[Music] Dubai an extravagant City renowned for its ambitious Vision at the heart of a country steeped in Tradition the United Arab Emirates Deep dive Dubai is the deepest diving pool in the world almost 200 ft deep 3,700 th000 gallons of water the equivalent of six Olympic swimming pools Dubai's largest underwater attraction Dubai is about dream a dazzling Center of exploration where safety excellence and attention to detail our Paramount this a crazy project a submerged post-apocalyptic City a unique diving experience and a grandiose setting with a multitude of soundscapes you only ever get an opportunity to work on something like this once in a lifetime if you're lucky from the outside it looks like a traditional swimming pool but this shell-shaped structure in the heart of the desert is an extraordinary achievement an activity that's normally carried out at Sea and carry it out in land to make the dream a reality to realize a feat of engineering that defies the laws of physics the greatest scuba diving Specialists from all over the world were called in this gargantuan project mobilized hundreds of workers over a period of several years 12 km of underwater cable 56 cameras and 150 lights and 700 workers and you know coordinating on all that in in such a place uh was challenging just as the Deep dive Dubai teams thought they had successfully met the challenge a change to the specification stretched them even further as the depth of the pool was increased by a further 40 ft from the initial 147 there was a lot of open mouths there was a lot of by reaching 196 ft Deep dive Dubai would exceed by 40 ft the record held by what was then the world's deepest pool deep spot a 147 ft deep diving pool located in Poland at this new depth Dubai would once again feature in the Guinness Book of World Records a facility like this can only be built in Dubai how many buildings are there like this in the world nothing as spectacular as this from an architectural point of view but how to dig down to such a depth and make certain that the structure is watertight in the long term how to guarantee the safety of divers at such depths how to ensure that the water is clean warm and clear on a daily basis insane down there let's take a dive behind the scenes at this double XXL Leisure venue [Music] deep dive Dubai is a crazy project and it's actually an idea that is based on the fact that before oil was found in the region Pearl diving was was the basis of the economy that's what they were doing in the early 1900s the whole economy was based on Pearl diving so the heritage is is important here the Emirates they like to engage in activities that are related to their past they like to free dive because that would write them out that history of being a free diving Nation a pearl diving Nation but free diving outside in the ocean here in the Gulf is not really great because it's murky it's Sandy so they decided to build a facility for free divers faithful to their Traditions the authorities at Dubai wanted to put Diving Center Stage by building a structure dedicated to it to that end they approached the RTA the department managing roads and transport for an informed opinion on the construction of a diving pool the RTA then turned to the experts at hcro a civil engineering firm for advice Glenn monks was chosen for his extensive experience on construction sites developing pipelines of the same magnitude in the United Arab Emirates H were appointed to produce the design for the dive pool and uh tender documents and then manage the uh the process process they came to hcro originally because we were involved at step project in Abu Dhabi it's a large um tunneling project step or strategic tunnel enhancement a colossal project a vast wastewater treatment system this Labyrinth of tunnels is buried several tens of meters into the ground beneath the city of Abu Dhabi the capital of the United Arab Emirates just 90 minutes from Dubai in Abu Dhabi they have a deep sewer system so the the sewers are anything from 30 m to around about 100 m deep and right at the end before the treatment plant there's a very deep Pump Station 110 M deep I think it is so obviously there were very significant technical challenges around designing that shaft for the pump station uh obviously RTA knew that hcro were were heavily involved in that and they asked us to bid for this project very similar in terms of you know a large shaft 40 m deep 10 m diameter so there was you know a lot of similarities uh in terms of the shaft construction and I think that's why RTA were were Keen to get hcro involved to mount their bid for what was then called The Pearl diving project hcro Enlisted the services of Pascal and Watson the architectural firm that worked on the Louver Museum in Abu Dhabi designed by the architect Jean Nel Damen Fitzgerald architect and partner at Pascal and Watson until 2019 has followed the site from its conception it was in late 2012 pasc and Watson received a phone call from hcro uh initially to design a dive pool for 45 M deep we developed a relationship with hcro and uh we became their architect and Lead design for interiors and and what we see here today at the Inception of project we had an outline uh concept design which we received from the client it was very simple it was a tank and a few changing rooms and toilets around it um and it had the outline of a pearl shell we sat and discussed how to take an activity that's not normally carried out at Sea and carry it out in land with a record of more than 4,500 Dives in 35 countries Jesper killer brought in some essential expertise now the senior marketing supervisor at Deep dive Dubai he also has a long experience in print media dedicated to the underwater world so having an indoor facility here gives us control over the environment we can control the temperature we're not uh dependent on on weather so that's why it's built as an indoor facility a controlled diving space which would no longer depend on on the elements of nature one which would allow diving all year round and most importantly in complete safety the initial brief called for the pool to be buried in the ground even though other Alternatives would probably have been less complex in to excavate this building into the Earth was much much more challenging than building a skysc vper and filling it with water so why not build an exterior structure at ground level and pour 3, 800,000 gallons of water into it apart from the inherent challenges in terms of the resistance of materials and water pressure another Factor specific to the region dispelled any doubts about which option was preferable Dubai is a very hot country uh most of the year we prefer to stay inside air condition even diving here in the summer because I go dive quite a lot on on the coasts as as well I like to dive in the ocean but it's very hot the decision to dig this gigantic cylinder also allowed Dubai to boast the largest diving pool in the world but the technical feasibility of such an ambition required careful analysis by the project teams this is a major civil engineering job it really is it's a big engineering project with a beautiful architectural finish on top with the Middle full of water you know that's what the facility is while the construction of the pool is above all a civil engineering project the aesthetic aspect of the building was also an essential consideration each building in Dubai even if it breaks height records such as the 20700 Ft High Brook Al Lea is also an architectural creation that adds to the city's reputation this particular construction could be no exception to realize this ambition the Visionary and Marine Explorer Jared jablonsky was hired as a consultant for the project eventually becoming the director of Deep dive Dubai this trained scientist has an impressive career punctuated with records such as the longest cave dive in 2007 Dubai is about dreams and it's about building stuff regardless of of whether it has a near-term cost benefit it's more about this is a vision of where we want to go and we've tried to orchestrate the experience is something you can truly not do anywhere else in the world retained the initial idea that the client proposed which was the Pearl itself we kept that as our primary starting point and developed from there if you look at it from above from from space you can actually see it from space you will see that it looks like a seashell when you look at the building there's no uh pipes or air conditioning units on the roof it's a complete clean shell and it sits just nicely tucked into the landscape and around it we have a body of water which replicates the top of the shell as if the shell is open the circulation around the pool for the arrivals you know they get to see everything before they get up onto the pool deck above then when they arrive on the pool deck above they're in the heart of the shell in the heart of the Pearl itself so when you arrive in the middle you've got a great big arcrylic window 15 M wide that opens up and you can see right into the pool so creates that whole W Factor when you arrive Dubai was never going to settle for a simple diving pit the client expected bold and Innovative proposals from the architectural firm the challenge was to develop a unique unique concept that would get people talking about deep dive Dubai not only for its World depth record but also for its design during the course of the design stage we had a series of of various different options which were tabled to the client we were encouraged to explore propose design and deliver something special we had a number of interior design proposals for the project and then the decision was made to actually let's go big on this let's do something special the facility is special so let's surround it with a special interior and fit out the man who was approached to make it all possible is a true Explorer with over 30 years of diving experience before being technical manager of Deep dive Dubai Richard lungren was part of a series of expeditions including discoveries of shipwrecks the whole idea by Deep D Dubai came from one person that had an idea to create a very deep training area for free diving and that idea kind of grew into being a deep pool first but then this person traveled the world and saw different underwater environments he wanted to recreate these things in his pool in the beginning he wanted to have like a shipwreck experience but that became kind of common because they wanted to see something that has never been seen we had three proposals I recall we had a a space proposal you know the moon and planets and orbits and various different elements of that nature we had an organic one which was seaweed and you know marine life uh animals plants theve that was chosen was a sunken city a little bit like Atlantis but not quite Atlantis like a New York streetcape that just dropped and then when you dive in you see all sorts of normal day things such as somebody's apartment a fridge with a milk bottle inside a library cars motorbikes all sorts of different normal day things just to make that exciting you know exploration into you know a sunken world and create that excitement and we were told yala build get on with [Applause] it the sports complex of Nadal Sheba 15 minutes from in the center of Dubai in 25 minutes from the airport was chosen as the site for the new Diving Center the first stage of this ambitious project was to excavate a cavity for a concrete cylinder 65 ft in diameter and 147 ft deep the idea for the 197 ft deep well had not yet been evoked basically you need to create like a big tunnel U but not horizontal it needs to go work you start with an excavation of of let's say 5 m deep so the first 5 m you just excavate from uh from from the surface and then you build a guide wall around the circumference of the pool around about a meter wide and then uh they bring in what they call a hydr mill so this is basically a large machine that excavates soil vertically so it's got some large cutting heads on the bottom of the hydr mill and you basically excavate slot let's say 2 m wide by 1 M deep and all the way down and so you do that in chunks all the way around until you fill the whole circumference basically so you you excavate put in Bentonite to stabilize the excavation cuz otherwise you it could just collapse you put in your reinforcement cage and then you fill it up with concrete so the weight of the concrete displaces the Bentonite and then you go around a circle until you until you completely have the the circle I think that took um I don't know maybe maybe two or three months to actually build the diaphragm wall and then you put an excavator inside the the circle and excavate all the way down to the bottom once we dug down it was incredible how hard the rock is beneath this particular facility it is very very hard rock everybody thinks it might be sand but it's actually very very hard rock obviously the first kind of maybe 10 MERS or so was um was relatively easy but the deeper you go down the harder the rock becomes and the more difficult it is to excavate so you know the the the progress starts to slow down a little bit to excavate down that was another 3 to 6 months it was it was quite a long time it wasn't just the presence of dense rock that posed significant challenges during this first stage hidden below the ground complicating the task yet further is another element one not usually associated with the desert water so it's quite interesting really when you think of the desert you don't tend to think of the influence of water but we are quite close to the coast so we hit uh the groundwater table at right around 8 m so really almost immediately you have to deal with groundwater influx intrusion into the construction site that requires a number of groundwater pumps be set up throughout the site to lower the groundwater table and allow you to construct in the relative dry you need to lower the the water level the groundw level all the way around um the diaphragm wall is not not waterproof yeah so if you didn't lower the the water table you'd get water coming into the excavation and it would be very difficult to handle so we lowered the water table all the way down to around about the the base of the pool so that it would be dry as we excavate uh all the way down one of the challenges at the end of the day when we' excavated to the bottom was to make sure that when you release when when you turn off the dewatering system that the walls aren't aren't leaking there are joints between these panels and uh you have to make sure that that are sealed and um and and fully waterproof obviously the pole needs to be watertight you know so water can't leak out from the pole and water can't leak into the pole if that seal would leak you can lose water uh from the pool that goes out into the surrounding ground that would not be good because then you can create you can weaken the area surrounding it and create sink codes and so on so that would not be so good but you can also lose water water in the PO they have to refill it all the time there was big challenges in in achieving this and I know that there was lots of rework by the contractor in order to get it right but they got it right at the end of the day as this difficult stage was nearing its end the initial request was modified the client decided that the well needed to be deeper we achieved 45 M at the time when we got to the base and the decision was made by the client to push it again to 60 m there was a lot of open mouths there was a lot of um all the engineers began to worry it was a big challenge a diving pool of the same depth had just opened in Poland to beat the record meant yet more digging to reach the depth of 197 ft deep it was a real challenge that nobody had anticipated one that required Ingenuity that created all sorts of engineering challenges for hcro well obviously when you first kind of hear it it's it's it's worrying you know you kind of think oh they want us to you know and and we found out about it mid construction you know had had they have we been told about this before we started not a problem you just redo the the design and you know you you start again but this we found this out I think we're almost to the bottom of the hole actually so um yeah it was it was a surprise uh bit of a bit of a worry there were I suppose a few sleepless nights uh trying to work out how we did that safely and um you know and economically the most stressful aspect at this stage was deciding how to satisfy the client without endangering the teams working on the project and without weakening the construction that had already been built when we designed the original um shaft we have factors of safety it's not right on the edge so so the there was there was some flexibility to allow us to go the extra 10 m and it wasn't a major problem for us the diaphragm wall was 10 M below the original base anyway so we can excavate um down to to to the extra 10 m but then they they wanted us to go another 10 m so then then we're kind of 10 M below the base of our diaphragm wall yeah so you're you're you're Excavating and then putting in reinforcement spraying with concrete going a little bit further and and you continuing that process process meter by meter until you get down to the extra 10 M below your original diaph wall construction this last stage of the operation required extending the excavation by a further 16 ft but lengthening the concrete tube raised new challenges particularly in the case of the ceiling a connection needed to be made between what had already been built and the new part to be added the deeper you go the higher pressure of the water in the surrounding environment and you have essentially only ambient or surface pressure inside the dry space and a little bit more but not a lot more whereas you have significant pressure all the way down at 60 M of depth and then all the forces you know the Earth's trying to push that that that building out of the earth cuz that's naturally what happens to Anchor that building into the Earth is such a challenge for the engineers all that water pressure is coming up on the on the base and it's trying to lift the shaft out of the ground so you have to make sure that you've got enough weight and enough um resistance to to flotation to make sure that that doesn't happen for the 50 m depth we were fine we didn't really need to do much else you have a large building on top of it so you know it wasn't a concern for us but the extra 10 m we actually had to um kind of under ream so we excavated out into the ground and had um like an under ream that provided a little bit of extra resistance to uplift um so that we could uh we could D the extra 10 m depth this last minute modification could have jeopardized the outcome of the project at any moment the operation was all the more delicate as it had to be carried out when construction of the main building at ground level had already begun not only did this complicate access to the work area it meant care had to be taken not to damage the structure underway in total 45,000 tons of Earth were excavated before workers reached the end of this crucial stage allowing them to focus on the rest of the project construction of the exterior the structure is a cast and situ concrete structure and steel introduced at high level to create the roof quite a simple structure actually traditional structure if you like the facade is on the external envelope is predominantly Stone there's some beautiful Granite Stone from Venezuela uh to the sides and the rear of the building and obviously we've got the lovely slop glass elevation which opens up out onto the pool and the openable section of the of the Pearl itself for the curve of the roof to Faithfully reproduce the curved shape of a shell while meeting requirements with regard both to stability and Aesthetics each component had to be shaped in a non-standard way both the tiles and the supporting metal structures are a work of craftsmanship it's quite unique in term of the standard job where you have a beam that runs from A to B and it's level you know what I mean to build a flat roof this particular roof in order to achieve the shape of the shell the structural beams underneath had to mimic that curvature so every single beam that supports that roof is [Music] unique because there's so much movement on the roof we've covered the roof in small triangles but they're all jointed very very closely together with enough movement for the thermal movement for the Sun during the day and during the Summers here that's how we've achieved that lovely clean smooth curved roof and uh that was quite a challenge the desire to create the impression of a sea shell was not limited to the exterior of the structure a carefully thought-out reflective prolesan finish was added to the interior extending the organic side of this concept inside the building called for some Innovative techniques notably in the construction of the walls the walls as you walk around the pool are curved and mooved like water movement those walls are 3D printed to provide luxurious finishes the most refined materials were sought from all over the world showcasing the finest of what each country has to offer some of the materials used in the project are very unique we have used a lot of carara Stone from Fort of the Mari in Italy the carara is used on the pool deck and it is also used on some of the stairs uh within the facility we have also uh mael Stone within the water feature from Spain and we have BNA from Northern Italy and we have have laza white stone from toniki in Greece so a lot of the stones have been selected specifically for the project from various different parts of the world the whole host of elements concealed in the invisible part of the structure deep in the earth beneath the United Arab Emirates is what sets Deep dive Dubai apart from other Leisure centers the creators wanted to offer an unmatched experience to make the facility much more than just an entry in the Guinness Book of Records the pooling itself start with a big Auditorium like an open Square in a city and that goes down all the way to 18 M so that's a 27 by 17 M big square that you can recreate in and and you will see street signs you will see cars you will see lots of interesting things in this area and many objects that you can interact with we have hary Davids on motorbike we have theart and so on so some of the props are not really contemporary you're not seeing a a a phone booth anywhere in the world at now but but 30 years ago maybe you would see a phone booth or some of the props here looks a little bit old they looks a little bit like Manhattan in the 7s if you will if you go deeper that this is where the shaft starts and the shaft goes all the way from 18 M and all the way down to 60 and the diameter is almost 11 M of the shaft so that's a big cylinder that goes straight down but wouldn't that just be boring to dive a cylinder down to 60 M so we are not boring so we created something else on 20 M we have a an underwater habit head where divers can go inside and surface so they can remove their their breathing aerators and talk and they can even talk to the surface and these environments provide safety but it's also super fun to go inside sometimes halfway through the dive it's really nice to go inside with with with your divers and kind of have a little bit of talk so so far how do you think do you like it is there anything you know you need we need to to fix wi before we we we continue so it's just a luxury that we have these these environment when you come down to 27 M you have two open openings in this cylinder that allows you to swim out into what we call a donut it goes around the shop like this and it's actually 360 M if you swim like this so it's a big area that you can actually swim in and this is where you can enter the city you enter Apartments you enter a kitchen you enter a bedroom other areas that are interesting I don't want to spoil everything and of course all of these areas are outfitted as if nature claim back this city and people just disappeared that's the look and feel of it if you go down to 40 m and now we're starting to enter the realm of technical diving where use helium enrich gases to Brave off you have the similar thing it opens up into a big donut and this is where you can find the man cave or female cave you name it the arcade room the the garage with the cars and motorbikes and items and then of course you can drop further down into 60 M and that's you will find a surprise that I will not reveal because you have to dive down there as a diver to actually see what it is almost 200 ft not a random figure but one specified by International diving certifications this is the official level for recreational divers the designated limit of deep air diving the invisible threshold Beyond which training is required [Music] D but to be able to offer this experience reserved for a small percentage of visitors hundreds of professionals had to be mobilized experts in a wide range of disciplines the extension obviously slowed down the work the need to fill the pool started to become a pressing matter given the immense pressure on the cylinder at this depth from the surrounding water it was a constant challenge for the hold duration of the work with let's say a pump station as they have in in Abu Dhabi most of the shaft is permanently empty yeah so you've got forces from the outside trying to trying to push the uh the shaft in the pressure for intrusion of water is quite significant really what you want to do ultimately is get the facility filled as quickly as you can uh because then you create pressure inside that's equal or greater to the pressure outside with the dive pool you've got water inside it so the the forces kind of equalize the water that's in the pool actually helps to stabilize the the structure filling the pool initially lifted fears about the pressure on the walls on the other hand it brought new challenges for which the teams were not always prepared when we started filling it was mostly enthusiasm of course but then there's this lowlevel kind of anxiety you know did we think of everything or the things that we didn't think of are they they're going to cause big problems what's going to happen when the pool is filled so the water is creeping up and you're holding your breath and hope for the best 14,000 cubic M that's 3,700 th000 gallons required to fill this gigantic swimming pool the equivalent of 100,000 baths another challenge that demanded creative thinking the story behind filling the pole is quite interesting like any project we were behind the timeline so it was enormous pressure to to complete this facility and to fill up the pole and make it operational how to fill up this pole how is it done to begin with so here in Dubai we have something called Diva and that's Dubai electricity and Water Agency basically and they Supply the water like in any facility through water pipes of course you can only get a certain amount of water per hour through those water pipes this Underwater World takes 14 million lers of water so that would take 2 and a half months to fill up the pool but we were challenged to fill it up in 30 days there is only one way to speed up the operation truck in more water we didn't use just the municipal Supply we also used some water trucks that were available to help fill I think we used almost 100 tank trucks coming in plus the diva supplied water to fill it up so for us it was super exciting times to fill up the Cod unsurprisingly the water was full of particles and dirt from years of work thorough filtration would be required to provide Clear Water accessible to divers we knew that we would have quite a lot of cycles of water cleaning because the pool had been into the open environment for a long period of time so desert sand were involved a lot of construction was involved so when we filled we knew that the water quality would be quite low for quite some time and we'd need to run quite a lot of filtrations a lot of cleaning Cycles so we weren't really sure how many weeks or months even it would take to get the water quality that we wanted so we just wanted to get started we were impatient after all that time but it wasn't just a matter of filling an empty pool the concept of the sunken city would bring its own share of unexpected problems it was difficult to anticipate how this underwater setting would react to being submerged once again tensions were running High nobody's really done that before of course there are multiple different pools that have small thematic elements but this one is really a thematic element with a pool so really everything here was a little bit of an unknown for us Li Ty is unique because it's this underwater sunken City uh with paints and all of the surfaces and materials that you have in your home in your city and so on of course many things were considered and perfected before we put water into the pole but some of the issues and some of the problems that we experience a corrosion is usually done by outside factors but galvanic corrosion is when you take one type of metal and put it right on top of another metal so obviously if that's made on purpose fine if it's not made on purpose it's not so good a concrete example of corrosion problems could be uh we have wet belts here underwater those wet bels to keep the acrylic windows in place and to put those windows in place we had big steel uh frames around them those steel frames was made out galvanized steel and uh since the water is almost almost as clean as distilled water that created a battery effect that speeded up corrosions that we had in the pole so that was a big problem that we had and that made some lights and cameras C the way much quicker than they should be and until we figur out that was caused by these frames uh yeah we lost a lot of time there also but then we fixed that we removed them and fix them with normal stainless Ste frames and now the problem is gone some accessories also suffered corrosion problems this motorbike for example which was starting to rust had to be brought back to the surface to prevent the problem from reoccurring certain elements have been replaced by reproductions made from less corrosive materials but rusting wasn't the only problem another oversight came to light which was the tendency of certain objects to float un submerged beneath water and then we had to catch that early on and dive down and if it was a hair filled space that had trapped air we just had to drill hose and let the air escape and then problem sorted so many of the things we have under under underwater are specially prepared for being used underwater if we take the pool the bilage table and the PO balls and so on we chose those ones that are made out of material that actually sinks but again when we go shopping for these things sometimes we buy and then we find out that they float then we had to adjust them then we can drill a hole put lead in it or something else that's heavy and then seal them and make them look like the real thing and then they Works likewise the paint used for the graffiti and tags on the walls soon began to deteriorate this led to another problem as impurities began to seep into the water we have been for us to do a lot of house cleaning underwater also you know how how your home looks after two three weeks without vacuuming just imagine the amount of vacuuming we had to do in this pool when the paint started to flake off so problems like that many of them once all these problems had been resolved Deep dive Dubai began to welcome special guests By Invitation although the official launch was scheduled for July 2021 some were able to enjoy a s preview of this top secret project sir how you doing how you feeling great how about yourself man all this yes sir you hear me Will Smith helped us a lot in the beginning because he actually launched deep di Dubai he he did the first social media video for us a friend of mine told me I had to check out this pool it's something weird about it and he is actually a a good diver so he was doing us a big favor of giving us that that first push would you like to go a little [Music] deeper insane down there the particularity of Deep dive Dubai is also the wealth of equipment on offer particularly in terms of Sound and Lighting 160 state-of-the-art spotlights operational at depths of up to 1300 ft illuminate every corner of the pool and provide visibility even at night 27 loudspeakers pumping out the sound of whale cries and all kinds of music create a wide range of ambiences and divers can hear the communication system as clearly as if they were out of the water obviously the divers can't talk back so I can say a lot of fun things and they can't come back at me another thing that we have is a camera 56 of them and we use the cameras uh to be able to survey to see that you're doing all right no but to make sure that you're safe uh so if you would have a problem in one area the rescue diver will be able to locate the problem and assist you very quickly and that's what the cameras are for standpoint we like to believe that we are the safest diving destination in the world we have a lot of layers of safety nobody's diving alone here they're always diving with an instructor we have safety divers on the pool deck we have we have safety supervisors making sure that everything is running smoothly we have a decompression chamber so even in the very unlikely event that someone will suffer from decompression sickness after a dive here we can treat them directly in in our own chamber we've really tried to pick high quality staff and then run them through regular training and retraining to ensure that they stay on par uh with the experience that we want to provide and the safety what we want to [Music] offer another Essential Safety feature is clean and healthy water the major element of the infrastructure is fragile affected by external factors such as light and [Music] temperature maintained at 85° for optimal Comfort it must always be clear so that divers can make the most of the underwater landscape for this for this an Innovative filtration system cleans the millions of gallons of water every 6 hours so we have a significant uh water filtration system so Municipal quality level so we're we're returning the water every 6 hours so all 14 and5 million liters of water is moving through the pump room every 6 hours and we have copper uh silver ionizers that takes away some of the problems we might have in the in the water Legionella as an example but we also have uh ozone generators that puts ozone into the water ozone is a very good uh disinfecting uh thing oxygen as part of ozone is actually quite aggressive so that's a very good system also and then we have UV reactors huge ones the biggest one in the region and they actually knock off they kill any kind of germs and so on that you might have in the water and then as a fifth uh acid we use bromine in the water not chlorine so you don't get green hair if you're diving here and it doesn't smell like in a in a swimming pool Broman is much more expensive but it will not sting your eyes it will not make your hair green and it doesn't smell this place of leisure now welcomes both beginners venturing into their first dive as well as seasoned experts and it is intended to be enjoyed by non- divers too we have you know beginners that just want to have an experience and even snorklers that stays in the surface then we have the scuba divers that brings cylinders of Compressed Gas to breathe and those also falls in different categories we have the Discover divers that has never died before we basically show them so they get a little bit scared especially when they put their head under water the first time and they see this 60 M Abyss under them I've been very fortunate to anaz amazing number of Dives everything from discovering sacrificial altars to exploring remote cave systems to finding Rams and you know treasures and all kinds of amazing stuff so I never imagined I could enjoy a dive in a pool and I really do honestly and genuinely I do enjoy diving here it's still quite a very cool experience even after all of these Dives but deep dive Dubai is more than a diving experience for individuals and like the city of Dubai itself the future possibilities are endless the diving pool is frequently transformed into a Hollywood movie studio the ideal backdrop for some exceptional scene [Music] settings and for the enthusiasts at the helm the next step is to make this place a real base for exploration and research [Music] we want to use Deep dive Dubai as a platform for exploring that even further so we can go out in in the in the real environment and explore and protect uh the environment as well the next thing on the road map is to make deep di Dubai a global concept to expand outside this world to go and explore areas in the world under the banner of deep die Dubai to make discoveries under the name of deep die Dubai to do science under the name of deep die Dubai we're just getting started we've uh started a number of these initiatives from technological in nature to research in nature so really I think we're at the beginning [Music] for