but the black people cant swim is the priority for now.

If there was a suction problem in the pool, would it drag three down at the same time?

It would take a powerful pump to do that.

The mother says they could all swim and so must have been a problem with the pool.

Thanks, Daz.  Seems very strange.  Wonder if in the underwater struggle, panic took hold and they all grabbed each other so that no one could move?

Fell into a stream which was a tributary of the Severn when I was young and couldn't swim.  Hampton Loade.  Dr C will know the area.  Visiting parents friends.  Scary.

Just about managed to scramble to the bank and get out.  Could very easily have been bad.

Det, the deeper you go the less friction you have with the sloping floor since more of your weight is supported by the water. It therefore becomes more difficult to "walk" back towards the shallow end as your feet lose their grip. I can imagine how frightening that can be for a non-swimmer. Best try and move sideways towards the edge of the pool where you can grab the side.

However, I thought swimming sideways only applied when swimming in a stream. If its a small pool with stationary water, I don't think the water behind you, which basically pulls you down when you swim back to where you came from, will make much of a difference.

What I am trying to say is that if you can't swim, whether you try to go sideways or backwards, it hardly makes a difference in a pool. You've lost your footing and you can't swim, whichever direction you go.

When bating on the beach, that's where the swim sideways thing helps because if you try to go backwards, it only helps the water pull you further towards the sea because of the way the water moves there.

Your point is obviously valid, but for a non-swimmer invalid. He can't swim. End of story.

The bereaved mother wants further tests to be carried on on the pool.
She's not satisfied with the conclusions reached after the first investigation.

Jack hacksaw  I know it well - lovely area  - but respect that deadly river

Everything was working okay.

the mum says all 3 could swim and yet all 3 drown in a small swimming pool, wonder what the odds of that are

Just getting my coat silver

Mid August 2019.

A BRITISH father whose little girl is in hospital on the Costa del Sol after being ‘sucked’ into a pool pump has called it an ‘accident waiting to happen.’

Doctors fear Zara Clarkson, six, from Manchester, may have blood poisoning after her tiny arm was trapped in the pool’s filter pump for more than three hours.

Her father, Zack, 46, battled to keep his daughter’s head above water as firefighters raced to the scene with jackhammers and smashed apart the poolside to free the youngster.

The dad and daughter were enjoying their first family holiday at the luxury villa in Estepona with Zara’s twin sister Lucy and their mum Claire, 42, having only brought the property in the Villas de Santa Maria urbanization at Christmas.

Zara underwent treatment at the Hospital Costa del Sol in Marbella where doctors conducted blood tests to ensure there was no damage to her kidneys. 

“Zara was panicking and screamed out ‘daddy the pool is sucking me and it won’t stop’,” Zack, the director of a construction company in Manchester told the Olive Press.

He added: “Something with that kind of suction would have easily pulled a smaller child under the water and they would have been killed.

“It’s incredible her little arm has swollen up so much it is now three times the size.

“What has the doctors most concerned is that the force of the suction may have forced toxins to be released into Zara’s bloodstream.

“The main worry is her kidneys could be damaged.”



Zack said his instinct had been to drag his daughter’s arm out but he stopped knowing this risked causing even greater damage.

Instead, he stayed ‘cheek to cheek’ with Zara keeping her calm as emergency services attempted to saw open the pool’s drainage system.

“She is a brave little kid but of course,” he said, “but it has had an effect on her, she is really upset and has told us she never wants to go swimming again.

“I am a tough lad but my first thought was to go to the corner of the pool and have a quiet sob,” said the distraught father-of-two.

Zara’s mum Claire added: “It was unbearable, I felt helpless and just wanted her out.”


It has been claimed the pool pump had been left on despite reports in the Diario Sur that the pump switch was turned off at the time of the incident.

“It’s so shocking, ” said Tony Reddin, 59, an expat of 30 years and member of the Institute of Swimming Pool Engineers.

“Imagine you’ve got long hair, you’d be sucked in and that’s it, you’re dead,” he told the Olive Press.

“She is lucky to be alive.”

So the question I would like to ask is  how big was the pump being used by the swimming pool ?  Was it situated at the deep end of the pool and could have sucked one of the family in and the others died trying to save him / her ?

A question based on historical evidence of a child previously being sucked in by a pump at a similar type of pool !!!!

Spot on Darren , Usual Med type of investigation ,as in NONE ..

I said that Torque , only thing that makes any sense ,The wife must be in a desperate state