My pool has steps as you described. How do you handle a must drain scenario? Get new liner installed?

Also, I wanted to post this to the “odds n ends/general interest” but it’s locked to me; if you think it’s appropriate, can you please put it where it belongs;

Here is a tragic pool accident that happened in a lap pool near my home here on Staten Island. Two men died from holding their breath. As a kid, I always did breath-holding games with my friends. Real scary. This pool is only 3.5 feet deep by 50 meter. The guy they revived died. Here is the article.

Staten Island drown horror
Training test kills military man at pool

Two strapping young men who were practicing breath-holding exercises at a Staten Island pool yesterday to prepare for military training were pulled out unconscious and one died -- after two lifeguards and 20 swimmers failed to spot them.
Bohdan Vitenko, 21, died at a hospital. His Air Force-bound buddy, Jonathan Proce, 21, was resuscitated and is in critical condition.
The men were yanked out of Lyons Pool in Tompkinsville at about 8:30 a.m., witnesses and authorities said.
Both men, who were in excellent shape, suffered cardiac arrest. Witnesses said they were in an area of the pool that was out of eyeshot of lifeguards.
"Lyons Pool is huge. So what's happening in the far, far corner is hard to see. If you're only two lanes away, it's impossible to see," said one witness, Janice Ellison, one of 37 poolgoers both in and out of the water.
The men were spotted floating face-down in the 3-foot-deep shallow section only when one of the two lifeguards called an end to the adult swim session.
"The lifeguards were beside themselves. They were giving them CPR. When they pulled them up, they were limp," said Ellison, 54.
"They were doing some sort of underwater breath-holding exercise," she added.
It's not clear if the duo was following an official training program, or if they had devised their own workout, said Lt. Col. Robert Roy, head of Air Force recruiting in New York.
Either way, the military advises against certain breath-holding exercises or swimming underwater at length to avoid "shallow water blackout," which can lead to drowning.