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“The two men went swimming in an unguarded area. One lifeless body washed ashore. The other man was still being resuscitated, but no help could be availed for him either,” said Blankenberge’s chief of police.
Following the death of the two Poles, the Belgian rescue brigade IKWV made an appeal not to go into the sea in places where there is no supervision. “There is at least one guarded zone in every coastal town. The sea is not a swimming pool. There is a current, there are waves and you have to take that into account. Moreover, the water is still very cold, even though the weather is nice,” said secretary An Beun.
Saturday was the warmest June 18 in Belgium since measurements began in 1892. In Uccle, the mercury rose to 32.6 degrees in the afternoon, more than 1 degree more than two years ago. The daily record was already broken at 3 p.m., when the thermometer in Uccle indicated 31.8. Then it got a little warmer.
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