A Swimming Teachersā Association survey has revealed a quarter of public pool users do not take a shower before entering the water, with women being the biggest offenders. The survey, of more than 2,000 swimmers, also revealed that one in four people have urinated in a public swimming pool, with one in ten confessing they had done it deliberately; men aged 18-34 years were cited as the worst culprits this time. STA is one of the worldās largest swim teaching and lifesaving organisation, and delivers the highest quality training across four key business areas ā swimming teaching, lifesaving, first aid and leisure management.
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Olympic gold medallist Alistair Brownlee says he owes his London Games victory to an Endless swimming pool installed in the garden of his Yorkshire home.
The pool with an underwater treadmill not only hastened his recovery from a serious Achilles injury but enabled him to keep training.Alistair installed the pool himself with the help of some willing friends. He had to convince the local planning officer, the pool was permitted development.
Topline Electronics Limited has appointed Barry Humphries as sales director, heading up our sales team at the UKās largest manufacturer of swimming pool chemical control equipment and ancillary products. Barry joins Topline with 30 yearsā experience in the swimming pool industry, working in both the public and private sector, and most recently Siemens, one of […]
Pool insulation specialist, Thermapool, has won a Green Apple Environment Award in the national campaign to find Britainās greenest companies, councils and communities. The company, based in Essex, competed against more than 500 other nominations and will be presented with their Green Apple Award at a presentation ceremony in the House of Commons in November. […]
Maybe it is their love of Freizeit and Nature but the Germans are leading a stampede for natural swimming ponds across Europe. Very similar to natural garden ponds, they are specifically designed for swimming in clean, pure water that is free from chemicals.
Already a popular choice for its problem-solving capabilities in the commercial pool sector, Zeoclere 30, the alternative pool and spa filter media to standard sand, is gaining an ever-increasing following in residential pools and not just in the UK. Zeoclereās parent distributor company, Mineral Supplies International, recently added Finland to its global distribution network and […]
Underlining the excellence of the hotel and its facilities, the infinity pool at The Yeatman was voted one of the āTop 12 Infinity Pools in the Worldā and number one in Portugal by leading travel trade magazine Conde Nasteās āTravellerā. Opened in the mid 1990ās by the Yeatman family, the landmark luxury hotel is in […]
With water and energy savings in the region of Ā£34k per year and a reduction in water consumption by 90%, Defender Filters offered a win, win, situation for the modernisation of a 40 year old plant room at a leisure centre in Canterbury, Kent. Not only is the Kingsmead Leisure Centre more energy and cost […]
Since the end of the London 2012 games, one sport which seems to have particularly captured the nationās eye is swimming, which according to reports from commercial swimming pools all over the country, has already seen a rise in numbers of participants. Britain will reap the benefits of hosting the 2012 games for years to […]
This award-winning pool was constructed by the team from David Hallam Swimming Pools who provided the specialist water leisure knowledge on a special educational needs school building project in Rutland by main contractor, Willmott Dixon. The pool is 10m x 5m x1m and has a turnover of approximately half an hour. Equipment includes chemical control […]
