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Shallow ponds contain shallow water. Deep ponds with straight, vertical sides contain deep water. Deep ponds with sloped sides contain deep water where it is deepest, and shallower water at the shallowest points of the gradient nearest the water's edge.

If you empty a pond, it will contain neither shallow nor deep water, but a similar model of air depth to that outlined above if one considers the interface between the pond's contained air and the air above it to be located approximately where the water level would be in a filled pond.

Maintaining buoyancy in an empty pond is problematic, as is swimming, but in a sufficiently shallow pond, all one would need to do is stand up and walk to shore. Falling into an empty pond, especially from any great height, is probably not favourable compared to falling into a filled pond... unless you are unable to swim, in which case, apart from the possibility of harm resulting from the fall, you may prefer to get muddy as opposed to drowning.

'Shallow' and 'deep' are subjective. A deep pond is shallower than a deeper pond, but deeper than a shallow pond, while the shallow pond may be deeper than a shallower pond, which would presumably be deeper than a puddle (which we can presume is shallowest, though there is no hard and fast rule regarding the depth of puddles, and a sufficiently deep depression may fill to a level that makes it as deep as- or deeper than- a shallow pond).

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