When Thinking About Water Safety, Consider Your Kid's Swimsuit Color

[TheBlackAdder]

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Alive Solutions, a company specializing in water safety, conducted an informal study in 2020 to test how visible different colored swimsuits would be in light-bottomed pools, dark-bottomed pools and lakes. For the pools, they tested what the suits looked like underwater (top row) and then again with some surface agitation (bottom row) from the perspective of a person standing on the pool deck.


Light-Bottom Pool



Dark-Bottom Pool



For the lake, the company tested the different swimsuit colors on the surface of the water (top row), from a shore view (middle row) and from an elevated view (bottom row) to simulate what it would look if the parent were standing on a boat or a dock. The water was only 18 inches deep.




Huffpo Article:
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/swimsuit-color-water-safety_l_62ab57b6e4b04a617359a61e

Wow! This is really something. It's amazing what water color, depth, and background do to affect visibility.

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[SheltieLover]

1. Kicking for visibility

TY!

[LakeArenal]

2. Lime green seems the best

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Pondering, the depth is multiplied by at least two. 18" down means 36" light has to travel in water.

[applegrove]

3. I once sewed swimsuits and I thought it would be good if mom's had

the same swimsuit material/pattern as their kids. Then they could keep an eye on them and each other. I didn't have an industrial sewing machine and I only made swimsuits for one manager and summer pants for a friend made out of lycra. Then I figured out on my other swimsuits that the elastic stitch I was using was more of a 'tear here' here situation than a stitch. And that was the end of my swimsuits idea. But I had fun being creative and thinking of ideas. Safety first.

[Xoan]

4. Unfortunately, ...

trump would be easy to spot.

[wnylib]

13. Well, yeah. Very visible in a dry

pool or lake after he displaced all the water by getting into it.

[MOMFUDSKI]

6. YELLOW is

the most recognizable color to the human eye.

[The Jungle 1]

7. Former lifeguard

What people don't understand is drowning victims are generally motionless and do not scream out.
70% have been drinking.

[Skittles]

11. I was surprised to read just how many lives are saved by lifeguards

over 100,000 a year......and yes I have zero doubt alcohol is involved in a huge percentage!

[The Jungle 1]

14. I was a teenager and it was back in the middle 70s

I was young and skinny and looked good in a speedo. Those days are over.
I did save one child. He was swimming for the first time of the season and went off the diving board. He forget how to swim and panicked.
We also had one child who died at a local pool. He stuck his hand down a drain and got stuck.
What bugs me the most is how relaxed people are with their kids around their own pools. Things like they don't have a locked gate from the pool to the house. Or at parties no one is paying attention to the kids in the pool.

[jayschool2013]

8. Swimsuits are ridiculous

We're already waterproof. Silly invention for an uptight world.

[The Jungle 1]

15. Ok well let me ask you this.

Do you really want to see my fat old body? I started wearing under armour shirts.

[jayschool2013]

16. I don't care what you look like

I don't go to the beach or the pool to look at other people. I'm sure you look great, though.

[calimary]

9. Good to know.

But I immediately started wondering what effect bright colored suits would have if you're in ocean water. And whether you'd attract sharks if you're wearing a brightly-colored suit.

Am I just being a weird old worrywart?

[localroger]

10. Not sure about color, but shiny objects like buckles can attract some predators. /nt

[Skittles]

12. ...

is that predators as in critters, or conservatives?

[localroger]

17. I was specifically thinking of barracudas

...but now that I think about it, the Heart song on that subject still leaves your question open.