We do a large number of pool inspections. As a company philosophy, we recommend the removal of diving boards in every pool we inspect.

In our opinion, diving boards are an accident waiting to happen.

Here is a diving board at a pool we inspected recently. Looks pretty good here. It should be great fun, right?



Here is what we found when we wiggled it just a little to see how sturdy it was...



It wasn't attached to the front support at all even though the bolt head was still in place and looked fine from the top. The rear bolts were on the verge of snapping off as well. The buyer was pretty surprised seeing as she had just told me how much fun the diving board would be. Many of the diving boards we see are in similar condition.

Would you want to be the diver that discovered this condition on your first dive from this board?
Would you want to be the one that took them to the emergency room?

 

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