Mars Baths

The Mars Baths is a compartment-sized water park, open all daylight hours.

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00:00: [Foreboding orchestral music]; [Gustav Holst: Mars, the Bringer of War]
00:22: [Music]; [Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance (Land of Hope and Glory)]
00:32: This is New Albion on Mars
00:36: After an initial all-work-no-play building-up; phase at New Albion, we
00:41: constructed some dedicated leisure facilities.
00:46: The Mars Baths is a compartment-sized water; park, open all daylight hours.
00:54: There are zones for slides and family paddling; and splashing, several Olympic-length
01:00: competitions pools, diving platforms, baths,; and a 'cross country' swimming course.
01:09: Our "Olympic-length" swimming pools are; narrower than their Earth equivalents,
01:13: due to standard Way construction. The; widest pool has only 6 Olympic-width lanes.
01:22: Diving platforms are available at; multiple heights, the highest being
01:27: around 8m above the diving pool. There; are spring boards at much lower heights.
01:35: The cross-country swim is a half-kilometre
01:38: course that loops around; some of the other pools in a figure-eight.
01:44: The channel has an elevated section; fed by pumps
01:48: which produce two sloping,; flowing sections.
01:52: In the lower gravity of Mars, the sloping; sections flow less quickly than on Earth,
01:58: allowing one to swim uphill.
02:03: 'Swimming upstream' is a good thing; here at New Albion.
02:11: [Dissonant clashing orchestral music]; [Gustav Holst: Mars, the Bringer of War]
02:28: [orchestral music continues]