A diving pool 6 metres deep is being built in Pszczyna!

The fascination with the underwater world has been experiencing a huge boom in recent years. The number of fans, and in many cases fanatics of this unique passion, is constantly growing. It is not surprising then, that more and more often holiday plans of whole families are connected with diving. The company of sunbathers on the beach is exchanged for a much more interesting and colourful underwater world and the possibility of communing with fauna and flora hidden under the surface of the water.

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Diving is a great sport and leisure activity. However, it does not lack dangers, for which every diver going under the water should be adequately prepared. To be able to safely enjoy the charms of diving, in addition to having the appropriate equipment, each adept must go through successive levels of training, which will allow him to acquire the right habits, skills and experience.

Beginning the adventure with diving, in most cases, we will put our first steps in the pool, located in the village, where we signed up for a diving course, and then we will gain further skills in specialized (and thus offering greater depth) facilities or in open waters.

And this is where a problem arises. As a rule, typical swimming pools are up to 3 metres deep, while facilities where training could be conducted at greater depths are scarce. It is therefore no wonder that efforts are constantly being made to create new places of this type and adapt existing ones, for example, reservoirs.

The Management Board of Przedsiębiorstwo Inżynierii Komunalnej in Pszczyna, Silesia, came up with an unusual idea. Destined for demolition, unused for over twenty years water tanks, after minor conservation and adaptation works they decided to use them as a diving training centre!

The tanks offer dimensions unattainable for classic pools – more than 11 metres in diameter and nearly 6 metres deep! It must be admitted that most diving schools around the country would dream of having a similar facility.

The decision of the water board was of course applauded by diving enthusiasts. It should be noted, however, that the move was well thought-out and much more economically viable than demolition. It turns out that the cost estimate for the demolition of the tanks was almost 700 thousand PLN, while the estimated cost of adaptation works is only 30-40 thousand PLN! One must admit, therefore, that it is a very good move on the part of those managing the budget of this small town.

What is more, due to the lack of facilities with a depth of more than 3 metres in the immediate vicinity, it can be expected that soon there will be people willing to make the facility in Pszczyna an interesting attraction and a thriving training point on the diving map of Poland.

We can only keep our fingers crossed for the success of the venture and the imminent opening, so that we can see for ourselves what is going on in Pszczyna… underwater, of course.