On Sunday, October 19th, an 84-year-old man died while swimming at Les Roquetes beach in Guardamar del Segura. Around 2:20 p.m., witnesses said that lifeguards and other swimmers in the area pulled the Polish swimmer out of the water while he was still unconscious.
Health care
Health services dispatched two ambulances, a basic life support unit, and a SAMU (medical unit) to the seashore. For more than three-quarters of an hour, medical staff had been doing advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the man but had not gotten a reaction.
The deceased was on holiday in Guardamar with his family.
No poor weather
The sea was calm, and on Sunday the green flag, which means swimming is allowed, was flying in this part of the Guardamar beach south of the town centre.
Les Roquetes beach has lifeguards on duty every day until October 31st. This makes Guardamar one of the communities in the province with the longest lifeguard service extensions.
Busy
The warm weather is bringing people to Guardamar’s beaches, which are still fairly busy in the middle of the day, especially on weekends. Beach bars are still open, and the people who went there to have fun don’t seem to have been impacted by what happened. As is often the case in these kinds of situations, people on the beach didn’t move an inch while paramedics tried to bring the swimmer back to life.
Nor did they later, when Civil Guard personnel stood guard over the body, which was covered with a sheet, until the undertakers came to take it away.
A sequence that keeps happening
A lot of people who drown in the province of Alicante each year fit the same profile. Sadly, on Sunday in Guardamar, it happened again: perfect swimming conditions, an older swimmer, and his body found in the sea after he passed out.
Author: Derek Appleton
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