pools

Often holiday pools are not guarded and if everyone around knows the signs then someone can be saved.

Larger prize pools also attract pro players from other esports, leading to more PR and hype, etc.

Fountains and swimming pools typically recycle their water, needing only small amounts added to offset evaporation and splash loss.

This is why you have different pools for swimmers and non-swimmers, or one pool with a gradient of depths.

Kids, or anyone else for that matter, drowning in supervised public pools is almost unheard of statistically.

This is quite difficult, consider the following: Problem: Outside organisms keep contaminating your pools of algae.

The sad thing is that their pools go unused for the whole year, they're just expensive water tanks for display.

Unless the website isn't showing drownings happening in the same pool 27 times, but hundreds of identically constructed pools then the website is a counterexample showing that drownings happen relatively regularly.

Not of children under 14 - around 700 children under 14[1] die from drowning in swimming pools, lakes, etc (non-boating accidents).

So let's concede that pools as a whole are safe and drowning in a pool happens, at most, maybe once a year.

Still I guess people writing fronted may have never heard of it (except thread pools?).

Also without pools where would most of us learn to swim?

The truth is that lifeguards at pools rarely ever see "drowning" and almost never have to pull people from the water.

Object pools are certainly a very useful technique, but can they really be considered a "forgotten trick"?