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1993 Ramada Hotel drownings

The 1993 Ramada Hotel drownings were the April 7, 1993 deaths by drowning of three teenage boys in a swimming pool at a Ramada Rolling Green Hotel in Andover, Massachusetts.

Associated Oil Company

Also in 1913, unfavorable commuting conditions prompted the Associated Oil Company to build a company town called the Avon Village and by 1920 consisted of 65 cottages, a one-room schoolhouse, worker's bunkhouse, a dining hall and a clubhouse that included an indoor swimming pool, auditorium and a two-lane bowling alley which serves today as the Refinery Museum.

Barra Hall Park

The Barra Hall building was officially opened as town hall on 23 February 1924 and its grounds became a municipal park with playground, tennis courts and a paddling pool opened by music hall star Jessie Matthews.

Bath Club

Its swimming pool was a noted feature, and it is thought that the swimming pool of the fictional Drones Club (also on Dover Street) was based on this.

Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever

Frederica (Amanda Jelks) dies in the swimming pool from the infection and Rick (Thomas Blake, Jr.) is killed when he drowns after hitting his head on the side of the pool and falling in.

Chinese mitten crab

It was reported in the London Evening Standard in 1995 that the residents of Greenwich saw Chinese mitten crabs coming out of the River Thames and moving towards the High Street, and other reports indicate that the crabs have been known to take up residence in swimming pools.

Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre

The Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre, is a public swimming pool complex located on the corner of High street & Edgar Street, Glen Iris, Melbourne, Australia.

Jhelum Cantonment

There are variety of sports facilities available within the cantonment which include Cricket fields Hockey fields, football fields, Tennis Courts, Squash courts and Swimming Pools are among many other sports facilities that are available.

Neptune Pool

The Neptune Pool is the name of the outdoor swimming pool ensemble at Hearst Castle, in San Simeon, California.

Purley Way

Purley Way Lido operated from 1935 to 1980; the diving board remains in the middle of a garden centre.

Riegenroth

Not much farther away are Kastellaun, which lies on Bundesstraße 327 and the Hunsrückhöhenstraße (“Hunsrück Heights Road”, a scenic road across the Hunsrück built originally as a military road on Hermann Göring’s orders), and Simmern, through which runs Bundesstraße 50, where there are indoor and outdoor swimming pools along with shopping and entertainment facilities.

Robertsville, Tennessee

In the 1930s Cross Spring was dammed by a local farmer to form a small lake that the Army Corps of Engineers lined with concrete during World War II to convert it to a large swimming pool.

Sengkang Sports and Recreation Centre

Situated on 4 hectares of land beside Sungei Punggol, Sengkang Sports and Recreation Centre houses a community club, and feature sports facilities including four swimming pools, five water slides one of the slides have four colours similar to the slides at East Coast Park which is now closed.

Ski resort

Ski resorts often have other activities, such as snowmobiling, sledding, horse-drawn sleds, dog-sledding, ice-skating, indoor or outdoor swimming, and hottubbing, game rooms, and local forms of entertainment, such as clubs, cinema, theatre and cabarets.

Sona College of Technology

It possesses an Electronic library with 1820 CD-ROMs and 820 video lectures, sports facilities, stadiums, courts, gymnasium, swimming pool, golf, and billiards, and language Lab, Management Information System.

South Beach, Singapore

The former NCO Club was originally designed as the headquarters of the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes in Singapore, and had a swimming pool.

The Pods

The leisure centre offers a wide range of modern facilities, including two swimming pools, a state of the art gym, a dance studio, a café and a crèche.

World record progression 1500 metres freestyle

The first world record in the men's 1500 metres freestyle in a long course (50 metres) swimming pool was recognised by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) in 1908.


see also

2008 Women's Water Polo Olympic Qualifier

The tournament was held at the new Olympic Swimming Pool (2005) in Imperia, Italy from February 17 to February 24, 2008 with twelve competing teams.

2021 World Aquatics Championships

Two of the competition venues will be located in Margaret Island: a brand-new indoor swimming pool complex for swimming, diving and synchronized swimming, and the existing Alfred Hajós sports pool for water polo.

Actrices

To escape her torments she goes to the swimming pool, and swims, and listens to Glenn Miller.

Alumni Coliseum

The Alumni Coliseum also houses four other basketball courts in an auxiliary gymnasium, an outdoor swimming pool, eight classrooms, the Chad Bratzke Student Academic Athletic Success Center, and twenty additional offices.

Alzek Misheff

He is well known in the international art world for the project Swimming Across The Atlantic, which was executed in the swimming pool of the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 in 1982 while traveling on the route between London and New York.

Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics

The university swimming pool was renovated under the administration of rector Mikhail P. Batura.

Bloedel Reserve

The Bloedel Reserve has both natural and highly-landscaped lakes, immaculate lawns, woods, a rock and sand Zen garden (formerly the swimming pool where poet Theodore Roethke drowned in 1963), a moss garden, a rhododendron glen, and a Reflection Garden designed with the assistance of landscape architects Richard Haag and Thomas Church.

Blue Water Trucking

Founded in 1977, Blue Water Trucking started with delivering swimming pool water to Romeo-Washington area homes.

Bob Attersley

On August 25, 1984, Attersley presented Anne Ottenbrite with the Key to the Town of Whitby and named a swimming pool in her honour.

Camp El Tesoro

Campers swam in Shannah’s Lagoon, a part of Fall Creek, until the first swimming pool was built in 1938.

Chrysalis High

Chrysalis High, Whitefield Kadugodi Road, is spread across an area of 4 acres & has facilities like Athletic track, Football Ground, a semi-Olympic size swimming pool, Basketball Court, Tennis Court, Cricket pitch and a beautiful play area for pre-primary children.

Cleveland Park

With the construction of a swimming pool, the Club became more centered on recreational swimming, although other activities, including annual potluck suppers on Memorial Day and Labor Day, a day camp, and other occasional social and educational events continue.

Daryl Kerrigan

Her vision was evident in the shows which were legendary in fashion lore: An empty swimming pool in the LES; the space now known as “Capitale” when it was a working bank; the roof of Gordon Bunshaft’s Lever House; on top of a flatbed truck, in the Gagosian Gallery on 21st Street when it was a parking garage – Joey Ramone attended this show to hear his music played.

Disney's Port Orleans Resort

Disney's Port Orleans Resort French Quarter features the Doubloon Lagoon 225,000 gallon swimming pool which has a sea-serpent themed water slide named Scales that is jockeyed by King Neptune.

Downe Scout Activity Centre

This was possible by the construction of a swimming pool which was funded by the proceeds from the very first Gang Show, which was organised by Ralph Reader for this very purpose.

East Potomac Park

Located between the Washington Channel and the Potomac River, the park is home to the East Potomac Park Golf Course, a miniature golf course, a public swimming pool (the East Potomac Park Aquatic Center), and tennis courts.

EC Waves

Training is conducted at Eltham College swimming pool and Watermarc in Greensborough.

Embassy Court

The longer-term proposal for a basement swimming pool remained, and other ideas suggested at this time included a gymnasium, reinstatement of the original 1930s foyer decor including a mural by Edward McKnight Kauffer, and the conversion of one flat into a 1930s-style showpiece.

Englefield, Berkshire

In the late 19th century, Richard Fellowes Benyon rebuilt the villagers' houses as a model estate village and provided them with such amenities as a swimming pool, soup kitchen and a new school.

Francis Urquhart

Michael Dobbs stated that the inspiration behind Urquhart came during a drinking session at a swimming pool after a tense encounter with Margaret Thatcher, deliberately creating a character moulded around the initials "FU".

Fritz Beblo

Beblo's name is especially connected with the Musau-Schule (1904–1906), the Thomasschule (1905–1907), the Neufeldschule (1907–1909, today the Collège Louise Weiss), the Haushaltsschule beside the Magdalenenkirche (1909–1910), the Magdalenenkirche, the Grande Percée (Neue Straße) and the swimming pool and thermal baths Bains Municipaux (1905–1910).

George Negus

On the 28 February 2012 episode of The Circle, Negus along with Yumi Stynes, made comments about a photo of Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith a Victoria Cross and Medal for Gallantry recipient, coming out of a swimming pool.

Haileybury, Melbourne

The Keysborough campus houses the David Bradshaw Chapel, concert hall - "Aikman Hall", newly refurbished library, lecture theatre, arts precinct and numerous sporting ovals, hockey fields and tennis courts as well as an Olympic size swimming pool with diving facilities.

Herbert Nitsch

He set a time of 9 mins 4 secs for the world Static Apnea record in December 2006 when he held his breath underwater in a swimming pool in Hurgada, a time that was beaten by 4 secs in 2007 by Tom Sietas of Germany.

Kings International College

Sport is further catered for with a swimming pool, an AstroTurf and a newly regenerated sports hall complex on site.

Maindee

The former Maindee Baths is an Art Deco building and the disused empty swimming pool has been used for location shots in the BBC TV series Being Human.

Mar Menor

With a surface area of nearly 170km², a coastal length of 70km, and warm and clear water no more than 7 m in depth, it is "the largest swimming pool in the world", in the opinion of famous swimmer and Hollywood actress Esther Williams.

Maurice Fernez

On 6 August 1926 Fernez and Le Prieur put on a public demonstration of the device in the Tourelles' swimming pool (in French, Piscine des Tourelles) in Paris, and it is then approved by the French Navy.

MV Mercedes I

She was caught in a storm while at anchor off Palm Beach, Florida on 23 November 1984, and was driven ashore where she crashed into the seawall front of the home of Palm Beach socialite, Mollie Wilmot, who served the 12 Venezzuelan sailors caviar, finger sandwiches and freshly brewed coffee in her gazebo, offered martinis to journalists and photographers, and granted the stranded Venezuelans access to her swimming pool.

Naval Housing Annex Negishi

The area is approximately 42.8 hectares in size and contains some 387 housing units, a Commissary/Navy Exchange, Richard E. Byrd Elementary School, Branch Health Clinic (medical/dental), Combined Bachelor Housing, swimming pool, community center, Security Detachment, and other small infrastructural services to support the residents of the community.

Neutral buoyancy simulation as a training aid

This capability for pressure suited subjects was initially developed in 1964 by utilizing an indoor swimming pool at a private school (McDonogh School near Baltimore).

Newstead, Victoria

It has two pubs, community centre, cafe, a general store, a Rural Transaction Centre (with Internet café, Bendigo Bank, library, daycare and other services), a small licensed IGA and bakery, a swimming pool, a hairdresser as well as a monthly newspaper, the Newstead Echo.

Olympic Tower

Adnan Khashoggi had a swimming pool installed in his after the building was constructed; and other notables also lived there.

Paul Soloway

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Soloway nearly drowned at age 3 when he fell into a swimming pool at the home of family friend George Raft.

Pill, Somerset

The school has one of North Somerset's first children's centres, officially opened on 1 July 2006, as well as a small, indoor, heated swimming pool and an active PTA.

Pool-type reactor

Life preservers are sometimes located around the facility to rescue personnel that may fall into the pool, further adding to the appearance of a swimming pool-like environment.

Princes' Island

The peninsula also has an outdoor swimming pool, which goes under the name of Prinzenbad ("Princes' pool"), because the Hohenzollern sons learnt to swim there.

Rayong English Programme School

The campus shares some facilities, such as the football field and swimming pool, with Garden International School Bangkok.

Ronald Tutor

He used to reside in a Tudor style 20,000-square-foot home with 3.39 acres of landscaped gardens, a lake, a tennis court, a swimming-pool and several hot tubs in the gated community of Hidden Hills, California, now owned by singer Britney Spears.

Sauna

In Germany, Austria as well as South Tyrol where most public swimming pool complexes have sauna areas, nudity is the generally accepted rule, as is the covering of benches with towels.

Susie O'Neill

On 10 March 2007, O'Neill was honoured by having the temporary swimming pool in the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne named after her for the duration of the 12th FINA World Championships, the site of the swimming events.

Swimming at the 2009 Games of the Small States of Europe

Swimming at the 13th Games of the Small States of Europe was held June 2–5, 2009 at the Limassol Swimming Pool in Limassol, Cyprus.

Tarlair Swimming Pool

Tarlair Swimming Pool opened in 1931 at the base of a sea cliff just outside Macduff in Banffshire (now Aberdeenshire) in Scotland.

The Jackpot

Answering a phone call, he wins $24,000 worth of merchandise from a radio quiz program and is overwhelmed by prizes which range from the useful to the absurd, including a side of beef, 7,500 cans of soup, 1,000 fruit trees, a Palomino pony, a portable swimming pool, a diamond ring, a French maid, an interior decorator (Alan Mowbray) and portrait painter Hilda Jones (Patricia Medina).

The Krofftettes

When ABC programming executive Michael Eisner asked the Kroffts to create a new show for The Brady Bunch, Sid decided that the next best thing to ice would be a gigantic swimming pool, inspired by Esther Williams movies of the 1940s and 50s.

Walter S. Mason Jr.

Under Mason's ownership, the two-story, 76-room hotel was a member of Best Western and provided room service, a restaurant and a swimming pool.

West Wing

During the 1930s, the March of Dimes constructed a swimming pool so that FDR could exercise, as therapy for his disability.

Zwemplaats voor Jongelingen te Amsterdam

Zwemplaats voor Jongelingen te Amsterdam (English: Swimming Place for Youths in Amsterdam) was a short Dutch silent film by M.H. Laddé from 1896 about the then recently opened swimming pool at the Heiligeweg in Amsterdam, which was the first indoor pool in the Netherlands).