The Largest Swimming Pool in the World
The largest swimming pool in the world is over a kilometer long.
If you’re going after the Guinness world record for the largest swimming pool, it just got a bit tougher.
In January, the honor was awarded to the swimming pool at the San Alfonso del Mar resort in Algarrobo, Chile. The resort’s pool is a whopping 3,324 feet long and covers an area of 19.77 acres. (Only one problem: The world’s largest pool toy is 5,280 feet long…)
But never mind that. The swimming pool at San Alfonso del Mar is quite impressive, with a 115 foot deep end, and a 66 million gallon capacity. The saltwater lagoon uses a computer-controlled (isn’t everything these days?) filtration system to draw in fresh seawater at one end, then pump it back into the ocean at the other.
The Oldest Swimming Pool
I’m not sure if it’s the absolute oldest, but the bath at Mohenjo-daro in Sind, Pakistan, is pretty ancient. Built around 2600 BC, the pool area was lined with bricks and sealed with tar. It covered a 40 by 20 foot area, and was almost 8 feet deep, so, despite probably being used for religious ceremonies, I’m sure at least one person snuck in a dive at some point back when it still held water.
More Amasnic Pools
- Largest North American Indoor Wave Pool: World Waterpark at the Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada.
- Largest Indoor Pool Anywhere: The Neutral Buoyancy Lab where astronauts train in the Sonny Carter Training Center at NASA JSC in Houston holds 6.2 million gallons of H2O.
- Deepest Swimming Pool: Nemo 33 near Brussels, Belgium, is a recreational dive center. The pool there has two large flat-bottomed areas with a depth of 16 and 32 feet, and a large circular pit that goes to a depth of 108 feet.
- Largest US Swimming Pool: San Francisco’s Fleishhacker Pool was the largest swimming pool in the United States from 1925 until it closed in 1971. The pool was 1,000 feet long and 150 feet wide — so large that the lifeguards used kayaks to patrol it.
Swimming Pool Video
Now for some Amasnic video: San Alfonso del Mar Swimming Pool.
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