Ripples #101

12-Story-Deep Swimming Pool
Boasts Underwater Walkway

This past June, the new holder of the title “World’s Deepest Swimming Pool” (as certified by the Guinness World Records) opened in the Hotel Terme Millepini in Padua, Italy. Designed by architect Emanuele Boaretto, Y-40 The Deep Joy is used for “dive training, free diving, leisure, aqua fitness, hydro therapy and research, as well as for professional photography and as a movie set,” according to Web site thrillist.com.

More details about the mind-boggling installation:

• The pool is more than 68 feet long, 59 feet wide and measures 137 feet deep. It contains 1,135,939 U.S. gallons of water.

• The thermally heated water is kept at 89o to 93o Fahrenheit, allowing for dives without wetsuits.

• It has an assortment of levels and caves, as well as a transparent tunnel at 16 feet in depth that visitors can walk through.

The Australian Web site news.com.au said this about the pool: “World’s deepest swimming pool, the Y-40 Deep Joy, is terrifying.” And a cnn.com report on the pool offered this sensible advice to swimmers and divers: “Just don’t drop your locker key.”

Of course, Ripples won’t have to worry about that, since the only way he’s likely to experience Y-40 The Deep Joy is from inside the transparent viewing tunnel.

To see photos of Y-40 The Deep Joy, click here and scroll down. At the very bottom (of the page, not the pool), there’s a video to watch.

And with that, Ripples once again says…
Until next time, happy watershaping to you!