Floating Pool Update: Tilted Barge, Pool Closed For Now

The Floating Pool opened at Brooklyn Bridge Park yesterday to visitors (a "decent sized" crowd showed up) . However, there are some lingering issues, thanks to yesterday's rainy weather. Reader Drew went to visit the pool today and wrote to us:

Unfortunately, after being open only one day to the public, it was closed. The director, a very nice woman, explained that the rain from yesterday flooded some of the ballast tanks and tilted the entire barge. So basically one end of the pool had 2 feet of water, and the other end was overflowing. They did let some of the public on the barge to check it out and take some pictures, but the pool is closed all day while engineers attempt to fix the problem. We'll see if this gets resolved by tomorrow.

He also included this photograph - you can see the tilt if you look at the level of the pool in the photograph. If they can put a man on the moon, then we're sure engineers can fix the problem.

The NY Times has video of the pool. And here's our post on the pool

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By Jen Chung in News on July 5, 2007 4:08 PM

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guest

I was there today and it was so wonderful.

The views, pool, people and all very delightful.

Thanks to whom ever made this happen.

guest

You people have no clue. The main point is for people to enjoy the waterfront of Brooklyn, something they could not do for many years. Why can't you see the positive, creative side to this story instead of bashing and polluting it?

Hey.. what creative, positive thing have you done for humanity??

Yeah I thought so.....0!

So instead of blogging about something you know nothing about use that energy to do SOMETHING GREAT!!

Come down to the Floating Lady and see the smiles, joy and pure happines this project brings to people.....or sit and complain and do NOTHING with your life.