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Subject: Re:Why it is not possible to swim with regular clothes - Answer by poolmanager

Date: Mon 31/10/22 00:54:48 GMT

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1. Pools used to require the use of bathing caps to prevent hair from clogging the filters. They haven't done this for a long time. If you're not worried about hair clogging your filters, then you shouldn't worry about lint from clothing. I've had to clean a lot of hair out of my shower drain, but not lint.

2. Swimwear can also contain residue of body fluids. Since swimwear covers the pelvic area, where most secretions of body fluids originate, full clothing won't add to the problem. Body fluid comes from the human body, which will be in the pool whatever the swimmer is wearing, and thus mix with pool water regardless of what the swimmer wears.

3. Swimwear is also laundered and may contain detergent residue. Monitoring and adjusting the pH of the pool water is part of regular pool maintenance, which needs to be done anyway. This would not add any additional workload for the pool maintenance staff.

4. All swimmers drip and splash water onto the pool deck. Wet decks are common around pools. Especially on a warm day, the water should evaporate fairly quickly, both from the deck and from the swimmers.

5. Do you have any data to back this up? Many swimming and lifesaving classes teach "drownproofing", which includes lessons showing how clothing can be inflated to assist with flotation. Clothing does not "pull you down" or "pull you under", most clothing is less dense than water and will float. Take any item of clothing and toss it into a pool, it will float on the surface, not sink to the bottom. People float. Clothing floats. Take two things that float and put them together and you get something that still floats. In addition, clothing will help protect against sunburn, which in my experience has been a much greater danger around swimming pools.

I'd love to see some data and logic backing your points, but as presented it seems like oral tradition that is commonly accepted without being tested.

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Why it is not possible to swim with regular clothes - Answer by poolmanager

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

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Hello,

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 ;-)

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