WaterShapes

Latham Pool Products Offers Invisible-Seam Pool Liners
  Latham Pool Products (Latham, NY) manufactures Ultra-Seam liners for swimming pools. The liners are…
Raypak Professional’s Variable-Speed Pool/Spa Pump
  Raypak Professional (Oxnard, CA) announces the availability of its PS165VSP variable speed pool and…
Pebble Technology Introduces Pool-Tile Collection
  Pebble Technology (Scottsdale, AZ) has introduced the Finishing Touches pool-tile collection. The three lines have…
Hayward Commercial Offers Salt-Chlorine Generator
  Hayward Commercial Pool (Elizabeth, NJ) has introduced the Saline C 6.0 salt chlorine generator. The…
Test Your Knowledge #44
Canadian Sports Ethics Body Shortens Ban on Swim Coach
Ripples #55
Compiled and Written by Lenny Giteck   Were the Dinosaurs Swimmers?Crawl, Butterfly or Backstroke? Ripples must admit that the question of whether dinosaurs could and did swim is not one that keeps him up
Starting Fresh
We’ve been in the pond business long enough that we’ve seen just about everything – the good, the bad and the ugly. But even we were bowled over by the pond we found in the yard on display in the four videos listed below: We ran up against so many problems all in one place that it made sense to us to record our efforts in renovating the watershape and
A Window Into Nature
Take the world’s most prolific consumer technology company on one hand and, on the other, its desire to augment its corporate headquarters with a natural exterior environment intended to capture geological processes that span millions of years: It’s a collision of
Crystalline Clarity (pdf version)
In conceptual terms, watershape filtration is about as simple as it gets: Water that picks up insoluble organic materials in the form of dirt, debris, dust and algae is drawn by the pump to pass through a filter medium of one type or another. The medium – whether sand, a cartridge or diatomaceous earth – traps these materials and lets only
The Sizzle of Fire and Water
When I want to work real magic into my designs, I play with fire – and do my best to find extraordinary ways to combine fire with water to express the full, captivating power of both of these natural elements. Picture flames dancing across the reflective stillness of a pool; or visualize them alongside an inviting walkway that leads you