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Floating Swimming Pool

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Monday, 23rd July 2007

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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.

10 Responses to 'Floating Swimming Pool'

  1. Peter says:

    There’s one like that in New York too, though it’s too new to be on Google Maps.

  2. Ben says:

    There is one as well in Switzerland – Horgen
    Placemark: Switzerland – Horgen / Google Earth

  3. Dan says:

    Aren’t you guys missing a stamp for this one? You know, the “Visited: Germany” stamp?

  4. Alex says:

    Indeed, thanks Dan – I’d forgotten to add this to Germany!

  5. Jake says:

    Hooray I finally spotted something!

  6. jcvsmom says:

    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!

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  7. jcvsmom says:

    Sorry about that link in my previous comment. I’m just learning how to post links. This one should be better.
    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  8. Will says:

    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.

  9. Alex says:

    @jcvsmom that’s the previously featured Molecule Man by American artist Jonathan Borofsky.

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