metres below the surface of the water. The figure is taken from Deep Dive Dubai, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.