Mehmet Akif Ersoy Indoor Swimming Pool Mehmet Akif Ersoy Indoor Swimming Pool Mehmet Akif Ersoy Indoor Swimming Pool, () is an indoor aquatics venue located in Bostancı neighborhood of Trabzon, Turkey. The Olympic-size swimming pool was constructed between 2009-2011 at a cost of 16 million (approx. $ 10 million) to host the swimming events at the 2011 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival. The pool with length and width has ten lanes. There is a diving tower at the pool. It can hold 1,400 spectators. The building has a 140 tonns heavy retractable roof with two wings, which can be opened up in 10 minutes. The aquatics
Olympic-size swimming pool used as a colloquial unit of volume, to make approximate comparisons to similarly sized objects or volumes. It is not a specific definition, as there is no official limit on the depth of an Olympic pool. The value has an order of magnitude of 1 megaliter (ML). FINA specifications for an Olympic-size pool are as follows: There must be two spaces wide outside lanes 1 and 8 (in effect, two empty lanes). The length of must be between the touch pads at the end of each lane, if they are used. If starting blocks are used, then there must be