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Swimming pools became popular in
Britain in the mid-19th century. As early as 1837, six indoor pools with diving boards existed in
London, England.[4] The
Maidstone Swimming Club in Maidstone, Kent is believed to be the oldest surviving swimming club in Britain. It was formed in
1844, in response to concerns over drownings in the
River Medway, especially since would-be rescuers would often drown because they themselves could not swim to safety. The club used to swim in the River Medway, and would hold races, diving competitions and water polo matches.
The South East Gazette July 1844 reported an aquatic breakfast party: coffee and biscuits were served on a floating raft in the river. The coffee was kept hot over a fire; club members had to tread water and drink coffee at the same time.
The last swimmers managed to overturn the raft, to the amusement of
150 spectators.[5]
In 1839,
Oxford created its first major public indoor pool at
Temple Cowley, and swimming began to increase in popularity.
The Amateur Swimming
Association was founded in
1869 in
England,[6] and the Oxford Swimming Club in
1909 with its home at Temple Cowley Pool.[7] The presence of indoor baths in the cobbled area of
Merton Street,
London may have persuaded the less hardy of the aquatic brigade to join. So, bathers gradually became swimmers, and bathing pools became swimming pools.
The modern
Olympic Games started in 1896 and included swimming races, after which the popularity of swimming pools began to spread
. In the US, the
Racquet Club of Philadelphia clubhouse (1907) boasts one of the world's first modern above-ground swimming pools. The first swimming pool to go to sea on an ocean liner was installed on the
White Star Line's
Adriatic in 1907.[8] The oldest known public swimming pool in
America,
Underwood Pool, is located in
Belmont, Massachusetts.
Interest in competitive swimming grew following
World War I.
Standards improved and training became essential.
Home swimming pools became popular in the
United States after
World War II and the publicity given to swimming sports by
Hollywood films such as
Esther Williams'
Million Dollar Mermaid made a home pool a desirable status
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New Zealand pop. 4,116,900 [
Source NZ Census 7
March 2006] – holds the record in pools per capita with 65,000 home swimming pools and 125,000 spa pools).
A two-storey, white concrete swimming pool building composed of horizontal cubic volumes built in
1959 at the
Royal Roads Military College is on the Registry of Historic
Places of
Canada.[9]
Swimming-pool records[edit]
Moskva Pool, at one time the largest swimming pool in the world (
1980)
According to the
Guinness World Records, the largest swimming pool in the world is
San Alfonso del Mar Seawater pool in
Algarrobo, Chile. It is 1,
013 m (3,323 ft) long and has an area of 8 ha (20 acres). At its deepest, it is
3.5 m (11 ft) deep.[10] It was completed in
December 2006.[11]
The largest indoor wave pool in
North America is at the
West Edmonton Mall and the largest indoor pool is at the
Neutral Buoyancy Lab in the
Sonny Carter Training Facility at
NASA JSC in
Houston.[12][13]
San Alfonso del Mar, the largest swimming pool in the world.
In 2014, the
Y-40 swimming pool at the
Hotel Terme Millepini in
Padua, Italy became the deepest indoor pool, certified by the
Guinness Book of World Records.[14] The recreational diving center
Nemo 33 near
Brussels, Belgium previously held the record until the Y-40 was completed.[15]
The
Fleishhacker Pool in
San Francisco was the largest heated outdoor swimming pool in the United States. Opened on 23
April 1925, it measured 1,000 by 150 ft (
300 by 50 m) and was so large that the lifeguards required kayaks for patrol. It was closed in
1971 due to low patronage.[16]
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