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Simple. Prevent drownings by putting a metal grille in the pool, to be lowered to the bottom while the pool is in use and raised to the surface of the water (Locking the pool) when it's not.
Child drownings in pools are far too common, all around the world. This is probably about the same price
as a pool fence and safer.
Rescue-o-matic
Rescue-o-matic
Simular concept [skinflaps, Jan 07 2008]
Katchakid Pool Net System
http://www.covers4p...ool_Safety_net.html
[skinflaps, Jan 07 2008]
Italian patent 1263843
http://v3.espacenet...C&IDX=IT1263843&F=0
Moveable grill for covering, making safe, and adjusting the depth of swimming pools and basins [xaviergisz, Jan 07 2008]
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It could work like a gigantic toaster mechanism. With a big red 'lifesaver' button. |
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And a safety net, to ensure you don't end up in someone else's backyard. |
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how would you deal with pools that have non flat bottoms? |
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Perhaps if you had a sort of door that rolled up at one end kind of like what you find at store entrances in shopping malls. |
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good idea [Jhom],but would not work for any shape other than rectangular or triangular, odd shapes need a custom made grill. or net as [RayfordSteele] says. |
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What about a set of Lexan Shields kind of like what you see around a hocky rink that retract into the floor around the perimeter of the pool. When down they are invisible, when up they form a transparent but otherwise impenetrable barrier around the entire pool. |
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Some municipal swimming pools already have moving floors, and presumably you could make a version that could be raised to the top of the pool. A simple grille like this might be the better option for a domestic pool. |
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A false bottom could address these shape issues, and be raised/lowered, Thunderbirds-style depending on usage. One minute, an attractive patio, the next, a childs paddling pool, the next and whoa! an Olympic-size diving pool! |
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Jump in too deep, get foot hung in grill, drown. Ta-da! |
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Can we have one where the grid mives down from above once the pool is in use ? That woul be ever so Ernst Stavro Blofeld .... |
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I originally thought this would have a problem with pools with shallow and deep ends, but if you did this with a flexible fine screen (holes smaller than a toe/finger) spectra (or similar) mesh, which was lifted by electric winches, it would be invisible when down, while adding some traction and could actually be used as a life saving device to lift drowning people to the surface! (+) |
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Oops this seems to be the Rescue-o-matic. |
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How would you keep the mesh down on the bottom? |
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//How would you keep the mesh down on the bottom?// Tension, provided by a rachet (not dogshit or catshit) system. However, I do remember this being proposed in an annotation on some gelatinous pool life-saving idea, previously. |
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Many pools have covers. These could serve the same purpose. Should serve the same purpose. |
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How would you keep it on the bottom? Hmmm, I forgot Spectra floats. How about you weave in small flat weights? |
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If you make it out of a strong fabric rather than metal, it could double as a trampoline for when the kids get bored of the pool. |
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Pool covers here are basically heavy duty bubble wrap. They are very dangerous if you walk on them, as they can wrap you up and limit your movement while you're struggling to stay above water. |
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It's illegal to have a pool without a fence in most areas of Australia. Due to the high rate of pool ownership we have a lot of toddler drownings driving the safety process. |
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Metal + chlorine = expensive and difficult cleaning job. I think I'd do some kind of plastic job. But yeah, closing off the top of the pool seems a much more obvious solution than my rescue system. There should be some way to incorporate the pool cover. |
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I'm really curious about when they invented the Katchakid Pool Net System now. That thing doesn't look that safe to me. If you were to improperly space out the attachment points or should it stretch over time, a kid could get caught underneath, I'd think. |
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There is a company that does pool covers that supposedly are each strong enough to hold an elephant. |
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How abouts the grille is made of an organism, genetically engineered, that expands out over the pool and retracts if something touches it from the bottom? |
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What? What do you mean, that's impossible? I do *not* read too much sci-fi! |
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[4whom] //ratchet...// Nice. |
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Well I like it. I'm voting yes. |
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Plus you could electrify it, when you have annoying neighbors over to swim! Muhahaha!! Muhaha-- |
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Good quality stainless steel and chlorine seem to coexist quite peacefully. At least, they do in my pool. Maybe mine is the only one? |
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I intended the mesh be fine enough that limbs, even of children, will not fit through it and become trapped. |
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//Drownproof Swimming Pool// |
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A human child can drown in fifty millimetres of water (if, that is, if you keep your boot firmly pressed on the back of their neck. It even mutes the screaming; and added bonus !) |
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At least that explains what happened to the other seven. |
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But not why he felt compelled to eat them with a dash of worcestershire sauce. |
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// worcestershire sauce // |
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It's a lie ! We tried different condiments with each ..... mustard, horseradish, pickeld onions, red cabbage, sauerkraut ..... and now only three more stand between us and inheriting the lands, the title, the money, marrying our cousin and throwing widows and orphans out into the winter snows, MUWHAHAHAHAHAH ! .... |
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This cousin... male, or female? |
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