Water safety · expert article by De WaterExpert

Shiva de Winter

Swim-school owner · chair of NSWZ · founder of De WaterExpert and WaterZeker · thirty years of swimming lessons, fourteen summers as a lifeguard

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2026-07-19

More Places to Swim Won't Automatically Make Us Safer

On a hot day, the call for more places to cool off makes perfect sense. But awareness and swimming skills carry more weight than concrete — otherwise we're just mopping the floor with the tap running.

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