Clear turquoise waters, pristine sand and the world's largest pools: The idyllic MAN MADE beaches that rival Mother Nature

With white sandy beaches and clear blue waters - these beaches look too good to be real.

In fact, they are man made, created by a company which transforms a destination into an idyllic paradise.

With projects around the world, Crystal Lagoons says its unique concept can provide an unlimited size lagoon, surrounded by picturesque sandy white beaches, anywhere in the world.

Their first project, the San Alfonso del Mar tourist complex in Chile, obtained the Guinness World Record for the largest swimming pool in the world, at a size of eight hectares. 

Crystal Lagoons expects a second Guinness World Record with the 12.5 hectares mega lagoon of the Citystars Sharm El Sheikh tourist complex in the middle of the Egyptian desert. 

Following that should be a third Guinness Record with the Mohammed Bin Rashid City project in Dubai, expected to be completed by 2020, that includes the world's largest crystalline lagoon with 40 hectares.

Idyllic destination: This man-made lagoon and beach is the company's La Jolla de Asia project in Peru

Paradise found: San Alfonso del Mar project in Chile - which was awarded the Guinness World Record for the largest swimming pool in the world

Man-made wonder: The lagoon in Las Brisas, Chile, boasts clear waters and beautiful white sand

Mohammed Bin Rashid City project in Dubai, expected to be completed by 2020, includes the world's largest crystalline lagoon with 40 hectares

Record breaker: The San Alfonso del Mar in Chile boasts the largest swimming pool in the world at a size of eight hectares

Crystal Lagoons says its unique concept can provide an unlimited size lagoon, surrounded by picturesque sandy white beaches, anywhere in the world

Crystal Lagoons expects to get a second Guinness World Record with the 12.5 hectares mega lagoon of the Citystars Sharm El Sheikh tourist complex

Breathtaking design: The Diamante Cabo San Lucas project in Mexico boasts crystal-clear waters and white sand

A swim with a view: The world's largest swimming pool in San Alfonso del Mar, Chile - made by Crystal Lagoons

Beach paradise: The Diamante Cabo San Lucas project in Mexico, surrounded by guest accommodation

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World’s Largest Drum Set Includes 813 Pieces and It’s Still Growing

56-year-old Mark Temperato has spent the last 36 years assembling the world’s largest drum kit. The amazing instrument is made up of 813 individual pieces, including drums, cymbals and bells, and its creator needs an hour to hit every one of them.
Mark Temperato has always had a thing for drums. He has been building his custom drum set for the past 36 years, and he’s not planning on stopping anytime soon. A reverend at the Breath of Worship Church, in Lakeville, New York, Mark, who also goes by the name “RevM” has been using the popular musical instrument to “praise God” and get His word out “in a very different way”. Adding new pieces to his set every year, the amateur musician always thought he had the biggest drum kit in the world, but it wasn’t until his two sons, who are also drummers, prompted him to contact Guinness Records that he considered making the title official. Last year, RevM finally got his name mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records after managing to hit every one of the 340 drums and cymbals from a sitting or standing position without taking a step to either side. But the newly-obtained titled only fueled his obsession with drums even more, so he spent the last few months adding hundreds of new components to his set which currently numbers 813 different pieces.

Hitting every single one of the 813 drums, cymbals and bells seems like an impossible task, but while RevM admits it takes him around an hour to do it, he says his 28-inch-high chair allows him to reach every piece. The monster set weighs around 5,000 lbs and requires 17 hours of maintenance a week. It takes four people working diligently 14 hours to assemble the drum set, and another 10 hours to break it down and packet away. To take his pride and joy with him on the rode, Temperato uses a customized 18-wheeler trailer truck fitted with compartments for every drum and cymbal.

RevM stopped at 813 pieces to have it match his birthday (Aug. 13), but he’s already thinking of ways of adding more stuff to the drum set and plans to reach the 1,000 pieces mark very soon.

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Photograph of the Largest Landslide Ever Recorded in the United States

A couple of months ago, a massive landslide at Kennecott Utah Copper’s Bingham Canyon Mine cut production at the second largest copper producer in the US in half. What began as a movements measured at only fractions of an inch, turned into a 165-million ton wall of loose dirt tumbling down the northeast section of the mine around 9:30pm local time on April 10th.

The picture above was taken after the slide by Desert News photographer Ravell Call, and captures the sheer size of a slide of this magnitude (some experts believe that it’s the largest ever recorded in the US). To put what you’re seeing in perspective, if the debris from the slide were spread out over NYC’s Central Park, the park would be buried approximately 65 feet deep.

Bingham Canyon Mine is the largest man-made excavation on Earth, and as such, even the high-res photo has a hard time doing the slide justice. Fortunately, Kennecott was prepared for the slide. The company is always using four redundant systems to keep track of any and all movement in the mine.
When their special, 96,250-photo-per-minute radar began detecting significant movement, the company immediately set about moving buildings, personnel and equipment to make sure that the slide would cause as little damage as possible.

Even with all of the detection devices at work, however, the company couldn’t have predicted how deep the slide would travel down the mine pit, and a good deal of equipment wound up buried in the bottom right of the photo.

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This Just Might Be the Largest Crab You've Ever Seen

What you're looking at above is Claude, a monster Tasmanian king crab that weighs a whopping 15-pounds and measures 15-inches wide and would have produced 20-pounds worth of meat.

This crab is 100 times bigger than a standard UK shore crab, but Claude is still a juvenile and will grow to double his weight.

In the wild, crabs eat any dead or dying matter they find on the seabed but Claude is currently dining on diced mackerel and squid and is reportedly very happy with his gourmet diet. Rob Hicks, head marine biologist for Sea Life, said: 'They are such impressive creatures we thought that it was worth the cost and effort of flying them halfway round the world so they can flourish in an aquarium display.'

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