Life Savers of Shinnarashino, Chiba

It is a fact that 5 minutes before the end of each hour, swimming pools across Japan blow a whistle and order everyone out of the pool. Everyone must stay out for 5 minutes. This is so that one of the pool guards and jump into and swim the lanes looking for people on the bottom of the pool. This would be fine, except is raises a few questions.
1. Often the pool guard is someone whose swimming skills are very poor. How would this person save anybody?
2. What if you sink to the bottom of the pool 2 minutes into the next hour? Will you be there for another 53 minutes?
3. So if the purpose is to save people, then how come when lessons are going, you do not stop the lessons and ask those people to get out? Surely the people in the lessons are the ones who are more likely to drown?
4. See question 3 except add in children - groups of children that have perhaps 1 adult to 10 kids. Surely these kids have more chance of slipping under the water undetected than say the average swimmer like myself who has been swimming for 30 years?
5. What about for those people who need to do continuous 3 or 4 km sets (such as those in-training for ironman or triathlons or distance swimming)? Surely people swimming these distances are less likely to drown than those in Q3 and Q4...so why stop them?
6. And this still doesn't explain can't I wear flippers in the pool, when the lesson lane next to me can!
I asked the woman who came over to see what I was doing what the official reason for doing this is and she said rest....

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