Floating Swimming Pool
Monday, 23rd July 2007 by Alex Turnbull
This is the Badeschiff or "bathing ship" in Berlin, Germany - an old barge which has been converted into an outdoor swimming pool, actually in the River Spree.
Opened in the summer of 2004, the facilities have proved highly popular as it has allowed Berliners to swim (at least in a figurative sense), in the long polluted and unsanitary Spree. In fact on closer inspection you can see several people swimming when this image was captured.
The 32 metre-long pool also has a bar with DJs until midnight, and is even open all-year-round.
Read more at Wikipedia.
Thanks to Jake.
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There’s one like that in New York too, though it’s too new to be on Google Maps.
There is one as well in Switzerland – Horgen Switzerland – Horgen
Aren’t you guys missing a stamp for this one? You know, the “Visited: Germany” stamp?
Indeed, thanks Dan – I’d forgotten to add this to Germany!
Hooray I finally spotted something!
Did you see the interesting statue just down the river from the floating pool? It appears to be 3 men fighting on the water’s surface!
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Here’s one on Lake Como in Italy. My Mom stayed here on her honeymoon when she remarried. She said the pool would move with the waves and wakes.
@jcvsmom that’s the previously featured Molecule Man by American artist Jonathan Borofsky.
Interesting concept