Educate ‘kiddos’ about water safety is my passion. I’m a daughter of a scuba diving instructor and a certified swim instructor. I would like to open a business focused in aquatic activities such as swim classes and scuba diving lessons. This facility will provide affordable services to all families. Sea Pearl Swim School is designated to provide multi aquatic activities and will be open five days a week. All classes are designed to start with water safety lessons to children and adults who have…
get out of the pool having finished their set knowing I was only three quarters of the way through. And I hated having to tell people what my best times were. I spent the summer before junior year swimming for a local club team, a first for me but old news for every other competitive swimmer. The practices were at 6:30 in the morning. The pool was half an hour away. It required serious determination to get up every calm summer morning to spend two hours staring at the bottom of a pool. It worked…
Video Essay: Comparing Uncle Boon Mee Who Can Recall His Past Lives and The Reflecting Pool Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives produced and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and The Reflecting Pool by Bill Viola are both art films that address on the subject of reincarnation or rebirth. The former is a narrative film whereas the latter is an art video. The Reflecting Pool, a 7-minute art video by Bill Viola, is influenced by his interest in Western and Eastern art,…
Teacher: Mr. Marr Class: Bible 20 October 2015 The Pool of Siloam The Pool of Siloam was stumbled upon in 1880. Two boys were wading in a tunnel when they found an ancient looking pool of water. These boys probably did not realize how significant this well was to Biblical history. The tunnel that ran to this pool went through 1,749 feet of bed rock under the City of David (Achtemeier, Paul 952). This was stunning engineering for this time period. The pool of Siloam is located in the City of…
Pool Pockets Problem Statement: In this POW you have to find the rebounds on a rectangular pool table (4 holes) with whole number distances.Every shot is shot at a 45 degree angle and always shot from the lower left corner and what pocket it lands in. Process: I started out by drawing many rectangles with each many different dimensions ( 2*3, 2*1, 4*10, 2*9, etc.) Then i did the actual problem /experiment and counted the rebounds on each rectangle, and each will be shot from the bottom left…
Pool Pockets POW For this POW we had to figure out how many rebounds a ball would make on a pool table and which pocket it would land in if the pool table is rectangular and it’s dimensions are whole numbers, the ball always starts at a 45 degree angle in the lower left corner, the ball always rebounds at a 45 degree angle, and the ball keeps going until it hits one of the pockets which are only in the corners. I started out by drawing rectangles on a piece of graph paper to represent the…
swimming in your pool during the chilly winter months, it's important to not ignore it. Maintaining your pool in winter weather can save you time and money from the damaging effects of the cold temperatures. Take the time to care for your pool now, so when summer comes, it's ready for you and your family. Cut Back On, Don't Eliminate, Running the Pool Pump To save energy, it's perfectly fine to reduce filtration during the winter. Turning it completely off, however, is a costly mistake. Pool…
Vernal Pools Vernal pools are wetlands that are being covered by shallow water, during different seasons example from spring to winter. The sizes of vernal pools vary hugely in size, from small lakes to deep to shallow lakes. They are usually found in grasslands in Northeastern and Midwestern states that has a Mediterranean climates. Under the Vernal pools, bedrock or a hard clay soil could be found. That helps the water to be in place. Vernal Pools are also a home for many aquatic, and land…
Wave pools are fun, but imagine ginormous waves pouncing on to your city. People who live in tropical areas are more likely to be affected by a hurricane. When the water is warm hurricanes may form and use the water as an energy source. Hurricane Katrina included many details common to hurricanes, and caused damage and destruction to property and lives that affected the region, but the area has started to recover in its aftermath. There are many things people don’t know about hurricanes, here…
As a swimming pool owner if you want a pool that sparkles like a diamond basking in the desert sun, there's three things you must know about proper swimming pool maintenance. In this article I'm going to break down each of these essential points and explain why they're so important. Swimming Pool Maintenance Success Tip #1: Water Circulation. Think of your pool as a big bucket of water. Without adequate circulation and water movement it quickly becomes a safe haven for bacteria and algae.…