Patent ID: 8910324

Claim:
A bathing environment comprising: a knee wall disposed in a first wall of said bathing environment; a pedestal including a base edge and a distal edge disposed across from said knee wall, the pedestal forming an opening with a sidewall of the bathing environment; and a bench including a support surface, said bench supported by said knee wall and a portion of the pedestal such that a user may slide across said portion of the pedestal and said bench into said bathing environment and wherein the distal edge of the pedestal forms an uppermost edge of a second wall opposite the first wall, the second wall being an outermost wall of the bathing environment and the uppermost edge of the second wall is substantially flush with the support surface, wherein the first wall extends a first length of the bathing environment and the second wall extends a second length of the bathing environment, the first length being greater than the second length.