Literally rolling its way along a road to success, Carnival Cruise Line’s “Largest inflatable Beach Ball” firmly bounced itself into Guinness World Records history. As a visual testament to the company’s emphasis on providing “larger than life fun” to its cruise ship guests, the cruise line created the 10.99 metre wide ball.
According to the event organizers, the beach ball’s 695,179.43 cubic litres of air – contained within 379.51 square metres of plastic – equals the storage capacity of 16 Boeing 737-400 commercial airplanes.
With that much space occupied, there was little room left for error but when the ball was accidentally bounced off a street lamp and onto the GPS antenna of a parked car, the beach ball burst with the sound of a gun shot blast. Despite the unforeseen incident the ball was suitably repaired and quickly refilled with air to avoid defeat, and to instead rebound triumphantly to a record title.
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