water loss with bather exit

Use floor scales to perform experiment. Weigh yourself twice: before bath and after you're getting off. Write down results, calculate difference. You have to conduct it several times ( at least 100-200) to gather a statistic relevant average estimation .

Because of the varying sizes of individuals that would be very hard to define.

I can tell you though that the average mail as he got out would take approximately 13 gals with him.

A very potent guy with 13 gals (girls),

13 gal = about 2 cubic feet.

Maybe due to long hair and spongy clothes.

1 gal imperial = 4.5 l

1 gal us = ?? l (4.5 x 1.2)

Man is about 60 % water.

How are we to give an accurate answer to the question when people wear different attire in the poolof different materials. Sun screen that is different that would shed water at different rates. Plus we are all different sizes.

Simple observation at the local YMCA (yes, sing that song!) suggests something between one and two liters.

I think this is fairly close estimate. I once used a sponge to dry off with and wring it out into a large measuring cup after I showered. Came up with ~800 ml, so if you add in the water in a swim suit it would likely be between 1-2 liters. Of course, it is a function of surface area and how much clothing one is wearing. [I'm ~230 lbs]

Of course this depends very much on the type of swimsuit and the surface area of the bather. Since my observation is that the larger the bather the more modest the bathing suit it would seem that the combined effects would tend towards the extremes. You might even end up with a bimodal distribution.

Can I suggest that Del and Andy get the data?

A pool normally has a skirting of concrete above grade to allow water to find it's way home.

Weigh yourself and the dry towel and dry clothes. Then weigh them and self wet.

Add 3% if your a regular 5% if you are a twig and call it average.

The question is how much will the pool gain over time from various bathers.....

Howard Hughes was obsessed with this, so he had some sort of indicator dye added to his pool that would betray anyone who peed in his pool.

word got around fast...

28.1.2008

Good One! We have all heard about desalination. This one's about salination.

Vinay Isloorkar, India

Hmmm. Could the deposit equal the withdrawal?

OP seems to be only concerned with water leaving the pool.

The reason for the post is not known therefore some speculation.

OP may be concerned about excessive drop in water level.

The firs I will establish is the natural evaporation rate (In arid areas more than 1/2" per day has been recorded.)

Additional evaporation due to splashing and body cooling.

All these petty losses can mostly be ignored. (2 gal per swimmer represents a small fraction of the volume of the pool)

Excessive losses must be investigated. It could be a leak in the pool, leak in piping, malfunctioning control valve. etc.

Hm, not too bad answers, so far.

Still, y'all are so far from the real question to ask before answering the title question: water loss with bather exit.

Sooo, the pre-question is: Does the bather know how to swim? I took my wife to the Caribbean Isla des Mujeres, for a little snorkeling, and the level dropped 0.1 inch. She swallowed with pathos, skillfully, greedy large amounts of water. Now, is this the right question to ask, huh?