Weekend Fun: World’s Largest Swimming Pool

Posted on Oct 20, 2007

San Alfonso de Mar, a resort in Chile, sports the world’s largest swimming pool according to the Guiness World Book of Records. The massive pool is 8 hectares in size, 1 km long and filled with close to 250,000 cubic meters of salt water that goes through a proprietary treatment to obtain its crystal clear appearance. The technology was developed by a company, appropriately dubbed Crystal Lagoons, and cost the resort $1.5...