Installed Sites

Metro Atlanta YMCA - Carl E. Sanders Family YMCA - Buckhead
Georgia, USA

The Metro Atlanta YMCA has installed Poseidon in the Carl E. Sanders Family YMCA at Buckhead.
 

Poseidon Configuration:

Coverage is provided by a series of overlapping cameras:

• 3 underwater globes with two cameras per globe, covering the deep section of the pool
• 6 overhead cameras, covering the shallow section of the pool

Poseidon at this Site:

Just like the dynamic city and greater metropolitan region it serves, the Metro Atlanta YMCA is one of the fastest growing YMCAs in the country. In fact, it is the sixth largest YMCA in the United States. With an operating budget of $62M, the Metro Atlanta YMCA provides programs and services to more than 175,000 men, women, and children in the Atlanta area.

As Atlanta’s rapidly growing population has become more and more diverse, the challenge of meeting the needs of the community has grown. Yet the Y’s 10-year strategic plan creates a vision and empowers volunteers and staff to leverage the Y’s history of success while building the organization’s ability to offer relevant, high quality services to the children, families, and communities of the region.

Underlying the planning and delivery of all programs and services, the Metro Atlanta Y takes a very proactive approach to ensuring the safety of all staff, volunteers, and members who participate in Y programs. And that proactive commitment to safety led the Metro Atlanta YMCA to investigate Poseidon, the computer-aided drowning detection system. The decision to install the Poseidon system in its swimming pools places the Metro Atlanta YMCA at the forefront of aquatic safety. Using a combination of trained lifeguards and the Poseidon system, the YMCA is taking advantage of the most advanced techniques and tools available to ensure the safety of its swimmers.

A branch of the Metro Atlanta YMCA, the Carl E. Sanders Family YMCA at Buckhead, is one of the first swimming pools in the country to install the Poseidon system. The pool at the Sanders Buckhead YMCA is representative of many of the YMCA’s pools and was considered a good test site for the Poseidon installations. “Completing the installation in the first pool allows us to understand construction issues, educate the aquatics team, and define any procedural changes for ongoing successful use of this new technology,” said Ed Munster, COO and executive vice president of the Metro Atlanta YMCA. The system is scheduled for installation in all of the association’s indoor pools by September 2003, and installation in outdoor pools will begin in 2004.

“We have a perfect pool safety record, and we are taking another step to keep it that way,” said Scott Doll, executive director of the Carl E. Sanders Family YMCA at Buckhead. “Poseidon is not a replacement for certified lifeguards. The system is being installed to enhance the high level of aquatic safety already enjoyed by our members.”

At the end of 2002, YMCA Services Corporation, the national YMCA insurance program, endorsed the Poseidon system. “This is an excellent supplemental lifesaving tool to have available for lifeguards, ” said John Medler, president of YMCA Services Corporation. “I am excited by the leadership of the Metro Atlanta YMCA’s willingness to consider and invest in this equipment as part of their association.”

Facility Address:
Metro Atlanta YMCA
Metropolitan Offices
100 Edgewood Avenue, NE
Suite 1100
Atlanta, GA 30303
(404) 588-9622