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Various Pool Sizes

ForceDJ
As a winter resident of NE Ft. Lauderdale, FL I have a membership at the Pompano Beach municipal pools. I usually swim at the main aquatics center which is usually set up for 25 SCM, occasionally 50 LCM. The other day I went to swim at the Pompano’s other pool facility, Houston/Sworn Aquatic Center. It was my first time at that pool. Thinking it was 25m, after just a couple laps, and looking at the pace clock, I realized that it’s 25 SCY. Anyway, that got me thinking about the different pools I’ve swam in, and their various sizes. That is, pools that are lined, and set up for lap swimming. What odd-size pool have you swam in?
20 yards — Oliver Bath House, Pitt, PA.
25 yards — numerous
25 meters — numerous
100 ft (33.33 yards) — Deep Eddy Pool, Austin, TX.
35 yards — Naval Station Newport, RI (two indoor pools now razed), and at Fort Meade, MD (outdoor, converted to 25m using Jersey barriers.)
50 yard — Purdue Univ Rec Center, and NAS Jacksonville, FL
50 meter — numerous (Including the Olympic pool in Sydney, Australia where I just narrowly missed learning the hard way that “circle swimming in Australia is in the opposite direction than in North America.) 
Dan
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  • I grew up swimming age group in a pool that was 16 3/4 meters long (it still exists and hosts age groupers). 4 lanes. The older groups "graduated" to the 25m pool next to it, so eventually, I got to play in the big pool as well.
    I also once swam in a pool that was about 90 meters long (Inselbad Stuttgart - it has since been renovated and downsized). It was not set up with lanelines, so it doesn't count under your criteria. It was an interesting swim regardless.
    I also swam in university pools in Germany, which are usually built 20m long to avoid them being used for competitive swimming/racing.

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  • I grew up swimming age group in a pool that was 16 3/4 meters long (it still exists and hosts age groupers). 4 lanes. The older groups "graduated" to the 25m pool next to it, so eventually, I got to play in the big pool as well.
    I also once swam in a pool that was about 90 meters long (Inselbad Stuttgart - it has since been renovated and downsized). It was not set up with lanelines, so it doesn't count under your criteria. It was an interesting swim regardless.
    I also swam in university pools in Germany, which are usually built 20m long to avoid them being used for competitive swimming/racing.

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