Water
Deep Dive Dubai
- Direct guests
- families
- divers
- incentive
A purpose-built indoor dive pool in the Nad Al Sheba neighbourhood of Dubai, verified by Guinness World Records as the world's deepest swimming pool for diving.
How it operates
An indoor pool, so the dive runs to a booked time slot regardless of the weather outside. Guests are matched to a maximum depth by certification, from a supervised try-dive in the shallow section through to trimix depth at the bottom, and non-divers take the Sunken City Walk, snorkel or freedive instead. The water is held at 30°C year-round.
For agents
Operating and selling mechanics
- Genuinely weather-proof and heat-proof — the strongest indoor answer for a July/August itinerary or a rained-off beach day.
- Certification level determines the product, so collect certification details at booking, not on arrival.
- Works as an incentive-group novelty for non-divers via the Sunken City Walk.
For travellers
What to brief your guests on
- Your certification sets your maximum depth, so bring the card — it decides which experience you can book.
- Non-divers are not excluded: the Sunken City Walk uses a full-face mask along a shallow sidewalk and needs no swimming ability.
For non-divers
- Sunken City Walk — a walking tour along a 4 m sidewalk using a full-face mask, requiring no swimming skills; approximately 20 minutes in the water within a one-hour experience; minimum age 10
- Snorkelling from age 6
- Freediving from age 13
Access by certification
- Non-certified (try dive) — 12 m
- Open Water certified — 18 m
- Advanced Open Water — 30 m
- Technical divers holding the Deep Diver specialty — 40 m
- Experienced technical divers with trimix / decompression training — 60 m
Verified detail
- Record depth: 60.02 m (196 ft 10 in), record published 21 July 2021
- Holds 14 million litres of fresh water — described as the equivalent of six Olympic-sized pools
- Water temperature maintained at 30°C
- Pool covers 1,500 m²
- Filtration developed with NASA-derived technology using siliceous volcanic rock and UV, circulating fresh water every six hours
- Exterior designed to resemble an oyster, referencing the UAE's pearl-diving heritage
- Contains a themed 'sunken city' — abandoned streetscape with an apartment, garage, arcade and other set pieces
Checked 2026-07-29
This brief describes how the product works in the Dubai market, not a Forever Journeys policy or rate. Operating detail was read on these sources on the date above and can change — the ops team confirms specifics at booking.
Made to measure
Our Dubai team arranges the hotels, transfers and excursions on the ground across all seven Emirates — so the programme is assembled around the dates you send us, not around a fixed departure calendar.
The fleet is ours, and so is the team that dispatches it.