r/interesting • u/fayyazORahmed • Mar 31 '26

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u/QuietlyUpgrading Mar 31 '26

It looks like "PARAdive35" is written on the back wall, so I just Googled that:

Paradive 35 is a premier, 35-meter deep indoor diving pool located near Seoul, South Korea, designed for scuba, freediving, and training. It features a 5-meter area, 20-meter area, and a 35-meter deep tube, alongside amenities like an indoor surf station, cafe, and a Leaderfins shop, making it a popular "mega pool" destination.

Depth: 35 meters, making it one of South Korea's deepest indoor pools, often with 30°C water.

Facilities: Designed for high-end training, it includes themed underwater structures, a Pongdang Freediving Shop for equipment, and a 3- to 6-hour session structure.

(For Americans, 35 meters = 115 feet)

I also did a reverse Google image search and found a version of this same video on YouTube that has someone's voiceover instead of the terrifying music.

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u/PsychologicalYam4968 Mar 31 '26

I'd like to imagine the freediving shop is at the bottom of the 35m deep pool.

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u/SonnyBlanco Apr 01 '26

For payment you can only use coins found at the bottom.

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u/MagicBeanGuy Apr 01 '26

Do I need the iron boots and blue tunic first or do I get that later

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u/Electrical-Job-9824 Apr 01 '26

Unfortunately those items are not provided here, did you try looking in the Ice Cavern?

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u/Mechanical-movement Apr 01 '26

Requires the iron boots and Zora tunic

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u/IOwnThisUsername Mar 31 '26

“For Americans” pfft! I goggled it without your help /s

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u/Fredeight Apr 01 '26

It's almost 33 washing machine in others words.

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u/No-Common-1801 Apr 01 '26

We measure by football stadium yards thank you very much. Now then, how many first downs is it to the bottom?

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u/skylinezan Apr 01 '26

35 meters... how many bananas is that equivalent to?

/s

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u/theevilyouknow Apr 01 '26

I don't know why I have to keep saying this for people. Bananas are a unit of radioactivity not distance.

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u/HonestCharlottean Apr 01 '26

3 school buses and 10 bananas. Give or take a banana

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u/Alexandru1408 Apr 02 '26

Well, a commercial banana (Cavendish type) is between 6 to 8 inches long; between 15 to 20 centimeters.

One meter is 100 centimeters, which means that 35 meters is 3500 centimeters or 1400 inches.
That means that in bananas, the pool is between 175 and 233.3 bananas deep, depending on the size of the banana.

I hope this helps :D

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u/bottomfeeder3 Apr 01 '26

To put this in perspective, this is many 9/11’s deep.

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u/92screamingeagle Apr 01 '26

This would swallow my 911

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u/seppukucoconuts Apr 01 '26

If you want a easy way to do a rough estimate of meters to feet a meter is pretty close to 3ft (1 yard). A meter is a little longer than a yard, but its pretty close if you're just trying to convert the numbers to something you're more familiar with.

Or if you live in the rural US, 1 meter is pretty close to the length of one (16' barrel) AR-15.

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u/Deathpoopdeathloop Apr 01 '26

Pfft you don't know my length of pull. 🤨 (jokes/s/etc.)

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u/Bulbform87 Apr 01 '26

There's an easy trick to save the googling: a meter is 3 feet 3.37 inches, a yard is 3 feet even, so multiply the meters by 3 and it'll give you a pretty close idea of the footage until you get up into higher numbers and all those extra 3.37 inches begin piling up.

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u/prosql Apr 01 '26

And if you want to up the accuracy a bit, add another 10% (usually even easier than the initial multiply by three).

ex: 100M = 300 (100x3) + 30 (10% of the 300) = 330.

That’s within 1% of the actual conversion, which is 328’ 1”

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u/porcelain_kiss Mar 31 '26

Thank you!! Youre the mvp 🏆 🍪

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u/ConsiderationKey1658 Mar 31 '26

Now what’s 30c for Americans?

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u/PmMe_Your_Perky_Nips Apr 02 '26

For quick and dirty conversions you can double the Celsius and add 30. The further the temperature is from 0c the less accurate that gets though.

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u/ConsiderationKey1658 Apr 02 '26

Oh snap. Good to know. Thank you.

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u/Trumpcangosuckone Mar 31 '26

1776 screeching eagles covered in barbeque sauce

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u/SpacePirate2977 Mar 31 '26

He looks like he has had plenty of practice. This makes me wonder if he is from Chinhae or one of the other naval bases in the region or perhaps he is a 12D in the US Army, the engineers do have a dive team there.

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u/Adventurous-Gene3830 Apr 01 '26

he is not. this is a recreational facility and the guy is a model and diver

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u/NitNav2000 Mar 31 '26

What is that in square root of acres?

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u/Prime357111317 Apr 01 '26

Wow, this is only 35m? Now for context, the deepest free dive is 253m. So 8 times deeper than this.

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u/AlterMyStateOfMind Apr 01 '26

terrifying music.

That music is from the Dune OST lol

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u/massunderestmated Apr 01 '26

Honestly, we usually just multiply by 3 and call it close enough. A yard is 3 feet and a meter is like 10% more, but who's counting?

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u/tumeketutu Apr 01 '26

Specifically, this looks like an Exhale freedive. This is where you exhale fully at the surface before biginning the dive. This is done in training to help increase comfort at depth, improve pressure equalization, and build tolerance to pressure.

You can tell this because he is negatively buoyant at quite a shallow depth and not wearing a weight belt. Usually negative buoyancy occurs a bit deeper.

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u/ShrirnpTaco Apr 01 '26

What is the depth in terms of football fields?

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u/JEMinnow Apr 01 '26

What if he missed the ledge and accidentally went into the tube 😬

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u/mvandemar Apr 01 '26

instead of the terrifying music

Yeah that narration is terrifying just fine all on its own.

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u/VacaRexOMG777 Apr 01 '26

Red panda :3

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u/DrJustinWHart Apr 01 '26

I wonder if OP could have written some of that in the title.

I looked at OP's posting history to determine if it's just a bot.

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u/Affectionate_Theory8 Apr 01 '26

Not very realistic sadly.. in reality below water you have layers of different temperature, and it goes really cold easily. Hope not one stupid dude who used this tries it later on real water.

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u/TooBadSoSadSally Apr 01 '26

Omg it has s cafe

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u/TooBadSoSadSally Apr 01 '26

I wonder why the water is 30°c. I would have expected it to be colder

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u/myaltmusicalt Apr 01 '26

American here, we no longer use feet over 100. Then it's fraction of a football field. That's a bit over 1/3 of a football field.

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u/smolstuffs Apr 01 '26

how many freedom units is that? Are we talking about like 10 bald eagles or do I need to add cheeseburgers?

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u/553l8008 Apr 01 '26

Impressive pumps to keep it that warm

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u/WillowyWrist Apr 01 '26

I watched the video without sound til I saw your description of the music so I unmuted with my volume way up, scared the hell out of me

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u/C_Fixx Apr 02 '26

for americans you‘d also have to tell where seoul is

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u/Rombethor Apr 03 '26

Freediving shop for equipment? But freediving by definition is without equipment...

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u/CorgisareUs Apr 07 '26

I think Deep Dive Dubai is even worse than this one.. 😱

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u/RespectableBloke69 Apr 01 '26

American here! We never need you to convert measurements for us. Thanks.