BATHROOM BY THE SEA
The North Sea is one of the cleanest sea areas around the coasts of Europe. Bathing water quality is under constant monitoring. There are hundreds of kilometers of clean sandy beach with magnificent dunes where the whole family can enjoy a beach holiday, but it is important to take certain precautions.
Information
Check where the lifeguard is - and read the instructions before staying on the beach.
- Always swim along the shore.
- Use a swimming rope when bathing with children.
- Take any mobile phone on the beach.
- Never swim in bad weather.
- Never bathe alone, children should bathe with adults.
- Never go out further than the water reaches your waist.
- Never bathe from the hips, the current is strong and outward here.
- Never bathe with swimming animals or the like, the current carries them far too easily out to sea.
- Never bathe while intoxicated.
- Never shout for help for fun.
So be careful when you go swimming, it can be dangerous.
A horse hole is a hole in a gully where a strong outward local and temporary current can form. The horse holes occur when there is sufficient water within the rift which creates a pressure that creates an outward flow through the rift.
Bathers will be carried by the current into deep water at a horse hole. The current is so strong that the instinctive thing to do is to swim towards shore, but it is ineffective. Instead, you either have to swim along the coast, so you get away from the outward current, or simply stay afloat.
It is a coincidence that bathers will be able to be sucked under the water in the horse hole, but you are surprised that it suddenly becomes deep and by the strong outward current.
