High incidence of drownings this year

[piroska]

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zeala...ty-nz.html

14 year high in drownings. It's the beaches fault, they will have to make the beaches safer. It's the Lifeguards fault, we need more...will conscription help ? There has to be some reason for all these deaths by drowning....what is it ?...?

People don't know how to swim. And people don't know how to recognise rips.

Oh, and people drink and dive.

My son is an excellent swimmer. Competed for a time. He was rescued at Piha when he was around 18. Swimming in jeans. He knew you shouldn't, he was caught in a rip too. He said  he was shocked how tired he got.
So there you go...stupidity and over confidence.

Rather like driving. He never wore a seatbelt either, until he crashed up the back of a van one day. Concussion.