It's a little-known factor to take into account when your kids are at the pool, drowning experts say.
In addition to educating yourself on drowning prevention , there’s a little-known factor to consider when taking your kids swimming this summer – the colour of their swimsuit., a company specialising in water safety, conducted an informal study in 2020 to test how visible different coloured swimsuits would be in light-bottomed pools, dark-bottomed pools and lakes.
For the lake, the company tested the different swimsuit colours on the surface of the water , from a shore view and from an elevated view to simulate what it would look if the parent were standing on a boat or a dock. The water was only 18 inches deep.Natalie Livingston, co-founder of Alive Solutions, tells HuffPost. “As lifeguards and aquatics professionals, we know that there are certain factors that can make someone easier or more challenging to see in the water.
“The goal was really to show others how to stay more visible and also how water is challenging to look through. It is not like looking through air,” Livingston says. “Overall, neons came out in the lead in all categories.” “If the colour of the suit comes into play, then the drowning has probably already occurred. Being able to easily spot the kid laying on the bottom is good, but it is significantly less good than never letting them get to the bottom in the first place,” Vittone tells HuffPost.
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