An 8-year-old girl was sucked into a swimming pool pipe at a Hilton hotel. The management company blamed her parents

jordanlund , 9 days ago

Why didn’t the pipe have a screen over it?

Burninator05 , 9 days ago

If there was only one pipe or doesn’t really matter if there is a screen or not. If the pipe had a cover she would have still been stuck on the bottom and no one likely would have been able to get her out of the water. If a second pipe had been there the pressure wouldn’t have built up enough to suck her in.

alcoholicorn , 9 days ago

This is a solved engineering problem, they have screens that are shaped such that a person can’t cover it.

ironhydroxide , 8 days ago

Yes, but you see, those cost money.

ipkpjersi , 8 days ago

So all it takes is a screen presumably dome shaped to prevent something like this from happening? Damn, companies are unforgivable, they should seriously be charged with murder.

lennybird , 8 days ago

Elsewhere I read the pump actually did have an entrapment system engaged and shut off, but by the time she blocked the pipe and sensors detected the obstruction, she was already wedged 20 feet into the pipe.

In other words, if this had a simple grate and she blocked it with her body, the pump would’ve shut off almost immediately.

The other problem is this hole was supposed to be an outlet, not an inlet. But the pump was reversed for whatever reason.

Forfaden , 8 days ago

I work in the pool industry. From my understanding, she was sucked into a water return so there isn’t regulation requiring a cover

It’s like being sucked into the end of a fire hose, there isn’t a cover because it’s supposed to pushing water out so a cover wouldn’t help

If I remember right, the pool was recently renovated so I believe they plumbed it backwards. So the water was returning through a screen