How can three people drown in this pool ?

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Does anyone have any idea how three people (aged 52, 16, 9) could drown in a small pool like this ?

https://www.itv.com/news/2019-12-27...ys-her-husband-and-children-knew-how-to-swim/

Maybe it just the way the picture was taken but the pool looks pretty small

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I read that a life guard also struggled to get out of the pool.

Was it electrocution, pump malfunction or chlorine fumes? I doubt we'll ever know, but it should be filled in and a memorial garden planted over the the top of it. RIP.
 
If this is the incident I am thinking of, then I thought there was mention that one of them at least got sucked down and trapped by the pool filtration system. Having said that, unfortunately when on holiday pools tend to go along with alcohol and I suppose that could have been a factor too.

Really though, at the risk of seeming a bore, Hotel/resort pools where young children are likely to be playing with swimming abilities of all grades present shouldn't really be much more than big paddling pools. IE 4ft deep at the most.

Pools where even an adult cant stand safely on the bottom are really not needed for a bit of holiday fun and represent an unnecessary danger to all. :/
 
It is odd but then a lot of people get injured when trying to save someone from drowning as they are thrashing around in a panicked state, well that's what a first aider told me anyway.
 
Luckystrike123 said:
I read that a life guard also struggled to get out of the pool.

Was it electrocution, pump malfunction or chlorine fumes? I doubt we'll ever know, but it should be filled in and a memorial garden planted over the the top of it. RIP.
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Investigation of the pool checked out with nothing unusual found and also regularly maintained. Presumably electrocution would have left burn marks as I suspect over chlorination would too. Any fixed infrastructure being electrically faulty and in contact with the water would presumably have been found during the investigation. Something electrical thrown in the pool could have been removed by the perpetrator but presumably such an ending would show signs either obvious ones or later at a postmortem.
 
I was there in November, 2nd time to same resort.

It’s not heated, the water is freezing, it’s damn deep with no gradual slope from very small shallow end and no life guards.

Also not being heated and cold it’s hardly used, most mornings I had the whole pool to myself and around this time of year it’s empty most of the day, the resort only has one heated pool which is no way near as deep and can be walked the whole area but it’s tucked away amongst some villas.
 
Luckystrike123 said:
I read that a life guard also struggled to get out of the pool.

Was it electrocution, pump malfunction or chlorine fumes? I doubt we'll ever know, but it should be filled in and a memorial garden planted over the the top of it. RIP.
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Rare to find any direct metal to metal connections with the pool plus all live systems, ladders and even the re-bar will be earthed. No pump malfunction could result in that. A single drowning - yes, again wouldn't be the pump but would be sub-standard outlet design (happens though, surprisingly often). Chlorine fumes? Nah. Would require a massive amount of chemicals to do it - the worst you'd see is pretty nasty respiratory damage but they wouldn't croak immediately from the volumes to hand - especially in an outdoor pool.

My guess - deep end. Couldn't swim. One in after the other. Seen it before sadly.
 
yes we reckoned temperature .. even local lifeguards in the UK in outdoor (edit:unheated) pools ~14C summer don't have to repeat the 30kg mannikin rescue+tow from pool base under these conditions, and that pool may have been lower. ... any lifeguards ?
 
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