Ever since I can remember, I've always had an intense phobia of pool drains. My parents dismissed me, saying I was silly and other kids made fun of me. Then this story came out and I felt so validated.
WALL TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Tanya Nickens' friends jumped into the hot tub and tried to pull her free, but the 16-year-old was hopelessly trapped by 12 tons of suction pressure in a drain left unprotected by a broken grate, a county official said yesterday. "She's not coming up!" one classmate exclaimed. Frantically they tried to bail out the tub with their hands, hoping to lower the water enough so the girl could breathe. Several minutes elapsed before someone finally reached the emergency shutoff in the basement. then it was too late. "Everyone's eyes were on Tanya when they pulled her out of the water," said Carla Morris, 17. The girl coughed -- "We said, 'All right, Tanya, you're going to make it,' and she went back down again." She was pronounced dead late Saturday at Jersey Shore Medical Center. Tanya had missed the junior prom Friday night because she forgot to pay a deposit. But she joined 300 high school classmates at a midnight-to-dawn post-prom party -- alcohol-free and supervised -- at the Atlantic Club. At about 5 a.m., she hopped out of a swimming pool and into the 10-person, 3-foot-deep hot tub to warm up, ducking underwater to douse her hair. At the same time, someone flipped a nearby switch to turn on the whirlpool pump. The force of the water was 170 pounds per square inch, flowing through three 1-foot-square openings covered by plastic grates, county public health coordinator Lester Jargowsky said yesterday. But one grate was broken in several pieces, he said, and the 12 tons of suction, generated by a 10-horsepower motor, pulled Tanya's thighs and buttocks into the drain and pinned her at the bottom of the pool. A club lifeguard tried to pull Tanya free, but "she couldn't move this girl an inch," said Kevin P. McHugh, the club's general manager. A police officer jumped in -- uniform, gun and all -- to join the fruitless struggle. Mr. McHugh said it was the first time anything has gone wrong in seven years of "Project Prom" parties at the club. Mr. Jargowsky said the grate might have broken from years of stress. He said the club met all codes and standards, but that having a safety cutoff switch near the pool should be a requirement. Mr. McHugh expressed surprise at the report and refused to comment until he read it. "I'm not sure if it's accurate," he said. At Lakewood High School, counselors spoke to students yesterday. Tanya's friends remembered her as lively and cheerful, a member of clubs including a peer mediation group and Kids Against a Racial Environment. "You could be depressed and she would come up and say, 'I love you,'" said her friend Jill Medina. Outside the one-story school, a weather-beaten wooden sign reading "Home of the Piners" had a maroon T-shirt draped from it reading, "Lakewood High School Project Prom After Prom Party." Below it about a dozen bouquets were spread across the ground. At the parking lot entrance down the block, the school message board read "In Memoriam" on one side and "We Love You Tanya" on the other. At the family's request, the viewing will be held today at the school gymnasium. "She was so young," said her brother, Stephen Andre Nickens. "We all loved her. Now we'll just try to stick together as a family to get through this." LINDA A. JOHNSON, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER | STANDARD-TIMES | 2:45 pm EST January 10, 2011
@@Shagyamumthe difference in pressure in your body and the suction of the drain sucks out your intestines. Thankfully new systems are much safer by having less suction and safer covers.
Hgyvtfygyhuh Ygihvutctvnininnin I see your name under like every comment, what are you some sorta ugly little 5 year old troll? Your spelling seems to say I am correct on that statement.
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This is what started my fear of pool drains.. I was seven years old
Same !
Luv how this was filmed almost 15 yrs ago yet pool drains are still such death traps
Ever since I can remember, I've always had an intense phobia of pool drains. My parents dismissed me, saying I was silly and other kids made fun of me. Then this story came out and I felt so validated.
"Could be cracked, missing, or loose"
*whole damn cover is dangerous*
yes
forget that, the whole pool is dangerous
*S U C C*
I almost drowned when i was 5 when i was stuck on a pool drain for half a minute
Hgyvtfygyhuh Ygihvutctvnininnin she didn’t lift the grate idiot
Moon Star ??
WALL TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Tanya Nickens' friends jumped into the hot tub and tried to pull her free, but the 16-year-old was hopelessly trapped by 12 tons of suction pressure in a drain left unprotected by a broken grate, a county official said yesterday.
"She's not coming up!" one classmate exclaimed.
Frantically they tried to bail out the tub with their hands, hoping to lower the water enough so the girl could breathe.
Several minutes elapsed before someone finally reached the emergency shutoff in the basement. then it was too late.
"Everyone's eyes were on Tanya when they pulled her out of the water," said Carla Morris, 17. The girl coughed -- "We said, 'All right, Tanya, you're going to make it,' and she went back down again."
She was pronounced dead late Saturday at Jersey Shore Medical Center.
Tanya had missed the junior prom Friday night because she forgot to pay a deposit. But she joined 300 high school classmates at a midnight-to-dawn post-prom party -- alcohol-free and supervised -- at the Atlantic Club.
At about 5 a.m., she hopped out of a swimming pool and into the 10-person, 3-foot-deep hot tub to warm up, ducking underwater to douse her hair.
At the same time, someone flipped a nearby switch to turn on the whirlpool pump.
The force of the water was 170 pounds per square inch, flowing through three 1-foot-square openings covered by plastic grates, county public health coordinator Lester Jargowsky said yesterday.
But one grate was broken in several pieces, he said, and the 12 tons of suction, generated by a 10-horsepower motor, pulled Tanya's thighs and buttocks into the drain and pinned her at the bottom of the pool.
A club lifeguard tried to pull Tanya free, but "she couldn't move this girl an inch," said Kevin P. McHugh, the club's general manager. A police officer jumped in -- uniform, gun and all -- to join the fruitless struggle.
Mr. McHugh said it was the first time anything has gone wrong in seven years of "Project Prom" parties at the club.
Mr. Jargowsky said the grate might have broken from years of stress. He said the club met all codes and standards, but that having a safety cutoff switch near the pool should be a requirement.
Mr. McHugh expressed surprise at the report and refused to comment until he read it. "I'm not sure if it's accurate," he said.
At Lakewood High School, counselors spoke to students yesterday. Tanya's friends remembered her as lively and cheerful, a member of clubs including a peer mediation group and Kids Against a Racial Environment.
"You could be depressed and she would come up and say, 'I love you,'" said her friend Jill Medina.
Outside the one-story school, a weather-beaten wooden sign reading "Home of the Piners" had a maroon T-shirt draped from it reading, "Lakewood High School Project Prom After Prom Party."
Below it about a dozen bouquets were spread across the ground. At the parking lot entrance down the block, the school message board read "In Memoriam" on one side and "We Love You Tanya" on the other.
At the family's request, the viewing will be held today at the school gymnasium.
"She was so young," said her brother, Stephen Andre Nickens. "We all loved her. Now we'll just try to stick together as a family to get through this."
LINDA A. JOHNSON, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER | STANDARD-TIMES | 2:45 pm EST January 10, 2011
Does the sucking force of the drain rip off skin and suck your intestines out? I don't get why the skin is ripped off from the first place.
450 pounds of force can definitely suck out all your organs, leaving just the shell of your body
Imagine being bit by a German shepherd which rips your skin open and pulls your guts out. Same effect.
Comes out your butthole
@@Shagyamumthe difference in pressure in your body and the suction of the drain sucks out your intestines. Thankfully new systems are much safer by having less suction and safer covers.
i was two years old in 1997
I was minus 2 lol
I was five but dame that's why I don't go into pools
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Hgyvtfygyhuh Ygihvutctvnininnin I see your name under like every comment, what are you some sorta ugly little 5 year old troll? Your spelling seems to say I am correct on that statement.
That's why Australia is a 'safety country'. All public spas have an Emergency Stop button to prevent drownings.
Should be the system everywhere
First
jose neto cancer
Ikr
jose neto lol
I randomly search these videos cause I’m super afraid of drains and lights
same xD