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Rappelful Tegernsee: The rush calls for the rescue workers

2021-07-03T11:45:51.273Z


The first heat wave has shown it: If the weather is right, bathers and water sports enthusiasts will be drawn to Tegernsee in abundance this summer. A demanding situation for the rescue organizations.


The first heat wave has shown it: If the weather is right, bathers and water sports enthusiasts will be drawn to Tegernsee in abundance this summer.

A demanding situation for the rescue organizations.

Tegernseer Tal

- “It's extremely busy,” reports Caroline Amann, board member and mission diver at DLRG Gmund.

When the first heat wave of summer hit the valley, the lawns were "jam-packed".

Hardly any water sports equipment that could not be discovered on the lake: sailing boats, surfers, lots of stand-up paddlers.

For Amann and her volunteer colleagues at the DLRG - responsible for the lido in Kaltenbrunn - the rush means one thing above all: a lot of work.

Because wherever people crowd, there are more dicey situations.

“The beeper went constantly in the end,” Amann sums up with a look at the incident.

There were no tragic swimming accidents at Lake Tegernsee to complain about

So far this summer, the Tegernsee has been spared the tragic - or even fatal - swimming accidents that have recently happened again and again in Bavarian waters.

It is above all everyday operations in and on the lake that are currently “quite concentrated”, as Florian Mengele, technical operations manager of the DLRG local association Tegernsee, confirms.

Stand-up paddlers who can no longer make it back to the bank on their own and have to be fetched, capsized sailors who need help.

Read here about a tragic swimming accident from last summer: Rottach-Egern: Sad certainty: Dead person in Tegernsee is "Glasl Mandi"

"If many people use the lake as a recreational area and sports facility, it is absolutely obvious that something will happen in the process," says Mengele.

The fact that many still work in the home office or prefer vacation at home due to the Corona situation brings the Tegernsee additional rush, believe the emergency services.

DLRG finally wants to offer swimming courses for children again

It is all the more important that the rescue organizations receive the right training. After the pandemic-related break, in which one had to limit oneself to digital offers, the DLRG Tegernsee can now offer swimming training twice a week again. The Rottacher Warmbad and the Batusa in Holzkirchen are available for this. And the general swimming courses for children should finally pick up speed again, according to Mengele. You are in contact with several baths. “We have an enormous number of visitors to our courses, which we can't quite cover,” says the technical operations manager. Mengele emphasizes that swimming is one of the most important skills "that a young person should be able to master with us".

The fact that there will no longer be a public indoor swimming pool at Tegernsee by the time the new Wiesseer Badepark is completed does not make things easier with training and swimming courses.

In summer you can also use the outdoor pools for this, explains Alexander Schwarz, chairman of the district water watch.

"Otherwise it looks dark in the Tegernsee valley."

More and more swimmers are venturing far out into the Tegernsee - a real risk

At the same time, outdoor and water sports are experiencing a real boom.

"The stand-up paddlers in particular have increased massively," reports Jan Zangenfeind, chairman of the Rottach-Egern water rescue service.

Because the athletes would often misjudge the weather and wind, "they then stand exhausted in the middle of the lake".

Zangenfeind has also recently noticed a dangerous trend among swimmers.

“People are swimming very far out into the lake more and more often.” If the daredevil suddenly lose their strength, it could be extremely dangerous.

“Alone”, advises the water watchman, “nobody should swim such long distances”.

And if they do, they must at least have a floating buoy with them.

"Otherwise it's a matter of time before something bigger happens," says Zangenfeind.

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Source: merkur

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