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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A swimming pool service engineer from Rio Pools in Gloucestershire has been selected to undertake a āonce in a lifetimeā endurance car rally from Peru to Argentina. Lee Townsend, is one of 31 crew members in the Race2Recovery Dakar event that will undertake the 9,000 mile journey in 15 days. Lee will leave the UK […]
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. […]
Easily the biggest and most influential stage on the global pool and spa stage, Piscine 2012 gets set to raise its biennial curtain in Lyon this autumn, from November 13 to 16. Every two years, Piscine, the global spa and private pool exhibition and Aqualie, the commercial and wellness show and conference, combine to form […]
Taking the notion of plug and play spa to a whole new dimension, self-styled spa enthusiast and all-round clever guy, Ian Bowden has come up with a new style of mobile hot tub. An enterprising āBritā living mostly in Sweden and also in Spain, Ian began to explore the possibility of a portable spa pool […]
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 […]
Visitors queued outside and enthusiastically joined in a countdown to the opening of the much-anticipated Inspire: Luton Sports Village this summer
SPATEX, the annual swimming pool and hot tub business exhibition has launched a promotional campaign to attract visitors to the Brighton event at the Hilton Metropole Hotel from Sunday to Tuesday, February 3rd to 5th next year.
