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Watch it sink here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dgncM_AwnbI

@Chestinee: You probably won't see this post, but the old private Piscine Deligny has indeed been gone for quite a while. A new municipal floating pool, named after Josephine Baker, has been set up at the foot of the new National Library.

It is much more sophisticated than the Floating Lady, including a fitness center.

Alas, it was closed after a fire broke out in the fitness center, and it was discovered that the private operator of teh facility had no insurance. Soon after, the structure sprung a leak.

It is currently being renovated, with extensive modifications. From what I can tell, one of the nice things about the original pool, a retractable glass roof, allowing it to be used in the winter, will no longer be part of the design (but I may be wrong).

For more pictures of the Floating Pool Lady, go to www.timothyschenck.com .

I spent the summer of 2003 with kids in Kopenhagen where they had a very beautiful one moored in the harbor- it was made of wood with two pools, open bottoms with nets - and
a diving tower. Did your guest see it? It was so beautiful/

I saw a floating pool project in Berlin and they enclosed it in the winter. Has the pool lady thought about that?

There used to be a floating pool in Paris - I htink it closed about 10 years ago?

Floating Pool Lady rules! I plan to follow it from Brooklyn to the Bronx this summer.