Recommendations for replacement diving board

[timo14]

Hi,
New member looking for some advice. My diving board has cracked, so i need a replacement. I have a 28k gallon salt pool. It is a custom L shape pool installed by the previous owner of my home.

I've looked at several boards, but cant find anywhere near me that has a showroom or anything like that. I'd like a board that is pretty springy. I'm pretty athletic, and both of my kids are as well. I'm concidering a couple boards... all SR Smith models. My existing board is 17" wide x 8' long. I'm interested in the Frontier IV... but am also looking at the aluminum Olympian board.

Can anyone tell me thier experience with any of the glassed wood boards... are some more springy than others? I'm concidering the aluminum as i assume it is at least as springy as the wood boards, but I believe it would be much more durable.

Thanks,
Tim

[PoolDoc]

Competition aluminum boards are not suitable for a 28K gallon pool. They last much longer; are much springer, etc. But, they are just not safe for a small pool like that. And, there's nothing you can do to make them safe, short of digging your pool our, and replacing it with one that has 50K+ gallons. Period.

And, no amount of explanations that you understand and accept the risk will change that.

This is NOT a topic I will allow discussion on -- there have been too many successful lawsuits that resulted from young men doing stupid things, and then wanting someone else pay for their stupidity. I never had much respect for the NSPI (the national swimming pool industry organization) -- but the lawsuit that bankrupted it was filed on a behalf of an older teen male whose dive began with the phrase, "Watch me do a suicide dive!". I consider was sort of a classic of it's kind. (PSP story (http://www.poolspanews.com/2004/012/012diving.html) archived, along with case decision files.)

Short, stiff residential boards are that way for a reason. And, that's all the discussion I'll allow.

If you email me with the news that you've succeeded in enticing all the dishonest and opportunistic personal injury parasites (aka attorneys) from the USA onto a cruise that sank in the off the coast of a Alaska, with no passengers surviving . . . then I'll reopen this thread.