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pmv said:
Used to play with those at school as a child. I think I still had a few of them from back then in a drawer or box somewhere till fairly recently.

For stepping on in bare feet, they still don't compare to UK electrical plugs.

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Meh. Those prongs are a bit wide, and there are three of them. Not saying it would tickle, but I'd rather step on that than an errant 1d4.
 
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biostud said:
Well there is a reason…

www.theguardian.com

Dramatic rescue at world championships after swimmer faints and sinks to bottom of pool

The American artistic swimmer had to be rescued from the bottom of the pool by her coach after losing consciousness in the water
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Almost all of them related to self induced hypoxia from holding breath too long. An underwater routine requires a lot of that. For people doing the 100m freestyle or any other race at the surface where breathing still happens at regular intervals you don't see the same rates of emergencies. At the top tier event on the globe plus all the screening they go through I'm guessing the number of times lifeguards jumped in at the Olympics is exceedingly low. Only time I've ever seen or heard of it was when Greg Louganis cracked his head on the jumping board that one time.
 
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kage69 said:
Almost all of them related to self induced hypoxia from holding breath too long. An underwater routine requires a lot of that. For people doing the 100m freestyle or any other race at the surface where breathing still happens at regular intervals you don't see the same rates of emergencies. At the top tier event on the globe plus all the screening they go through I'm guessing the number of times lifeguards jumped in at the Olympics is exceedingly low. Only time I've ever seen or heard of it was when Greg Louganis cracked his head on the jumping board that one time.
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Isn't the rate of a lifeguard jumping in a regular pool also pretty low? So sure, it's not the most exciting job, but it has to be in place.
 
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biostud said:
Isn't the rate of a lifeguard jumping in a regular pool also pretty low? So sure, it's not the most exciting job, but it has to be in place.
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I was a lifeguard at a lake for a few years, most of the time I had to "save" people was bad swimmers trying to swim out to the raft we had (lake dropped to 20+ft deep out there). I didn't even get in for that, we were in rowboats out there so I just rowed over and had them grab onto the boat. They'd always get mad when I rowed them back into the shallows instead of out to the raft but we weren't letting crappy swimmers stay out there. Only had a major emergency once when I worked there.
 
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