The Ministry of Emergency Situations reminded Sverdlov residents about the rules of behavior on the water and the dangers that lie in wait for them.
To avoid the tragedy, you need to remember - you should swim only in the places authorized for this. Even well-known, but not equipped for swimming pools are life-threatening. It is dangerous to swim near spillway, sluices, bridges, dams, piers, wharves and other hydraulic structures.
Do not dive in places of unknown depth, since you can hit your head on sand, clay, break your cervical vertebrae, lose consciousness and die. Under the water can be piles, rails, stones. It is equally dangerous to jump your head into the water from rafts, piers and other floating structures.
"Forced cessation of air access to the respiratory tract, disrupted gas exchange, rapidly developing lack of oxygen in the blood. After 5-6 minutes after immersion under water in the body irreversible processes begin and the person dies ", - reports the EMERCOM of Russia for the Sverdlovsk region.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations recalled that in no case it is necessary to leave children on the shore of the reservoir without adult supervision, who can swim and provide first aid. Bathing children is preferably organized, in groups of no more than 10 people. Do not allow children to voluntarily go to the water and swim.
Dangerous and competition, who will last longer in the water without breathing. It is necessary to remind the children that because of the delay in breathing, one can lose consciousness and drown. The situation is aggravated by the fact that the critical state comes unexpectedly, the victim loses consciousness under the water, he can not independently counteract what happened and even call for help.
"Remember, inflatable mattresses are designed for sunbathing on the beach. Do not stand on them in the water. Even a weak wind and a current is enough to blow away at great distances from the earth. The mattress can sweep with a wave, it can slip out from under the swimmer and cover it with his head, "the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
Great danger is thrown by whirlpools formed in places of strong flow of rivers, on bends, behind large stones, over unevenness of the bottom. Rotational movement of water in the whirlpool draws the person to a greater depth and with such force that even an experienced swimmer is not always able to swim.
For a person, the danger in the water is represented by seaweed, which twists legs, hands, trunk, binds movements and can cause drowning. If you get into the place overgrown with algae, you should not make sudden movements and jerks, otherwise the loops of plants will be tightened even more tightly.
Recall Sverdlovsk MES until approved in the area of ??only three beaches. Sverdlovsk Rospotrebnadzor does not recommend swimming in any of the reservoirs of the region.