Years ago I was a swimming pool attendant.  Great job, sun, sweet smell of chlorine, bikinis and I got to operate an underwater vacuum cleaner.  Ever since then I have had a thing for swimming pools.  And this one really caught my eye.

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 meters 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 meters by 100 meters – the San Alfonso pool is 1km in length. The revolutionary clear water artificial lagoons, transparent to a depth of 35 meters 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 have yet to be disclosed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contrast that blue lagoon with this little rooftop pool in New York City.