Above-ground pools are the most popular kinds of pools for home-owners, probably for reasons of space and cost. Above-ground swimming pools can still be quite large, it just depends whether you buy a kit or not and which type of kit you do buy.

Anthropologists say that man evolved out of the sea and it is absolutely a fact that our prehistoric ancestors swam according to interpretations of cave drawings in Sura, Egypt. However, the earliest written references to swimming are from about 2000 BC, but people should have been bathing, swimming and fishing long before that.