Quote Originally Posted by clone1008
Pat,

Thanks for the help. You raise another interesting topic...will the salt water at that low of a level really mess up swim suits? Also, do you really feel the need to fresh water rinse in this type of water? I know the salty feeling of swimming in the Gulf but I didn't think this would be an issue in a pool. In fact most of the websites talk about the "good" feeing skin and no more bleached out suits.

Ric
I think you were taking me too seriously. The fresh water shower is more a convenience to remove the salt from the body and suit, before going in and taking a regular shower. Even public pools without salt have showers for this purpose. And yes you do have "good' feeling skin in a salt water pool, probably better than in the sea.

But even when swimming in the Gulf, the salt content is 3 - 4 times higher than in a salt water pool, but you still take a fresh water shower to remove the sea salt. Sea water to my knowledge has never ruined a swimsuit.

Hope this clears things up.

Pat