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
Swimming pool long and at least deep. Competition pools are generally indoors and heated to enable their use all year round, and to more easily comply with the regulations regarding temperature, lighting, and automatic officiating equipment. An Olympic-size swimming pool (first used at the 1924 Olympics) is a pool that meets FINA's additional standards for the Olympic Games and for world championship events. It must be wide, divided into eight lanes of each, plus two areas of at each side of the pool. Depth must be at least . The water must be kept at and the lighting level at greater than