According to the Water Safety Ireland 80 people drowned in Irish waters last year.
The average is 110 per year.
80% of these occur in the victims home county and happen quickly and silently.
Don't become a statistic, go to a swimming pool, where a paid lifeguard can ensure your safety.
Leave the landscape photography to the pros or at least someone with a good camera.
That is a helluvah trash take.
Humans have been swimming in the sea, rivers and lakes for 5000 years
Yes each one of those 110 annual deaths is a tragedy but you would have us crammed into chlorinated 25m pools of which there are 3 public pools in the city.
Why not provide information signage at swim spots so people know when and where to swim?
Why not place down some marker buoys like the volunteers in Myrtleville did so people don't stray into dangerous waters?
Why not fund more beach lifeguards if they ensure safety?
But you'd rather deny people the right to swim freely in nature and all its myriad benefits. How does that make sense?
How many of those 110 were inexperienced swimmers on an unexpectedly sunny day swimming in cold water because they knew no better?
Why would you not fund free swimming lessons in every school? we're an island nation after all.
How many were not swimming rather fishermen, sailers, surfers? But you'd have us all up in churchfield?
What are the annual deaths from Heart Disease? From Self Harm? From obesity?
Swimming in the sea is no panacea to these but is a healthy and safe activity as long as people respect the water and swim in safe places. And that does not mean a pool
Swim ireland started an open water education series this year. Only about 30 years too late but its a step forward
