Tragedy in Sahara sams

↑ karat ↓

Tue, Jul 30 2019, 8:17 pm

sweet wrote:

I don’t want to speculate but I do wonder if the boy had a health issue (seizure) that caused him to go under.?

IDK
I do know that many of these lifeguards who work in the summer are very young-some are only teens.

↑ Blessing1 ↓

Tue, Jul 30 2019, 8:19 pm

So the lifeguards checked out before all the kids had left the pool area? That's insane.

↑ creditcards ↓

Tue, Jul 30 2019, 8:20 pm

Blessing1 wrote:

So the lifeguards checked out before all the kids had left the pool area? That's insane.

I wonder if the child went back after the lifeguard checked out. All the lifeguards had checked out that their pool was empty.

turca ↓

Tue, Jul 30 2019, 8:24 pm

Why are the day camps taking 9 yo children to night trips?
Sorry, it’s not acceptable from where I came from.

Mevater ↓

Tue, Jul 30 2019, 8:24 pm

Nine years old isnt an infant that cant pick themselves up when they fall. This story is insane. And if the place was crowded, no one saw him go under and not come up, and yelled for help?

Theres a lot that we obviously dont know about how it happened.

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↑ Blessing1 ↓

Tue, Jul 30 2019, 8:24 pm

If the pool is empty, the lifeguards are supposed to lock up before leaving the pool area.
Mevater, if a child can't swim and falls into a pool rachmana litzlon, they can't get up or swim up.

↑ HonesttoGod ↓

Tue, Jul 30 2019, 8:27 pm

I doubt we will ever know the full details unfortunately. And this is just another reason why us mothers are wrecks until our kids get home on these trips. I have been counting down the trips since the beginning of summer and I just. Can't. Get this out of my head.

↑ sweet ↓

Tue, Jul 30 2019, 8:28 pm

[quote="turca"]Why are the day camps taking 9 yo children to night trips?
Sorry, it’s not acceptable from where I came from.[/quote

I won’t tell you how old my boys are that went today then.

aricelli ↓

Tue, Jul 30 2019, 8:29 pm

[quote="sweet"]

turca wrote:

Why are the day camps taking 9 yo children to night trips?
Sorry, it’s not acceptable from where I came from.[/quote

I won’t tell you how old my boys are that went today then.

The seven year olds went too...

987gold

Tue, Jul 30 2019, 8:31 pm

Very very sad....really no words. So much pain and sorrow Sad

. The camps in the country also go to water parks zoom flume and others.

greatfulmom ↓

Tue, Jul 30 2019, 8:34 pm

I was at this park last week. If the drowning happened in the overcrowded wave pool, I can totally see how it happened....

smile18

Tue, Jul 30 2019, 8:37 pm

greatfulmom wrote:

I was at this park last week. If the drowning happened in the overcrowded wave pool, I can totally see how it happened....

Agree. Wave pool is loaded with few lifeguards. There's no way they can see all kids when dark and wave is on

↑ greatfulmom ↓

Tue, Jul 30 2019, 8:37 pm

And yes the lifeguards were very young... not sure if in the teens bit probably.

exaustedmom ↓

Tue, Jul 30 2019, 8:39 pm

My SIX year old was there today! BH they are on the way home now

↑ sweet ↓

Tue, Jul 30 2019, 8:41 pm

aricelli wrote:

The seven year olds went too...

Yeh, my younger son is 6.5.
And my older one is 9

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↑ HonesttoGod ↓

Tue, Jul 30 2019, 8:42 pm

exaustedmom wrote:

My SIX year old was there today! BH they are on the way home now

Sending you hugs...my son is 8 and I am waiting so impatiently to hug him.

↑ creditcards ↓

Tue, Jul 30 2019, 8:43 pm

Blessing1 wrote:

If the pool is empty, the lifeguards are supposed to lock up before leaving the pool area.
Mevater, if a child can't swim and falls into a pool rachmana litzlon, they can't get up or swim up.

It was a kiddy pool

1untamedgirl ↓

Tue, Jul 30 2019, 8:44 pm

turca wrote:

Why are the day camps taking 9 yo children to night trips?
Sorry, it’s not acceptable from where I came from.

We can also ask why they are taking the kids to a water park during the three weeks. But then again, another little girl was killed in her classroom the other week so it has nothing to do with what time they go or when they go or where they go. This is what Hashem wanted and what He wants is for the best even if its painful and we dont understand any of it. If only Moshiach were here already. BDE