Bejing Pool is "Fast" and Designed to Break Records.

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Allen Stark — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:45:16 GMT

I'm pretty sure the Mt Hood pool is 14 ft at the deep end(built for diving also.)

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Former Member — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:51:41 GMT

No need for new glasses TJ....or a bigger dive tank. It's 3 meters deep. A magic cube could be awash with records www.stuff.co.nz/.../4647110a28215.html

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Former Member — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:45:05 GMT

If this pool is 13 meters deep.....I need new glasses........ Looks like 3 to me.......

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Former Member — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:38:29 GMT

Hmmm....I question whether it's really 13 meters deep. I've seen references to the Competition pool being 3 meters deep, which sounds much more reasonable.

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Former Member — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:27:07 GMT

I read somewhere that the competition pool was 3 meters deep. That makes sense. Perhaps they suggested that the entire pool was as deep as the diving tank? "The swimming pool is 13 meters deep, which, according to the designers, can reduce the interference of water temperature variation." Fast swim expected to be seen at Water Cube news.xinhuanet.com/.../content_8908034.htm

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Former Member — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:25:54 GMT

I would feel sorry for the athletes, but I actually hope the smog is bad. Maybe that would be the wake-up call the Chinese need to do something about it in the future. They need some type of wake up call, it's terrible - some recent pictures posted online look like they are having a blizzard there!

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Former Member — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:16:18 GMT

Are they filtering the smog and crap out of the ambient air also? -LBJ It looks terrible there, doesn't it. I feel bad for the athletes competing outside. I hope some gust of wind or some help from above will clear up the smog for the next two weeks. A girl can hope. Anyways, the Water Cube is incredible. Aside from the beautiful architecture... I did not realize they engineered the pool like that. How exciting! I love cold, deep pools - makes we wanna cruise!

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Former Member — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:12:07 GMT

Are they filtering the smog and crap out of the ambient air also? -LBJ

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knelson — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:49:10 GMT

Perhaps they suggested that the entire pool was as deep as the diving tank? No way is the diving tank that deep, either!

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pwolf66 — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:40:26 GMT

Yeah, this looks suspicious to me, too. I have a feeling someone got some figures wrong. No, it's the reason why NBC has had to install tele-photo lenses on the cameras mounted on the bottom of the pool :laugh2:

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knelson — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:21:27 GMT

It looks terrible there, doesn't it. I feel bad for the athletes competing outside. I hope some gust of wind or some help from above will clear up the smog for the next two weeks. I would feel sorry for the athletes, but I actually hope the smog is bad. Maybe that would be the wake-up call the Chinese need to do something about it in the future.

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knelson — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:16:04 GMT

The pool is 42.7' deep :drown: ? Yeah, this looks suspicious to me, too. I have a feeling someone got some figures wrong.

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Former Member — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:38:29 GMT

(4) introducing a ventilation system that whisks chlorine fumes off the surface of the water, allowing the athletes to breathe clean air. --outside.away.com I thought it should no doubt be an ozone pool or anything other than chlorinated one?:rolleyes:

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Former Member — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:38:10 GMT

Used to have a 12 ft deep pool I swam in as a kid in So Cal....it was always considered a pretty fast pool.

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Former Member — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:36:18 GMT

I don't know about you all - but I don't like racing in the diving well of pools. The bottom is too far away and I lose a sense of where I am. I have a hard time believing elite swimmers would want it much deeper than 3 M unless they knew additional depth produced faster times.

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Former Member — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:29:34 GMT

3 meters is only 9.8 feet. :doh: I caught it too right after posting. I only use Imperial Units. And for the record, I am not a reporter. :)

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Former Member — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:25:26 GMT

Photo of the competition pool looks to be about 10 feet deep....which is 3 meters.

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pwolf66 — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:46:09 GMT

Are you just making stuff up Paul?:duel: Nope.

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JoeBob — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:22:57 GMT

I don't know about you all - but I don't like racing in the diving well of pools. The bottom is too far away and I lose a sense of where I am. I am with you. I messed up several of my turns in the mile at nationals after having trained in a very shallow pool. I was completely lost in the diving well during warm-up. Oh yeah, taking 15 years off didn't help either. :cane:

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knelson — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:20:52 GMT

I'll buy Paul's argument. At some point there's got to be a transition from a pool being a nice deep and fast pool to just being a small lake. The more water you get in there the more difficult it's going to be to control things like temperature, currents and chemical balance. So basically you just need the pool to be deep enough so that turbulence is dissipated before it hits the bottom of the pool and reflects back up.

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Iwannafly — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:06:06 GMT

So far in pool design, 3 meter depth has been found to be the optimal balance of water density, wave disipation, temperature control, current control, etc. Maybe that might change but that's where pool design is right now. Are you just making stuff up Paul?:duel:

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pwolf66 — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:49:01 GMT

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Iwannafly — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:26:48 GMT

Photo of the competition pool looks to be 13 feet deep....which is 3 meters. The first link I posted just goes to show...reporters can mix things up. 3 meters is only 9.8 feet.

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smontanaro — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:48:57 GMT

Hmmm... I haven't been to Northwestern's pool much this summer, but they have a 5m platform and a depth of 13-14 ft (about 4m). The Chinese are presumably spending $100m on the opening ceremonies. What's a few extra meters to them? Ahandful of extra bucket loaders full of dirt and the skim a fraction of an inch of water off the Three Gorges reservoir to make up the extra volume. ;) I'm not actually seriously suggesting at this point that the diving well is 13m deep, but one could see how it might not be out of the realm of reasonableness to an inexperienced reporter. Skip

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knelson — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:31:04 GMT

I can see the diving well being 13m deep since they have a 10m platform. No way. Diving pools only need to be 6-7 meters deep, just as SLOmmafan said.