During the course of last month no fewer than 43 people lost their lives through drowning around the country, which is 47% down on last year, however.
If you take the whole of 2021 up to the 30th of August the figure reaches 183 deaths. Again, compared with the same time period of 2020, that’s 191 fewer deaths.
It should be taken into account, of course that the pandemic kept everybody indoors for three months during that period last year and travel restrictions kept a large proportion of inland inhabitants from reaching the coast to spend their holidays.
This information was furnished by the National Drowning (INA) belonging to the Royal Spanish Federation of Rescue and Lifeguard.
Read Also
- Video: Abel Pintos broke into the La Princesita show in Tucuman and impressed fans Mar 20, 2021
- Cybercrime: Global Operation Takes Down Site Widely Used by Scammers Nov 24, 2022
- The 84-year-old woman who woke up in a mortuary died when she was about to be cremated alive in Chaco. Jan 28, 2021
- The digital medicine market is set to boom in mid-2021: projections for 2030 2Morrow Ginger Akili Mar 15, 2021
- Is there a new rally brewing as Bitcoin claims $ 38,000 and stablecoins “ sink ” stock exchanges? Jan 14, 2021
- UAE reports 1,772 new coronavirus cases, 1,769 recoveries in 24 hours May 3, 2021
- The Riojan company El Patio Teatro offers this Sunday in Valencia ‘Conservando memoria’ Apr 11, 2021
But even taking this into account, since records have been kept by the INA in 2015, until this year, the lowest number of drownings belonged to 2016 with 60 deaths.
As for where they took place, 47% of drownings took place in Cataluña (eight deaths), Comunidad Valenciana, (seven deaths) and the Balearic Island (six).
Three other autonomous regions had three deaths each: Andalucía, Canary Islands and Galicia. Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla y León, Extremadura and Murcia had two drownings each while Castilla-La Mancha, Navarra and País Vasco reported one drowning each.
As for the victims, 80% were males, 69% of which were older than 45. The majority of the deaths took place in the sea (55%).
Finally, 93% of the deaths took place where there was no lifeguard service, which says a lot in favor about the efficiency of lifeguards on our beaches.
(News: Spain)