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Cool and Weird Places to Swim

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(Newser) – If you love swimming but tire of the ordinary and the chlorine-scented, consider these "unusual or cool places" uncovered by WebUrbanist:

  • The Dead Sea: Lie back and read a good book in the world's saltiest body of water, which will likely keep you afloat while delivering "an awesome sensation."

  • "Bizarrely beautiful depths": Swim alongside monster jellyfish—some about 5 feet across—in places like the Black Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and Southeast Asia.
  • Devil's Pool: Tempt fate by leaning over "the Devil's Armchair" in this Zimbabwean lagoon, which sits on the edge of a 360-foot drop over Victoria Falls.
  • Glow-in-the-dark bay: Watch your arms and legs turn blue-green from the radiance of 720,000 phosphorescent organisms in Mosquito Bay, Puerto Rico.
  • Cave diving: Plunge into underwater caves like the Devil’s Eye Spring in northern Florida. The brave can even "leap-frog from air pocket to air pocket inside the cave."
To see the complete list, click the link below.

Taal Lake, the Philippines.
Taal Lake, the Philippines.   (Flickr)
Floating in the Dead Sea with a good book.
Floating in the Dead Sea with a good book.   (Shutterstock)
A jellyfish rises to the surface--and swimmers can follow.
A jellyfish rises to the surface--and swimmers can follow.   (Shutterstock)
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Gallavant
Sep 19, 09 10:50 AM CDT
Devil's Armchair... wow, that one's incredible. Reply
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newzjunkie
Sep 19, 09 3:24 PM CDT
I thought jellyfish could sting and cause a lot of pain. Why swim with them? They are beautiful but who wants an owwie when they're relaxing. Reply
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Deebles
Sep 20, 09 2:45 AM CDT
OMG desert are you so right. Five years ago in Hilton Head SC. My friend was having a Labor Day party at her beach house. Everyone was in the pool. How boring. I ran into the ocean and screamed what a bunch of wossies at about the moment all the jellyfish wrapped around me. Have you ever stuck your finger on a live plug? Worse. I literally ran on top of the water and I had tendrils hanging off me like linguini. My friends tried to pull but, hey, you want to get a zap? Emergency room. Three weeks of steroids and I still looked like an inflatable monster for my birthday party. That's why I moved here, I swim in the ocean every day. Now, it's in a dry suit cause the water is cold, cold. Too cold for a jellyfish, but I did see an Orca spouting twenty meters to the left. That was a quick swim back.
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Deebles
Sep 20, 09 3:20 AM CDT
Oh my. I just realized that I wrote about not gagging and blow jobs in the same thread. How weird is that? I think that one idea just took me to the other
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Todd_English
Sep 19, 09 8:23 PM CDT
Dead sea sounds cool and you dont have to worry about Jaws coming after you because nothing lives there. Reply
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