Category: Swimming Pools
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Sacramento Swimming Pools Fully Reopen in Time for Father’s Day Amid Record Heat | ABC10
While only select facilities opened last summer due to the COVID pandemic, Sacramento Aquatics has opened pools at 14 different facilities
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List of Angry Local Swimming Pool Company Customers Is Growing | WAVY TV 10
Following WAVY Investigator Chris Horne’s report into Artistic Pools and contractor John Jiannine which aired Wednesday, more customers contacted 10 On Your Side with similar stories. https://www.wavy.com/?p=1026969
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Nonprofit Plans to Open Olympic-Sized Swimming Pool in North Minneapolis | KARE 11
Starting in November, the corner of Plymouth Avenue and Lyndale Avenue will transform from a warehouse to a V3 Community Center.
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World’s Largest Swimming Pool to House New Astronaut Training Center | SPACE
The world’s deepest swimming pool will hold as much water as 169 million cups of tea. The world’s largest swimming pool designed for astronaut training and development of subsea robots will be built in the U.K. near the Cornwall Airport Newquay, which expects to serve as a spaceport for Virgin Orbit launches beginning next year.…
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Pools to People: Local Water Expert’s Big Idea to Make Swimming Lessons More Accessible | KARE 11
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there are 10 accidental drownings every day across the country. They say the fatal-drowning rate of Black children is three times higher than white children due to historical factors.
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Sky Pool: Swim in the Air if You Dare
So how many phobias can you squeeze into one swimming pool? The newly opened Sky Pool in London will test several, including acrophobia (fear of heights), basophobia (fear of falling) and aquaphobia (fear of drowning). The pool is 115 feet in the air and stretches across the 46-foot gap between the two luxury Embassy Gardens apartment blocks…
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Minister for Sport Inspects Progress at Sandwell Aquatics Centre
A significant milestone has been reached at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre, which is currently under construction in Smethwick, as the tiling of the main competition pool, which will be used for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, has now begun. Nigel Huddleston MP, Minister for Sport and Tourism, and Ian Reid, Chief Executive of Birmingham 2022,…
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Lifeguard Shortage Threatens Summer Swimming | Fox Business
Some pools and beaches won’t be opening for Memorial Day weekend due to a lifeguard shortage. FOX Business’ Grady Trimble with more.