Enough hype? Really the faulty cover will somehow kill you if you swim in any part of the pool. Give me a break. I have swam in numerous polls with various main drain configurations, even swimming in the deep end near them and haven't drowned or been remotely close to being sucked in yet.
You, a vigorous adult male, haven’t been sucked in, but several children have—it is they who are at risk, not you. Congress passed this law after former Secretary of State James Brady’s granddaughter was killed by a faulty drain.
Kids sit on drains, either get trapped and drown or get disemboweled, which is pretty gross. It’s rare but it happens.
It seems like it wouldn’t be likely to happen in a residential pool where the drain is in the deep end. A public wading pool is dangerous but I would think they’ve all been fixed.
My pool was built with double drains but they are 10 feet under water. Can’t imagine Small kid getting down there.
>>or been remotely close to being sucked in yet.
Yeah, they get “sucked” into the plumbing...
No moron, they can’t get enough upward movement to escape drowning. Not everyone’s a floating, buoyant chubby.
It’s happened many times, too many times, just google it.