Red Cross Xàbia, which is responsible for surveillance and rescue on the beaches of the municipality, this summer has activated an information campaign that alternates prevention and safety advice with the dissemination of their work and trying to raise awareness that beach safety is a matter of everyone.
In addition to the informative actions at the beach, they also use their social networks to launch messages to show the population their work on a day-to-day basis and to value the behaviors that contribute to the conservation of the marine environment or when the attitude of the users on beaches it makes their job easier.
In the first video they show their work within the Surveillance, Prevention, Rescue and Assistance Service on beaches.
https://www.facebook.com/cruzrojajavea/videos/2434704849919248/
I liked it a lot and I believe in the great work they do. The only thing missing, in that prevention they comment, is that the surf paddle boards are more controlled. For example, in El Arenal, they enter where they want and pass by all the bathers with those large keels that generate enormous irrigation. I have seen the Red Cross draw attention to children who wear keel boards, but not those of paddle surfing (those who are near the shore are not usually very douche for all the times they fail to control the board and fall off ) or those of the kayaks (another great risk), to which we must add to the surfers the days of small waves (often danger to bathers!). I think this work would be very important to protect us from those people who do not conceive that the sea belongs to everyone and we have to look for each other. In addition, it would be much easier if the city council put up informative posters about the buoys (that is, the meaning according to colors since they establish entrances, exits and, above all, where they can be bathers, boards, scooters and boats). That information has never been available. It could be placed next to the same posters of forbidden dogs and others. Despite all this, I praise the work of the Red Cross and I hope that this little comment serves as a reflection for all.
By the way, I was glad to see that since last year they start at 10.00, there are many people in the water before that time and we have already had to help some bathers before the Red Cross service began.