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ITALIAN POOL CLEANER SET TO WOW EUROPE International Caratti has launched its new European range of ‘100% made in Italy’ automatic cleaners. Four new models are in the new Euro range which the company says are more efficient and effective, with more powerful traction motors, and strong suction power they provide a professional alternative for cleaning both private and public swimming pools.
OPEN AIR SWIMMING IN OXFORD
Swimmers in Oxford can enjoy outdoor swimming again as the Hinksey Outdoor Pool has re-opened. The city’s only outdoor heated pool, at Hinksey Park off Abingdon Road, opened after undergoing a major refurbishment programme over the winter which included new changing cubicles, toilet areas, a new pool liner and improved walls and walkways.
NEW WEBSITE FOR ZODIAC
International pool specialists Zodiac has a new website. The aims of the new site are to bring personalised maintenance solutions to pool users and to attract traffic to Zodiac’s retail partner’s outlets. New online sections have been created: subscription to the newsletter and Zodiac’s promotional offers, a new user-friendly search facility to find retailers, advice on pool maintenance etc. Zodiac’s clients will also have the opportunity to connect to their personal area on the website and will find all the online services. The site will be available in 11 different languages.
For more information see
www.zodiacpoolsystems.com
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FT LEISURE TAKES ON WATER CARE AT PLYMOUTH LIFE CENTRE
The responsibility for the water quality at Plymouth Life, one of the highest profile pools in the UK was taken on by FT Leisure Limited. Plymouth Life Centre will provide a premier venue for local, national and international sporting events. The four pool complex includes a 50 metre x 25 metre FINA standard main competition pool, a 25 metre by 15.5metre competition standard diving pool, a freeform leisure pool and a separate bubble pool. FT Leisure’s scope of works included the design, supply, installation and commissioning of the water treatment and filtration systems for the four pools, the water features for the leisure and bubble pools, water supplies for two GRP flumes and a diver bubbler system.
The filtration system is based on standard medium rate sand filtration with calcium hypochlorite, hydrochloric acid, PAC and UV systems for maintaining water quality.
i FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
F FT LEISURE LIMITED ( 0161 494 5785 :
www.ftleisure.co.uk
FIRST ENTRAPMENT LAWSUIT IN THE US SETTLED FOR UNDISCLOSED SUM
The first drain entrapment lawsuit brought under the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act has been settled in the United States. In July 2009, 56-year-old Bill Stock, was held under water after his foot and leg became trapped on a large suction grate while he was swimming in a lagoon pool at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa in Honolulu.
According to court records, it took three adults to free Stock, who died the next day.
Stock’s family sued the Hilton and a number of other parties involved in
One of the UK’s fastest growing leisure groups has said it believes swimming pools are an ‘unnecessary extra’. The Gym Group’s theme of exercise without the trimmings, is now the fastest-growing niche of the UK fitness industry.
the lagoon’s engineering, construction and design. The suit was for negligence, wrongful death, and violation of the Consumer Product Safety Act and the Virginia Baker Pool and Safety Act.
The case settled for an undisclosed sum.
The body of water where the incident occurred was far from a conventional swimming pool. The 5- acre, man-made lagoon used re- circulated ocean water and only had one suction outlet – an eight foot- long grate that sat close to the water’s surface.
It has rejected the inclusion of swimming pools as part of its appeal saying that the market has polarised and offering swimming isn’t always a cost effective option.
John Treharne, Gym Group’s Chief Executive, said “We’re not designing them to be pretty.”
Budget gyms, which were virtually non-existent before 2008, accounted for £37.2m of Britain’s £3.81bn fitness market for the year to March 2011, according to the Leisure Database Company, industry analysts.
That is set to grow dramatically as
Though the grate was too large to be blocked by a human body, it had a flow rate of 15,000 gallons per minute which was more than strong enough to pin Stock underwater. A few years before the incident, the lagoon’s original pump was replaced with one powerful enough to boost the turnover rate from two and a half times a day to five times a day. The victim’s family charged that the drain cover did not comply with the VGBA and said there was no pump shut-off device or quickly identifiable and accessible emergency shut-off switch.
SWIMMING POOLS NOT A PRIORITY IN BOOMING CUT PRICE GYM MARKET
private-equity backed Gym Group and its rival Pure Gym both project doubling their respective number of pool less sites by 2015.
In addition, the gyms minimise so- called ‘low usage’ floor space – swimming pools or saunas that might be used for only a few hours in a day.
“If you want to take your family to the gym or swim in a pool then Pure Gym is probably not for you,” said Peter Roberts, Pure Gym’s Chief Executive. “But if you want to stay fit and healthy and look after the pennies then we are.”
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