Re: pool tragedy in Costa Del Sol

Yes despite there being other pools they used the one that if reports are to be believed wasn't heated . A strange thing to do in December .

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Even if all three were non swimmers, which the mother says is untrue, it is very suspicious for three, two adult size, to drown in such a small, relatively shallow, pool.
Everything points to some malfunction which is being covered up.
That poor mother and daughter, one can only imagine their grief.

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Possibly a "perfect storm" of a number of factors all coming together at once.

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https://www.clcworld.com/press-statement/

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I can’t think what they were doing in the pool at all .
It’s cold there at this time of the year .
I have horrible feelings about the pump sucking them under.

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LQ, I did think about starting a thread on this, but I admit that every time I started, all I could think of was that poor, poor mother standing at the poolside watching her husband and two children drowning in front of her, and I just couldn't do it. It was just too upsetting. Even now I cannot bear to think about it.

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It was reported as being 6 foot deep at one point.

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Such an awful tragedy, my heart goes out to the distraught mother losing her husband and two children.

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Just "Google" Cold Water Shock.

It was an unheated pool and the water would have been really bloody cold.

Much colder than the sea temperature even.

Let's hope a root cause analysis takes place and not just a "no fault found" investigation.

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The Spanish police were saying it was a tragic accident ,case closed .However two witnesses from the UK have been found and the police are willing to talk to them .