February Digital Focus: On Aquatics

Feb 2, 2022

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AB regularly immerses readers in aquatics coverage. For this month’s Digital Focus, we’ve pulled from our archive recent articles on a variety of topics — from pool design and renovation to water and air quality to the concrete often used as deck surfacing.

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Why YMCAs are Turning to Retractable Structures to Enhance Their Aquatics Facilities

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Designing the Perfect Weight Room for Any Coach, Trainer or Athlete

Designing the Perfect Weight Room for Any Coach, Trainer or Athlete

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How New Technology Is Assisting Lifeguards With Drowning Prevention

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Swimmer Dies After Medical Incident at Western Washington's Rec Center Pool

Cities Step Up Perks to Recruit More Lifeguards

A Manhattan Parking Garage Turned Wellness Destination

This former parking garage now serves as a wellness destination, complete with thermal pools, saunas, steam rooms and more.

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How New Technology Is Assisting Lifeguards With Drowning Prevention

Aquatics professionals need no reminder that drowning is one of the leading causes of unintentional injury-related deaths, especially among children; they’re on the front lines — and pool decks — every day. They’re also facing a potential fourth consecuti

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Swimmer Dies After Medical Incident at Western Washington's Rec Center Pool

First responders were called to Western Washington's Wade King Student Recreation Center Friday after receiving a report of a possible drowning at the facility.

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Cities Step Up Perks to Recruit More Lifeguards

Parks and recreation departments in several cities are upping their employee perks in order to recruit more lifeguards as water safety staffing shortages continue across the U.S...

Exterior Staircase Connects West Hollywood Park’s Greenspace to Its Pools

Staircases are a common means of connecting venue levels, but the grand stair at the West Hollywood Park Aquatic and Recreation Center takes the concept to atypical literal and figurative heights.

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Florida Aquatics Swimming & Training (FAST)

Florida Aquatics Swimming & Training provides elite training with the goal of producing the next generation of champion swimmers.

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2023 Facilities of Merit Winner: West Hollywood Aquatic & Recreation Center

The West Hollywood Aquatic & Recreation Center (ARC) is the final phase of a masterplan for the park and community buildings at West Hollywood Park. The main goal of the project wasto create a state-of-the-art community recreation and aquatic facility...

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Cities Boost Wages, Embrace 'Culture Change' to Beat Lifeguard Shortage

Lifeguard shortages closed thousands of pools and beaches during the COVID-19 pandemic, when social distancing requirements disrupted training and rising wages lured some workers to other summer jobs.

Two lifeguards watch over swimmers at the Douglass Park pool in June 2022 in Indianapolis, which suffered a lifeguard shortage last year. Many states and cities suffering similar shortages have made major changes in how they train, recruit and compensate lifeguards.

Designing an Aquatics Facility to Maximize Programming Flexibility

When the City of Sedalia, Mo., began designing the aquatics components of what would become the 92,000-square-foot Heckart Community Center, plans called for a leisure pool, a competition pool and a whirlpool. But then local school district officials...

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Safety & Security

Texas Waterpark Temporarily Closes After 4-Year-Old Drowns

A waterpark in Stephenville, Texas, was closed Sunday, one day after a 4-year-old child drowned at the park.

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City in Minnesota Gathers Funding to Fix Pool Leaking 18,000 Gallons a Day

Officials in a Minnesota city have gathered funds to fix a community pool that's leaking thousands of gallons of water per day...

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Lifeguards Use AED, CPR to Save Man Who Suffered Heart Attack While Swimming

An avid swimmer and volunteer adult Scout leader in Kentucky was saved by lifeguards using an AED and CPR after he suffered a heart attack while swimming earlier this month.

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