Computer saves drowning girl in pool
A young girl has become the first swimmer in the U.K. saved from drowning by a computerized pool-monitoring system. The accident happened on Aug. 24 when a 10-year-old girl in a swimming pool in Bangor, North Wales, sank to the bottom of the deep end. It looks like the $118,000 investment paid off and saved a life.
A Poseidon monitoring system installed in the pool registered that a swimmer was in distress because she was at the bottom of the pool and not moving, and within three seconds sounded the alarm to the lifeguard on duty who pulled the girl out of the water. The Gwynedd Council installed the system at the pool for $118,000 (65,000 pounds) two years ago. Built in the 1960s, the 110-foot-long pool ranges in depth from 3.5 feet to 12.5 feet, making it one of the deepest in Wales.
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