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"Swim Ways Deluxe Dive Buddies" weighted dive sticks. (Children's Products).(Brief Article)
Child could fall or land on sticks in shallow water and possibly be Impaled on them.
Products: 25,000 packages of dive sticks sold 12/02 to 5/03 at specialty pool stores nationwide for about $10. Dive sticks are soft plastic tubes with character heads and feet. characters are yellow seahorse, green and purple walrus, red and blue underwater diver, and blue shark. Sticks measure about 7 1/2 Inches long and 1 inch in diameter. When dropped into water, they sink to bottom ...
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...000 packages of its weighted dive sticks. "Deluxe Dive Buddies" did not meet requirements...could become impaled on the dive sticks. To meet the CPSC dive stick...selection," Trevillian says. "Dive sticks are the main concern we have...
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...flexible models are still sold--can you trust them? By law, dive sticks must bend at a force of five pounds, so we worked with an...until the force reached 12 pounds. Take-away Stop using Deluxe Dive Buddies. At press time, GH contacted Swim Ways, and the...
