Amazing swimming pools
Oobject is showcasing a group of "Really Cool Pools." At left is an "inverse pool" illusion. A full glass bottom pool is on top of the empty pool. At right is the world's deepest recreational swimming pool at the Nemo 33 diving center in Belgium. It's 100 feet deep. Link (Thanks, Lindsay Tiemeyer!)
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Cool, I was in Nemo on Saturday!
It's actually deeper than 100 feet. My dive computer measured it as 34.7m, which is about 114ft. I didn't make an effort to put my computer right on the floor, so the real depth is probably a round 35m.
It's well worth a visit if you get a chance - the water is chlorine-free, crystal clear (the vis was easily the full 35m) and heated to 30 degrees centigrade.
The nicest touch is the windows which let you look between the bar and 9m below the pool's surface.
Every time I see photos of that Nemo pool I feel like its a dream world and just can't be real. I can't wait to go there someday.
The link doesn't say so I feel i should mention the photo on the left is a sculpture at The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa Japan. You enter the pool from a very low door at one end and above the glass ceiling sits less than an inch of water giving the illusion of being stuck at the bottom of a pool. The artist, who's name I can't seem to locate is said to have been inspired by a near drowning incident from his childhood.
@Subtlesquid (#3), Thanks so much for that info! I was wondering about the details.
Been to Nemo in my dreams, strange that...
I wonder how one would go about creating the experience of the Big Blue in a pool? If you free dive you know what I mean.
I also like the other image, perhaps one day I'll build a conservatory with a roof that traps an inch of water. Interesting leak-proofing problems, I expect.
Regarding the upside down pool, I always wondered if it's possible to do this:
Using a lot of electrical current to put a pool's worth of water on the ceiling of a room (in a similar fashion to static electricity from a baloon moving a water stream from a tap).
Probably not, but I can dream!
enough current to cook you with the eddies perhaps?
Just do it in low earth orbit
Oh man. I never knew I needed to move to Belgium.
If you like those pools, try this one in Chile:
http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/10/worlds-largest-swimming-pool.html
http://www.sanalfonso.cl/
Gotta love a pool where you can use your sailboat. :-)
BTW, I love that link:
amazing-swimming-poo.html
We haven't heard enough about Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo lately...