Mehmet Akif Ersoy Indoor Swimming Pool Mehmet Akif Ersoy Indoor Swimming Pool Mehmet Akif Ersoy Indoor Swimming Pool, () is an indoor aquatics venue located in Bostancı neighborhood of Trabzon, Turkey. The Olympic-size swimming pool was constructed between 2009-2011 at a cost of 16 million (approx. $ 10 million) to host the swimming events at the 2011 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival. The pool with length and width has ten lanes. There is a diving tower at the pool. It can hold 1,400 spectators. The building has a 140 tonns heavy retractable roof with two wings, which can be opened up in 10 minutes. The aquatics
USA Swimming only 1 heat in each event and each team alternates lanes so that each team swims in half the pool, regardless of how fast each swimmer is. While this style of meet is generally uncommon for individual USA Swimming clubs, it is by far the most common of high school (NFHS) swimming, YMCA swimming, college (NCAA) swimming, and summer league swimming. Meets of this variety are almost always a low level meet because entry time standards are almost never applied to enter the meet. It can, however, be rather high level when both teams involved are very fast and have