Chinese Sea of Death: photos of swimming pool armageddon

Visitors crowd at Chinese Sea of Death tourist resort in Daying County to escape high temperature on July 11, 2015 in Suining, Sichuan Province of China.

It’s called the sea of death not because you stand a decent chance of being killed by an inflatable rubber ring, rather because, like the Dead Sea it’s salty enough to float in (and will kill 99.99% of germs stone dead).

Visitors crowd at Chinese Sea of Death tourist resort in Daying County to escape high temperature on July 11, 2015 in Suining, Sichuan Province of China. Most parts in China ushered in hot weather in July and more than eight thousand visitors from every corner of China crowded to China Sea f Death to enjoy the cool. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)