Summer is just around the corner, and with it comes days by the pool, trips to the beach and weekends at the cottage. While all these outings can be tons of fun for the family, it?s important to be aware of the risks that come with being around water?and how little things, like something as simple as the colour of your kid?s bathing suit, can help keep them safe.
That?s right, dressing our children in bright colours doesn?t only protect them in a crowd. While your kid can disappear at an amusement park in the time it takes for you to check your phone, having good visibility is also crucial when they?re in or around a body of water.
After all, drowning is one of the leading causes of accidental deaths in children: It?s quick, it?s quiet and it can happen to anyone (even good swimmers!). This is why water safety company ALIVE Solutions Inc. conducted a study to see how colour impacts visibility. The company took swimsuits in a variety of hues and submerged them in both a lake and a pool to test which colours were easiest to see underwater, so if your kid does start to drown you?ll be able to spot them quickly. Photo: Courtesy of ALIVE Solutions Inc.
In the lake, they observed the suits in 18 inches of water from three different perspectives (including the elevated position of a parent sitting on the dock) and found the top colours for visibility to be neon yellow, neon green and neon orange.
?Think bright and contrasting,? the company says in a post detailing their findings. ...