The Abu Dhabi Aquatics Festival was a FINA-organized international aquatics competition spanning the disciplines of open water swimming, diving, and high diving, which took place from 15 to 20 December 2021 on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
[5] Coverage of the aquatics festival on television and via online streaming was provided on six continents with news agencies including ESPN (Americas), SuperSport (Africa), and beIN Sports (Asia) providing international coverage of the high diving competitions.
[6] A press conference to welcome athletes and attendees following the 4×1500 metre relay open water swimming event on 15 December served as the official start of the festival.
[24] Twenty-six high divers, fourteen men and twelve women, had their results from the competition serve as their qualification for the 2022 World Aquatics Championships.
[25][26][27] In February 2022, FINA removed high diving from the 2022 World Aquatics Championships program, due to a change of location from Fukuoka to Budapest and a lack of infrastructure in the new host location to conduct high diving competition, thus invalidating the qualifications achieved.