| Have you ever stopped to consider the history of | | | | swimming pools with diving boards were built and |
| swimming pools? After all, it's only in the past 50 | | | | filled in London. Even then, strict puritanical codes |
| or so years that the technology to build and | | | | kept a damper on swimming in general. For |
| maintain them became truly affordable, which in | | | | instance, people were expected to swim fully |
| turn has led to a veritable explosion in their | | | | clothed and men and women swimming together |
| popularity. But what about before then. | | | | was very much frowned upon. |
| Would you believe the that very first mention of | | | | It goes much further then that because back |
| swimming pools has them being built by the | | | | then there were "polite" modes of swimming and |
| ancient Romans, somewhere around 2500B.C.? | | | | ways of swimming that could get you kicked out |
| Also you can credit the Romans with building the | | | | of the pool and labeled a rogue. For instance, the |
| first heated swimming pool as well. It was built on | | | | standard free style crawl that's the first style of |
| raised pillars and had slaves stoking fires under it | | | | swimming that everyone learns as kids was |
| to heat the water. | | | | pretty much banned for being too "rough" and |
| However; it wasn't until around the middle of the | | | | causing too much splashing. |
| 19th century when it was recorded that six | | | | |