Behind the scene/ Fun Facts
Behind the scene/ Fun Facts
A Look behind the scenes
There are more than 300,000 public swimming pools in the U.S. and over 10 million private swimming pools.
The largest swimming pool built in the U.S. was the Fleishhacker Pool in San Francisco, CA. It was a public saltwater swimming pool that opened on April 23, 1925. It measured 1,000 ft by 150 ft. The lifeguards had to use kayaks to patrol it because it was so large. It was forced to close in 1971.
If you want to visit the world’s largest swimming pool, you’ll have to travel to Algarrobo, Chile. According to Guinness World Records, the San Alfonso del Mar Seawater pool holds the record. It opened in December 2006. It’s 3,324 ft long and covers 20 acres.
In the U.S., swimming is the most popular activity for children and teens from ages 7 to 17 years old. It’s the fourth most popular activity overall.
You can burn more calories in an hour of vigorous swimming than walking or biking. You can burn up to 650 calories per hour. The reason why is that water exerts more than 10 times the resistance of air.
If you want to work out your whole body, you should try swimming. It works out all your body’s major muscles.
Inground pools are more popular than above ground pools in the U.S. but only by 3%.
According to a 2014 survey by the Red Cross, over half of Americans report that they do not know how to swim.
The amount of water it takes to fill an Olympic sized swimming pool would be equivalent to you taking over 94,000 baths!
POOL WATER MAY BE SAFER TO DRINK THAN TAP WATER .Many think of swimming pools as big tubs of chemical water. However, the fact is that tap water can often have more chlorine than pool water because tap water is allowed to have higher levels of chlorine in it. Pool water often doesn’t have any more chlorine than ordinary tap water, given that the pool chemicals are supposed to be kept at ideal levels. Just make sure to check if your pool has green algae before you take it.
An Olympic-sized pool can hold up to 850,000 gallons of water. Olympic-sized pools are always 50 meters long, but they can have widths of either 25 yards or 25 meters. That's enough water to fill more than 9,400 bathtubs! Swimming is one of the best forms of exercise.