Salt or Fresh Water Pools
I have seen this mentioned several times on many threads so I thought "why not go to the source and ask what they used on their ships?" The following is my question to RCCL and their answer :)
Issue: This may sound like a silly question; however, I have seen several discussions about this so I thought I would go straight to the source. Are the pools on Royal Caribbean ships filled with filtered ocean water or are they freshwater? Just curious :)
ANSWER:
Many of our ships do indee
Okay, again, let me explain pool chemistry as far as USPH regulations are required.
Fresh water pools use recirculation, and are chlorinated.
Salt water pools can be either recirculation or flow through. Flow through pools take in sea water, fill the pool, and continually pump sea water into the pool with the overflow draining directly back to the sea. These pools are not required to be chlorinated.
However, once a ship gets within 20 miles of shore, flow through pools must be eith