ater quality, safety equipment and lifeguard operations at the park are being scrutinized after the death of Vijayarengan Srinivasan, officials said.
Srinivasan drowned in a pool at Wild Waves on a hot afternoon in which about 8,500 people packed the water park, according to a Federal Way police report.
The report classified Srinivasan’s death as an accidental drowning.
It said he had moved this month from India to work as a computer programmer in Bellevue and had a wife and a 3-year-old child in India.
A lifeguard who jumped in to fetch a pair of glasses found Srinivasan at the bottom of a 10-foot-deep pool where visibility was obscured by scratched paint and deep waters, the report says.
Several minutes before Srinivasan was found in the pool, a different lifeguard had seen what she thought looked like a body and jumped in to search, but found nothing, and some children’s report of a body to a third lifeguard was dismissed as a prank, the police report says.
A friend of Srinivasan who accompanied him to the water park told police
Srinivasan was a poor swimmer and had expressed concerns about the pool’s depth when they stood on a rock together by the pool contemplating whether to dive in.
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