I coach at a YMCA pool (built in 1956 and is a 20 yard pool) where the air temperature ranges around 92-95 degrees and the water temp is usually around 88 degrees. Also, there is poor ventilation because the ventilation system is not working properly. Lately I have come home after coaching with terrible headaches. I worry about our age-group swimmers too because they are working out in such warm temps. The maintenance dept and Y will not lower the temp and have not taken our complaints as a priority. Is this a dangerous situation or do I need to just grin and bear it. Please advise if anyone can help or tell me who we can alert. Thanks!
don't want to be a thread spoiler here but we all know that swimming hot sucks.....period.
the glanced over issue is poor ventilation in a chlorinated environment sucks more and is potentially dangerous!!!!!!!!!!!!!
news.medill.northwestern.edu/.../news.aspx
how many age groupers and masters already show up to practice with their inhalers in tow?
if usas and fina and usms all got together on this one, i think they could have a profound influence on how our swimming pools were treated after all........you are what you swim in. (alright, maybe thats a bit too dramitic)
I think what you are referring to is chlorine gas. The article in the link refers to a chlorine gas leak at a facility. That is nasty stuff. The issue there was not having adequate ventilation to remove the gas quickly enough.
Once dissolved in water it is the most effective of the three agents( chlorine, bromine, iodine) used to "clean" the pool water of all the stuff we drag in on our bodies.
Not a pretty thought so keep swimming.
Here is a good link that describes what happens to chlorine once it dissolves in water.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts172.pdf
don't want to be a thread spoiler here but we all know that swimming hot sucks.....period.
the glanced over issue is poor ventilation in a chlorinated environment sucks more and is potentially dangerous!!!!!!!!!!!!!
news.medill.northwestern.edu/.../news.aspx
how many age groupers and masters already show up to practice with their inhalers in tow?
if usas and fina and usms all got together on this one, i think they could have a profound influence on how our swimming pools were treated after all........you are what you swim in. (alright, maybe thats a bit too dramitic)
I think what you are referring to is chlorine gas. The article in the link refers to a chlorine gas leak at a facility. That is nasty stuff. The issue there was not having adequate ventilation to remove the gas quickly enough.
Once dissolved in water it is the most effective of the three agents( chlorine, bromine, iodine) used to "clean" the pool water of all the stuff we drag in on our bodies.
Not a pretty thought so keep swimming.
Here is a good link that describes what happens to chlorine once it dissolves in water.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts172.pdf
