Comments on: World’s Largest Swimming Pool

By: Salt Water Pool

Salt Water Pool — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:25:59 +0000

Thats an awesome looking pool, I want one

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:08:29 +0000

That’s a great explanation, H! Thank you.

By: H

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:01:46 +0000

Yeah, Chile has practically no continental shelf to speak of. Walk out about 200 feet and the coast drops about 8000 feet. This causes MASSIVE undercurrents and rip tides which makes the oceans in Chile impossible to swim in. Any person, no matter how fit, would not be able to survive those rip currents and return to shore. That’s why they have that pool; to allow Chileans and tourists the oppurtunity to swim at the beach when its beach is unswimmable.
H…

By: kim

kim — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:40:56 +0000

I like it. I wonder what is the context. It might justify the project, like sharks, jelly fish, pollution or dangerous currents. Obviously some comments here are made by “urban-green-fanatics”, unaware of coastal dangers. It always amaze me to hear them preach without understanding the context, they are the new missionaries, ready for the Green-totalitarian-wash !!!
In Australia there are millions of beautiful beaches (palm trees, white sand, the Cliche), most of them dangerous. That’s why we have rock pools with salt water, next to the sea (Google Bondi Beach). Think about the babies, the kids and the old people, think about security and pleasure, free your mind guys !!!

By: Petrarch

Petrarch — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:36:12 +0000

You… just don’t get it, do you?

Chile has a practically non-existent continental shelf, making its coast extremely dangerous due to both undertow and currents.

By: donna

donna — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:46:59 +0000

That’s so stupid I’m boycotting Chile now. Seriously.

By: Lydia

Lydia — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:29:54 +0000

Is it supposed to look like Chile?

By: Orjans Morjan

Orjans Morjan — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:27:03 +0000

No longer do you have to swim in those chlorine filled pools when you fly across the globe to get to a warmer country with seawater that is perfectly fine. Now you can swim in a pool full of natural feeling salt water.

Don’t forget to drink our bottled water that tastes like tap water, is almost as pure, has been transported several thousand kilometers and costs 1000x more!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:39:31 +0000

*smacks forehead* it makes me a little ashamed of the human race when i see something like a gigantic swimming pool not even 50 feet from the ocean. and its SALTWATER too…

By: Christophe

Christophe — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:39:29 +0000

I guess there is so much water in there that, if you pee in it, there is a chance that it will not turn bright red?

By: Perra

Perra — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:54:50 +0000

Sorry to spoil this neat post by telling you that there is a factual error in there. An olympic swimming pool is 50×25 metres and not yards (50 meters = 54.6806649 yard).

By: Tempscire

Tempscire — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:20:38 +0000

Haha. It’s right next to the beach and even uses filtered seawater. What does that say about their bit of ocean right there? (Though I must say, if the ocean water is anything like what’s in Galveston, TX, I don’t blame the pool-goers. It’s the swimming pools overlooking, say, the beautiful Caribbean that blow my mind.)

By: littleoslo

littleoslo — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:17:55 +0000

whats the point to have it right next to the ocean…. so strange and silly

By: K!P

K!P — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:02:03 +0000

wel some people dont like jelly fish or sharks

By: ted

ted — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:21:50 +0000

Probably a fake beach, anyways, but still…

It’s at the mouth of a river - wonder if the ocean’s too polluted right there. There’s irony.

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:09:23 +0000

Yeah, it’s neat, but it always cracks me up when I see a swimming pool right on the beach… Maybe it’s just that it’s not so common in the U.S. As a kid, I used to enjoy trips “down the shore” (guess what US state I hail from…) and there were never any pool visits involved. Pools were plentiful, but artificial, a ersatz ocean without the nice sand and waves. A trip to the shore was always (and remains) a better deal than a dunk in the pool, even a rather jumbo one like this. I can see the appeal of pools if you are far from the ocean, but it’s pretty lame to hang out in one when you’ve got reality so nearby.

By: sparge

sparge — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:02:28 +0000

But… but… there’s the ocean. Right there!

By: whippersnapper

whippersnapper — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:42:28 +0000

hmmm, let me see…
20 acres are round about 80937.1284 m² and
and filled up with 250.000 m³
The volume is footprint * height.
so the pool has to be 3m (10 ft) deep ON AVERAGE
(so i wonder, how deep has to be “deep end”

By: k

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:51:20 +0000

And people wonder why there’s global warming..