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The largest indoor swimming pool will be built

08.06.2021

Blue Abyss Ltd. plans to start building the world's largest and deepest indoor swimming pool soon. The volume of water in this pool will be 42 cubic meters, or 168 million cups of tea, using the traditional British unit. And this facility is being created primarily to test new technologies from the field of underwater robotics, plus, the pool will be the world's first commercial educational and training center for astronauts.

Indoor swimming pools are an excellent place to test underwater navigation technology, divers or astronauts to train in simulated weightlessness. In use for more than a century, these basins easily control a wide variety of environmental aspects, allowing submersible design to be tested and complex technical problems to be solved under conditions of abrupt, controlled change.

The Blue Abyss facility, which will cost about US$212 million, will be built near Newquay Cornwall Airport, UK, and will be located in close proximity to the Cornwall spaceport. The pool will have the following dimensions - 50 meters long, 40 meters wide and 50 meters deep, and its volume will be equivalent to the volume of 17 Olympic standard pools. The point of maximum depth of this pool will be at the bottom of the shaft, with a diameter of 16 meters.

The dimensions of the Blue Abyss pool will be sufficient to allow entire copies of the modules of the International Space Station to be immersed in the pool, in addition, full tests of robotic underwater vehicles and tests of underwater power plants will be carried out in the depths of the pool. If necessary, it will be possible to lower models of underwater caves, sunken ships and aircraft into the pool, for which the complex is equipped with a sliding roof and a 30-ton crane. In addition to all this, the pool is equipped with tools that allow you to control and regulate water temperature, illumination, water salinity, simulate currents of various strengths and directions at various depths.

Currently, Blue Abyss has already received permission from the British authorities to begin construction of the pool. The entire construction process should be completed within 18 months and the opening of the pool, therefore, should take place in 2023.

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