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The following is a list of drowning detection system retailers worldwide.

Angel Eye

• Input data: overhead cameras, single lens, visible light; underwater cameras, single lens, visible light. 
• Detection type: objec
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Drowning is a rare, ill-defined target with non-exclusive features and is multi-dimensional (Lanagan-Leitzel, 2015). What is clear is that the successful detection of drowning pool users is underpinned by observer knowledge. Whil...

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Research on interventions has received considerably less attention than on the mechanics of how a lifeguard detects a drowning casualty. Despite the low number of studies, those conducted have shown potential benefits whi...

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Extended, underwater breath-holding by human beings for food gathering is a practice that can be dated back over 2,000 years via sources in Japanese art and literature (Nukada, 1965). Around the world, extended breath-holding still feature...

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Is drowning a hazard? 

Drowning is not a hazard or "something with the potential to cause harm". It is a process that results in distress and may or may not lead to death, morbidity or no morbidity. 

If drowning isn't a hazard, what i...

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A short guide to Coroner's inquests when investigating drowning cases in commercial and non-commercial settings in England and Wales. 

Who are Coroners? 

A coroner is an independent judicial office holder appointed by a local authority...

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Abdul-Moeez Hayyat was 19 months old when he drowned in a swimming pool at a garden party at his grandparent’s home in Aylesbury on 6 April 2010. Whilst his family were in the kitchen, Abdul was playi...

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A nine-year-old boy (“AB”) who can’t be named for legal reasons was taking part in a swimming lesson at Harlow Fields School and College on Wednesday, 23 March 2011, when he got into difficulty in the w...

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Adil Naseem was 11 years old when he and 46 other children from Feltham Hill School went swimming at an activity centre in Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, in July 1997. Adil got into difficulty whilst using t...

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Anna Hider was 17 months old when she was found unconscious in her foster parents’ swimming pool in Hampshire during a family get-together on Sunday, 29 July 2007. The family, including Anna, had been...