Beach safety tips as summer travel season heats up

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (WTOC) – Tuesday, June 21 is the Summer time Solstice and longest day of the yr, so lots of people in our space shall be hitting the pool and seashore so much over the approaching months.

Sadly, typically that comes with accidents.

A Lowcountry physician says you need to respect the facility and potential hazard of the ocean when popping out to take pleasure in trip, to be sure you or your family members aren’t one of many few who wind up within the emergency division every summer time for swimming questions of safety.

“The ocean is its personal animal and we have to perceive and admire that, so ensuring that everyone is aware of in case you’re going out within the ocean, ensuring everyone is aware of the place you might be, staying near lifeguard stands and never going too far out,” Hilton Head Hospital Emergency Doctor Dr. Erica Mcenery mentioned.

She says folks aren’t simply introduced right here from swim accidents on the seashore although, and has ideas for poolside mother and father.

“Be sure that the youngsters are supervised, not being left at a pool supervised by different youngsters, that in the event that they don’t know the way to swim that they’ve applicable flotation gadgets that their match appropriately,” Dr. Mcenery mentioned.

She additionally says to know the place all of the entry factors to your pool are, ensuring that youngsters can not use them to get into the pool unsupervised.

Now clearly that isn’t an choice whenever you’re out on the seashore and the ocean has virtually countless entry factors, so for seashore time the perfect reminder she has is simply preserve in fixed communication with whoever your with – particularly as these temperatures climb towards 100 this week.

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