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.

I had a nightmare that I was a little kid again and I got too close to a pool drain and It sucked my whole body inside it and I couldn't escape and that's when I woke up just as got sucked in I will always have a big fear of those wretched things!!!

It got chills watching them cover the drains to show how alarms work

Luv how this was filmed almost 15 yrs ago yet pool drains are still such death traps

This is EXACTLY why I have a phobia of pool drains.

That loud voice was God.. call his name! He saved your child

The ball example seems odd as you wouldnt have an open drain like that.

bro when i was a kid i used to stick my finger in the thing on the side of the pool because it sucked and felt funny but you could always pull your fingers out dunno what there called tho

There should be an emergency shut off switch that lifeguards can pull, it’s that simple, there are too many preventable accidents like this, or even a box type grate cover to prevent accidents such as this, there has to be something mandatory done across the board.

As soon as I was finished I was like thank you for traumatizing me

Dude one time my arm got stuck in one when I was 13 I survived because it was not deep also it dose actually hurt when a large pump is pulling on your arm

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

this is scary, 13 years later and this is still a problem in florida, 1974 to 2022 and florida pool main drains are still deadly

A basketball is more difficult to release but still

4:20, we have recommended that the government force everyone to buy our products.

I saw this when it first aired. Once. I was ten years old. I cannot believe how to the letter I remember the opening sequence, except apparently my brain added in a re-enactment scene of the intestines and guts swirling around in the pool. It added it REAL good. It took something like a year of "That's not going to happen to you, I promise" and late-night terror stares before I was willing to risk hotel pools again. Thank you for uploading this chunk of childhood nightmares, good archivist! Time to...go have night stares again, criminy

At least his intestines wasn't sucked up

wait there in bathtubs too- ok time to never shower then-

and this is why I’m never swimming again :)

Don’t leave anyone and I mean anyone un attended around water especially elders and young ones.. If you have children or you are in charge of children you watch them like a hawk around even kiddy pools.

Oh thank God

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"Once it's gotcha, it's gotcha"

Or just don't be stupid smdh🤦🏽‍♀️

Why can't they install a drain grate that is extremely strong like steel or something

We must make pools that don't kill our children! No shit.

I’m so scared of pool drains, they just look soo scary!! Especially wave pool ones Whenever I’m near one, I become the worlds best Olympic swimmer

This was a really well done bit

Ive personally never seen a 2.5" port on a maindrain, only 1.5 and 2". We plumb all our pools with 2" lines

Vgb drain covers are required now

Glad he survived

Yes Like final destinations

When I was a kid my parents told me about some kid who was dared to sit on the pool drain and it sucked his insides out. No wonder I'm afraid of pool drains and wave generators in wave pools and stuff like that.

Would that 2 and a half inch pipe go all the way to the pump and step down to 2 inch or inch and a half at the pump suction since most residential pools either have 2 inch or inch and a half and what size was your discharge line and how 90's were used good video sir thanks and be safe 👍

Just an additional idea popped into my mind at the end of this. They should have some sort of building around this as well, with holes thin enough for the water to get through but nothing else. I pictured something like an upside down laundry basket over top of that drain area to keep kids and things FAR away, and adding a secondary protectivefeature. It doesn't make sense to me that we are combining something this dangerous along with something priceless and the MOST PRECIOUS (children happily swimming in the pool) -- Why are we even letting something with that much suction or power anywhere NEAR where any of us swim?! There should be some sort of protective area that is much bigger over it as a back up.

I would also recommend an emergency e stop near the pool on a wall or the fence!

"When its gottcha its gottcha"

I just want to let you know I am reading your book right now! Very interesting, and thank God HE is STILL in the Miracle business!!

How bout just remove the drains and then if you wanna drain the pool there's a hose connected to the pool pump that you put the hose in the pool and it drains

Just a lil traumatized... just a lil

Don't put your ass near the pool drain.

To think I used to go to the little suction pumps at the community pool when I was a kid and push leaves and bugs in to it. Amazing I survived the 90's.

R.I.P DUCK

"Could be cracked, missing, or loose" *whole damn cover is dangerous*

Man this entire thing was just a publicity stunt

Folks if your scared of a silly little drain, stay away from it, if you can handle it, then don’t swim.

Horrifying 😱

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.

Does the sucking force of the drain rip off skin and suck your intestines out (for that kind of accidents)? I don't get why the skin is ripped off from the first place.

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.