A swimming accident is a person accident when swimming or bathing.

Can act thereby e.g. around an undercooling, drowning, cramps, exhaustion, currents/vortex, tangling with aquatic plants, injuries by animals, thunderbolt or collisions, e.g. with vessels.

The danger of accident when bathing and swimming in swimming pools, lakes, rivers and seas are often underestimated.

To estimations of the international action Blausand.de, which uses itself for more bath security, each year alone into Europe about 20,000 humans die with swimming accidents.

Swimming accidents can be avoided by attention of the bath rules.

Had an accident bathers and/or float are saved, saved and supplied by swimming master, specialized employees for bath enterprises, rescue float or other helpful bathers (first assistance).

See also:

• DLRG
• Water-been awake
• Dipping accident

Related links

• http://www.blausand.de/ organization for more bath security in Europe
• http://www.wasserwacht-online.de/ is awake in the German red cross
• http://www.dlrg.de/ German lifesaving company registered association.

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