The coastline of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region has been placed on “maximum alert” for the risk of the formation of baïnes. Caution is advised for those who want to take advantage of the return of the sun in the South-West to go to the beach.
Six bathers died in the region during the last summer season, according to authorities. In Gironde, the entry and exit of pleasure craft into the Arcachon basin has been temporarily banned by the authorities due to “exceptional risks for navigation” The successive storms of recent months have led to ‘profound modifications of the sandbanks’ at the level of the passes connecting the Arcchon basin and the Atlantic Ocean, explained the region's prefecture. The region's beaches of four departments (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Landes, Gironde and Charente-Maritime) are affected by this ‘maximum risk day’