Hello Karuna, You wrote: I’m sure there must be some solution for my problem. I’m sure other people must be facing this problem as well. Honestly, I am sure blind people go swimming, I do swim in our local community pool mostly in the winter, but since they have lane swimming twice a day for an hour or so it's not usually an issue for me and, as I said, if I called ahead and asked to come in during a more quiet time when there aren't any school groups, swimming club or other lessons they would put in a lane for me no problem. Does a public pool exist which doesn't have the rope with the round floaty things on it which they can stretch from end to end? This really is not a difficult thing to do and especially if I paid a good amount of money for access to this pool I would simply make an issue out of this if they weren't willing to accommodate me. Just out of curiosity, how many times do you go each week and for how long do you swim?
You also wrote: Can I mount a camera on my forehead, wear a helmet with a camera on it which would then worn me if something is coming in front? There are of course the action cameras like a Go Pro which are waterproof and so on, but the technology you envision simply does not exist and I doubt it ever will considering how many blind people would want it. I'm surprised what you described earlier works, i.e. taping your Airpods to your ears, I think they would still get wet and I didn't know they were waterproof to the point they can be submerged. Of course there are other waterproof headsets out there, but you would still need somebody who watches you all the time and who has some sort of connection to your Bluetooth headset so he can talk to you while you swim. I downhill ski and have a set of radios which have a headset and allow for a full duplex connection so you can talk and hear at the same time just as on a phone call, but they are not waterproof. Of course for skiing nowadays one could easily use a cell phone and a helmet with built-in Bluetooth speakers as long as the ski area where you ski has cell coverage on all the runs. In the pool you could achieve something similar if you had an LTE Apple Watch and a waterproof headset, you could then simply ask a sighted person to call you and once you pick up the call you could start swimming and get instructions from your sighted helper, but they would have to be at one end of the pool where they could watch you and the other people. My final question is this: What would happen if you swam along one edge of the pool so you have the edge as a reference and you could ask the lifeguard to let people know that you are a blind swimmer and not to get in your way? Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Cristobal Muñoz Sent: Friday, March 29, 2019 1:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Swimming pool collision avoidance system? So ... a low-tech option perhaps. My mother was considering getting one of those endless pools that generate a current for you to swim against, but she ended up not going for it. Price tag aside, it just seemed like overkill and a hassle to maintain. She got one of those round above ground pools. Tied one end of a bungee cord to a post close to her house and the other end she clips on to a belt she wears when swimming and proceeds to swim away for as long as she wants. It's sunny in So Cal almost all year long, so maybe an above ground pool isn't going to be an option for a lot of folks, but perhaps an option for some. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of lenron brown Sent: Friday, March 29, 2019 12:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Swimming pool collision avoidance system? AIRA is probably your best bet or maybe one of the apps that uses AI could help some how. MMM I must admit I miss swimming. I plan on getting quite a bit done this summer. I love the ocean and pools. Have not been swimming in a lake yet though. On 3/29/19, karuna Chopra <[email protected]> wrote: > The only heated pool, with ozone filtration to which I have access is > the one I have now. I paid a huge amount of money to get an annual > membership. I cannot now go and start looking for open water swim! The > nearest would anyway be about 2000 miles away! That’s impossible! > > This is such a high tech group of tech savvy technocrats! I was sure I > would get a solution. > I have checked with the swimming pool administrators and they cannot put > lane markers on the pool now. > I’m sure there must be some solution for my problem. I’m sure other > people must be facing this problem as well. How do they cope with it? > Can I mount a camera on my forehead, wear a helmet with a camera on > it which would then worn me if something is coming in front? Something > please suggest! > I’m sure enough people must be facing this problem for someone to come > up with a solution! 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