© Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images Almost overnight the Olympic diving pool in Rio turned from clear blue to cloudy green causing consternation among divers such as Tom Daley and Daniel Goodfellow and baffling organisers and pool maintenance. Rio Olympics spokesman Mario Andrada announced on 10 August that algae were to blame, but later that day officials changed their minds and blamed a fall in alkalinity. Algae turn pools cloudy and green but the neighbouring swimming pool remained clear blue. The diving pool's higher temperature might underpin that difference. An algal bloom can be treated by shocking the water with ‘chlorine’ (sodium hypochlorite) overnight and letting the filters do their work. Unfortunately, it is possible to overshock a pool and some observers suggested that it wasn't algae but a chemical problem that had led to the green hue. In order to preclude an algal bloom in the warm and humid open-air conditions, the team had shocked the pool and ...
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