Ron Yates, president and sole stockholder of Aquatic Pools, Inc. has over 38 years of gunite application and pool construction experience. Ron started working on residential and commercial swimming pools as a gunite nozzle man for Sun-n-Fun Pools in 1974. Between 1975 and 1978, Ron worked for two gunite contractors in Florida: Crom Corporation (Gainesville) and Crockett & Bradley (Ft. Lauderdale), which served 17 west Florida coast pool companies. Three years after Ron returned to Sun-n-Fun Pools in 1978, he began his own custom swimming pool company: Aquatic Pools, Inc. While he was employed primarily as a gunite nozzle man he was exposed to all aspects of building pools and became fully qualified to operate his own pool company.