Modern Technology Now Available To Help Cut Swimming Pool Deaths By Drowning
Whether you swim to relax or keep fit it is recognized that swimming is an important skill to have. This article looks at how modern technology is making our swimming pools, sports and leisure centers safer places.
Picture the scene, you are with friends at the local swimming baths when one of your friends slips when attempting to dive into the pool and bangs their head. Help is likely to be available in the form of a lifeguard but the fact is despite swimming pools generally being safe, regulated environments, there are still about 15 deaths by drowning in swimming pools each year.
When you realize that in Great Britain each year there are about 350 million visits to public swimming pools as well as visits to pools at leisure clubs, gyms, hotel, holiday parks and at home it is safe to say most swimming pools are a safe environment. However, 15 deaths by drowning is 15 deaths too many so if anything can be done to reduce this figure whilst also providing improved health and safety practices to pools and leisure centers then surely they would take it. Well the good news for swimming...