My gym pool, er recreation pool , lap swimming and venting

I'd ask someone higher up at the facility to find out what is going on.

My Y changes the times of lap swimming often without updating the schedule.

Be safe..you need lights and a lifeguard for sure. 

Um, yeah, there should a be lifeguard on duty. Or really obvious signs that say there isn't and that you swim at your own risk. Then again, generally guarded facilities lock the doors when they aren't guarded. Very strange.

Personally one of my biggest fears is walking in the facility for first-in-the-morning duty to find a body in the water...

But see, swimming in the dark sounds awesome to me, so I got no complaints there.

Keep after them. I'm sure you will get it sorted out.

Good Luck

I read a newspaper article a couple of weeks ago about the YMCA pool. I think they said in Tennessee there has to be 1 lifeguard for every 15 people in the pool.

Also, I know a developer who is putting a pool in a subdivision. He made the comment that the pool was going to be 5 1/2 feet deep because if it were any deeper it would have to have a lifeguard.

I would think their biggest concern is that if you are swimming without a lifeguard then the could be fined for breaking a state law. I do agree that if they have the swim times posted they should have lifeguards there at that time and they should have some lighting.

I guess I'm a little indifferent about the lifeguard issue.  The gym I belong to doesn't have one.  Ever.  Granted, there is a CCTV to the front desk, but that is nothing compared to having an actual person there.

Probably a pretty good liability issue for them, but I can't count the number of times I've been the only person in the pool. 

I am in an on going battle with our HOA abotu thsi very thing.  We have 9000 homes and 3 pools for those homes.  One is the kids water park, the second is the pool with the diving boards, the third which is a basic rectangular 25yd pool is oddly the most crowded with families (why aren't they at the water wpark or diving boards).  The lifeguards will not throw the kids out of the 2 lap lanes.  Sunday we had 6 people in the 2 lap lanes and 4 people trying to lap swim outside the lanes. Tuesday was worse as the run swim lessons from this same pool so they divide the non lap lanes across the middle so you can't lap swiim outside the lanes.

 The lady at the HOA keeps telling me there are not that many people who want to lap swim. I keep inviting her out to see the pool but she wont show up. 

Pools this year opened June7th and close Sept 1st.  This is freakin' Texas.  Open the pools in April and leave them open until October. 

The good news - circle swimmign in 2 lap lanes with 9 people (2 of them older ladies using pool noodles to frog kick from end to end) is alot like an OWS wave start