re: 8-year-old girl found dead in Houston hotel pool’s pipe

From descriptions, I bet this is going to be related to the lazy river more so than the pool. Those rivers require a good amount of water flow to circulate, and thus large pipes and pretty significant pressures going on.

And they use centrifugal pumps, not positive displacement type, so you can’t just spin it backward and have it pump the other way (maybe axial flow?). There was probably some recent maintenance and it got plumbed incorrectly or wired backwards in the case of axial flow pump.

Looks like daddy will have to grab a beer and test out all these rivers before my boys go in them. Both of those little string beans would fit into a 8” pipe.