San Alfonso del Mar is a resort in Algarrobo, Chile, also known for its world’s largest swimming pool according to the Guinness World Records. The resort is owned by a Chilean biochemist and businessman Fernando Fischmann, the head of Crystal Lagoon Corporation, the company that designed the gigantic pool. He used the patented technology to “harvest, filter and permanently recirculate ocean water.”“This advance provides something that until now was not technically possible – the generation of monumental masses of water in a crystalline state to provide a beach life environment and aquatic sports at the top level,” Fernando Fischmann says.
The San Alfonso pool construction cost approximately 3.5 million US dollars. The size of the pool is 8 hectares in surface area which equals 6,000 standard-size 8-metre-long swimming pools. The water temperature in summer is 26C; it is 9 degrees warmer than the ocean next to it. The pool uses the water from the Pacific; it holds up to 250,000 cube meters of water. Crystal clear water allows one to see trough 35 meters of the pool depth, it’s completely transparent.
The Beach Club at San Alfonso offers a tempered beach under the glass pyramid, open-air Jacuzzis, sauna, and the first medical spa in Chile.
¿Donde esta este monumento al mal gusto? ¿Quien ha financiado este atentado contra el medioambiente, el paisaje y el entorno?
ReplyDelete¿Quien es el villano que, en lugar de invertir en investigacion medica que busque un remedio eficaz contra el VIH, contra en CANCER, o en poner remedios contra el HAMBRE y la EXCLUSION, solo por citar algunos ejemplos, invierte en especulacion y destrozos a la herencia de la humanidad?
¿A quien puede interesarle navegar en velero... cruzando una piscina?
Esto es un monumento al ego y un insulto a los cientos de millones de enfermos "curables" pero "desatendidos" que cubren la supeficie planetaria y, una ofensa hacia todos.
Disculpa que me haya expresado en español pero, no se suficiente ingles. Tambien te pido disculpas por haberme extendido.
Muchas gracias y disculpa. :)
Kss.
Cosimo - Translate at top of blog to get answers to your questions. No problem.
ReplyDeleteWell...I wouldnt want to be the poor pool guy that has to clean THAT out[!].
ReplyDeleteKarl - Yeah, really.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't matter what it cost to build. What the hell does it cost to maintain. Doesn't take a genius to figure this is not a "green" use of the resources on Earth. This is simply madness run amok and far too much money and too little common sense.
ReplyDeleteImagine the HOA fee on your place in the sun.
Anon - It's a disgusting display of wealth.
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