‘Divecube is the only place in central Taiwan to get a diving license, unless you want to go and give it a try in Taichung harbor.’
The News Lens
Date: 017/04/18
By: David Green
The Divecube Hotel in Taichung opened its doors in February and with them the chance
TNL: What’s your background and how did you come around to the idea of building the Divecube?
Wang: My background is in swimming pool management, something I’ve done around Taiwan for about 20 years. I also operated a sports center on the mainland in Zhejiang. I withdrew from the pool business in 2011, about the same time I saw a picture online of the Nemo 33 hotel in Belgium, which also has its own dive pool. I thought the picture was fake – how could anyone build something that deep – and there was very little information about the hotel itself. Then I realized the Nemo 33 pool had a sectional view – where people in the hotel could see into the pool itself and watch people diving. That’s when I thought they’d done something really special.
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