{"id":2787,"date":"2017-06-08T09:39:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T09:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ndac.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2018-07-09T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T14:18:00","slug":"open-water-swimming-discontinued-at-national-diving-activity-centre-for-foreseeable-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/06\/open-water-swimming-discontinued-at-national-diving-activity-centre-for-foreseeable-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Water Swimming discontinued at National Diving &#038; Activity Centre for foreseeable future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ndac.co.uk\/news\/images_news\/gen_images\/swimming_650.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"215\" alt=\"Swimming at NDAC Chepstow\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Following a review of the activities on site, we have decided that we won&#8217;t be reinstating open water swimming at the National Diving and Activity Centre for the foreseeable future.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the Winter of 2016 there were complaints about our policy of mandatory wetsuit swimming during the Winter months. This prompted us to begin a full review of Open Water Swimming at the site so that we can tailor it for the needs of our users whilst maintaining a safe environment. <\/p>\n<p>This process is ongoing and our aim is to develop a new set of rules, regulations and risk assessments for open water swimming at the site. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately this is taking longer than anticipated and we have made the difficult decision to discontinue open water swimming at the National Diving &amp; Activity Centre for the rest of 2018 and the forseable future.<\/p>\n<p>We apologise for any inconvenience this  may cause and would like to take this opportunity to thank our swimming visitors for their support.<\/p>\n<p>When we have any further details they will be released on the NDAC website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NationalDivingAndActivityCentre\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NDAC_co_uk\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a review of the activities on site, we have decided that we won&#8217;t be reinstating open water swimming at the National Diving and Activity Centre for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>During the Winter of 2016 there were complaints about our policy of mandatory wetsuit swimming during the Winter months. This prompted us to begin a full review of Open Water Swimming at the site so that we can tailor it for the needs of our users whilst maintaining a safe environment. <\/p>\n<p>This process is ongoing and our aim is to develop a new set of rules, regulations and risk assessments for open water swimming at the site. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately this is taking longer than anticipated and we have made the difficult decision to discontinue open water swimming at the National Diving &#038; Activity Centre for the rest of 2018 and the forseable future.<\/p>\n<p>We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and would like to take this opportunity to thank our swimming visitors for their support.<\/p>\n<p>When we have any further details they will be released on the NDAC website, Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1708,1969,1970,1872],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3156,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions\/3156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}