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2013 Jun 11, 5:17am   840 views  5 comments

by Tenpoundbass   ➕follow (7)   💰tip   ignore  

Or were they just objecting to toxic beauty?

www.foxnews.com/science/2013/06/11/toxic-blue-lagoon-reportedly-dyed-black-to-deter-swimmers/?test=latestnews

Swimmers flocked to the pool's turquoise waters, despite numerous signs warning of the quarry's dangers.

"It was absolutely beautiful to look at but was horrendously dangerous," local business owner Rachel Thomas told the BBC.

Finally, the local council resorted to dyeing the water black in an effort to deter swimmers, the Telegraph reports.

"It's not pretty anymore," Thomas told the BBC. "They don't think they're on holiday in the Bahamas any more, they know they're in Harpur Hill."

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1   New Renter   2013 Jun 11, 5:27am  

So paint it black. Great idea! That'll conceal bodies while they slowly dissolve in the alkali depths. No evidence!

I'm suprised this idea hasn't caught on in New Jersey.

2   Automan Empire   2013 Jun 11, 5:37am  

ph 11.3?!? Hello, alkali burns!

3   Tenpoundbass   2013 Jun 11, 6:22am  

Automan Empire says

ph 11.3?!? Hello, alkali burns!

I don't think people is swimming in them, of course alkali burns.
The article doesn't say anything about people being harmed.
Toxic waste dumps aren't suppose to be breathtakingly spectacular.

There's a few pools like that out west of the Miami International airport. Every time I fly over it, it looks like a Bahama coral reef, but I know damn well that brackish water isn't that color. While I wouldn't mind hanging out near it and riding an ATV around, I would never attempt to swim in it.

4   edvard2   2013 Jun 11, 6:46am  

If anyone wants to see some crazy looking water, when I was a kid we would go to the Okefenokee national park. Its a swamp. The water literally is black with tanin. It used to scare the crap out of me when I was 7-8 years old.

5   Tenpoundbass   2013 Jun 11, 6:59am  

And the duck weed carpet over the still black water, makes it seem like there's a gator lurking under every tiny little leaf.

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