Macau Olympic Aquatic Centre Macau Olympic Aquatic Centre The Macau Olympic Aquatic Centre (; ) is an aquatic center in Taipa, Macau, China. Inaugurated on March 28, 2003, the aquatic center covers a total area of 3,220 m and has a seating capacity of 1,500. The Aquatic Centre includes a diving pool 25 meters by 25 meters (with an adjustable floor capable of reaching a maximum depth of 5 meters) and a 50m swimming pool with 10 lanes. Both facilities comply with the latest FINA standards and are eligible for holding international competitions. Water quality is maintained by a sophisticated sanitizing system using ozone,
The Swimming-Pool Library of pornography but an archive recording of Ronald Firbank in old age. The novel closes. "The Swimming Pool Library" won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1988, and the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1989. In 1988, Edmund White called it, "surely the best book about gay life yet written by an English author." The Swimming-Pool Library The Swimming-Pool Library is a 1988 novel by Alan Hollinghurst. In 1983 London, the privileged, gay, and sexually irresistible 25-year-old protagonist Will saves the life of an elderly aristocrat having a heart-attack in a public lavatory.