World’s Largest Swimming Pool

posted by Nubricks

If you like doing laps in your local pool, hold onto your goggles: the creators of the world’s largest swimming pool are on a mission to spread their technology across the world.

Already drawing the crowds in the South American resort of San Alfonso del Mar in Chile, this artificial lagoon and swimming pool is eight hectares in size and contains an incredible 250,000 cubic metres of water. Acknowledged by Guinness World Records as being the world’s largest swimming pool, the lagoon trounces all other record holders in the category, including the Orthlieb pool in Casablanca, Morocco, itself a huge 150 metres by 100 metres – the San Alfonso pool is ten times this size, measuring 1km in length. The revolutionary clear water artificial lagoons, transparent to a depth of 35 metres and unprecedented in design and construction methods, are the brainchild of Crystal Lagoons founder, biochemist and Chilean businessman Fernando Fischmann. Equivalent in size to an incredible 6,000 standard domestic pools, details of its technology are to be unveiled for the first time at Cityscape Dubai later this month.

It seems the world has gone crazy for the massive pools, with Crystal Lagoons confirming that they are in advanced planning stages with companies all over the world, in particular in the Middle East, where, says Fischmann, companies are only too keen to take advantage of the way in which the lagoons form “impressive artificial paradises, even in inhospitable areas”, and at surprisingly low construction and maintenance costs. Currently in talks with both the Nakheel and the Dubai Property Group, Fischmann will be at Cityscape to outline the technology in detail which involves the use of unlimited volumes of clear water: “This advance provides something that until now was not technically possible - the generation of monumental masses of water in a crystalline state to provide a beach life environment and aquatic sports at the top level.”

From the tallest tower to the worlds largest swimming pool, Dubai’s international real estate developers continue to push design boundries creating ever more desirable resorts in the quest for global tourism domination.

Here is the official website

Pisa (Prelude)

"Luckily we manage to take the night train from Venice to Florence." i said.
"Ya, it is indeed lucky that i want to do some "small business" and discover that the Venice main station is closed." my friend, Angelus said.
"Haha... what small business? If you don't go shi~ shi~, then we will miss the night train to Florence and the Piza." Mr Voon manage to stop his laugh and talk like normal person.

This is the flashback of my memory during 1 of my trip at Italy, precisely to say: Venice.

Mr Voon and the Angelus

I was thinking about a way to hack the Italy Venice island main train station gate.

Yes, we can take the 2.30am bus at Venice island main bus station to go to Venice mainland train station.

Yes, this is the Venice mainland main train station.

Well, that is just a small joke from 3 of us, making fun of the closed Venice island main train station gate. We didn't know that the night train didn't stop at Venice island main train station, instead it will stop at Venice mainland main train station. But it was history as we still manage to take the night train at 3.30am at Venice mainland main station to go to Piza.

We were too lucky that the bus still available at 2.30am!

An advice from 3 of us: Next time you need to check your train ticket and the train station you are supposed to go, not like us, assuming both Venice mainland train station and Venice island train station is the same station. We are too careless to check the train station we are supposed to wait. Not need to say we are having a cold lonely night outside the wrong train station and wondering the reason the wrong train station is closed during midnight yet our "Train Ticket" stated that there will be a night train service at 3.30am!