Sleeping with The Fishes

westendgirlie

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13986769

The body of a woman lay dead in a public pool for 2 days before being spotted. It was then only spotted by kids who broke into the pool in the middle of the night :eek:

How was she not spotted? Does nobody do handstand in swimming pools anymore?

Mr. Denton

westendgirlie wrote: »

How was she not spotted? Does nobody do handstand in swimming pools anymore?

When you swim in a public pool you make a conscious effort not to notice what's floating in it.

westendgirlie

Mr. Denton wrote: »

When you swim in a public pool you make a conscious effort not to notice what's floating in it.

Haha. But I'm surpised someone didn't tap her with their foot! In daylight, no one sees her. In the dark of night, she's spotted

CardBordWindow

I didn't know Michael Barrymore's pool was now a public one!

MitchKoobski

CardBordWindow wrote: »

I didn't know Michael Barrymore's pool was now a public one!

That's the most out-dated reference I've seen all week.

Son Of A Vidic

CardBordWindow wrote: »

I didn't know Michael Barrymore's pool was now a public one!

If it was Barrymore's pool, they wouldn't have found a woman in it.

artanevilla

westendgirlie wrote: »

Haha. But I'm surpised someone didn't tap her with their foot! In daylight, no one sees her. In the dark of night, she's spotted

Pool was 12 foot deep.

CardBordWindow

MitchKoobski wrote: »

That's the most out-dated reference I've seen all week.

It's a pity the story didn't break earlier!

westendgirlie

artanevilla wrote: »

Pool was 12 foot deep.

Only parts of it and it doesn't say the depth of where she was.

Besides, if you were sitting at the edge of a pool you couldn't help but notice something at the bottom. And i've never heard of let alone seen Chlorine making water "cloudy".

W.Shakes-Beer

The fact that her friends just fecked off and assumed that she'd be rescued is insane.

CardBordWindow

westendgirlie wrote: »

Only parts of it and it doesn't say the depth of where she was.

Besides, if you were sitting at the edge of a pool you couldn't help but notice something at the bottom. And i've never heard of let alone seen Chlorine making water "cloudy".

Unless it was one of those pools which changes colour when someone pees?

seamus

westendgirlie wrote: »

How was she not spotted? Does nobody do handstand in swimming pools anymore?

The section of the pool she was found in was 12 feet deep. Which is fairly deep for a public pool, about twice the depth of a standard pool. It probably had a diving board.

They also said the water was murky. So a black person's body, 12 feet down in a murky pool would likely just appear as a dark blur for anyone who looked down, possibly assuming it was was a pattern on the tiles or whatever, if they could even see it at all.

pickarooney

Why was the body on the bottom of the pool and how did she die?

Son Of A Vidic

Surely one of the prerequisites of pool safety is ensuring the water is not cloudy. Visibility is kind of important and especially so if the pool is up to 12 feet deep.

Dancor

I thought this was going to be Troy McLure related.

seamus

Good photo here: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/slideshow/ALeqM5jIu-0QS2p15_2L-NRbOo2ap_1e0w?docId=dd7d0b2a1e5d442bae346d08f84ade5a&index=0

Illustrates just how cloudy the pool is - visibility is barely 12 inches.

pickarooney wrote: »

Why was the body on the bottom of the pool and how did she die?

According to the boy she'd been on the slide with, she unexpectedly came flying out of the slide and landed on top of him and went under the water.

My suspicion in that case is that she slipped while getting into the slide, fell back and smacked her head and lost consciousness before falling down the slide.

westendgirlie

pickarooney wrote: »

Why was the body on the bottom of the pool and how did she die?

Nothing about cause of death yet but the child she was with did say that she didn't surface but no one took any notice off him.

If the water was murky, I wouldn't be swimming in it!

CardBordWindow

seamus wrote: »

Good photo here: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/slideshow/ALeqM5jIu-0QS2p15_2L-NRbOo2ap_1e0w?docId=dd7d0b2a1e5d442bae346d08f84ade5a&index=0

Illustrates just how cloudy the pool is - visibility is barely 12 inches.

According to the boy she'd been on the slide with, she unexpectedly came flying out of the slide and landed on top of him and went under the water.

My suspicion in that case is that she slipped while getting into the slide, fell back and smacked her head and lost consciousness before falling down the slide.

The boy sounds kinda suspect.........

gonedrinking

CardBordWindow wrote: »

The boy sounds kinda suspect.........

The little sh1t should be locked up for life, who see's someone drowning and does nothing about!?!

Korvanica

westendgirlie wrote: »

Sleeping with The Fishes

Its a swimming pool. There aren't fish in swimming pools... unless this was one manky pool...

D1stant

westendgirlie wrote: »

Besides, if you were sitting at the edge of a pool you couldn't help but notice something at the bottom. And i've never heard of let alone seen Chlorine making water "cloudy".

Cloudy with a chance of corpses

up for anything

gonedrinking wrote: »

The little sh1t should be locked up for life, who see's someone drowning and does nothing about!?!

That's unfair. He apparently tried but his information wasn't acted upon. He did what he thought was right and probably forgot about it thinking that they had it under control.

gonedrinking

up for anything wrote: »

That's unfair. He apparently tried but his information wasn't acted upon. He did what he thought was right and probably forgot about it thinking that they had it under control.

You know that song by Phil Collins, "In the air of the night" about that guy who could of saved that other guy from drowning but didn't, then Phil saw it all, then at his show he found him? Thats kinda how this is, he could of rescued her from drowning, now its too late....

pickarooney

Hang on, don't just skip past this... why was the body not floating? Has TV/physics lied to me all these years?

L'prof

gonedrinking wrote: »

You know that song by Phil Collins, "In the air of the night" about that guy who could of saved that other guy from drowning but didn't, then Phil saw it all, then at his show he found him? Thats kinda how this is, he could of rescued her from drowning, now its too late....

How cold is your tea?

CrazyRabbit

They keep fish in public swimming pools now?

L'prof

pickarooney wrote: »

Hang on, don't just skip past this... why was the body not floating? Has TV/physics lied to me all these years?

From the link in the OP:

A spokesman for the Bristol County district attorney, Gregg Miliote, told CNN that a decomposing body could take a couple of days before becoming buoyant.

CardBordWindow

pickarooney wrote: »

Hang on, don't just skip past this... why was the body not floating? Has TV/physics lied to me all these years?

TV has indeed lied to you. Not sure where you learned physics,but maybe you were lied to/maybe your teacher was crap.

Next time you're in a swimming pool try floating with full lungs, and then try it after exhaling completely. You'll sink like the Titanic.....unless you have arm bands on.

westendgirlie

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

They keep fish in public swimming pools now?

It just sounded good as a title !!! Now don't go throwing the trade description at me peoples!!!!! there could be fishies in there that we just cannot see

seamus

pickarooney wrote: »

Hang on, don't just skip past this... why was the body not floating? Has TV/physics lied to me all these years?

Fat people float better than skinny people because fat is less dense than water whereas lean muscle and bone is not. The girl doesn't look pretty blubbery. Also your bouyancy will be affected by the amount of air in your lungs and stomach, so depending on how much water she might have swallowed or inhaled, she could have sank like a rock.

Voodu Child

If you go into a pool unconscious from a slide, momentum will take you at least a bit of the way under. From there the water pressure should be enough to squeeze air out of your lungs, you need to be conscious to 'hold your breath'. Once your lungs are empty most people are negatively buoyant depending on body fat, bone desnity etc.

westendgirlie

Voodu Child wrote: »

If you go into a pool unconscious from a slide, momentum will take you at least a bit of the way under. From there the water pressure should be enough to squeeze air out of your lungs, you need to be conscious to 'hold your breath'. Once your lungs are empty most people are negatively buoyant depending on body fat, bone desnity etc.

Eh? Does negatively buoyant mean you're bouyant or not bouyant?

SadieSue

This is a real sad story
Unfortuate choice of google ad though.

previous user

terrible.

Capt'n Midnight

Officials are investigating whether her body was in the pool for more than two days while other people continued to swim.

Puts that guy taking a leak in an uncovered resevoir into perspective