Sea lifeguards saved 8 people from mass drowning on a Bulgarian beach. Rough seas claimed several lives over the weekend.
This was reported by BGNES.
Lifeguards warn tourists not to take risks and to undertake a rescue operation themselves if someone drowns in front of us. This is how a man lost his life who went to pull two foreign tourists from the sea in Sozopol. A few days ago, the situation was even more critical for the rescuers. Ivan Georgiev from the Institute of Water Safety told BGNES that in 15 years they have not had such a serious incident with a group drowning.
„Eight people started mass drowning at the same time, the case is similar to that of the man who drowned in Sozopol over the weekend. Two of the company enter to bathe in the sea, respectively their friends, trying to help them, fall into the same risky situation. The rescuers, entering to rescue them, find themselves with two on the rescue buoy. At such times, the beach remains unguarded, because all the lifeguards are in the sea at that moment,” says Ivan Georgiev.
Despite the problem of finding the lifeguards, the concessionaires promise a peaceful summer.
„All beaches are provided with lifeguards and medical teams. As you can see on the beach here in Pomorie, where we are, there are 8 posts and 16 lifeguards”, said Kiril Spasov from the Association of Sea Beach Concessionaires
From the beginning of the season, samples are regularly taken for the purity of the sea water - both by the RZI and by independent private laboratories.
„We are monitoring. The results of the water are clean. The standard is the same, we work according to a sampling standard, including for microbiology, there is a work standard,” says Fatme Ali, analytical chemist
There will be two lifeguards on duty until the end of August. Concessionaires then have the right to phase them out. The Ministry of the Interior specifies that all cases of drowning since the beginning of the season have occurred either on unguarded beaches or outside the working hours of lifeguards.