Salt or Chlorine Pool???

[Flanders]

"So fresh it smack of sea".

Guess from which advert many years ago.

Ocean Harvest? I&J? One of those isn't it?

 

[PeterCH]

If you add enough salt, you'll be able to swim without the water wings and a heavy salt content of the water will increase your bouyancy. A bonus effect which chlorine does not yield.

 

[FRTY]

If you add enough salt, you'll be able to swim without the water wings and a heavy salt content of the water will increase your bouyancy. A bonus effect which chlorine does not yield.

They did this on Mythbusters. It took an estimated 6 tons of salt to emulate the dead sea.

 

[Just_Ice]

They did this on Mythbusters. It took an estimated 6 tons of salt to emulate the dead sea.

Thats a lot of salt.
Could you imagine swallowing that water? And you would probably die on the spot from your blood pressure increasing massively.

 

[Peder]

Thats ALLOT of salt!! Donno if you'll get your blood pressure to increase so quickly as you'd have to drink about a cupful(which you'd throw up almost instantly)

 

[PeterCH]

Thats a lot of salt.
Could you imagine swallowing that water? And you would probably die on the spot from your blood pressure increasing massively.

People swim in the Dead Sea for health reasons. I'll assure you that salt does not penetrate skin. Don't worry. The other nice thing is that as mentioned,
that you guys would be able to swim without water wings.

 

[UnoPanelvan]

+1 for salt water.

They only thing I have against it is that it dries out your skin, or at least it feels like that. But then that can also be a positive thing: After you had a nice swim ask the misses to rub some cream on you back

On your BACk???? LOL.

 

[Just_Ice]

People swim in the Dead Sea for health reasons. I'll assure you that salt does not penetrate skin. Don't worry. The other nice thing is that as mentioned

I never said it penetrates your skin, I said if you end up swallowing a mouthful of it...

 

[Peder]

whats the chances you'll get a mouthful of it down?

 

[Just_Ice]

whats the chances you'll get a mouthful of it down?

They are good. It happens at the sea doesnt it?
The cahnces of you keeping it down, not so good.

 

[Peder]

well of course you splash etc, i think i haven't been in a pool for a year or more...

/me is not so mad about water :surprised:

 

[PeterCH]

I never said it penetrates your skin, I said if you end up swallowing a mouthful of it...

It won't raise your blood pressure, to elevate your blood pressure
you'd need regular daily intake and not a once of mouthful of salt which would
probably make you throw up anyway. No risk of Blood pressure problems.