Swimming pool fatalities

Stupid BBC web site doesn't provide any obvious access to it now.

I find the accusation of colourism/colorism amusing. It's black people complaining that other people aren't black enough.

I?m not sure that?s the case for fresh water. If the water is significantly less conducive than a human then if there?s a voltage potential between a damaged pool light say and the drain, current will flow preferentially through the body, particularly if the body is orientated in a direction relative to the current flow that maximised the PD between head and feet.

True for salt water but with fresh water the voltage required for electrocution is a lot less.

Tim

And if you *need* to go into the water to rescue the people (ie reach/rope/row aren't possible), then you wade out and swim, rather than taking a running dive/jump into water that may be very cold or may have hidden obstacles below the water.

We don?t to beach lifesaving like that, or with swimming pools either and we do a hell of a lot more of it than you lot ever do.

And yet the USA loses about 1 a year that way and that?s a 110V system.

Pool water has lots of 'stuff' in it, it's far from 'fresh' and will conduct well.

What is his however are all the fires and I'd like to hear he was out as a volunteer fireman doing something useful for a change.

Knowing Rod though I'm sure he's bought some garage sale stuff cheap before it went up in flames and is camped up near a burning property throwing peanuts at it telling them why they were idiots for buying a house there (and not living in an old shipping container on a trailer park like he does).

Cheers, T i m

None the less it happens. Not hard to find cases on the web.

FYPFY. YVW.

See also: submerged hazards like rocks ...

Well death would not have been from drowning then ? Lungs would not have been filled with water ?

Electric shock can cause drowning. PM wouldn?t show evidence of shock.

Tim

See RNLI and how quickly even 'strong swimmers' get into trouble (and drown) once their peripheral circulation is shut down to preserve the brain. And not just in 'cold' weather.

Oh I know, I have an RLSS lifeguard qualification for lolz ....