Swimming Pool Headlines
How Clean is Your Swimming Pool?
Have you gone to the local swimming pool and found it to be a disappointing mess? A little dirty? Sparkling clean? What are your experiences at the local pool, and...
Some pools swimming with danger (The Scranton Times-Tribune)
A swimming pool can offer relief from summer heat, but swimmers should know what they are jumping into. It could be a soup of nasty parasites. Reports of gastrointestinal illness from use of public pools and water parks have risen sharply in recent year
USA Swimming Names 2009 International Open Water Swimming Teams
USA Swimming named the open water swimmers that will compete at the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome, Italy and the FINA Open Water 10K World Cup in Roberval, Quebec,...
New law leaves some local swimming pools drained (Corbin News Journal)
A federal law passed in 2007 has some local public swimming pool operators up in arms, while others have been forced to delay the opening of their pools to make, sometimes costly, upgrades in order to meet new standards.
How to heal aging joints: Get in warm swimming pool (San Jose Mercury News)
Pool time! There is no better place to exercise those 50-plus joints than in a swimming pool, says Carrie Thorson, head physical therapist with California's Aquatic Rehab and Consulting.
Work begins on new swimming pool for Tweed (The Community Press)
Tweed – It might have taken three-and-a-half years of preparations but the Erin Palmateer Memorial Pool committee finally got its wish last week with the breaking of ground June 17 on construction of the new pool.[...]
Man’s body found in swimming pool (The State)
Authorities are investigating the death of a 66-year-old man whose body was found Tuesday morning in the swimming pool of his West Columbia home, said Lexington County Coroner Harry Harman.
FINA IS Allowing Almost Any Swim Suit to be Used in Swim Meets
At the latest FINA meeting on swimsuits (19 June 2009) the decision was made to allow just about every swim suit that had been submitted for testing to be used...
Girl, 9, Pulled From Northridge Swimming Pool (CBS 2 Los Angeles)
A 9-year-old girl was pulled from a Northridge swimming pool Wednesday and airlifted to Childrens Hospital Los Angeles in serious condition.
And With the Swim Suit List, Along Comes an Update on World Records from FINA
Some of the recent world record swims have been accepted by FINA as of 22 June 2009. Some are still under review. Some have not been approved (as they were...
Swimming pool safety (Tri-County Times)
Swimming pool season is here, and 11-year-old Kaylee Clayton of Swartz Creek saw firsthand how easy it is for young children to inadvertently end up in troubled water.
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