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Title: Man dies after sinkhole opens under swimming pool in Israel
Post by: MechAg94 on July 22, 2022, 11:50:26 PM
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/man-dies-sinkhole-opens-under-160618491.html

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Footage from the scene shows swimmers – who were attending a private work party – clinging to the sides of the pool as the sinkhole swallowed everything including inflatables.

Media reports say Klil Kimhi, fell into the hole, which was 43ft (13 metres) deep and it took rescue teams four hours to reach him.

There is a video linked.

This is something you don't hear about every day.  I wonder if they had a crack/leak already that was washing out a hole under the pool. 
Title: Re: Man dies after sinkhole opens under swimming pool in Israel
Post by: Bogie on July 23, 2022, 12:49:43 AM
Don't even google "sitting on the pool drain."
Title: Re: Man dies after sinkhole opens under swimming pool in Israel
Post by: 230RN on July 23, 2022, 02:52:41 AM
When it's time, it's time.

Terry
Title: Re: Man dies after sinkhole opens under swimming pool in Israel
Post by: Ben on July 23, 2022, 07:46:08 AM
Yikes. And then there's the couple just sitting and dangling their legs over the pool, calmly watching him disappear. Terrible way to die.

It looked like the pool was made of some kind of flexible material, kind of like above ground pools? I wonder if circumstances would have been different with a concrete pool?
Title: Re: Man dies after sinkhole opens under swimming pool in Israel
Post by: HankB on July 23, 2022, 10:11:38 AM
The linked article said the pool owners were arrested for negligence - allegedly they built the pool without getting the proper permits.
Title: Re: Man dies after sinkhole opens under swimming pool in Israel
Post by: WLJ on August 13, 2022, 08:09:43 AM
Popped up in my YT feed this morning

Swimming pool collapsed in Brazil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJfXFKnBLts
Title: Re: Man dies after sinkhole opens under swimming pool in Israel
Post by: Hawkmoon on August 13, 2022, 12:07:28 PM
Popped up in my YT feed this morning

Swimming pool collapsed in Brazil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJfXFKnBLts

When that happened in Florida, it took down the whole building.
Title: Re: Man dies after sinkhole opens under swimming pool in Israel
Post by: Cliffh on August 14, 2022, 07:56:26 PM
Don't even google "sitting on the pool drain."

Just for the hell of it, I did.

This thread popped up.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22sitting+on+the+pool+drain%22&t=ffab&atb=v252-1&ia=web


That search also returned links to some tragic stories.
Title: Re: Man dies after sinkhole opens under swimming pool in Israel
Post by: JTHunter on August 16, 2022, 12:17:04 AM
That is one "heck" of a swirly.