Sink or swim

We’d go for swim everytime! In 2015, the UK announced some very sobering statistics; it recorded a worrying figure of 321 people dying from drowning; most of these were males with the deaths occurring in lakes and the sea as they either decided to cool down on a hot day or were messing around with friends. Although the dangers of such activities are widely reported in the media, the advice is often ignored by teenagers who are unaware of the dangers of open water swimming and the associated undercurrents which can be lethal. This serves to highlight …