Sea Water Pool
by Donald Cullen
I have taken the water from the sea. There is 180,000.00 liters of water in the pool. Do I still treat it as if I added salt to the water. Thank You Donald Thank you for clarifying that Donald I honestly say I have never taken care of a true seawater pool, but I can give you my take on it. Ocean water, in general, contains about 35,000ppm salt, where a normal saltwater pool is between 3000 - 4000ppm, so obviously a normal salt water chlorine generator will be out of the question. It would probably burn up within a couple of hours, maybe less. There's other things in ocean water that you wouldn't normally find in a home salt pool. Salt in seawater isn't just regular salt, Sodium Chloride (NaCl), you also have magnesium, sulfate, calcium, potassium and trace elements. I believe its only like 85-90% NaCl. You might also consider the organics your going to add to the pool. Seawater is teaming with small life forms, especially near the coast regions. You'll have to sanitize and filter it all out as well. You'll have to get a good filtration system especially designed for seawater. You might call a cruise line because many of them have seawater pool on board the ships. My advice would be to try to contact someone who has specialized in true seawater pools, perhaps a cruise ship company or maybe even a local or national park or some place like Sea World here in America. This is really one area that I can say I have very limited knowledge. When you do get your pool up and going I would like to see pictures and maybe even an article on how its working for you. That's an area of interest that I'm sure many people have. Best of luck Robert |
