The Management Board of Son Tra Peninsula and Da Nang tourist beaches has issued an official dispatch to the People's Committees of wards and communes in the area requesting support in propagating internal regulations, rules and ensuring safety when swimming at central city beaches. It is recommended that people should proactively prevent drowning accidents among teenagers, especially during summer vacation when many groups of students organize themselves to play and swim in areas without rescue forces and outside of duty hours.
The Management Board requests commune-level authorities to promote propaganda to agencies, unions, residential areas, residential groups and on internal information channels such as websites and fan pages. The content of propaganda focuses on educating and disseminating basic knowledge about drowning prevention, raising awareness for local people and specifically informing about areas without on-duty rescue.
Specifically, in summer from March 15 to September 30, rescue forces are on duty from 4:30 to 7:00 PM daily. In winter from October 1 to March 14 of the following year, duty hours are adjusted from 5:00 AM to 6:30 PM daily. The Management Board recommends that people not swim in the sea outside these hours.
For swimmers, it is necessary to strictly comply with regulations, observe warning signs and follow the instructions of rescue workers wearing yellow uniforms. People should absolutely not swim in bad weather days or in areas with dangerous swimming warning signs, only swim in areas where safety buoys have been set up and there are rescue forces on duty.
The Management Board of Son Tra Peninsula and Da Nang tourist beaches also guides people to recognize and handle offshore currents, also known as RIP currents. This phenomenon often appears during interseasonal weather due to the movement of ocean currents. RIP currents are very dangerous because they have a calm surface, almost no waves, so it is easy for swimmers to misunderstand it as safe water. People recognize this current through signs such as seawater being darker than the surrounding areas due to deeper water, calm water surface with small waves, the appearance of debris or water foam floating back into the sea, or places with no swimming signs for rescue workers.
In case of falling into the RIP current, swimmers need to remain calm to drift or swim along the current, send a helping signal to those around them and rescue forces. Victims must swim to both sides or swim in a V-shaped direction to gradually reach the shore, absolutely do not swim against the current or try to swim straight to the shore.
