I wonder how many drowning deaths were actually kids of the people that owned the pool?
We had a pool for approx. less than 2 seasons. One of those take down every year, cheap ass blow up the ring and fill things...they probably look like a giant blue condom filled with water from an airplane.
My kid (who was around 4 at the time) was never unsupervised, the pool was in a fenced in yard, and he was taught the basics.
I spent 95% of my summer months chasing the neighborhood kids, their dogs, and their friends out of it. If I actually had a life, and left the house like normal people do, they probably would have been in it 24/7. Talking to most of their parents was like talking to air.
Yes, I could have spent $600 on building an 8ft lockable fence they maybe couldn't have climbed over to protect my $49.99 Walmart pool, but I didn't.
The neighbors a street down had a lockable 10ft fence around their fancy in-ground pool...maybe with a double string of barbed wire at the top and security cameras it might have actually worked...they used replace a section every other year because someone would cut a hole in the fence if they left on vacation.