Category: Swimming Pools
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FrogLog: Animal Escape Ramp for Swimming Pools
Having a swimming pool is a super fun way to stay cool during the summer. For the small animals living in your backyard, however, it can be a death trap. Wildlife biologist Rich Mason is out to change that with his simple, yet ingenious invention – the FrogLog. “In June of 2004, good friends who…
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Comparing Iceland’s Blue Lagoon To Natural Hot Spring Swimming Pools | CNBC Make It
CNBC reporter Kathleen Elkins compares Iceland’s iconic geothermal spa to her day at a heated public pool.
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Victoria Baths opens for first public swim in nearly 25 years
Thrilled swimmers splashed down in the baths’ iconic gala pool on Sunday to mark a major milestone in the Grade II-listed building’s continuing multi-million pound restoration. Some took to the water in fun-filled Victorian swimming dress. Others splashed around with inflatables to celebrate the occasion. The one-off event, the first time swimmers have taken to…
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Modpools, Shipping Container Swimming Pools
Modpools are modern efficient shipping container swimming pools that can be set up and ready to go in minutes and relocated when you move. A divider can be installed to allow you to quickly change your pool into a hot tub spa and back again with ease. Modpools also allow you to control the temperature,…
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The Top Five Common Pool Maintenance Mistakes
Guest post by Keith Sandoval / MKM Pool Spa There are few places where a swimmer feels more at home than in the pool. We wake up at the crack of dawn to head to morning practice. We spend our afternoons making waves in the chlorinated waters, and we spend our weekends at day-long meets,…
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Pools for All – A FINA Project Providing Tools for Sustainable Aquatic Centres
Pools for All is a FINA Project that offers standardized tools for the worldwide design, construction and operation of a complete range of sustainable aquatic facilities compliant with the regulations of its different aquatic disciplines. The project suggests five categories of Aquatic Centres, able to host events, competitions and championships at different levels and age groups…
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This Italian hotel has a 25-meter-tall glass-bottom swimming pool
If you don’t like heights we suggest you avoid swimming at The Hotel Hubertus. This terrifying infinity pool is suspended 40 feet above the ground and has a glass window to give brave bathers the sensation of swimming through the sky. Overlooking the Dolomites, the 82-feet-long-pool is part of a new extension at Hotel Hubertus,…