Category: Swimming Pools
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CC photo #26: Omega OSB11 starting blocks in KlaksvÃk
We might not have any 50-meter pools in the Faroe Islands, but we got our first set of fancy Olympic standard Omega OSB11 starting blocks in September, 2010, and our next in 2011, so that we at least can start our swims properly in 2 of 3 25-meter pools :-)
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Banning chlorine would improve swim safety by lowering the corrosion risk
Never thought of that, but this guy on ecademy makes a good point: In November 2011 a five month old baby diseased after being hit by a loud-speaker that fell from the ceiling of a swimming pool in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Over the past decennia several incidents occurred in swimming pools worldwide due to false…
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Epic 6 pass trick shot in a swimming pool
They are a youth group called The Living Room, and they obviously know that they are good! Even plan to build wells in Mozambique with www.hungerstrike.org, if this YouTube video of theirs earns any money.
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“Backyard Oasis”, the Palm Springs Art Museum swimming pool exhibition
This Saturday January 21st, 2012, Palm Springs Art Museum will open a new exhibition called “Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982“, celebrating the iconic backyard swimming pool, forever associated with the Southern California good life. “The photographs project a happier, supposedly better way of life,†says Daniell Cornell, the museum’s deputy…
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Top 10 hotel swim-up bars
Sigh, number one is Dreams Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. Well at least my dreams are for free ! :-) See full list here on boston.com
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9 awesome hotel pools, including a shark tank water slide
Nice list here on TravelSupermarket, via Neatorama. Marina Bay Sands in Singapore is there, of course, with its pool stretching across the skyscrapers, and Bláa Lónið (the Blue Lagoon) in Iceland. But the one taking the price is Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, with its water slide going through a shark tank.
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Can indoor swimming in chlorinated pools cause hormone problems in boys ?
According to a recent study at the Catholic University of Louvain, indoor swimming in a chlorinated pool for as little as 30 minutes every two weeks may result in altered hormone levels in boys. The effects are most pronounced before the age of 7, and boys are particularly sensitive because the skin of the scrotum…
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Building of the Duel in the Pool 2011 Arena
Now that is a lot of effort put into what ultimately ended as a 181.5 – 80.5 trashing of the Europeans (hey, I’m European, I’m allowed! :-)
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Workers face charges for allowing dirty pool to stay open with a body at bottom
Two former state workers will face criminal charges after they allowed a dirty swimming pool to stay open while the body of a woman lay at the bottom. We’ve heard about the story before, the water in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Pool in Fall River, Massachusetts, was so murky, that Marie Joseph’s body lay there…