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A converted barge moored in the River Spree in the Treptow district of Berlin, the Badeschiff is one of the city's most distinctive summer attractions, an open-air swimming pool floating on the water itself, surrounded by a popular beach bar and sun decks. The name translates roughly as bathing ship, and the concept arose in the mid-2000s as an inventive response to the wish to swim safely in the heart of a city whose own river is not suitable for bathing: rather than swim in the Spree, visitors...