Delta P is a scary phenomenon. Who else watched that terrifying video with the far too cheerful narrator?
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That poor child... And those poor ems workers who had to dig out her little body...
I tagged along with my wife for a pool day at her friend's house with our kids. I was swimming along near the wall of the pool when my foot was violently pulled into the vaccuum line. Really spooked me. It's code for those suction lines to have a spring-loaded cover. This one didn't. I luckily freed my foot and went to check the valves on the pump. All suction was routed to the vacuum line, none to skimmer.
Some expensive pumps have an anti-entrapment system but most do not.
I warned her to get that shit fixed ASAP...
For commercial pools of this scale, there's just no chance to resist.
I own a pool now and I take all that shit very seriously. You don't mess around with water.
I still have nightmares from being a kid in a pool and getting stuck with my face basically at the water line because of something like that.
There was a story on this shit on 60 minutes in the 90s. Maybe chronicle. Idk. Stories about people having their intestines ripped out of their assholes.
Horrifying shit.
Apparently not a universally solved issue?
Yeah, I thought shit like this was far behind us and all settled, not a problem anymore, etc., what the fuck.
Chuck Palahniuk-Guts
I could not finish Haunted.
I, too, watch Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Also grew up with a solid fear of drain pipes as a kid. That crab v pipe video ages ago... shudder
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Regardless of whether or not the parents were around the ability for a body to be forcibly pulled into the machinery is an obvious failure in operating a safe pool.
This has been a known problem for decades. I remember watching videos about it on Discovery channel back when they still ran education content. One case, a person had their intestines sucked out.
The solution has always been to have multiple intakes for the suction line and have the kill switch in clear view of the pool.
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I found more info here (news.com.au).
Also shows image of the pipe and:
“[It] appears right now the pump was put in there, and it was probably malfunctioning because of the open pipe that she ended up in was supposed to be pushing water out.”
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It's a failure on a number of levels, failure to maintain a safe pool, AND failure to maintain a safe working environment.
And honestly the employee refusing to review security footage until the police showed up when a child was missing with the fuck?
The kind of employee that asks "is this right for the company" before doing anything.
Yeah maybe but it could also be someone desparate in a shitty low pay job who is afraid of getting fired. Just saying, not enough info
That just sounds like "I was only following orders!" a child is missing FFS, look at the footage and fuck the corporation.
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Tbh I'd want to avoid being traumatised too
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Same thing happened to my fiancés coworkers kid. The pipe sucked his arm in and got his head under water. They couldn't get him out so they needed to wait until all water from the pool was drained. It was their only kid and already 12 or so.
Wow I'm impressed he could hold his breath that long
I'm afraid no, he drowned.
Hey now! You can’t just leave it like that. Was the kid ok?
Oh, I'm sorry I left it out, no, sadly he did not survive.
Damn. I was hoping you would t say that. As a dad myself, I could t think of know a worse thing to happen — especially since one of my greatest fears is to die via drowning or suffocation. That breaks my heart for that family.
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Why didn't the pipe have a screen over it?
If there was only one pipe or doesn't really matter if there is a screen or not. If the pipe had a cover she would have still been stuck on the bottom and no one likely would have been able to get her out of the water. If a second pipe had been there the pressure wouldn't have built up enough to suck her in.
This is a solved engineering problem, they have screens that are shaped such that a person can't cover it.
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