I stood inside the clear tube, my heart pounding in my chest. A speaker above my head counted down. “Three. Two. One. Drop.” The floor swung out from beneath me, dropping me into the near-vertical tube of the 60-foot high La Chute waterslide, a harrowing inverted-loop ride that pulls sliders at up to 50 feet […]
What do Americans love more than a Top 10 list? I would argue, not much outside of puppy dogs, apple pie, and nauseating reality television. So, to kick off the summer swim season, the website SwimSwam.com recently released their contribution to this slice of Americana with their following list of the Top 10 “Must Visit […]
Note: Orginally published by Swimming World Magazine. See link at the bottom for original article. WATCHING a 3-year-old jump into a pool and splash around the water is nothing new. But to see a child of that age swimming the length of a 50-meter pool twice is a rare sight to behold. Bruce Wigo, the […]
NSF (National Sanitation Foundation) was founded in 1944 to standardize sanitation and food safety requirements. Today, it has evolved into an accredited, independent third party certification body that tests and certifies products to verify that they meet public health and safety standards. The NSF is made up of many different divisions covering a wide range […]
Is your bathhouse a pleasant place to be? Are you able to keep it clean? Does your bathhouse have adequate capacity for your venue? Does it provide sufficient accessibility for the disabled? Do you have space dedicated for families to use? While it is hard for any manager to say yes to all of these […]
When I joined TMI, I had never heard of a Certified Pool Operator (CPO®). I had no idea they existed. People really undertake training and education just to take care of a pool? Why? I’d seen my grandfather squint at a pink sample of pool water and throw a few more pucks of chlorine into […]
The 2013 World Championship team for the United States has been selected as USA Diving’s trials came to a close Monday, May 20th at Florida State University’s Morcom Aquatics Center in Tallahassee, FL. In all, 15 divers will compete for Team USA at the worlds in Barcelona in July. For a complete list of all […]
I recently submitted a nice LISP routine to Cadalyst that I felt was worth sharing with others that may share the same disgust as I did in having to manually go into your settings and change things over and over again just to make a quick WMF file. Whether you create WMF files on a […]
There are currently three primary organizational or ownership models for USA Swimming Clubs. The first is the club that is in partnership with a certain facility or institution. A second, sometimes-similar structure is a program that is run by a booster organization – essentially by the parents of the participating athletes. The third, which […]
The Americans with Disabilities Act Regulations for public swimming pools define two primary means of access for aquatic facilities. These are swimming pool lifts and sloped entries. The reason that these two means of access are designated as primary is that they can provide assistance to a wider variety of users then the secondary […]
