The Ryde Beach Lifeguards team has joined forces with Southern Water to offer local children in school years 5 and 6 the opportunity to learn lifesaving water safety skills.
Each year Ryde Beach Lifeguards looks after the safety of locals and visitors to Ryde and Sandown beaches; however the charity recognises the wider benefit of drowning prevention education to prevent people getting into trouble in the first place.
Sea Safe is one of their drowning prevention initiatives, that aims to educate children in an interactive and immersive way, how to stay safe in and around open water and what to do if they, or someone else, gets into difficulty.
Delivered over two weeks, the program delivered the free sessions to more than 500 children from the following schools: Godshill, Priory, St Marys, Broadlea, Oakfield, St Blasius, The Bay, Queensgate and Greenmount.
Sandown Mayor, Alex Lightfoot, said:
“It’s really great to see Todd and the lifeguard team enabling safe use of the beach and sea from their Lifeguard Station in Sandown, with so many young people from across the Island benefitting from their guidance and training”
Beach Manager, Todd Miller, added:
“We are so pleased to be able to continue our Sea Safe program for another year thanks to the support of Southern Water.
"Sea Safe is a great way for young people to learn about the different dangers associated with open water swimming in a safe and fun environment with qualified instructors and lifeguards.
"By educating children about water safety from a young age, together we can help reduce the number of incidents around our coasts and inland waters.”
RBLG’s key water safety advice:
- § Always swim in a safe place
- § Always swim at a lifeguarded beach
- § Always swim with an adult, younger children should always be within arms reach.
- § If you find yourself in trouble in the water, float on your back like a starfish. Raise one arm to signal for help.
- § Call 999 or 112 in an emergency and ask for the Coastguard.
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