Lifeguards at night for resorts docks?

[old lady]

The recently gator attack and the opening of Trader Sam's Grog Grotto should be signs of a need to have lifeguards around the dock areas both at day and night. People, regardless of drunk or careless or little kids or not, might fall into the water.

 

[Sue M]

The docks aren't open sided. To my knowledge nobody drunk or not has ever fallen off.

 

[writerguyfl]

This sounds like a solution in search of a problem. I have a hard time believing that anyone visiting Disney's Polynesian Village Resort is going to get so drunk they fall off a pier/dock. Even if that does happen, the likelihood that an alligator will immediately attack is slim.

Millions of us Floridians coexist with millions of alligators. I highly recommend taking a few minutes to learn about these creatures. It might help assuage some fears.

If interested, here is a link to the alligator information pages at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission: http://myfwc.com/gators

 

[maxiesmom]

You can't totally prevent people from doing something stupid. What next, someone in every monorail car so that guests don't ride standing without holding on? People by the train tracks telling guests to watch where they put their feet so they don't trip?

 

[Aliceacc]

So, wait, it's dangerous enough that the drunks shouldn't be there... but we're going to put a lifeguard there? I would hope that the lifeguard job comes with a huge life insurance policy for the next of kin.

I think that society owes people only so much protection for their own actions. (And to be clear, I'm not talking about the family in the original attack. Let's assume, whether you agree it should have been so or not, that no one was really aware of the danger a month ago. Now we are, and the warnings are posted. Temporary fences are up, with the promise of more permanent ones to come.)

Who do we put in danger-- some 20 year old kid taking a job as a lifeguard or someone who gets so plastered that they ignore the warnings that are now abundantly posted?

ETA-- And, while we're at it, shouldn't we post a lifeguard at each and every dock in the entire state of FL?? This isn't a problem limited to the waters of WDW; the locals and tourists in FL are facing the same dangers-- and those dangers are nothing new.

 

[bumbershoot]

Millions of us Floridians coexist with millions of alligators. I highly recommend taking a few minutes to learn about these creatures. It might help assuage some fears.

Yes.

I was googling last night when I saw this question, wondering just how big an alligator would be to be a true danger to an adult. And I found that alligators just aren't that "attacky". Crocodiles are, but not gators.

And from some images of crocs I saw in the articles about attacking humans, they have to be pretty big.

This just isn't a worry we really should be having to the point where we need lifeguards there. Not to mention...what would the lifeguard do, if, by chance a gigantic gator happened by as a drunk person fell in?

 

[Amii]

The father of Lane Graves says a second alligator attacked him while he was trying to save his son from the first alligator. How long before the alligators become more bold if they are being fed all of the time? The biggest problem now is people feeding the alligators and I think Disney should have some kind of harsh punishment for those that do.

http://www.wdwinfo.com/news-stories...were-involved-in-attack-on-toddler-at-disney/

 

[AngiTN]

The recently gator attack and the opening of Trader Sam's Grog Grotto should be signs of a need to have lifeguards around the dock areas both at day and night. People, regardless of drunk or careless or little kids or not, might fall into the water.

No. Positively no need for this at all.

 

[wilkeliza]

It becomes a self responsibility if you are doing something that causes you to fall off the dock. The most recent I witnessed was a family letting their children run down the dock at Beach/Yacht Club while it was down pouring. I just didn't understand how the parents didn't stop the kids. They stopped their toddler when he was easily 50 feet in front of them but let the older kids continue to run down the dock. Just extremely careless behavior. Disney can't held responsible if a kid falls in doing something like that.

Also it would be pretty hard to accidently fall off. You have to go through the rope fence so you either climbed over or were leaning through the ropes. It would be a freak accident if someone just slipped and fell through the fence and off the dock.

 

[NS8VN]

Any other classic Simpsons fans reminded of "Bear Patrol" every time someone brings up the things that Disney absolutely must do to keep everyone safe now?

 

[porschegrl]

Any other classic Simpsons fans reminded of "Bear Patrol" every time someone brings up the things that Disney absolutely must do to keep everyone safe now?

It's like a freakin' country bear jamboroo around here

 

[Lynne M]

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[MrsJamesPSullivan]

Or Disney could just issue everyone a big plastic bubble as soon as they arrive on property to protect them from everything.

 

[Aliceacc]

Or Disney could just issue everyone a big plastic bubble as soon as they arrive on property to protect them from everything.

Wait... you mean it's not already there????