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 are to be unveiled for the first time at Cityscape Dubai later this month.
I believe this gives new meaning to living large!
Anyone wanna try to do laps across this thing?!
A pool that large right next to the ocean. How ironic! haha
Do they allow yachts in there? :p
Im sure if i’m able to finish a lap in that pool, it’d be enough excercise for one day. 1 lap is 1km long, good cardio workout. From the pictures, the pool water is beautiful, its a bright blue!!! I can’t imagine cleaning the pool though, its going to cost quite a lot of money to replace that tremendous amount of water.
-AllaN
Ironically enough, I doubt this is a much needed attraction for Chile. It’s probably one of the most nature orientated places there – the direct line to the ocean and the beach (and either extensive beach resorts), the Andes, Easter Island – it’s a veritable tourist trap! Either way, if you have one resort it doesn’t hurt to have another, and while you’re at it you might as well break a world record or two. As much as I love to complain, I have to admit that I’m in love with the design and that it looks so pristine and beautiful.
-j
I wonder how much chlorine it takes to clean up this thing, and i feel bad for all the people who just want to go to the beach and swim in the sea.
Hahaha agreed with beni. It must make it really awkward for those on the beach and those swimming with the fishies. Although come to think of it, how hard would it be to just walk from the beach and slip into the pool at some point along the 1 km length? I doubt their have ex-USSR security/life guards lining the coast every 200 or so meters with AK-47s to deter the general public.
Just out of curiosity, is that a giant waterslide I see in the center of the first picture?
-j
good god that the biggest and best pool i have ever seen ..
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It’s a great attraction, the irony of a gigantic pool next to the great Pacific Ocean. I kind of like it. I always hated swimming in ocean/lake water because of all the fish, seaweed, bird/fish poop, it’s really dirty if you think about it. With this huge pool, especially being right next to the ocean, it would definitely feel like I’m swimming in the great big sea, only cleaner and safer!
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glimmerish: ironic?….
no, the real reason is because the water’s temperature of the ocean in this area is too cold… so the swiming pool is very nice.
The World’s largest swimming pool – in Chile…
It’s been named the”World’s largest swimming pool” – and at over a kilometre long it probably is. I first heard about it on the news last week on German TV, and how there are some pictures up on the Daily Mail website.
Which le…
soon the long-awaited summer