Swimming shed

Swimming sheds (Chinese: 泳棚) were built along the sea shore and provided changing rooms and wooden piers for swimmers.

In 1911, Chinese Recreation Club (Hong Kong), built a swimming shed in Tsat Tsz Mui, formerly a village, in eastern North Point.

In the 1960s, the Hong Kong Government revoked part of the land area of the swimming shed in certain districts for redevelopment.

On 22 October 2012, Leung Chun-ying, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, pointed out that the water quality of the harbour has been improving since all major sewage treatment and purification projects are nearly completed.

[1] However, Professor Ho Kin-chung, Dean of the School of Science and Technology in the Open University of Hong Kong, indicated that the water quality is not suitable for swimming now, not until the completion of the second phase of the effluent treatment projects wraps up.

It functions as a hybrid of swimming lot and photo-taking spot for photography lovers, for its vantage point which helps visitors see the small island to the West of the shed, the beacon and the sunset.

[4] On 29 September 2007 in Victoria Road and Deep Water Bay, a swimmer drowned in an early morning accident.

Sometimes when vessels pass the sea waves can be rather high, though local people are accustomed to early morning swimming.