Several drownings in the heat – Today’s News

     
     
     
 
 
     
 

     
     
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In recent days, several people drowned in the summer heat.

The Swedish Life Saving Society warns against overestimating its own to swim and calls for general caution.

                     
                 

         
 
         
         

             
                 
                 
                 

                     

 

In recent days, several people drowned in the summer heat.

     
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Generally speaking , a large amount of accidents could have been avoided if people were sober, both in and on the water, and not overestimated their swimming ability.

– It’s the foundation of all drownings, however. When it comes to recreational craft, we often hear the argument that if I fall in, I can swim. But it does not help, you need a life jacket, says Anders Werne Stone.

Read more: This year’s hottest day – beware warning SMHI

Sebastian Jörn Stepped doing his first year as a lifeguard. He has been in place at Scaniabadet in Malmö since June 12, and so far he has done without incidents. Preventive work may have played a role.

– If many stands and pushed on a slippery place you can go there and say to them that it could lead to someone slips, hit in the head and end up in the water.

Swedish men over 50 years old dominate the statistics. On Scaniabadet’s average age is slightly lower, but even young people have a thing or two to teach according to Jörn Stepped.

– Youth gangs inciting each other to, for example, swim out to the buoy, and who are not as able to swim might fall behind, says He and invites swimmers to keep track of their peers.