28 November 2007
"The Seagaia Ocean Dome is the world's largest indoor water park, located in Miyazaki, Japan. The Ocean Dome, which is a part of the Sheraton Seagaia Resort, measures 300 metres in length and 100 metres in width, and is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Ocean Dome sports a fake flame-spitting volcano, artificial sand and the world's largest retractable roof, which provides a permanently blue sky even on a rainy day. Air temperature is always held around 30 degrees Celsius, the water around 28℃
"The Ocean Dome, the world’s largest indoor beach, Kyushu Island, Japan (about 1,500 kilometers south of Tokyo) — 300 meters in length and 100 meters in width, with a height of 38 meters, it can accommodate 10,000 people.
Designed by the Mitsubishi Heavy Industrial Group and opened in July 1993 at a cost of 200 billion yen ($2 billion), the Ocean Dome was never profitable and recently closed. [wikipedia link]"
...more ---> ...| in the news | 28 November 2007; 11:32:05 AM |# | | Discuss |
"A swimming pool in a rural Dorset town could close because the council can no longer afford to run it. [LINK]
The splash pool at the Stourview Centre in Sturminster Newton is set to shut next year unless Dorset County Council can find somebody else to run it. [LINK]
The council needs to save £600,000 on its day service provision and blames the closure on the pool's falling user numbers and rising maintenance costs. [LINK]"
(Via BBC NEWS | England | Dorset | Town's swimming pool could shut: .)
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" Uxbridge lido is a refurbished multi-million pound swimming and leisure complex with an Olympic-sized training pool."
(Via Uxbridge Lido: .)
...more ---> ...| London Borough of Hillingdon | 28 November 2007; 10:43:32 AM |# | | Discuss |
"Now lets look briefly at the profile of the people who would use diving boards. They are generally young, probably youths between the ages of 10 and 18, quite a few would be male. They like excitement, the adrenaline rush they get from it. They develop self confidence, but also find their limits, often painfully! They often like to show off, especially to their peers or the opposite sex. They learn, they experience, they interact, they also get an appreciation of other people and it is instructive to see the interaction between groups, totally different in age or social profile when they are all together on diving boards.
These young people now have in most instances nowhere to go, the facilities they enjoy and have fun on are for the most part closed or only accessible through paid for lessons which can be prohibitively expensive. So what do they do? Well, alcohol is easily available and at 22p a can very cheap too, groups that would at one time have been in a swimming pool having fun are now excluded as the ‘boards are shut and it’s ‘Adults Only’ in the evening anyway, so they sit together in groups near the pool with cans they have got from a local shop and, after a few drinks try and think of something exciting to do.
Alternatively, they get the equivalent excitement by tombstoning from bridges or cliffs, often after alcohol, and into water with unknown depth and potential obstructions below the surface. In some cases within walking distance of a swimming pool where they are not allowed to use the diving boards because they are a ‘Health and Safety’ issue for the operators."
(Via River and lake swimming: .)
...more ---> ...| Diving Boards | 28 November 2007; 10:42:52 AM |# | | Discuss |
"A pool swimmers had battled to save at the Welsh Institute of Sport is to close to make way for a judo facility.
The decision to shut the pool in Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, has been made by the Sports Council for Wales (SCW).
It said the city, where 25m and 50m pools are soon to open in Cardiff Bay, is well served for swimming facilities but has no dedicated judo centre."
(Via BBC NEWS | Wales | South East Wales | Fight to save swimming pool lost: .)
...more ---> ...| national news | 28 November 2007; 12:46:18 AM |# | | Discuss |
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