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Tony Bryer
 
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In article , Danny Monaghan wrote:
although he did add that people standing in the pool presents a
point load that needs to be considered as well.


Does it? 100kg of person displaces 100kg of water - i.e. the water
level rises fractionally across the whole pool leaving the loading
under the person more or less unchanged. Or so ISTM

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