Courtesy of Eric Knight / Paddock Evacuator, a SwimSwam partner.
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Most people do not know the toxic truth about pools and the air quality problems they can create. We believe the swimming community needs to know. But do not be afraid of the indoor pools, there is a solution, and these problems can be addressed with Paddock Evacuator® technology.
All information in this video was sourced from the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and World Health Organization websites. The chemical byproducts listed are real, and we encourage everyone who watches this video to do the research for themselves.
The Paddock Evacuator® system does not prevent these gasses from being created, it simply captures and removes them before they can build and spread around the natatorium. In other words, our technology targets and removes the bad air from the building, so that you breathe healthy, fresh air.
If your pool has Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) problems, there are three things you can do:
1) Nothing — Continue on as you have been for years, and hope the situation improves on its own.
2) Replace or increase size of HVAC systems to bring in more air — dilute the problem with more outside air.
3) Hire the Paddock Evacuator® Company to identify the sources of the problems, and address them directly, for a permanent change in your natatorium.
We believe everyone deserves to breathe healthy air. Don’t you?
WHO IS THE PADDOCK EVACUATOR COMPANY?
We are swimmers and swammers, just like you, who have suffered through bad air quality for countless years. We know how miserable an indoor pool can be during swim practice or a meet, because we’ve lived it. It is personal to us, and we have devoted our careers to not only educating the swimming community about air quality, but actually solving the problem. Our mission is to make the indoor pool a healthy, desirable place to be—not just a tolerated amenity. See more at www.paddockevacuator.com.
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While the by-products of chlorine in swimming pool air are real, what this scare-mongering video – and the pushers of the Paddock Evacuator® Company system – conveniently forget to tell you is that they are produced in such small amounts as to be inconsequential. The basic tenet of toxicology is, “The dose makes the poison.” Even water and oxygen at sufficient doses can harm or kill. Chlorine by-products in swimming pool air simply are not produced at sufficiently high enough concentrations to cause the mayhem that is insinuated in the video (skull and crossbones – really?) I’m all for the cleanest swimming pool air possible, but the Paddock folks should “come clean” and admit that the one option that hurts… Read more »
“The dose makes the poison” – there have been literally hundreds of studies done, by real scientists, that show that poor air quality in swimming pools is a real health issue. I know, because every time one is done, someone emails it to us.
Braden – agreed, the literature on this is vast, and as a real scientist (Ph.D. in toxicology, 30 years of experience), I can tell you that, if you read the literature critically, it says just what I’ve said – “the dose makes the poison” – and the concentrations of the chemicals named in the video typically are not found found in swimming pool air at harmful levels. Are they there? Certainly. And I’m not saying eye/nose/throat irritation, exacerbation of asthma, etc. don’t happen in an indoor swimming pool environment, because we all know they do. Some pools are a problem. But this video may cause one to think that ALL pools are a problem,and a potentially deadly problem at that.… Read more »
Yeah, but… nobody is refuting the basis of your toxicology background. What you’ve just said, however, in two comments, is that “there’s no reason to spend money to fix swimming pool air” and then that pools “have air problems in the form of eye/nose/throat irritation, exacerbation of asthma, etc.”
Not every pool has air problems, that’s true. I would venture to guess, though, that most of the pools in the world that don’t have air problems are that way because they’ve spent money to fix the problem, because by definition, heavily used indoor chlorine-based pools without ventilation probably have toxic chemicals in the air that cause the problems that we both agree many studies have found. I’m not a pool… Read more »
You clearly haven’t spent a 3 day weekend locked in a pool that has air quality issues. Many times at many different facilities I’ve seen decks full of people with eyes watering uncontrollably, noses running, hacking and coughing. And kids coughing after races and during practice when the water gets stirred up. It’s a serious issue. Suggesting people “do nothing” is completely irresponsible.
I realize this is an ad and the company is doing their best to sell their product but I say good for them for addressing the issue.
“the dose…” has definitely not spent long periods of time – 9-10 sessions – at an enclosed pool with poor ventilation, hosting 500, 600, 700+ swimmers. ask any coach, swimmer, parent or official and they will tell you how bad the air was by then end of the meet if not sooner.
air removal is critical. hvac does not remove air, it only filters it. and poorly at that. evacuators can help, but the building must be pressurized enough to move air to the evacuators. imagine a balloon sitting on a table. it is not filled. how does the air get out? it cant. now, puncture a tiny hole in the balloon and then inflate it… well, try to. the… Read more »
I’m sure he has. He’s just trying to play the world’s new favorite game: be the ombudsman for everyone. I’m sure this is one of those guys that would’ve agreed with everything the video said if there weren’t a brand attached to it, but suddenly because there’s a brand paying for it, it’s flawed.
Hope his “science” work is all government funded, because if not, guess who’s paying for it….brands.
Look, all the toxicologist (who has been around a pool deck for 40+ years as a swimmer, parent, official, and still a swimmer) is saying is that the video portrays the swimming pool environment as “toxic” and that is a misleading label that must be placed in context. And since the toxicologist works for government, industry, and NGOs, there is no axe to grind against the “brand” except to point out that the brand needs to be careful, scientifically accurate, and thorough when they put out something like this for public consumption, given the tremendous opportunity for misinterpretation, which as you can see, has already happened.
Suggest taking a look at http://www.Aldest.ca Poor air quality results from screwed-up pool chemistry as well as poorly designed air management systems.