Enor­mous catch­ment basins belong­ing to the ancient water sup­ply sys­tem of Jerusalem. They could be called the King So…

The MahaSamutr pool is home to Asia’s largest man-made lagoon. It has a sur­face area of 72,000 square miles and a max…

The City Stars Sharm El Sheikh lagoon, which opened in 2015, is offi­cial­ly the world’s largest man-made body of water…

San Alfon­so Del Mar is cur­rent­ly the sec­ond largest swim­ming pool in the world and sits on a pri­vate resort in Algarr…

Take a stroll down the coast from the Eng­lish sea­side town of Mar­gate and you’ll come to Wal­pole Bay, where a vast ti…

Anoth­er vol­canic island, anoth­er dra­mat­ic set of nat­ur­al pools formed from nat­ur­al lava. In fact, the town of Por­to M…

Much of Tenerife’s rocky, vol­canic shore isn’t ide­al for sea swim­ming – hence the many nat­ur­al and semi-nat­ur­al bathi…

Perched on gran­ite cliffs near the Por­tuguese roy­al retreat of Sin­tra, the vil­lage of Azen­has do Mar is the site of a…

Although Cape Town has one of the world’s most cel­e­brat­ed sea­wa­ter pools – Sea Point Pavil­ion – there’s an even more …

Построенные в 1880‑х годах, Bronte Baths — это океанский бассейн, встроенный в песчаниковые скалы на южном конце пляж…

Also called the West End Pool, this is one of two open-air bathing spots carved into the rocks of Bun­do­ran, a surf­ing…

Known by Van­cou­verites as ‘Kits Pool’, this bay­side swim­ming spot is near­ly three times as long as an Olympic pool – …

The French port of Saint-Malo has the high­est tides in Europe: the sea here can rise more than 40 feet in six hours. …

The coun­ty of Corn­wall has some of the UK’s sun­ni­est weath­er, and Bude Sea Pool is the spot to soak it up. Built on S…

Океанические бассейны есть не только в Сиднее, но и в Ньюкасле. Merewether работает с 1935 года, здесь два больших ба…

Chilean trav­eller Anto­nio Oliv­era cre­at­ed this incred­i­ble sea­side struc­ture back in 1914 in his adopt­ed home­town of M…

Jut­ting out into the Øre­sund Sound, the Kas­trup sea bath has been open to Copenhagen’s sea-swim­mers since 2004. Despi…

Not just a stun­ning spot for a dip, Pisci­na das Marés (in Leça da Palmeira, on the out­skirts of Por­to) is also an arc…