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Automated Pool System Saves Swimmer

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the watchful-eyes-for-something-besides-privacy-invasion dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An automated swimmer tracking system installed in a pool in Wales has saved a young girl who just collapsed and sank to the bottom, by paging lifeguards when it could not detect her moving." This is the first time a UK swimmer has been saved by the £65,000 Poseidon system since it was installed in March of 2003.

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  1. Strange. The same thing happened in Norway today. by Enramot · · Score: 1, Redundant

    http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article110 6293.ece Unfortunately only in Norwegian. but there are some pictures.