The most magical salt water swimming hole is in Samoa

Edit Treehugger 15 Apr 2016
The swimming hole has become a popular attraction in Samoa due to its breathtaking landscape ... Feeling adventurous? Take a leap into the salt water pool from halfway down the staircase or use the diving board at the bottom ... ....

Discover the Benefits of an Above Ground Pool (Ultra Modern Pool And Patio Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Apr 2016
(Source. Ultra Modern Pool And Patio Inc). This summer, take a break from the electronics and splash into healthy family fun!. Perhaps you've always wanted a pool, but building one in your backyard is cost prohibitive. We've got the solution ... We're going to help you discover the benefits of an above ground pool. ... Did you know that you can have steps, a diving board and more with your above ground pool? They come in many sizes, too ... (noodl....

Palmer pool could have a climbing wall or a "drop slide"

Edit Lehigh Valley 12 Apr 2016
Swimmers might tumble off a climbing wall into the Palmer pool's deep end, or they might plop in from the end of an elevated slide depending on which way pool renovations shape up ... "The board felt strongly it's a community asset," Colver said ... This section of the pool is separated from a six-lane swimming area and diving well. Courtesy Wade Associates . The diving area will retain one diving board ... ....

Watch cliff diver David Colturi do non-cliff dives at SMU on Tuesday

Edit The Dallas Morning News 11 Apr 2016
With cliff diver David Colturi visiting SMU on Tuesday to offer tips to the diving team, I thought, hey — with summer just around the proverbial corner, who couldn’t use some diving tips? Well, besides me, because I can’t dive ... What are your three best tips for someone who just wants to turn heads on the diving board at the local swimming pool? (in a good way, of course!) There are three was....

Van Gogh’s Ear swimming pool to add a surreal touch to Fifth Avenue

Edit Inhabitat 11 Apr 2016
A four-and-a-half-ton swimming pool is coming to Fifth Avenue, but don’t get your bathing suit out just yet ... Created to inspire both puzzlement and delight among passersby, the surreal artwork will be installed this week at the entrance of the Channel Gardens at Rockefeller Center ... A blue diving board protrudes down from the top of the sculpture, while a polished stainless steel ladder leads into the empty pool ... Related ... 0 ... ....

‘We have a chance to show the truth’: into the heart of Chernobyl

Edit The Guardian 09 Apr 2016
Three decades after the nuclear disaster, the concrete protecting the reactor is starting to crack. Yet people still live there – and a new virtual reality project will take many more inside the ‘death zone’ ... Facebook. Twitter ... Finally, through a virtual-reality helmet, we are able to roam the scene as if present, examining the peeling paint on the ladder to the diving board, or looking down at the shantytown of wreckage in the deep end....

Tornado in 1977 'was just like what I saw in The Wizard of Oz'

Edit Penn Live 05 Apr 2016
Mrs. Lee Myers was driving west on Chambers Hill Road around 5 p.m. on April 5, 1977, when she saw it. "It's just like what I saw in 'The Wizard of Oz.' I couldn't believe it. I thought it was my imagination," Myers told a reporter from The Patriot ... At the time, Mr. and Mrs ... The family was thrown across the kitchen; the diving board from their pool landed two blocks away, along with the roof of their house ... No one was killed ... ....

The tragic triumph of the world's largest concert

Edit CNN 05 Apr 2016
JUST WATCHED ... ... Some hostages were released, and more terrorists boarded as the plane made two round trips between Lebanon and Algeria ... He had wowed viewers with his strength and grace, and as he stepped up to the diving board four years later, nothing less was expected. Instead, he hit his head on the board in the middle of a complicated dive ... All 259 people on board the plane were killed, as were an additional 11 people on the ground....

Pool to be used as live lobster tank to raise money for students (University of Regina)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Apr 2016
Starting later this year, the dive tank portion of the pool facility will be converted to a lobster holding pound to allow the University to develop and sustain its own supply of lobster for the fund raising gala ... Disruptions to normal use of the dive tank will be minimal. Lobsters will be specially selected and trained to be friendly to pool users and to move to the sides of the pool when people are using the diving boards....

Season Opening Checklist for Pool Prep (Ultra Modern Pool And Patio Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Apr 2016
(Source. Ultra Modern Pool And Patio Inc) ... A few things to check right away include. The ladder - make sure it is secure. Skimmer - take the lid off and check for damage. Diving board - make sure bolts are secure, and no rust is present ... Original Document....

Artists Elmgreen and Dragset bring 'Van Gogh's Ear' to New York

Edit The Guardian 30 Mar 2016
The Scandinavian duo have a unique take on the Dutch master’s famous lobe ... Related ... Their first sculpture was a diving board that hangs out of a window, which is now on permanent display at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark ... And at the Yokohama Triennale in Japan in 2008, they showed Catch Me Should I Fall, a boy in a pair of Speedos standing on a tall diving board before a shallow pool ... Related ... “I don’t know,” he said ... ....

Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes dive below the glittering surface in A Bigger Splash

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 24 Mar 2016
In 1967, the prolific British pop artist David Hockney unveiled a picture called A Bigger Splash inspired by his summery new life in California. It shows a large blue pool, a poolhouse and a diving board; there are no figures in the painting, just an eruption of water where somebody has presumably dived in. Luca Guadagnino, who has borrowed Hockney's title for his new film, likes this ... Looking at it, he says, you can't help wondering ... ....

Buckner Fitness Center opens expansion (Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Mar 2016
(Source. Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson) Buckner Fitness Center opens expansion. Posted 3/24/2016 Updated 3/24/2016Email story Print story. by Air Force Staff Sgt. Wes Wright. JBER Public Affairs ... 'The improvements and features are tremendous,' said John Limon, BPFC director ... Limon said one of the marquee attractions at Bucker is the addition of an aquatics center, which includes a waterslide, lazy river, a diving board and a wave pool....
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