Mark Carroll's Journal

When they rebuilt Parkside it went from 12' to 6'6". They did build an additional diving pool, but you seem to need to be paying for lessons to get to dive in it. I assume it's a H&S thing, that they too often got idiot kids landing on the elderly infirm and damaging them irreparably, and it's easier to make diving inappropriate in the circumstances than it is to try to police it.

And then, a generation later, you get elderly infirm who have never learnt to swim out of their depth, perhaps.