Lack of swimming skill: DLRG warns in the Corona-crisis unguarded swimming areas
A quiet place to Swim – especially in the Corona-crisis, many people are looking remote swimming holes. The Deutsche Lebens-Rettungs-Gesellschaft (DLRG) sees this as a danger.
She warned on Thursday prior to the use of unguarded swimming areas. The organization fears that the swimming skill is dropped by the week of the long-closed swimming pools and the failed swimming lessons.
Since outdoor pools are not, as usual, accessible, and people due to Corona distance sought, prefer to have many people at open bathing places, said Frank Villmow out of the DLRG Executive Committee.
Drowning the risk is higher than in waters that are monitored by lifeguards.
The organization, headquartered in Bad Nenndorf, near Hannover is the largest voluntary water rescue organization in Germany.
In the past year, the bailout preserved the swimmers and float of 950 people in front of the death – often at the last Minute.
42 operations, the responders put their own lives at risk, such as DLRG-President Achim Haag said. “You have to fight strong currents, storms and other hazards to every form of life.”
Thus, about 47 000 people for the DLRG in the past year. The organization wants to achieve through recommendations, training people to deal safely with dangers by water.
It monitors nationwide, around 1230 bathing places on the coasts and lakes as well as around 1350 swimming pools.
“Drowning is a male Problem”
In the case of emergencies in the water sense, overconfidence and ignorance often play lightly over the waters, so Haag. Especially young men should be Swimming more careful.
“Drowning continues to be a male Problem,” the President said. In the past year, at least 417 people drowned nationwide – more than 80 percent of them were male.
Of concern also is the decline in the number of floating checks is prepared by the organization. Therefore, the trainers have fallen in the past year 92 913 tests, almost 2000 less than 2018.
From the point of view of the DLRG Germany needs more swimming pools. “Approximately 25 percent of all primary schools do not offer swimming lessons because no bathroom is available,” says Haag.
Positive is the fact that nowadays, more and more citizens work to ensure that bathrooms will remain intact. The policy recognized the importance.
The DLRG hope that’ll be reversed, even if the Corona-crisis is exacerbating the financial challenges.
Lifeguards must adhere to the Corona-rules
The pandemic also has a direct impact on the work of the lifeguards and swimmers, because they need to comply with distance and hygiene rules.
“This is on small stations and small rescue boats, often simply,” said Villmow. It could also be that in the summer fewer rescuers are in use, because shared accommodation is not as usual may be used and other accommodations are missing.
For the case of a Corona-If on site, the rescuers have a special protective equipment.
Safe bathing areas indicates the DLRG with flags, special flags indicate hazards. A red flag in the Wind fluttering only people should go into the water. Then conquer life is in danger.
An urgent appeal to the Savior taught to all parents. Children who do not have badges at least the free-swimmers should never be alone in or near water, such as DLRG-speaker Achim Wiese said.
Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)
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