London will soon be home to the world's most frightening pool

[Ohiogal]

Check out the visual! Yikes....

https://www.yahoo.com/news/london-soon-home-world-most-130044295.html

Compass Pools, a UK-based pool maker, is currently hashing out what it calls the “Infinity London,” a 55-story skyscraper topped with a 360-degree pool with transparent walls. The building, which was designed from top to bottom by the company, will include a five-star hotel, and the pool is expected to be the main attraction.

Making a pool suitable for sticking atop a 55-story building posed some serious technical hurdles for the company, but they think they’ve got it all figured out. Rather than glass, the entire pool will be made of acrylic, with a transparent bottom that will allow visitors on lower floors to see the pool and swimmers high above.

It’s all incredibly strange and awesome and terrifying at the same time. The company, which calls the experience “death-defying swimming,” is clearly betting that plenty of people will be willing to take the chance.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. One side gives way, and...

...it's a long, wet and terrifying trip down.

[Historic NY]

15. Slip sliding away.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

20. Shouldn't swimmers be required to wear a parachute?

...........

I can just imagine damage to people on the ground below. And who the hell would insure such a facility?

Lightening does not warn before striking either.....

[Me.]

2. What Could Possibly Go Wrong

[Ohiogal]

3. I'm wondering

What if it rains? Also, London isn't all that warm .... 55 stories up .... might be kinda cold and windy most of the time .....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Nope.

[pandr32]

5. How to enter the pool?

There is no ladder or deck. I am thinking the only way in would be from underneath.

[Ohiogal]

7. It's in the article.

"Compass Pools came up with a different idea, which they say is based on the airlock of a submarine. It’s described as “a rotating spiral staircase” that will “[rise] from the pool floor when someone wants to get in out."

[cwydro]

11. What could possibly go wrong with a "rotating spiral staircase that goes up and down under water?

The claustrophobia involved in that scenario gives me the creeps.

[marble falls]

12. Sounds foolproof. My bet's split between unintended consequences and an American teenager.

[Submariner]

6. Some kid will probably have his friends over to his apartment building next door

and they will shoot at the pool wall with a BB gun and bet on when it breaks. Then refer to comment 1 of this thread.

[Ohiogal]

9. Well, it won't be in America

So, maybe not ......

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

8. My favorite line in the story:

"Making a pool suitable for sticking atop a 55-story building posed some serious technical hurdles for the company, but they think they’ve got it all figured out."

Uh, I'd kind of like a higher degree of certainty before I dipped my toe in that pool.

Now here's a hotel pool I could really dive into. The only problem is, I can't pronounce the name of the town it will be located in: "Mszczonow"

[Ohiogal]

13. That's awesome

Some more

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/best-hotel-pools-slideshow

[samnsara]

10. no effing way......................................

[Achilleaze]

14. The Tower of Bubbleon (R), inc.

[gristy]

16. It will never be built

The value of the free advertising for the pool company is substantial, though.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. .

[rictofen]

19. You got it n/t

[Retrograde]

21. Yeah, those pesky real-world considerations

like local health and safety regulations, maintenance access, etc. will quickly get in the way. It does look cool, though.

What I'm waiting for is a perfectly spherical swimming pool in 0g: maybe in a space station catering to those with too much money.

[eppur_se_muova]

18. An old Steven Wright joke: "My hotel has a pool on the 55th floor ..."

"... I can't believe how deep that thing is."