Diving tower
A diving tower is a building in which diving can be practiced.
A diving tower offers the possibility of training diving under realistic pressure conditions, but taking a lower safety risk than diving in open waters. Diving towers usually have a manageable floor plan and are filled with heated water. In addition, competent staff usually watch over the processes in the diving tower.
In addition to stationary diving towers, there are also transportable ones. The world's largest transportable diving tower with a capacity of 120,000 liters of water and a height of four meters is owned by the Düsseldorf Exhibition Company and is used at boot .
Well-known stationary diving towers in Germany
The eight meter deep diving tower of the federal teaching and research facility of the DLRG is located in Berlin . It was built in 1974 and renovated in 1993. Special feature: There is a decompression chamber above this diving tower , so that dives up to 150 meters deep can be simulated. Diving accidents are also dealt with here.
The diving tower opened in the summer of 2009 in the Siegburg health and adventure park is considered the largest diving tower in Europe . The water in this tower is 20.5 meters deep.
In Duisburg , a former gasometer is used as a diving tower. It has a diameter of 45 meters and offers a water depth of 13 meters. The diving gasometer is equipped with wrecks, an artificial reef and other elements.
The Vogtland diving tower has an adjustable floor so that you can get used to the equipment when the water is shallow. The greatest adjustable water depth is ten meters.
The Neustadt diving tower of the Bundeswehr is 33.5 m deep and is used to practice simulated emergency exits from a submarine.
The first glass diving tower in Germany was set up on the listed Dick area in Esslingen am Neckar . It is about nine meters deep. The Esslingen diving center, which operated this tower for several years, has since moved to another building and uses a smaller diving tower there.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.der-tauchturm.de/
- ↑ http://www.tauchturmcrew.de/index.php?index=400
- ↑ http://www.tauchturm.dlrg.de
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- ↑ http://www.tauchturm-vogtland.de/
- ↑ Tauchturm (Indoor diving Stuttgart). In: Diving Center Esslingen. Accessed October 2, 2019 (German).
