Belgium here we come!

[spaghetti]

This pool is made for us. It's in Belgium, 33 meters deep. Any of you DB folks been there already?

8 pics gallery in this link:

Belgio, la piscina più profonda del mondo - Galleria - Repubblica.it

 

[trullalla]

ciao spaghetti!

unfortunately they don't want freedivers in there, apparently freediving is dangerous and they don't want bad publicity with accidents or something like that.
anyways, why do you want to go there?? did anybody tell you that there's no fish to catch??
why don't you come to the red sea instead?

linda

 

[spaghetti]

ciao Linda!
they don't want freedivers?? M@th*F^ck#ers! Edit: Belgium: we won't come!
(but that's a freediver in the pic: maybe they just used that image because we fdivers look more beautiful than bubblers).

Greetings from Spago Spaghetti,
founder and president of the world's n.1
unauthorized Linda Paganelli's Fans' Club

 

[Waterysmile]

Do you know where I could read more about it - my Italian isn't very good? Picture 7 has the freediver again. It looks fantastic.

 

[Pastor]

(but that's a freediver in the pic: maybe they just used that image because we fdivers look more beautiful than bubblers).

You're mistaken mate! No freedivers there

 

[trux]

Ocassonally some freedivers manage to get there, but usually they let them diving in the shallow part only. Fred Buyle was probably the first freediver testing the deep part. You can find some photos and videos on his website. However, as far as I know, they really do not like to see freedivers there.

Some more info, photos and videos can be found on Shark Baite's website, and of course NEMO33 has own website too.

nemo 33 : Diving at Nemo33 ... WELCOME ! ...
Team Sharkbait - Media - Video?
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8447126741670612050&hl=en
[ame=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2890678565615307927]Team Sharkbait Freediving Nemo 33 - part 2 - Google Video[/ame]

Nektos.net - Fred Buyle - Underwater Photography
Untitled Document
http://users.skynet.be/buyle.freediving/images/fred_nemo35.mov

 

[naiad]

unfortunately they don't want freedivers in there, apparently freediving is dangerous and they don't want bad publicity with accidents or something like that.
anyways, why do you want to go there?? did anybody tell you that there's no fish to catch??

That is such a shame. I would love to go somewhere like that, it would be the only place that is warm enough.

 

[Jorg]

We, Team Sharkbait, have been there several times. You can freedive to the 10 meter deep part and that's what we show in our 2 video's and it's allowed. Last time they told it's from now on also forbidden to use our long fins, and you can only freedive to 10 meters for 15 meters. Of course I can tell you the real story and that we did dive deeper, but then I would have to kill you. The video footage of those deeper dives are locked in Area 52. ;-)

But there is hope.....

 

[Waterysmile]

Thanks, trux.

Naiad, the water is chlorine-free too. One could take the Eurostar to Brussels and make a good weekend of it.

Jorg, so only no-fins now, that would make it enough of a challenge for me.

 

[rbsub]

For your information:

There will be a freediving event on 31.03.07 in the Montemare,Rheinbach, Gemany (in the near of Cologne / Bonn).

Here are the informations (it's in German:head, but if there is more interest, I can try to translate the more importent things):

Freizeit mit Achim
and then "Monte Mare Rheinbach" on the left menu.
(btw: "Wetten das" Dezember 2004" is funny, too . There was a bet to ge up a car in 4 minutes by blowing air in bags)


and

monte mare - Bildergalerie - Indoor-Tauchzentrum


The pool is only 10 m deep, but there are some more things to see.

 

[Jorg]

In the netherlands we also got a 10 meter dive tower in enschede. Follow the dive world link on Bowling & Dive, Titanic

 

[rbsub]

In the netherlands we also got a 10 meter dive tower in enschede. Follow the dive world link on Bowling & Dive, Titanic

Sorry, but I don't understand the language. Is freediving allowed there?

 

[trux]

But there is hope.....

Jorg, do you have any link to the source of that information (even if it is just in Spanish)? I tried to Google it, but found nothing at all.

We should have a 20m tower here in Lyon in 2007 or 2008 too. Not really deep, but still better for training than the 18m quarry Chamagnieu we use now.

Otherwise it is not a bad idea to add such facilities or other open water freediving spots to the database at FreedivingSpots.net

 

[Jorg]

Sorry, but I don't understand the language. Is freediving allowed there?

yes it is. Not that there is a particular mentioning of it on the website... but still, it's allowed. It's a very cold place... 20 degrees or so.

Jorg, do you have any link to the source of that information (even if it is just in Spanish)? I tried to Google it, but found nothing at all.

We should have a 20m tower here in Lyon in 2007 or 2008 too. Not really deep, but still better for training than the 18m quarry Chamagnieu we use now.

Otherwise it is not a bad idea to add such facilities or other open water freediving spots to the database at FreedivingSpots.net

I found it somewhere on some spanish newspaper website, very complete article. I'll see if I can come up with the source. If I remember correctly there is also something mentioned about it on the town's website. It's a complete sportcomplex that's being build.

20 meter tower is already loads of fun! Especially if freediving is allowed. There is also a project on it's way for a 40 meter deep indoor diving pool in the netherlands, but the financing is still a problem.

 

[wet]

Hey Trux, the closed granite quarry you use, it was so full of tires and autos?
Histoire

Did they stock it with fish, amphibians, plants or keep it just rock surfaces?

DDeden

 

[trux]

Hey Trux, the closed granite quarry you use, it was so full of tires and autos?
Histoire

Did they stock it with fish, amphibians, plants or keep it just rock surfaces?

DDeden

Yes, they write they recovered 20 stolen cars and plenty of other objects from the bottom, and there were also 1500 metric tonnes of tires on the site (fortunately mostly not in the water).


And yes, there is some fish now, but no plants on the bottom since there are quite steep walls going straight down. Only on one of the shallower ends there is some vegetation. See the fish in the video (or this one - showing much more, not only the fish) or in the gallery on the website.

​

 

[naiad]

That is very clear water, and a great variety of fish, including the carp, which is the fish I want to dive with.

 

[trux]

That is very clear water, and a great variety of fish, including the carp, which is the fish I want to dive with.

Well, the visibility is good only until the first scubies come. The best I had was around 10m, but I guess it may be better in the morning. Although you can see nice big carps just at the entry platform, I was not lucky to meet them at the bottom, but I often see and even touched the one shown on the fifth photo (don't know what the English name is - Yellow Perch perhaps?)

 

[wet]

It sure looks much better than before. Do the scuba bubbles make the water more murky, or is it just the quantity of scuba divers that stirs up the silt?

 

[trux]

Yes, it is the divers stiring up the silt, not the bubbles. There are usually beginners making a scuba course, not really mastering their buyancy and propulsion well, and the bottom is quite muddy / silty, so it is quickly done.