The filtration system runs 24/7. Your theory is utterly incorrect.
How can three people drown in this pool ?
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The filtration system runs 24/7. Your theory is utterly incorrect.
IIRC she went off to get help when her husband went in so was there at the start but not during the whole thing.
And pops has gone through 50 years of life without one yet his 2 young kids have one. Uh huh.
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When I was 13 around 1971, I was at Pwllheli Butlins and in the morning went to the outside swimming pool that had an Olympic height diving board so the water was deep.
The water was also dirty and no way could you see the bottom.
I dived in, swam to the bottom to be greeted by a dead body just hanging in the water and I basically flew out.
Apparently he was fully clothed and had died of cold the previous evening.
Because I poo'd my pants and cried a lot we got a free weeks holiday.
I was at this place a few months ago, it's really nice if anyone gets a chance to go even if it's the free visit and sales pitch I'd go (its not really a hard sell just tell yourself I'll not buy).. I recon I know what happened I jumped in the pool drunk (after dark) . Its unnecessarily deep I'm 6"3 and it's over my head, way over my head.. Even walking down the steps it gets deep fast.. I even said to the wife that pool is unnecessary deep.. People that were barely able to swim jumping in could easily die.. (i only say easily because I have watched the sick videos on the Internet of people drowning after stepping just out of their depth)..
Well that's like a living nightmare! Holy cow.
If only certificates were issued for this activity eh?
Yeah, those centrally stored swimming certificates which are easily accessible to global law enforcement and archived for decades...
Meanwhile, in the real world, I doubt if anywhere outside the individual swimming pool actually has records, and they're highly unlikely to have kept them from 40+ years ago
That's curious. Pools over here have a maximum 1:17 slope at depths shallower than 1.35m.
Below that it's a free for all as it's classed as swimming depth.
I'm no expert or good swimmer, a gut full of beer I jumped in the deep end and thought "oops this was a mistake its way over my head" I struggled to get purchase on the slope to the shallow bit" then was ok.. I'm 6"3 ish and expected the pool to be unable to kill me
Not unusual for a deep end to be greater than 1.8m which even at your height would probably have most of your face under water. 2m is fairly common too.
Not saying you are wrong but at the age of 45 and having jumped into scores of pools on this occasion (and full of beer I admit ) I though "I'm dead" for maybe a second as the pool was deeper than I expected.. The rest of the week I jumped into the shallow end.
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Yeah, those centrally stored swimming certificates which are easily accessible to global law enforcement and archived for decades...
Meanwhile, in the real world, I doubt if anywhere outside the individual swimming pool actually has records, and they're highly unlikely to have kept them from 40+ years ago
One kid was 12 and the other was 16 they weren't alive 40 years ago and since when did swimming certificates need to be stored and archived for decades? Or easily accessible to "global law enforcement"????
The other poster seemed to think that the ability to swim couldn't be proved either way... well that isn't true.
How do they know?
Because the mother saw it happen. Read the articles.
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Well then what did she say happened, am I missing something here, she must have described it???
"It has been reported that a nine-year-old British girl got into difficulties in the water and her brother and father attempted to rescue her"
"However, Olubunmi Diya said in a statement on Friday that she believed “something was wrong with the pool that must have made swimming difficult for them at that point in time”.
She said she was “utterly heartbroken” at their deaths, which she said happened when she and another sibling, Favour, were present. “The whole family, all five of us, went to the pool together and were all present when the incident occurred. The children were not left unattended. We followed the instructions displayed by the poolside at all times."
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The people couldn't swim proficiently and went into the deep bit.
The mother is claiming that they could swim, but being able to swim isn't a binary thing, where you either can or cannot.
If the girl got into trouble first, you could easily see a sequence of events whereby she panics and the brother is not quite strong enough to rescue her, then he panics, and the man is not quite strong enough to rescue him.
Terrible and tragic, but basically they weren't good enough swimmers for the depth of the pool.
The mother is claiming that they could swim, but being able to swim isn't a binary thing, where you either can or cannot.
If the girl got into trouble first, you could easily see a sequence of events whereby she panics and the brother is not quite strong enough to rescue her, then he panics, and the man is not quite strong enough to rescue him.
Terrible and tragic, but basically they weren't good enough swimmers for the depth of the pool.
Something I find in that respect is that though I learnt to swim, I don't swim very often sometimes a few years between times when I do and it takes me a bit to get back into the swing of it - if someone got into trouble in deep or challenging water conditions near me right now I'd probably be more of a liability than a help but with a little practise I'd be fine.
I found the whole thing a bit dubious and still do but water + sudden incident + panic often gets people killed in situations that otherwise aren't really a big deal - there is a video somewhere of some Australians rescuing a friend who got stuck underwater by the current in some rapids that stuck with me because they deal with it so professionally and intentionally leave him underwater rather than trying desperately to get him out as they work the problem at a measured pace with the result of a happy ending rather than the guy drowning as he otherwise would if they'd panicked and tried to rip him out.