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Today: the specialist for swimming pools, Marcel Wellisch.
A visit to the Unterhaching outdoor pool.
Unterhaching
- When Marcel Wellisch speaks to a bather, it rarely happens that he also looks him in the eye. But that is not an expression of rudeness. The 23-year-old just does his job. He always has the surrounding pools in his sights. Bathers cavort there. And Marcel Wellisch watches with eagle eyes that nothing happens to them.
It is a wonderful August day in the outdoor pool in Unterhaching.
Marcell Wellisch has just taken up his post down at the basin.
Protected under a large parasol and with dark sunglasses on his nose, the specialist for swimming pools, whom many people simply call lifeguards, watches the tower and pool of the diving platform that he has just opened.
While a former skydiver shows her skills from the 5-meter board on the left tower, mainly children queue for a jump from the one-meter board on the right tower.
"The best job you can have"
Suddenly he discovers a boy who is leaning in the water at the edge of the pool right in front of his nose and watching the other jumpers with wide eyes.
"Hey boy, now please get out of the water quickly," calls Wellisch, "after all, this is not a swimmer's pool." The little one makes a puzzled face and leaves his position in no time at all.
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He loves his job: Marcel Wellisch.
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Wellisch has to smile.
“I and my colleagues are perhaps the last real people of respect there is,” he philosophizes.
While firefighters and police officers are now being approached during operations, the bathers almost without exception notice when Wellisch or one of his colleagues make an announcement.
But that is not the reason why the 23-year-old, who comes from Fürstenfeldbruck and has been working as a shift supervisor in the Unterhaching outdoor pool since September 2020, thinks his job is “terrific”.
It is the proximity to the water, the contact with people, but above all the multitude of different tasks for which Wellisch is responsible.
“I like this diversity.
For me this is the best job you can have. "
The first round of inspection at 6 o'clock
Because pool supervision is only a fraction of what the shift supervisor has to do today. The 32-year-old entered the premises at 6 a.m., and after the first inspection round, he distributes the tasks to his team. While his employees check the swimming pool area including the pool for damage and contamination, Wellisch goes underground himself. He climbs down the stairs into the large technical room, checks on the computer whether warnings have been received about the individual Becker and whether the water quality complies with DIN regulations. Chlorine values, pH values and redox values (the latter indicate the disinfecting effect of chlorine) are checked. Wellisch doesn't just rely on modern measurement and control technology. In the beam of the flashlight he checks the water in the individual filters.“The filter in the children's pool will soon need to be rinsed,” he says.
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Highly concentrated;
Dangerous situations can arise from time to time, especially at the flow channel.
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Another inspection corridor leads into the long underground corridor that runs around the swimmers' pool.
He can see into the pool from below through a porthole and check the water quality.
"Everything is clear and clean, it fits." It is important that everything is flawless before swimming - from the pool to the hair and fiber sieve, he explains.
"Because then the system runs better and more environmentally friendly during the day because it uses less electricity."
Nobody is allowed to supervise two pools at once
At 8 a.m., when the first bathers arrive, he supports the cashiers who, due to the restrictions caused by the pandemic, repeatedly feel the displeasure of bathers.
“I make sure that everything runs smoothly.” Then it's back to the pools, his team has already been split up and watches over the respective pools.
“Everyone takes over a pool.
Nobody is allowed to supervise two pools at once. ”In addition, the supervisor should change location every three minutes in order to have a different perspective.
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In the technical room: Wellisch examines a filter.
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Wellisch is also overseeing a pool today, but in between he undertakes further inspection rounds, instructs the cleaning staff - and keeps checking the technical room to ensure that nothing happens during operation. If he has a late shift, cleaning is also added in the evening: the pool vacuum cleaners, for example, remove dirt from the pool floor from the water. Finally, there is an inspection tour into the chlorine gas room. "We have to check that everything is tight and, if necessary, replace empty bottles," explains Wellisch, "for safety reasons you always do this in pairs."
