The council of Xàbia beaches has presented a balance of the summer season once the surveillance and lifeguard service ended on October 12. From the Red Cross, which is in charge of this assistance, they point out that it has been a quiet summer, with very favorable weather reports and practically no jellyfish. This has favored a decrease in health care and rescues for bathers. The most positive fact is, without a doubt, having managed to overcome the entire season without having to mourn any deaths in bathing areas.
Globally, the rescue and surveillance team has carried out a total of 2.139 services, of which 1615 correspond to health care (736 for injuries and another 314 for jellyfish stings).
At the level of assistance at sea and rescues, 174 have been carried out, of which only 18 correspond to bathers on the beaches. The vast majority are linked to the use of floating devices: 40 paddle surfers, 12 inflatable kayaks, 37 rigid kayaks, and 6 scooters. Assistance has also been provided to 50 people on boats (with severe seasickness or polytrauma) and 11 shipwrecks have been evacuated as a result of the sinking of their boats.
Those responsible for beach safety stress that this type of intervention continues to rise significantly season after season due to the proliferation of active tourism companies and the popularization among private users of this type of leisure activity in the aquatic medium.
By areas, requests for help are centralized especially in the coves: 60 in Portitxol, 34 in granadella or 29 in En Caló, followed by the surroundings of Arenal (26), and more anecdotal Cap de Sant Antoni (7), Gravel or Muntanyar (6), Cala Blanca (5) or the closed Ambolo (1).
Other services carried out throughout the summer included 228 visits to the adapted bathroom for people with reduced mobility or functional diversity, 109 emergency ambulance transfers from the beaches to hospital centers and 13 locations of missing people.
The Department of Beaches, directed by Tony Miragall, has also closed the access control season to the coves.
