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Cost of building a deep pool

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I wonder what's the cost of building an in-ground vertical shaft pool. Say, 12 ft diameter, 10 - 20 meters deep. I mean they built Nemo33, so it's not something new. I'm thinking about a way scaled down versions, no caves, no restaurants on the sides, no windows, no frills, just deep but clean water. Well some sparse pool lights would help.

Anyway, just curious. There must be some of us here in pool construction business, right? :)

Take care and dive safe!
 
Maybe similiar to a water tower (for drinking)? You might be able to get that information at the local Town Hall
 
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It will be certainly much more expensive than a water tower, since you need much more technology (water filtering, and circulation, water heating, illumination, tank filling compressor, cleaning equipment,...), comfort (heating, locker rooms, showers, toilets, parking, office, room for stocking the diving equipment, medical emergency room, ...), and safety.

I do not know the cost of the diving pit/tower alone, but the 20m deep diving pit here in Lyon was built within an entire aquatic center for 14,130,000 €. My rough guess is that if there was no swimming pool, sauna, gym, and external garden, and the building was much smaller, it could have been perhaps some 20-30% of that price, but I may be completely wrong. You can try contacting the company who built the auqatic center: http://www.tna.fr/projets/references-aquatiques/centre-aquatique-les-vagues-meyzieu-69-
 
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Think energy. It also depends on the kind of soil. If you got solid rock it's much more difficult then sand.

I had a similar idea, only no money. I was thinking buying 3m sewer rings, stack 'm up, and let gravity and digging let it sink into ground.
If these aren't available, making a reusable concrete casing could be my choice.
Also Buying 2nd hand farmer silo's, stacking them, tough they are likely to need reinforcements to stand the soil pressure.

I did study building engineering, but obviously there was no class for dive towers / pits.
 
Though we also floated the idea of digging a dive tank, I also had the idea of creating a heated water column. Since in Vancouver we have 200m deep water right off the shore, (but it is cold), I imagined dropping insulated rings, and then using some sort of pump/heater to circulate and heat the water. The benefit is that the rings could be weak-- no pressure differential, but the whole thing would still be complicated, and the legality dubious.

If it did work, it could be heated to any temperature, there would be no current, and with a filter the visibility could be made enormous.
 
Though we also floated the idea of digging a dive tank, I also had the idea of creating a heated water column. Since in Vancouver we have 200m deep water right off the shore, (but it is cold), I imagined dropping insulated rings, and then using some sort of pump/heater to circulate and heat the water. The benefit is that the rings could be weak-- no pressure differential, but the whole thing would still be complicated, and the legality dubious.

If it did work, it could be heated to any temperature, there would be no current, and with a filter the visibility could be made enormous.

A similar project has been presented here in Italy, near Milan
They intended to build it in a small abandoned sand mine, that has now become an artificial lake
40m deep, but it seems the project sank somewhere
 
On a housing show, possibly Grand Designs, there was a home built with a water tower next to it. The house was raised so their verandah (deck) was the same height as the top of the tower and it was HUGE!!!
 
The South African Navy recently built a 16m above ground submarine escape training tank for about 4.7 million Euros. No doubt it could have been cheaper and was originally spec'ed to be 26m high, but it does provide an idea of what an above ground tank would cost. Maybe halve that price for a no-frills tank.
 
Since in Vancouver we have 200m deep water right off the shore, (but it is cold), I imagined dropping insulated rings, and then using some sort of pump/heater to circulate and heat the water. The benefit is that the rings could be weak-- no pressure differential, but the whole thing would still be complicated, and the legality dubious.

If it did work, it could be heated to any temperature, there would be no current, and with a filter the visibility could be made enormous .

Years ago I was working with a very large crew of other divers (20 in all) and we created 4 water colums for a research study by planting bases on the bottom of Saaninch Inlet at 80', then we raised kevlar fabric tubes up to the surface, supported them with large float rings, and anchored the whole thing in place.

The forces on the tubes even from gentle tidal currents were enormous, requiring a network of pretty strong steel cables, and the fabric of the tubes wore out surprisingly fast from working back and forth.

You might find that you would require continual maintenance to keep a diving column intact, and in the long run, building an in-ground pool might be cheaper. Also, the seawater outside the column has a larger heat capacity than earth, no mater how wet the soil is. Also heat diffuses away through soil very slowly, wheras in the sea convection carries heat away almost instantly. No matter how well you insulated, I think your energy costs would be much higher in the sea compared to an in-ground pool. In the sea perhaps the only way to make it affordable would be to not heat the interior and everybody has to use wetsuits.
 
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Cost of building deep pool depends on many aspects like constructions, materials, and tiles except all these other things are. According to me its totally depends on us how much and how you want to see your pool.
 
I wonder why there is not more info on this. Are there really that few people interested in deep pools?
I mean, there are divers, synchro swimmers, mermaid performers, underwater dancers...

anyway.
Building a normal sized pool, but vertical instead of horizontal, should in theory not cost much more than a normal pool of the same dimensions. I.e., instead of a pool 8m long 3m wide, have one 3m diameter and 8m deep.

Wells and cisterns of similar sizes (many deeper) can be built for a few thousand bucks, so I'm not sure why building a pool of similar size should cost a fortune. Unless it's simply the pool manufacturers being greedy.
 
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