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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is true but I think we’re talking about a small risk and a very small benefit. I think the point at which you’re relying on a lifeguard to see your submerged kid at the bottom of the pool, I mean, we’re into impossibly rare scenarios.

Drowning deaths happen because kids are unattended near water, or swim in open water they are not ready for, not because they wear blue swimsuits. Focus on the big stuff. [/quote]

It's amazingly easy to pick a swimsuit that is more visible than blue-every thing helps.[/quote]

Sure, but that’s like saying “wearing a life vest on an airplane is easy. Perhaps you will die on impact but every little bit helps”. If that’s the extent you want to take things, sure, knock yourself out. The possible benefit is not something I’m going to stress myself over. My kids pick whatever suits they like and I supervise them without distraction  in the pool. [/quote]

This is...not at all the same thing. [/quote]

But isn’t it? The focus is on not being in a plane crash, not on hoping the life vest you’re wearing on the plane will make the difference after impact. Just like how not allowing your children to ever be unsupervised near water is the focus, not on hoping their orange swim suit will mean an onlooker will notice them floating, alone, in your backyard pool when you weren’t paying attention [/quote]

No, it's not. It doesn't matter what color your life vest on the plane is, you are going to hit the ground. But having a bright colored swim suit does help you be more visible in the water. NOBODY is saying that being bright colored would help if they are alone and unsupervised. [/quote]

And if they’re supervised, the color ALSO doesn’t matter, because you should never allow a non swimming child out of arms reach in a pool. So if the color
Doesn’t matter if they’re alone and unsupervised and get into the pool- and the color also doesn’t matter if a parent is standing next to them supervising them in the pool- under what circumstances does the color matter, other than giving mommies a reason to judge other mommies? I’d actually argue that an orange swimsuit gives a false sense of security similar to how a puddle jumper does- you think you can let down your guard a little and stand further away because “I can see her really easily in that orange” or “she has a puddle
Jumper on”. That’s what kills kids- being under the impression that there are safety nets you can put in place to avoid being within arms reach of your non swimming child in the pool.  There aren’t. [/quote]

You do know that young swimmers can still get in trouble in the water, right?  Or are you keeping your children at arm’s length until they’re 12?[/quote]

You know you can still see a young swimmer with blue colored swimsuit in a pool even under water on a cloudy day? This is not a thing.[/quote]

It is a thing. There has been multiple graphics showing it, besides the one posted here.[/quote]

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