BOLTON, Vt. -
At the Bolton Potholes Wednesday, there were lots of people trying to keep cool in the summer heat.
Here it's swimmer beware, from the rocks to possible strong currents.
While these swimming holes can be dangerous, at least some people are trying to change that.
Bruce Seifer's 12-year-old son Bentley drowned in the Bolton Potholes last July. Since Bentley's death, Seifer and his wife have worked to help make swimming safer for kids.
"Our hope is that if one person doesn't go through the tragedy that we have," says Seifer.
The Seifer's have come up with ideas they say could prevent drowning's, from better training for rescue crews to improving the safety of swimming holes.
But maybe the most personal for the Seifer's is the recommendation to remind swimmers of the danger of swimming in places including the potholes. Seifer says it's the advice that could have saved his son.
"If people are swimming by a rushing river, if you can't hear your friend on the other side of the river, you should swim somewhere else," says Seifer.
The Seifer's have passed their ideas onto Vermont's Child Fatality Review Team whose mission is to reduce the number of kids killed in the state.
But even the Seifer's realize major changes to make the swimming holes safer will take a lot of work and a long time.
