These Swimming Pool Deaths in Fuengirola ...

[Spymaster]

So one youngster gets into difficulty in the hotel pool and both rescuers as well as the first kid all drown.

How does that happen? Apparently the pool was in serviceable condition and is now back in use, so no problems there. How do 3 people, all of whom could swim according to the mother, all drown in a pool?

The mother says there was something wrong with the pool, but like what?

Mother of British children who drowned in Spain blames pool

 

[weltweit]

I don't understand it either. But for that family it certainly was a tragedy.

 

[Mation]

So one youngster gets into difficulty in the hotel pool and both rescuers as well as the first kid all drown.

How does that happen? Apparently the pool was in serviceable condition and is now back in use, so no problems there. How do 3 people, all of whom could swim according to the mother, all drown in a pool?

The mother says there was something wrong with the pool, but like what?

Mother of British children who drowned in Spain blames pool

I don't know. It's weird as fuck.

 

[campanula]

It appears that they were non-swimmers - only an older daughter had any swimming ability. What a totally heartbreaking disaster for them all.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

It appears that they were non-swimmers - only an older daughter had any swimming ability. What a totally heartbreaking disaster for them all.

I thought the mum was now saying they could swim?

 

[Marty1]

So one youngster gets into difficulty in the hotel pool and both rescuers as well as the first kid all drown.

How does that happen? Apparently the pool was in serviceable condition and is now back in use, so no problems there. How do 3 people, all of whom could swim according to the mother, all drown in a pool?

The mother says there was something wrong with the pool, but like what?

Mother of British children who drowned in Spain blames pool

Sure I read somewhere that a pool filter/cleaning suction thingy was turned on that pulled them under to the centre of the pool.

 

[Edie]

Something doesn’t add up.

 

[Marty1]

Bit more to my previous post.

https://nypost.com/2019/12/26/costa...f-drowned-british-girl-in-pool-pump-in-spain/

The discovery of the swimming cap by police divers comes amid speculation that suction problems turned the pool into a death trap, according to local newspaper Diario Sur.

A pool expert quoted by the paper described as “very remote,” but not impossible, a situation in which drains at the bottom of a pool floor could suck people underwater if skimmers and other cleaners malfunctioned.

Local media reports say a resort worker who went into the water to recover the bodies said he also had difficulties returning to the surface.

“We are carrying out multiple lines of inquiry, including looking at the swimming pool pumps,” a source at the Civil Guard told The Times of London.

 

[weltweit]

If they were non swimmers it seems odd to book a holiday in what seems to be a water park.

 

[Argonia]

Not directly pertinent to the thread but I got into difficulty once in a mate's swimming pool. It was fucking scary.

 

[campanula]

I thought the mum was now saying they could swim?

O, I had just noticed this in yesterday's newspaper (am basically still in media purdah) and hadn't heard anything else.

 

[Athos]

Not directly pertinent to the thread but I got into difficulty once in a mate's swimming pool. It was fucking scary.

How?

 

[Argonia]

How?

Wasn't much of a swimmer, ended up in the deep end and went under a few times. Not pleasant.

 

[Ax^]

you can drown in almost any amount of water

jebus i was taught to swim by my aunt at a young age (she had competative swimming experience)

but was once almost got in trouble when fucking about with other kids with pool floats during a school sponsor swimming lession

 

[wiskey]

Not directly pertinent to the thread but I got into difficulty once in a mate's swimming pool. It was fucking scary.

I nearly drowned in the Thames when I was 15, it was terrifying.

 

[Athos]

Wasn't much of a swimmer, ended up in the deep end and went under a few times. Not pleasant.

Ah, I see. I wondered if there was some hidden danger I'd been oblivious to. But being or if you're depth whilst not being able to swim must've been horrible.

 

[Ax^]

Plus imagine being in a pool with someone in panic mode whilst your not an experience swimmer

 

[SheilaNaGig]

If they were non swimmers it seems odd to book a holiday in what seems to be a water park.

O, I had just noticed this in yesterday's newspaper (am basically still in media purdah) and hadn't heard anything else.

Today’s news says this:

Britons who drowned at resort 'knew how to swim'

Earlier, Spanish media reported another of Mrs Diya's daughters had told police that the three could not swim.

But, in a statement released to the media, Mrs Diya said "We never informed the police or anyone that the family members could not swim."

She added: "I believe something was wrong with the pool that must have made swimming difficult for them at that point in time.

There seems to be some room for debate in there. The poor woman must be utterly beside herself. I suppose and hope an inquest will untangle things.

Wasn't much of a swimmer, ended up in the deep end and went under a few times. Not pleasant.

And drowning people can pull their rescuers under. I went to a school with a swimming pool and lifesaving lessons were mandatory. We were all taught how to render a drowning person unconscious if the need arose, so that they’d not pull us under too. No idea if this is standard, but we were all given this lesson.




ETA It’s really not unusual for rescuers to drown. It happens a lot. What’s really odd in this story is how it happened at a holiday resort

 

[Ax^]

I nearly drowned in the Thames when I was 15, it was terrifying.

almost happened to me around 14 at flokestone ..

when out and caught by the current and fought my way back in a good few hundered yards down the coast line


crawled my way onto the stones at the end of it

 

[weltweit]

nt to a school with a swimming pool and lifesaving lessons were mandatory. We were all taught how to render a drowning person unconscious if the need arose, so that they’d not pull us under too.

I did lifesaving lessons also but I was never taught that.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

I did lifesaving lessons also but I was never taught that.

Lifesaving was a huge deal at my school, we had teams that won national lifesaving competitions . Maybe it was unique to that school, maybe it’s an advanced skill, maybe our teacher was teaching outside the curriculum. No idea.

 

[xenon]

Bit more to my previous post.

https://nypost.com/2019/12/26/costa...f-drowned-british-girl-in-pool-pump-in-spain/

AFAIK bodies don't sink until all the gas within them has been expelled. Even drowned bodies float right? So why did he, the employee, have to go to the bottom to recover them unless something was causing them to sink.

I mean it's well grim and I feel a bit icky speculating but hopefully none of their loved ones find this thread.
e2a

E2a ignore that. I was wrong re floating.

 

[blossie33]

almost happened to me around 14 at flokestone ..

when out and caught by the current and fought my way back in a good few hundered yards down the coast line


crawled my way onto the stones at the end of it

I can quite understand how it could happen in the sea but three people in a small swimming pool?

Very, very sad - is the true reason ever likely to be known

 

[Puddy_Tat]

maybe it’s an advanced skill, maybe our teacher wasn’t bonkers.

did you get any instruction about how to deal with anyone who got boat happy?

 

[8ball]

Lifesaving was a huge deal at my school, we had teams that won national lifesaving competitions . Maybe it was unique to that school, maybe it’s an advanced skill, maybe our teacher was teaching outside the curriculum. No idea.

Are you legally allowed to shoot them if they become hysterical?

 

[SheilaNaGig]

AFAIK bodies don't sink until all the gas within them has been expelled. Even drowned bodies float right? So why did he, the employee, have to go to the bottom to recover them unless something was causing them to sink.

I mean it's well grim and I feel a bit icky speculating but hopefully none of their loved ones find this thread.

The gas that makes a body float is the result of putrefaction. Drowned people sink. Diving down to the bottom of the deep end to rescue a large rubber brick was part of our training.

Dead bodies pop up. That’s why burial at sea includes weights.

ETA and why the mafia make you stand in a bucket of quick drying cement before they push you off the pier.

 

[Ax^]

I can quite understand how it could happen in the sea but three people in a small swimming pool?

Very, very sad - is the true reason ever likely to be known

all it takes is a dead end of a pool to cause issues for an inexperenced swimmer

more so if you trying to drag 2 paniced people out of it

 

[Ax^]

grateful to my aunt for the swimming lessions mind as my school brought us to the St Albans Centre in 1992 and was of only 3 pupils who were strong enough swimmers to go out in the canoes that trip

 

[SheilaNaGig]

did you get any instruction about how to deal with anyone who got boat happy?

Are you legally allowed to shoot them if they become hysterical?

I actually did try to work in a boat happy reference, but then I thought I’d wait to see what others could come up with.


Guns were not provided at my school. Unbelievably, punching them in the side of the temple was one of the methods we were taught. Holding them under while holding them up was another. Mostly, we were taught how to escape from the deadly embrace (go down, not up or away. hold your arms close to your sides, twist).

 

[SheilaNaGig]

all it takes is a dead end of a pool to cause issues for an inexperenced swimmer

more so if you trying to drag 2 paniced people out of it

This makes me wonder if the water level was too low. If they couldn’t reach up to the edge to hold on, if they were exhausted from struggling, finding themselves stuck against the side of the pool without the strength or breath to swim to the steps or the other end, leap to reach the edge or to cry out for help. I can see that leading to death.