• No one is going to accuse Citystars Properties of thinking small in developing its 1,200-residence and 450-room resort on the Red Sea coast at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt – certainly not Crystal Lagoons Corp.
• Crystal Lagoons is constructing a 29.2-acre "pool" that will use treated salt water pumped from underground, have an average depth of 6 feet, 10 inches, be treated with a filtration system that uses sound pulses, and be controlled by watchers in Chile who monitor the water through an Internet link.
• The pool will set a world record for surface area, beating the same company's pool in Chile by 50%. But its 62.6 million gallons of water will be only second because the other pool is deeper.

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What appears to be a dried-up pond in the middle of a vast construction site at the tip of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt could set a new record as the world’s largest swimming pool. ...