Boy dead after drowning at Swedish water park
Published: 13 Jul 12 08:57 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/41994/20120713/
A boy has died after life guards found him at the bottom of a pool at a waterpark in central Sweden on Thursday.
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While it is unclear how the accident occurred, the water park’s head Mats Nobelius explained in a statement that a lifeguard had jumped in to save the boy as soon as the child was noticed.
However, resuscitation efforts proved fruitless and the boy died in the ambulance on the way to hospital.
“We have never been involved in something like this in all the 28 years we’ve had the park,” Nobelius said to the TT news agency.
“You question yourself and even the staff – if we could have acted differently. But the guards were good and jumped in as soon as they saw the shadow that was on the way to the bottom,” he said.
The boy was found in the 3.5 metre deep pool, an area that has five trained guards surrounding it, according to the park manager.
The 25 minute response time from the ambulance left Nobelius considering the importance of upgrading his park’s resuscitation equipment to beyond that of the national regulations.
“As the ambulance situation in rural areas is bad and they can be quite far away, then maybe one needs a little more equipment than the rules require,” he said.
The pool, which has a total of 100,000 visitors a year, had 700 swimmers present at the time of the accident.
A police investigation has been launched and the boy’s parents have been notified.
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The boy died in the ambulance? Which took 25 minutes to get there?
unfortunately Dalarna is a very large rural county of 30,000 sq/km with a small population - it only has 22 ambulances to cover that area - if the one stationed in Leksand was already on a call most likely they would have to send one from Falun or Borlänge almost 50km away
I believe that a quarter of Dalarnas ambulances (5 or 6) were at the scene to get the dead and injured to hospital which meant it was hard to get ambulances quickly to other areas
Dalarna has a huge area 30,000 sq/km yet only around 275,000 full time residents - så less than 10 per square km
Not a nice comment.
It's not clear at the moment whether the parents were even there. The boy was part of a group of 40 people from Malung whose trip was organised by the church with free tickets they received from Sommarland