Have any of you seen or experienced serious pool accidents, such as saves, drowning, collisions with serious consequences...? I haven't seen myself, but I've heard of some scaring collisions due to too crowded lanes. In one case, a swimmer's toe was broken; in another, a swimmer's eyeball was taken out :eek: while backstroking and another swimmer freestyling and didn't see the first swimmer (who didn't wear goggles). In another case, a swimmer drowned (cause unknown) and her body stayed at the bottom of the pool for a long time before being discovered--someone swam above and past her three times and saw her still there. It's said the lifeguards were changing shifts during that time and didn't pay attention.
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I read about a US Navy Seal who drowned in full view of lifeguards in Hawaii . What happened was he approached the guards and I guess showed his ID and told them he was a S.E.A.L and was training to hold his breath. He told them not to worry about him and they did not. He went down on the bottom in the shallow end and put a weight on him to hold him down held his breath till he passed out and stayed down as the guards thought he knew what he was doing even as people told them..theres a guy down on the bottom..Yea.. hes a Navy S.E.A.L training they said and did not realize he had never surfaced. Sad.
This is crazy. As a lifeguard I'm not going to let anyone, even Chuck Norris, attempt a stunt like that. I'd have asked him to not do it or have him leave he insists.
If this guy truly was a SEAL I think they have their own facilites for this kind of stuff, and he would at least understand protocol, and chain of command. I find it a bit unbelievable.
I read about a US Navy Seal who drowned in full view of lifeguards in Hawaii . What happened was he approached the guards and I guess showed his ID and told them he was a S.E.A.L and was training to hold his breath. He told them not to worry about him and they did not. He went down on the bottom in the shallow end and put a weight on him to hold him down held his breath till he passed out and stayed down as the guards thought he knew what he was doing even as people told them..theres a guy down on the bottom..Yea.. hes a Navy S.E.A.L training they said and did not realize he had never surfaced. Sad.
This is crazy. As a lifeguard I'm not going to let anyone, even Chuck Norris, attempt a stunt like that. I'd have asked him to not do it or have him leave he insists.
If this guy truly was a SEAL I think they have their own facilites for this kind of stuff, and he would at least understand protocol, and chain of command. I find it a bit unbelievable.
