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RWD Discussion Groups => Odds and Ends => Topic started by: msmob on June 21, 2019, 04:48:24 AM

Title: Strange structures - jutting into the sea - off Sochi Beaches
Post by: msmob on June 21, 2019, 04:48:24 AM
So what ARE they ?  They have steps up to a semi covered platform ....

(http://i.imgur.com/prOBsfo.jpg)


(http://i.imgur.com/fj3lEPQ.png)

I know - but interested in your ideas

Clue .. they are not breakwaters



Title: Re: Strange structures - jutting into the sea - off Sochi Beaches
Post by: Gator on June 21, 2019, 07:56:36 AM
Future water-level service patios when the sea level rises (global warming).
Title: Re: Strange structures - jutting into the sea - off Sochi Beaches
Post by: msmob on June 21, 2019, 08:02:29 AM
 :)

They are NOT recently built and sea level rises are not why they were built ... ;)
Title: Re: Strange structures - jutting into the sea - off Sochi Beaches
Post by: 2tallbill on June 22, 2019, 11:35:55 AM
So what ARE they ?  They have steps up to a semi covered platform ....

(http://i.imgur.com/prOBsfo.jpg)


(http://i.imgur.com/fj3lEPQ.png)

I know - but interested in your ideas

Clue .. they are not breakwaters

They aren't docks?
Title: Re: Strange structures - jutting into the sea - off Sochi Beaches
Post by: krimster2 on June 22, 2019, 06:37:29 PM
these are common in the Black Sea and not just Sochi...
here's the one that was 300 meters from where I used to live in Sevastopol
fisherman used it and teenage boys dove from the top
Title: Re: Strange structures - jutting into the sea - off Sochi Beaches
Post by: msmob on June 22, 2019, 11:30:47 PM
Not docks, 'Beel' and not the structure Krim has posted, either ! ;)

There ARE many structures that - like a crane on a 'monorail' - are used to drop small boats into the sea - beyondbreaking waves ... but thet's not what's going on here !

Title: Re: Strange structures - jutting into the sea - off Sochi Beaches
Post by: msmob on June 23, 2019, 03:37:31 AM
From an article posted re the winter Olympics at Sochi in 2014 ..

"Her nipples are covered with two silver stars; topless sunbathing in Russia is not permitted" ..

There ain't half some guff written about Russia ;)


These structures were built for 'Sanatoria' to permit single-sex nude sunbathing .. 





Until recently, ( last summer ) these Sanatoria could ban or charge the general public for access - now the access to these beaches are free and fencing that stopped public access are gone.

(http://i.imgur.com/SR6wEov.png)



(http://i.imgur.com/CZroy1n.png)


The photo - below - is taken from the sea-side Pearl Hotel and shows our district ( Svetlana) on the right side of the photo ... I can tell it is c.2012/ 3 as our house does not exist, yet ..

The building most to the left ( north) below is the most southerly in the image above)


(http://i.imgur.com/EdXsze1.png)