A young boy drowned at a hotel swimming pool in Kissimmee, Florida, over the weekend after he raced ahead of family members to get to the pool first and went missing. Desperate searchers frantically tried to locate the boy for nearly two hours before one of the searchers put on a pair of goggles and looked at the bottom of the eight foot deep pool. The boy was on the bottom.
Attempts to revive him failed. Here’s the story.
Apparently the pool was so murky that it was impossible to see the bottom of it even if one was standing at the side of it looking down.
If hotels are spending the money to have a pool, they should spend the money to have them cleaned regularly and use chemicals that keep the water clear enough to see the bottom.
Sometimes when too many chemicals are put in, it causes a cloud which obscures the bottom of the pool, so the staff should have training in how much chlorine and other chemicals to add to keep the strength of the chlorine up, and keep the water clear.
Just because hotels do not have lifeguards on duty does not abrogate their responsibility to maintain certain safety standards, such as water clarity and proper lighting in the pool. If the family had seen the kid at the bottom of the pool in the first couple of minutes of this disaster, and gotten him to the surface, this story would likely have had a much different ending.
Instead this kid was underwater for two hours while searchers were wasting time talking to pool patrons, looking in restrooms and restaurants and thinking that someone grabbed this kid when he was struggling at the bottom of the pool to survive before he lost consciousness.
What a calamity!
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