Since we are in a severe drought, our baths are limited and our lawns are golden, I stumbled upon the world’s largest pool and had to share.
Acknowledged by the Guinness World Records, the lagoon measures 3,323 ft in length, covers an area of 20 acres, contains 250,000 cubic meters of water and is navigable in small boats. The pool opened in December 2006 after nearly five years of construction work and is said to have set developers back £2million. It uses a computer-controlled suction and filtration system to suck water in from the ocean at one end and pump it out at the other, while the sun warms it to 26C – nine degrees higher than the sea.
The pool’s incredible dimensions leave the next biggest floundering in its wake, with the Orthlieb in Morocco measuring a mere 1,575ft long.