The drowning of a four year old girl throws light on the issue of water safety once again. The tragedy occurred in a hotel pool during a party.

Jean Neal is busy training her next batch of life guards. "We've found often times that one parent can watch ten kids if they're really paying attention but ten parents often lose track of one child."

Iyana Allen drowned this weekend in the pool at Executive Inn & Suites at 72nd and Grover. Back in 2006 there was another drowning in the same pool, although at that time the hotel operated under Howard Johnson’s.

It was that accident that prompted Neal to create a free, online water safety program for parents at btaquatics.org. "Children drown in seconds and in silence and often times parents will be sitting two feet away from their child in the water. They are right where they are supposed to be but they are talking to the person next to them and their child has stepped into water they can't stand in," says the Brownell Talbot Aquatics Director.

Another resource is directed at kids. It's a children's book on water safety called "Josh the Baby Otter" and it was written by a Nebraska couple after their child drowned.

Swim lessons are an obvious choice. At the YMCA they have children as young as six months in this pool. “The earlier the better, that you get the child in the water is very important," says Courtney Stoffel, the Aquatics Director at the Council Bluffs YMCA

Neal is a huge supporter of swim lessons but says they are not a substitute for the well trained watchful eye. "You need to get your child into there, how to swim first but educate yourself on how to supervise your child when they are near the water," says Neal.

At this time there have not been any charges filed in the drowning of Iyana Allen.