About
FUNDING NEEDED TO BRING THIS TRANFORMATIONAL FACILITY TO THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE!
The earth is 71% water, yet most outdoor sports are on land. Idaho Underwater is here to take advantage of the environment “Under Water”. If you poured all of the earth’s water on the United States, it would be 107 miles deep!
We are building the “USA’s first of its kind”, deep, warm water, scuba-diving indoor attraction!
With our facility, we are solving 6 problems that currently exist in the NW US diving community.
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Warm water – the NW US has mostly mountain-fed lakes and rivers. Divers must use thermal protection to dive. Creating a warm water environment eliminates this problem. Our facility will maintain the water temperature between 86 -88 degrees, making thermal protection unnecessary.
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Clear water – many lakes are murky. Visibility provides the environment of greater safety and reduces anxiety by being less confining. Clear water reduces claustrophobia and is less confining than dark, murky water.
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Deep – 105 feet. Depth is a requirement for beginning scuba certifications. Our depth allows individuals to learn and experience the physiological changes that occur at the different atmospheres our depth provides.
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Scuba, in and of itself, requires practice to hone the many skills needed to breathe and be safe underwater. This creates the necessity of repeat customers to our attraction.
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It’s local. The majority of the 10 surrounding states travel an average of 4-10 hours to Heber City, Utah to have a warm, deep environment to complete the beginning scuba certifications. Heber City is a “ski resort” area with few affordable overnight options and the Homestead Crater, with its geothermal water is dark, murky, and too hot at 93 degrees.
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IT’s an ATTRACTION-we are not a swimming pool. We are building an underwater attraction using Idaho’s many landscapes and geological formations to make the facility interesting and fun. Our attraction will have Idaho landmarks like Shoshone Falls, the Perrine bridge from Twin Falls, the City of Rocks from Alma, and the Craters of the Moon from Arco.
With practice comes competency in diving. If individuals don’t become competent in diving, they can harm the underwater environment, ruining it for others. A coral reef takes hundreds of years to grow and only a brief second to kill it from inexperienced divers.
And you don’t have to be a diver to interact with our facility. We’ve created spaces for non-divers to observe our under water environment through large under water windows or walking across the Perrine bridge, overtop the pool.
The pressure under water changes with depth. At a mere 33 feet you enter the third atmosphere of pressure. The deeper you dive, the greater this atmospheric pressure occurs. A diver needs to experience these pressures in order to know how and what to do when the physiological events occur. This can become a life-or-death event, so it’s critical that divers learn the effects of depth.
We are excited to bring this opportunity to recreationists, divers, snorkelers, free divers and to Idaho, in particular. Meridian is centrally located in the NW US, making this location easily accessible from any where in the USA.