Dad Warns About Popular Mermaid Tail Swimsuit After 5-Year-Old Daughter Nearly Drowns

A dad from New Jersey is warning parents this week after his 5-year-old daughter nearly drowned while wearing a popular mermaid tail swimsuit in the family’s inflatable pool.

Adam Lisberg took to Twitter detailing the horrifying incident, which happened on Sunday afternoon.

Lisberg says his two daughters, Annabelle, 5, and Ruby, 7, were playing in a small inflatable kiddie pool in the family’s driveway. Both girls, who love mermaids, were wearing two-piece bathing suits which have mermaid tail bottoms that binds their legs together.

“We knew that with it blocking their feet it’s harder to kick or walk — and they knew that,” Lisberg said. “But we figured (the pool) is two feet deep. Even if they sit down they can get themselves up.”

Still, Lisberg says he and his wife always supervise their daughters when they are using the pool—acknowledging that while the water levels are shallow, “kids can drown in anything.”

On this particular afternoon however, Lisberg found himself pulled in several different directions after his 5-year-old son, Ben, had taken it upon himself to make guacamole.

As every parent knows, distractions happen. So Lisberg adapted to the situation the best way he knew how.

“Every parent knows you have to watch every kid like a hawk, and you have to be careful all the time, but I thought, ‘I have two girls in the pool keeping an eye on each other, right below the kitchen with the window open so I can hear them. Meanwhile, I have a son who’s about to squish avocados all over the kitchen,” Lisberg explained. “I figured it was safe to go up and make guacamole with him while looking out the window.”

Lisberg said he had been checking on the girls every minute or two through the window when Ruby came inside and calmly told her dad that Annabelle wasn’t moving.

“I looked outside—Annabelle was lying on the ground next to the pool, arms inside her mermaid tail, not moving,” Lisberg wrote on Twitter.


Bri Lamm
Bri Lamm
Bri Lamm is the Editor of foreverymom.com. An outgoing introvert with a heart that beats for adventure, she lives to serve the Lord, experience the world, and eat macaroni and cheese all while capturing life’s greatest moments on one of her favorite cameras. Follow her on Facebook.

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