Model Boat Mayhem

Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: DickyD on June 24, 2010, 01:22:38 pm

Title: ARE THEY MAD ?
Post by: DickyD on June 24, 2010, 01:22:38 pm

Swimming?---------- No way !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1289194/Marina-Bay-Sands-resort-opens-Singapore.html

Title: Re: ARE THEY MAD ?
Post by: tolnedra on June 24, 2010, 01:43:15 pm

It would make a brilliant boating pool though Dickie, don't you agree? Probably couldn't afford the entrance fee though!!! <:( <:( <:( (let alone the air fare!)

Danny

Title: Re: ARE THEY MAD ?
Post by: Lt. Raen on June 24, 2010, 01:46:23 pm

WOW!!! that is one amazing pool, imagine if it sprung a leak  ;D

I must agree it would definitely make a hell of a boating pool though

wonder how they got away without any obvious safety rails there?

Title: Re: ARE THEY MAD ?
Post by: Circlip on June 24, 2010, 01:51:17 pm

Wonder if there's any "No water skiing" signs or "No Diving"

   Regards  Ian.

Title: Re: ARE THEY MAD ?
Post by: Lt. Raen on June 24, 2010, 01:53:40 pm

they should run cable skiing comps on that thing it would be long enough and the photos would be out of this world (nearly literally)
the stacks would also be pretty spectacular :-))
 %)

Tim

Title: Re: ARE THEY MAD ?
Post by: DickyD on June 24, 2010, 01:57:47 pm

Quote from: tolnedra on June 24, 2010, 01:43:15 pm

It would make a brilliant boating pool though Dickie, don't you agree? Probably couldn't afford the entrance fee though!!! <:( <:( <:( (let alone the air fare!)

Danny

I'd need to turn up my oxygen supply just to be up there Danny.

Title: Re: ARE THEY MAD ?
Post by: grasshopper on June 24, 2010, 04:53:14 pm

Had a swim in a pool on the 22nd floor in Hong Kong and got frazzed by the sun - in that pool you're even closer!

And what happens when your beach ball goes over the edge? - helluva walk to fetch it!

Title: Re: ARE THEY MAD ?
Post by: Nordsee on June 24, 2010, 08:15:23 pm

Can you imagine powering upto the edge and swimming clean over the top! like seals do on the beach, Wow! Do you think you would be dry by the time you hit the road?

Title: Re: ARE THEY MAD ?
Post by: The long Build on June 24, 2010, 08:46:01 pm

Wow, just wait til I tell the wife, I found her a new outdoor pool to swim with a better view than Windermere..

Title: Re: ARE THEY MAD ?
Post by: CGAux26 on June 25, 2010, 03:33:52 am

A great location for Foss Cup??   :D

Title: Re: ARE THEY MAD ?
Post by: tigertiger on June 25, 2010, 03:48:38 am

Quote from: Lt. Raen on June 24, 2010, 01:46:23 pm

wonder how they got away without any obvious safety rails there?

The edge of the pool is not on the edge of the building. It just looks that way due to camera angle. Below the lip of the pool is rooftop, and this has a rail. You can just make it out if you look at the second and third photos in the Daily Mail link. I have enlarged here. It looks like a catchment trough of about 0.5m or more (to catch the water), and then what looks like a walkway of about 2m (think there may be a person walking on it in the pic but cannot see clearly), and a rail.

Title: Re: ARE THEY MAD ?
Post by: RaaArtyGunner on June 25, 2010, 05:37:37 am

All in all and human nature it is an accident waiting to happen. <:( <:( :police: :police: