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Contest Closed. Winner Selected
Winner: jmbuz
Winning Submission: " Our products are the keys to your swimmers' success. "
Award amount: $ 100.00
- Contest Title
- Improve competitive swimmers performance
- Contest Category
- Detailed Brief
- Improve competitive swimmers performance
Tag lines to the effect of:
Don't get left in the dust
Why are you losing all the time
Why don't you produce champion swimmers
No championship medals for your swimmers
The subject;
Basically, per below, competitive swimmers can't train as hard as possible due to breathing in chloroform. We have products that greatly reduce the chloroform in pools. We need a catchy tag line we can advertise to swim coaches such as: high school swim coaches, collegiate swim coaches, etc.
TECHNICALLY SPEAKING:
Disinfection byproducts: chloroform
Some disinfection byproducts, such as trihalomethane chloroform, are suspected carcinogenic.
Trihalomethane concentration depends upon total organic carbon, the number of swimmers and the water temperature.
Chloroform is the most important reaction product. Additionally other trihalomethanes, dichloromethane, tetrachloromethane, trichloroethene, bromodichloromethane and other chlorobromo hydrogen carbons can be found.
Chloroform and similar substances are volatile. Some part escapes from water and swimmers are exposed through inhalation. Chloroform concentrations in swimming pools vary a lot. Chloroform concentrations are highest just above the water. The suggested health standard for chloroform 100 mg/m3, this concentration is found in indoor swimming pools.
Swimming is one of the main sources of non-professional exposure to chloroform (over 70% percent after one hour of swimming). In outdoor swimming pools exposure is lower, because the wind ventilates the air above the water.
Exposure to chloroform can be measured in blood plasma of swimmers. Swimmers that swim for a long time with great physical effort (competitive swimmers) take up most chloroform. Chloroform concentrations in air is the main factor that determines the amount of chloroform that is absorbed. The time interval, the number of swimmers and the chloroform concentration in water are less important factors.
Effects of chloroform
Exposure to low concentrations of chloroform causes renal and liver defects. These can be demonstrated by enzymes in the blood which are indicators for renal- and liver functions. Epidemiological research shows there might be a relation between skin exposure to chlorinated organic substances and hypochlorite, and skin cancer. This relation has not been proved by laboratory animal tests. Long-term oral exposure of laboratory animals to chloroform through food caused liver cancer.
Health complaints of swimming pool attendants
Especially swimming pool attendants are exposed to swimming pool disinfection byproducts for a long period of time. Dutch research, carried out in 2001 by Abvakabo Nederland, concerned working conditions in swimming pools. Swimming pool attendants were interviewed. The research shows that a lot of employees suffer from forgetfulness, fatigue, chronic colds, voice problems, eye irritations, headache, sore throat, eczema and frontal sanus inflammation. Fertility problems are also mentioned. All problems are probably caused by working conditions. People work long hours in a warm, humid environment and are exposed to chemical substances. Swimming pool ventilation is often insufficient and volatile disinfection byproducts remain. If swimming pool attendants do not work, health problems vanish and a sense of health returns. Alternative disinfectants that produce less disinfection byproducts and improved ventilation can prevent or at least minimize problems.
Epidemiologich research
Effects of exposure to swimming pool disinfectants and byproducts have been researched a couple of times. Competitive swimmers weekly spent many hours in swimming pools. During exercise their physical effort is large. Their inhalation is more deeply and more powerful than that of recreational swimmers. They inhale more air and absorb more chlorine products. Lung functions of swimmers decrease when they are swimming in pools that are disinfected by chlorine. Many competitive swimmers suffer from asthma. Complaints disappear when they swim in outdoor pools, because the wind removes gasses from the air above the pool. Children inhale more air per unit body than adults do. They relatively absorb more gaseous substances and the health risk for children is bigger. Swimming pools that are disinfected by chlorine gas can produce hydrochloric acid with sunlight. This causes the pH value to drop. when pH values drop below 3,6, swimmers can suffer from dental abrasion. Tooth enamel dissolves and the teeth become brittle and sensitive.
- Website URL
- http://CommercialPool.com
- Target Audience
- Competitive swim coaches and training
- Taglines We like
- Improve competitive swimmers performance Tag lines to the effect of: Don't get left in the dust Why are you losing all the time Why don't you produce champion swimmers No championship medals for your swimmers Why you lose swim meets
- Maximum words in tagline
- less than 10
- Ideally, the tagline should have following words
- swim