Salt or Fresh Water Pools

[Susie51]

Navigator of the Seas has salt water

 

Thank you for you reply

[anka-morfin]

 

However, once a ship gets within 20 miles of shore, flow through pools must be either drained, or switched to recirculation mode. Then, the salt water in the pool will be recirculated, and is required to be chlorinated. Most ships will not use the electro-chemical process of creating chlorine from sea water as one poster mentioned is used in home pools. USPH requires continual monitoring and dosing of chlorine, with a recording graph in real time. The electro-chemical method is not sufficiently precise (especially as the amount of chlorine in sea water is finite, and the chlorine level in a pool will deplete naturally, as well as depending on body load), so chemical chlorine is more commonly used.

 

Many people don't like salt water pools (eye irritant, need to shower, etc.), but some are under the mistaken belief that salt water pools are not chlorinated. Ships' pools are chlorinated to higher levels than home pools, and many people react to these higher chlorine levels.

 

So basically they only need to be chlorinated while at the port right? If they're inthe open ocean they don't have to be? Or are they still chlorinated?

[CORKY_Q]

So basically they only need to be chlorinated while at the port right? If they're inthe open ocean they don't have to be? Or are they still chlorinated?

 

 

See post #25 above.

[rukkian]

Freedom class and above have chlorinated water pools....Voyager class and lower have salt water pools. On Oasis/Allure, some are salt, some are chlorinated..

 

Hot tubs on ALL the ships are chlorinated water.

 

Isn't radiance between Voyager and Freedom? How do those fit in?

[Clarea]

Isn't radiance between Voyager and Freedom? How do those fit in?

Salt.

[rukkian]

Thanks, we are on Freedom in February, so will see if we can notice the difference.

[chengkp75]

So basically they only need to be chlorinated while at the port right? If they're inthe open ocean they don't have to be? Or are they still chlorinated?

 

That will depend on whether they switch to flow through or not. When switching back, you need to close the pool for an hour or two to get the chlorine level right, so if it was just one sea day, many ships won't switch to flow through, 'cause they don't want to have to close the pool, and a day's chemical is peanuts. And, if they are fresh water, they will be chlorinated all the time.

[troykahack]

I believe Majesty was Salt... the hot tub on Oasis I think was Fresh or highly chlorinated