Take a cruise today, and it’s nothing special to have a heated pool on board – or two, or three and several hot tubs! But you can imagine that it wasn’t always this way – Christopher Columbus obviously didn’t cross the ocean blue while lounging in a deck chair in his swimwear, sipping mai tais! So which boat first introduced the heated swimming pool to its decks?
The Titanic.
That’s a little spooky, but it makes sense if you know about The Titanic. It was meant to be the height of luxury, with all the amenities that first class passengers could ask for. The swimming pool on the Titanic was six feet deep and filled with heated salt water. There were separate swim times for men and for ladies, and it cost $1 to swim. That’s pretty expensive when you realize that $1 in 1912 is roughly the same as $20 today! Would you pay $20 to swim in a pool for a few hours with no guys? (It seems that children also weren’t allowed – maybe that’s worth the 20 bucks!)
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But now that we think about it, how come James Cameron didn’t take advantage of this historic fact and give us some Leonardo-DiCaprio-in-the-pool eye candy in the film Titanic? Really!
Source: “Titanic: A Floating Palace” from Titanic – A Voyage of Discovery
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amazing! different houirs for men and women… haha!! you’re right, i would’ve liked to see leonardo dicaprio taking a dip! lol
no peeking there lol
yeah, i bet that was boring! lol
Thats crazy, so glad i was born in this generation!
1.00 to swim wow they were really crazy bakc then and separate tiem even more out there
i don’t think i’d pay to swim on a swimming pool, even less so if there weren’t men in it! lol
20 dollars to take a dip, wow expensive!
i’d rather save that and buy a swimsuits in a while! lol
can you hear it in the background? “my heart will go on aaaannnd oooonn….”
now that i think about it, that seen would have been a LOT hotter if the two of them were in swimsuits!
haha! yeah, at least a little pool scene woul’ve been nice
ah at last, I could find this article again. You have few useful tips for my school project. This time, I won’t forget to bookmark it.