In The News

VGB Media Coverage Takes a New Tone 7/21/09

Thai Entrapment Death involving a unblockable drain cover 7/13/09

CBS News Video on South California Swimming Pools are not safe. 7/21/09

Above-ground pools posing child safety threat by Charles Winokoor 7/18/09

Illegal Swimming Pool Drain Covers can be Deadly by Susy Raybon 7/19/09

North American Drain Cover Stories

Kentucky Saturday, 26 July 2008 18:05

New Haven

Show & Tell April 2008

Pool & Spa News Feb 2008

LIFESAVING RESOURCES' E-BLAST  May 21, 2008

DS 360 will be certified ASME/ANSI A112.19.8 2007 on April 8th, 2008.

Girl, 6, Dies From Swimming Pool Injury

Near miss in pool puts dad on alert
3-year-old injures hand in uncovered suction jet

 

ARTICLE FROM SAFETY MATTERS, NOVEMBER 2007
Dual drains verses
anti-entrapment type suction outlet covers.

MINNEAPOLIS - A 6-year-old girl who sat on an open drain in a wading pool
lost part of her intestinal tract to the drain’s powerful suction, her family said

Dual Drain Design Guidelines

June 2007 - New Water Solutions, Inc. introduces the drainsafe™, DS 360.

Florida Court Tosses 104 million Pool Death Award
Click to view story (PDF file)

Australia - Girl drowns after being caught by spa pump

NANCY BAKER - An advocate for pool and spa safety is forcing the industry to change

NEWS from CPSC - CPSC Warns about Pool Hazards, Reports 250 Deaths of Young Children Annually:

NORTH ATLANTIC COAST STATES - February 2006, a suction outlet entrapment fact finding mission.