[wyokostur]

Yes! My son uses one at the YMCA. They are a simple hydraulic lift. Think “ cherry picker “ for a car engine. He has cerebral palsy and uses a flotation device while swimming. It is excellent excersize for him.

Thank you people for the wonderful comments about the disabled...”can’t they just fall in”, that was nice. Or a ramp to the pool...are they supposed to drive their chair into the water?? Great comment there.

[MrB]

How about one of the staff simply assist the person into the pool?

Why does this have to be a federal, shoved down your throat, one size fits all regulation?

[IbJensen]

Too bad you had to take it so personally, but then having a son who has cerebral palsy isn’t something one would take delight in.

I would agree with you that some of the comments aren’t humorous to you, but can’t you, as a parent take charge of your sons’s entrance into a pool of water and stay with him as he enjoys his swim, or are you like the millions who wait until the Central Socialist Government does it for you?

[Chickensoup]

Or a ramp to the pool...are they supposed to drive their chair into the water?? Great comment there.

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Our local lake has a ramp in for the disabled. So does an older theraputic pool in the area.

[libertarian27]

Pool ramps are part of the regs.

http://www.access-board.gov/adaag/html/adaag.htm#15.8 Swimming Pools, Wading Pools, and Spas

Ramp installation isn’t cheap either, many ‘public-access’ pools will need to be fiscally shut down.

I’m wondering when the ADA will get around to regulating ponds, lakes and ocean areas with lifeguards...if everyone can’t enjoy them then ADA likes to make regulations that no one can....

[MaxMax]

Lighten up. PC jokes that can only be directed towards average white males
just doesn't work here. Since everyone else these days is a Special class of minority. Bah..

[muawiyah]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2886633/posts ~ this later thread reveals that the REQUIREMENT is also a RAMP ~ presumably into the water.

So, how is it hate or disrespect to suggest that a RAMP is OK.

The powered mechanical lifts are probably dangerous to everybody ~ I'm thinking of that event in the movie "Eating Raoul" where everybody lined up around the inside of the big hot tub fell over like petals on a wilted flower when the electric line fell across them. You get that same effect with a short in an electrical device in water you know.

Then, if that's all you have ~ an electric powered lift ~ how do the handicapped get out of the pool when the power fails? Do they perhaps tread water until the firedepartment arrives?

Frankly, this new rule is not thought out.