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Subject: I can't believe any of these arguments are really important [nt]

Date: Wed 26/10/22 18:23:11 GMT

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By The manager - Wed 26/10/22 17:58:01 GMT

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first of all, my English is not so good. Sorry for that!

Interesting topic - but here is the view from me, one of the managers of a large indoor and outdoor public pool.

There are five main problems, why it is not allowed to swim with everydays clothes:

1.) First of all, the fussles of the clothes. The filtering system works in the way, fresh water is coming through holes in ground and going over the rim outside. Problem: Fussles stay on ground. You have to use the cleaning robot very often, and you know, time is money.

2.) The clothes have dirt and human sweat (perhaps more than that) and the chlorine is going to become mono- di- or trichloramine. This is the chlorine smell. And it makes red eyes. You have to add large amounts of fresh water (needs energy and water is not for free) and use the "Stuttgarter Verfahren" (filtering with active carbon filter) or UV-lamps (not the one you know from home pools) to get this out.

3.) The rests of washing powder and all this. It changes the pH-value and makes (if many people would do the clothed swimming) the water bad.

4.) If someone gets out the water fully clothed, everything is dripping. Floors are wet. And so it is a problem. Not only the water loss because of that.

5.) People are not always good swimmers, but they think, they are. The risk of drowning is more.

I am a very friendly person, and my workers too. We are very tolerant. So we allow girls to swim in normal polyester sports clothes, even jackets - right now there was no man asking us about that he wants to do so.

There were only girls, mostly from syria, and some german girls asking. We always allow this.

Best regards.

(I do not want to write my name, so our "upper boss" does not make problems. You can come to the Westbad in Regensburg. And just ask the lifeguards there friendly: As I said, polyester clothes are no problem. We all accept, all are instructed ;-)