KUALA LUMPUR: The drownings at a mining pool, which claimed the lives of a teenager and six firefighters, were caused by a vortex produced by the cascading waters from the weir, said a former swiftwater rescue instructor.
Carl Traeholt, who conducted courses for the bomba training centre in Kuala Kubu Baru, Hulu Selangor, in the late 1990s, said cascading waters from the weir’s ledge causes surface water to flow back upwards, forming a spinning vortex which can pull objects into its centre.
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