r/WTF 9d ago

Skyscraper swimming pool during Myanmar earthquake

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u/towers_of_ilium 9d ago

Oh my god, imagine being just sloshed over the edge on one of those floaties

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u/Cyclic404 8d ago

Risks of swimming: cramps, salty tears, drowning, and traumatic injuries due to a fall from a great height...

Thank god(s) for engineers.

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u/Sohn_Jalston_Raul 8d ago

there is a ledge just below the railing of the pool, so you would not fall all the way to the ground if you got washed over the edge of that pool. You would fall maybe half a storey or something like that.