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Drowning Statistics Why Aquatics Education is Important

Drowning Statistics Why Aquatics Education is Important. Drowning Is Quick and Silent. Adapted from WSNZ. Are Water Sports Dangerous?. Since 1995 – 2002 average number of deaths ACC figures Swimming 20.9 each year Fishing 8.4 Boating 6.9 Diving 6.4

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Drowning Statistics Why Aquatics Education is Important

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  1. Drowning StatisticsWhy Aquatics Education is Important

  2. Drowning Is Quick and Silent Adapted from WSNZ

  3. Are Water Sports Dangerous? Since 1995 – 2002 average number of deaths ACC figures • Swimming 20.9 each year • Fishing 8.4 • Boating 6.9 • Diving 6.4 • Mountaineering 2.7 • Tramping 2.7 RFU figures • Rugby 2

  4. Drowning Statistics Over time Data from WSNZ http://www.watersafety.org.nz/drowning/index.asp

  5. Drowning – No Intention of Being in Water

  6. Drowning Doing Activity of Choice

  7. Who Drowns?

  8. At What Age do They Drown?

  9. Where Do They Drown?

  10. What Type of Beach ?

  11. Non Fatal Drowning Approximately 650 people are hospitalised each year for water related injuries. (NZHIS& ACC)

  12. Where Do Our Students Fit in? NZ Youth Water Safety Survey 2002 • 61% of year 11 students had swam outside patrolled area • 49% had swam in a prohibited area • 61% had swam alone

  13. Iceberg Phenomenon • Water related entitlement claims cost the nation more than $17 million in the year 2003-4 (ACC Injury Stats 2004) • Surf lifesaving statistics indicate that more than 2000 people were rescued from the surf in the 2004-5 season (SLSNZ 2005)

  14. The NZ Drowning Prevention Strategy “It is not about stopping people having fun, or preventing them being in, on, under and around water. On the contrary, I want to encourage all of us to experience our unique water environments, but to keep safe while doing so” (DPS Foreword, Ruth Dyson.)

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