Sørenga Sjøbad
Seawater harbour bath on a former container pier, with a fifty-metre pool and diving tower.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Sørenga Sjøbad in Oslo is about the people who worked this pier long before anyone swam off it: the dock workers of the city harbour, and the quay pushed out into the fjord in the nineteen sixties. It follows the arrival of roll-on roll-off ships and steel containers, and what that new cargo asked of the men on the docks. Best heard standing on the wooden deck, looking back along the length of the pier.
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