“We notice that young people sometimes cannot swim enough. Especially with tourists from Brussels and Wallonia. They overestimate themselves and sometimes think that the red flag is ‘just hanging out’, or ‘because the rescuers don’t feel like working’”. The drowning of a 20-year-old in Ostend calls for some reflection: can these dramas be avoided? “It can help to designate a responsible person in a group.”
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After the tragic drowning in Ostend: “If the red flag is out, there is a reason. It’s not because the rescuers don’t feel like working.”
