Although, unfortunately, every year we receive news of children dying in pools, the risk and tragedies continue to exist because Water, although fun, is very dangerous.
It is, because to float children need to know how to swim, or make use of devices that allow them to float and whose use requires our continuous supervision.
Now it seems that the risks could decrease thanks to Antonio Ibáñez, as we read in El Mundo, an engineer who has invented floating waterprecisely for end drowning in children.
"A family shattered for a minute of dismissal"
This is how Ibáñez summarizes the risks of leisure in the water, with great success: a minute of dismissal (or even less) eIt's enough for an accident to happen in the water that could end in tragedy, and with a family totally destroyed by the loss and guilt that is associated.
That is why he decided to focus his efforts on trying to avoid such episodes, and for 20 years he has developed different solutions.
First he created an anti-drowning pool whose ground rises when a weight remains a certain time (if someone drowned reaches the bottom, it rises to the surface):
This development won in 2003 the First International Prize in the hall of the Barcelona Fair for Technological Innovation.
Floating water
After that solution, he thought it might be interesting that children could bathe in a less dangerous environment, and thus invented floating water, whose design has just improved.
Through products that make it safe, the engineer has achieved increase water density to increase buoyancy to the point of making it much less dangerous.
Although Ibáñez says that thanks to his patent "parents can be calm while their children have fun in the pool", and although the system seems to work, as you will see in the video below, it should always be clear that The best lifeguard of children are parents watching your children bathe.
A drowning warning
But this is not all. This engineer will present this year a colorless silkscreen which is applied to the neck and allows to control, in real time, the immersion time of the person or child who is wearing it.
This device may notify the parents if the child takes more time than expected under water, to act.
Again, an invention that is sure to be very useful, but that should never replace the presence and active adult surveillance, top responsible for the safety of our children, even when they are having fun and it is summer, and we are all resting a bit of our responsibilities and obligations. Of all, less than one, the safety of the little ones.
