The sunny and warm summer weather on Saturday caused bathers to flock to the Danish beaches, after a July that so far has offered few of the good bathing days.
Coastal lifeguard manager Anders Myrhøj from TrygFonden Coastal Lifeguard says so.
– We can already see that there is a fight for the parking spaces, and people have started to lie close together – at least on many of the large beaches, he says.
At the weekend, the temperature is expected to be between 23 and 29 degrees, according to the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) on its website.
– It also seems that the wind will remain reasonably calm, so we do not expect the most difficult bathing conditions. So that’s pretty much the recipe for a really good bathing weekend, says Anders Myrhøj.
On the days when the heat and the sun have failed, the lifeguards have still been at work, spending the time training their skills and simulating rescue operations.
– Now it’s back to the tower and being alert, so that the skills that the lifeguards have had time to hone during the wet period can bear fruit.
– They stand sharp out there and have really been looking forward to having guests on the beach, says the coastal lifeguard manager.
Although the lifeguards expect the beaches to be busy at the weekend, the large number of people is not expected to cause major problems.
– The wind seems to be calming down, so we don’t expect major challenges, but people can get hurt, so they need help that has the character of first aid.
– You can, for example, cut yourself on a seashell or be unlucky to meet a red or blue firefighter, he says.
Anders Myrhøj also expects that the many people on the beach will mean that some children will be separated from their parents and will have to be searched for.
In week 28, which covers 8 to 14 July, the lifeguards carried out a total of 7331 interventions of various kinds. None of them involved anyone in life-threatening danger.
The vast majority – 6623 – were of an informative nature. In the previous week, the lifeguards carried out 4,541 interventions. Two of the cases were life-threatening.
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Source: www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk
