AuburnWarrior's social observations - question #1

AuburnWarrior

AuburnWarrior

Tour Winner
Joined
Jun 3, 2009
Messages
3,651
Location
North Kent
Visit site
Good evening.

Scenario: A family of four (man, woman and two children) are enjoying a swim in their local public swimming bath. They are in the 'baby' pool section which measures, roughly, 12.5 metres by 10 metres and is 0.9 metres deep. Whilst enjoying their swim, their youngest child, roughly 18 months old vomits into the pool. The Dad takes the child over to the side for him to continue vomiting.

The Dad is of the opinion, incorrectly, that no-one saw.

Do you:

a) immediately alert the swimming pool staff that your child has been sick in the pool (and on the side) and let them deal with the situation in their own way

or

b) ignore the situation and hope that the other swimmers don't notice your child's effluent suspension in the pool.

Please choose an option.

I know what I'd do.

I also know what happened..:eek:
 
Option A for sure.

Reminds me of a trip to Centre Parcs earlier this year - everybody had to vacate the pool due to a ''Richard'' alert....
 
Doon frae Troon said:
It is amazing how quickly an old picnic bar [like a more knobbly snickers bar for the young folk] can empty a swimming pool.
Click to expand...

Would that be like the Picnic bar that you can still buy?

picnicbar.jpg
 
I would do a) but people these days! We've just come back from turkey were the the people was closed 4 times due to floating incidents! At 6 hrs a time it's pretty annoying. Why no swim nappies? Would you take your child to the local pool without one?
 
You'd not believe what people do in swimming pools. I work in the leisure industry and see the effects of this sort of thing on a daily basis. There are strict guidelines for staff as to what to do in an incident like this. Customer safety has to come first when it comes to water quality.
 
DCB said:
You'd not believe what people do in swimming pools. I work in the leisure industry and see the effects of this sort of thing on a daily basis. There are strict guidelines for staff as to what to do in an incident like this. Customer safety has to come first when it comes to water quality.
Click to expand...

I remember being told that if you filled a swimming pool with bottled drinking water it would be deemed unsafe to swim in.
 
Depends on the vomit in my view.

If an 18 month old toddler threw up the pool water it had swallowed and a few bits of chewed up lunch then I would say it's no big deal in a big expanse of constantly filtered water. However, if a big bloke ralphed up a still discernible, massive Indian meal and a load of ale then I would probably choose a different lane to swim in.
 
Doon frae Troon said:
I remember being told that if you filled a swimming pool with bottled drinking water it would be deemed unsafe to swim in.
Click to expand...

When a pool is filled with 'fresh' mains water it certainly isn't an appealing prospect. There's a lot of treatment involved to get it 'right' and then ongoing treatment to keep it within parameters.
 
I go to swimming baths because my wee boy needs to swim................but I despair in what I see no matter what pool I've been to ie old muni, new muni, private swimming club or 5* resort.....

Seems to me a lot go there to have a wash:eek: I hardly see anyone using the shower before going in and in one recent trip down south, the pool was so packed with overweight and quite frankly dirty looking people my wee boy said as we stood at the edge of the pool looking for a space......"Daddy, look, people soup!"

OK they're not all as bad as that but some people looked like they had a serious skin condition and it does make you wonder what you can pick up.........
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top