First brittish girl saved

[Espectro (DayZ) 0]

New technology incorporated into swimmingpools, have saved a 10-year old girl from drowning.

The girl was detected after laying lifeless in 3 seconds on the bottom of the swimmingpool, then signaling to the lifeguard where the girl layed. Check it out:

1.The girl sinks to the bottom

2. She layes lifeless on the bottom

3. The program finds the girl, and compares the situation with

similar incidents stored in its memory

4. The lifeguard jumps into the pool, knowing exactly where the girl is... And happy ending, the girl is saved.

Clever ey?

[Supah 0]

That might be OT but hey thats pretty cool!

[Espectro (DayZ) 0]

That might be OT but hey thats pretty cool!

Yea, thats why i posted it in OT

[wildo 0]

i remeber seeing this on the news, i think its a great thing, as now, if every swimming pool is equipped with this, pool drownings (although rare) will be cut down to not even a few

Wildo

[Baz 0]

Provided there is a lifegaurd on duty, or a waterproof robot that can save people in the water / on the bottom.

[denoir 0]

This is actually the second time a person is saved by the system:

The other day in UK:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4198874.stm

and a few months ago in Germany, it saved a man that suffered a heart attack:

http://www.poseidon-tech.com/us/pressRelease032004.html

[gandalf the white 0]

yey for robotics!

Will Game2, with it's RPg elements, be able to simulate this program's AI for use in ships? after all, stuff in the water could be... dangerous

[Daddl 10]

It's a great thing such a system exists, but the risk of people drowning in supervised public pools is near zero anyways. Kids drown in much smaller pools every day. Even in the small city we live in my girl had to revive more than 5 kids already this year (not all of them made it). And that was during her shifts alone. None of the pools was deeper than a meter or even less, usually in the garden (or the neighbour's) - and the parents just weren't looking for a second...

[shinRaiden 0]

Good thing they don't have this at the pool in town, because as one of those people that don't really float, I normally just go and sit on the bottom of the deep end like a halibut. It annoys the heck out of the lifeguards because I can do it for a minute or two. It's so much easier to just stretch out on the bottom and relax, then bob up to change the air than to spend so much energy treading water. Plus the +.36atm pressure increase I find to be quite comfortable.

[Bordoy 0]

Denoir, it's the same inncedent mate. As in there as only been one in the UK.

[denoir 0]

No,one is in Germany, the other in UK. The one in Germany over a year ago:

Quote[/b] ]Paris, March 2004 - Vision IQ announced today that its Poseidon system, the benchmark in computer aided drowning detection systems, helped lifeguards detect and rescue an elderly drowning victim in a German pool.

Poseidon serves as a lifeguard's "third eye" to help prevent drowning tragedies in public, lifeguarded swimming pools.

The accident happened last week during the lunch hour in a German pool equipped with Poseidon, when a man suffered a heart attack during his regular swim session. The man quickly sunk to the bottom of the pool at the deep end.

And you can see from the images that in the UK case it was clearly a girl while in the german case it was a man. In addition you can see that the German man sunk in a different place in the pool and not to mention that the user interface is in German ("Alarm" instead of "Alert").

Edit: Not only that, but there was a save even earlier than the German case:

http://www.poseidon-tech.com/us/save.html

Quote[/b] ]

Ancenis – November 28, 2000

A young French teenager was out for his usual swim one night. Suddenly something went wrong. He sank to the bottom of the pool, unseen by the lifeguards on duty. Poseidon detected him, alerted the lifeguards, and he was saved. In less than thirty seconds.

Large animated gif:

http://www.poseidon-tech.com/images/AncenisRescue_anim.gif

[Bordoy 0]

just re-read what you said, and a mid-read it first time. Thought you said there was two inncedents in the UK. Sorry.

[korax 4]

Nobody else noticed the name of the program? OFP engine saving lives

Well.... Maybe it isnt meant to save lives.

[Espectro (DayZ) 0]

lol

[theavonlady 2]

We need a mod that will adapt this software to work in OFP's water.

Now we can move the thread to A&M: DISCUSSIONS, right?

[Apollo 0]

yeah if only we had this in the watters of everon ,wwould have saved so many lives.

Time to create a "Mitch" addon.

[HotShot 0]

Going to be alot of false alarms. Good system though.

Anyone know if it detects people that are dead but on the surface where they have floated?

[Balschoiw 0]

Quote[/b] ]Anyone know if it detects people that are dead but on the surface where they have floated?

Hmm, people get back to the surface after some days when the gasses that are caused by the rotting process make them come up to the surface again. First they sink to the ground when they drown. After 3 or 4 days they come up again, so it´s pretty useless to check the surface imo.

[HotShot 0]

I think you can be unconcious and still float can't you? If i am swimming under water, then i have to keep moving forward otherwise i just float to the top, so i dont think you always drop to the bottom.

[Apollo 0]

Quote[/b] ]I think you can be unconcious and still float can't you? If i am swimming under water, then i have to keep moving forward otherwise i just float to the top, so i dont think you always drop to the bottom.

i figure when unconcious you wouldn't manage youre Air intake that well... (you only go up because you took a deep breath and stored much air in youre longs)

[Balschoiw 0]

*insert TV jingle here (something dramatic)*

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are proud to present Sir Tadeus HotShot, a man who takes risk for his scientific research on how a body drowns, if the movement factor, which is without any doubt, one of the most "futile" moments for the drowning person ends and it gets time to panic about the water below his/her feet.."

Sooo, Sir HotShot decided to seal of the air intakes of the drowning person and demonstrated that his theory at least works for him. He resisted to get unconcious but mentioned that this would only be a minimal difference to reality.

Here you can see the method of how not to sink when getting unconsious, the so called "HotShot-Method"

I hope you take no offense

[HotShot 0]

lol. You know, i go swimming on thursdays, so i'll try it out (breathing out than waiting). Findings will be reported at approximatley 2200hrs BST.

[EiZei 0]

So.. what happens when he decides to lay on his belly?

[Jimpy 0]

They'd have to disable it if trainee SCUBA divers are using the

pool and doing the old "giant human lobster" swimming

technique.