Imagine diving deep into a swimming pool and having to flush a toilet, study Shakespeare or play foosball or shoot films? Well, the impossible has been done as the world’s deepest swimming pool Deep Dive Dubai opens in Dubai.

A record-breaking 60.02 meters deep and contains 14 million litres of warm water, Deep Dive Dubai is equivalent to six Olympic-sized swimming pools. Located in Dubai’s Nad Al Sheba area, the pool is the world’s deepest and undoubtedly coolest diving pool so far.

Set to open in late July, the pool takes a plunge into exploring an abandoned and flooded city, that includes an apartment, garage and arcade. The sunken city has an entire suburb full of faux abandoned apartments, a waterlogged library of sunken tomes, a games room complete with a working foosball table and striking street graffiti.

Inspired by the UAE’s rich pearl-diving heritage of the past, the pool is shaped like a giant oyster in a nod. This will be the region’s most advanced hyperbaric chamber and for the ones who cannot hold their breath for long, there are dry chambers at 6m and 21m below the surface.

Headed by director Jarrod Jablonski, he is a world-record-holding cave diver and a leading figure in the worldwide development of scuba diving.

Deep Dive Dubai is also an underwater film studio that includes an editing room, a video wall, 56 underwater cameras and advanced sound and mood lighting systems that can give the vast pool of H20 a movie set hue. Not just that, the pool is also home to a dive shop, an 80-seat restaurant that will open later this year, as well as meeting, event and conference spaces.

But that’s not all! For the ones who don’t want to enjoy the sunken surprises, there are viewing areas on the lower floors of the building that allow landlubbers dining in the restaurant to wave to divers during their travels.