Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How can 2 adults and a child drown in a 4' deep pool?

or just stand up.

About spit beer all over my keyboard!

The tragic ordeal began when the child — identified by neighbors as Sacchi Patel — jumped into a 6- or 7-foot-deep section of the above-ground pool at the family’s recently purchased house in East Brunswick on Monday afternoon, NBC New York reported.

I didn't know they made above ground pools that deep. Definitely sad.

This makes you wonder:

Bharat Patel
Pharmaceuticals Professional
East Brunswick, New Jersey

CEO
NexGen MD, Inc

Former President/CEO
TheraGen Pharmaceuticals, Inc

1994 – 2011/ 17 years

Wife asked if they ere "friends" of Bill and Hillary.

Fifty-five years ago...

It was the summer of 1965. I was twenty years old. A buddy of mine and I were standing on the shore of Lake Sylvia north of Montesano, Washington enjoying the sunny weather. Both of us were wearing cutoff blue jeans because we had been swimming. My buddy said matter-of-factly,
“Someone ought to do something about that.”
“What’s that, Buddy?," I responded.
“Well, look out there!”
I couldn’t believe his casualness when I looked out and saw a little girl drowning. She was about forty to fifty feet from shore and appeared about twelve years old.
I didn’t know anything about life saving, but knew I was going to do something. I heard of people drowning while attempting to save a drowning person. Never-the-less I dove in and swam to her. When I was far enough away she could not grab me I took a big breath of air and went under water to hold her up by pushing on her bottom like my hands were a chair. When I ran out of air I went away from her far enough she could not grab me and got another gulp of air. During the third time of holding my breath a woman in a rowboat came by and pulled the little girl into safety.

I went back to shore ahead of the boat. A moment later the boat arrived at the shore but the bank was too high for the terrified little girl to get up. I put my hand out to help, but she refused. She was too terrified. I encouraged her, “Little girl, I just saved your life.” It was like a trigger switch. Immediately she enthusiastically reached up and took my hand to be pulled up the little bank.
Lately I thought about this and realized she is now someone’s grandmother. It is a very fun thought. I discovered from this when a child dies an entire family tree never starts.

Shallow end of gene's pool?

Import the third world you get the third world.

Awesome!

As an older teen working at Camp Geiger I had several kids say they were advanced at the first day's water safety test. And ended up giving them the end of a bamboo pole we used to them back up to the pool side. Some would climb the pole and some were so panicked they couldn't even grab the pole. Then you jumped in and brought them out of the water. I never saw such wide eyes as those who panicked. Be Well, Rustyzipper.

Electricity, toxic gas from putting wrong chemicals in pool, somebody dumped their fentanyl in there, who knows. Certainly something external caused it.

Follow the money.

Actually probably much higher in certain parts of the U.S. Old saying among the Asian Indians I have worked with is "Hotel, Motel, Patel..."

A half million dollar house and a swimming pool is hardly 3rd world. Plenty of people in our first world can’t swim either.

Held a Red Cross Senior Lifesaving Badge, at one time - and worked a bit as a lifeguard.
Drowning victims WILL drown your ass. Helps to be trained.
Hope I never have to do it again (have the knowledge, but not the fitness).

Reminds me of those mousetrap YouTube videos where one mouse after the other goes for bait and ends up in a pail full of water even though they can clearly see where the one before it ended up.

Have you been to India? If there were a swimming pool there would be 100K people trying to get in. Thus nobody knows how to swim.

Probably very true, but in this case if there were no other factors like electrical shock etc involved, like a prior poster said..........Stand Up, its a 4ft deep above ground pool!

Ringman....a tip of the hat!!