Category: Swimming Pools
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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,…
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What Is the Ideal Swimming Pool Water for Competitive Swimmers?
Guest post by Laurie Smith After watching the Olympics this is a question that occurred to me – it’s not something that most people think about it. Personally, I had never given it much thought and chances are that you haven’t either until now.
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Where to go swimming in Prague
Streets of Prague can get really hot during the summer so it’s not a bad idea to cool yourself down.
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14 Insane Pools You Won’t Believe Actually Exist
Here are the top 14 most craziest pools in the world that you need to go swimming in from one in a waterfall to the deepest pool ever! https://youtu.be/1glVgpLEZ5A
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An Engineer’s Hypothesis On The Current Stir From The Rio Pool
Yet another new theory has surfaced that suggests the structure of the Olympic swimming pool may have given some swimmers advantages in Rio. According to Timothy Wei, a professor of mechanical and materials engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the strange swim time trends could have been caused by wave patterns created by the motion…
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Lido love … and the joys of resurrecting a long-lost London pool
Like most lido spotters, I can’t look at a bit of open water without wanting to hurl myself into it. Be it the sea, a pool, a river, a puddle even … I get a twitchy feeling. It must be got into. Others see a bracing, flu-inducing pond. The lido nut sees a glistening pool…