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brooklynite

(94,624 posts) Thu Jan 24, 2019, 04:28 PM Jan 2019

Bahrain to sink Boeing jet for underwater theme park

CNN:

The Persian Gulf country of Bahrain is hoping to attract divers from across the globe with a new "underwater theme park" -- an expansive diving site spanning 100,000 square meters with some unusual features.

The centerpiece of this underwater extravaganza? A sunken Boeing 747.

It might be of dubious taste -- but that's not putting the project managers off the concept.

The 70-meter-long plane due to be lowered in the water is a decommissioned, specially prepared aircraft.

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Bahrain to sink Boeing jet for underwater theme park (Original Post) brooklynite Jan 2019 OP

China, Dubai...Bahrain...all this growth from foreign countries... Crutchez_CuiBono Jan 2019 #1

do women divers have to wear burkas and go when men are not there? nt msongs Jan 2019 #2

This is Bahrain, not Saudi Arabia brooklynite Jan 2019 #3

What a waste of a perfectly good 747-400 Blue_Tires Jan 2019 #4

I actually have a 747 skin keychain... brooklynite Jan 2019 #6

Why waste your bottom time MuseRider Jan 2019 #5

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)

1. China, Dubai...Bahrain...all this growth from foreign countries...

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jan 24, 2019, 04:38 PM

Jan 2019

How's our growth this quarter?

msongs

(67,421 posts)

2. do women divers have to wear burkas and go when men are not there? nt

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jan 24, 2019, 04:44 PM

Jan 2019

brooklynite

(94,624 posts)

3. This is Bahrain, not Saudi Arabia

Reply to msongs (Reply #2)

Thu Jan 24, 2019, 04:48 PM

Jan 2019

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

4. What a waste of a perfectly good 747-400

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jan 24, 2019, 04:49 PM

Jan 2019

I'm not about to watch the Queen of the Skies get whored out like this! She'd have a more dignified end being turned into soda cans...

brooklynite

(94,624 posts)

6. I actually have a 747 skin keychain...

Reply to Blue_Tires (Reply #4)

Thu Jan 24, 2019, 04:58 PM

Jan 2019

MuseRider

(34,112 posts)

5. Why waste your bottom time

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jan 24, 2019, 04:56 PM

Jan 2019

on stuff you can see above the water?

Better off it was shallower and for snorkelers? Maybe they will provide those tanks that float so you can dive down a bit and not carry a tank or need a card to dive?

As an old diver with many hours on my clock I just do not understand what this is even good for.

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