“How many of you know how to
swim?”
Children learn how to help
save swimmers in trouble.
Navy divers teach the children
how to ball up rope
to throw to a drowning swimmer.
Anything that floats, such as
gathering empty water bottles and putting them inside your shirt, could help
save you long enough for help to arrive.
Patcharapol Panrak
Apakornkittiwong Hospital at the Naval Base Sattahip recently held
training for children to learn to swim during their summer school holidays.
Navy
divers are happy to teach the youngsters, which may some day end up saving a
life.
On April 2, Captain Thada Vesarachanan, deputy director of the hospital, was
in charge of the “Learn to swim safely” campaign, which would teach 60 kids
from the ages of 8 to 15 at the Naval Base swimming pool.
Not only will they know how to swim, they will also learn to save others
from drowning as well as maintaining good health and building friendship
among themselves.
Captain Thada said that we usually see tragic news about youngsters losing
their lives due to their inability to swim, bringing grief and suffering to
parents and relatives. Apakornkiattiwong Hosptial sees much usefulness in
the training and encourages many children to come to learn to swim.
Trainers were professional navy divers who will prepare the youngsters to
maintain their mental stability and remember life-saving procedures, he
said.
Ten hut! Children prepare to
undergo training from the Navy.
