The ability to swim well is one of the most important guarantees of a safe rest on the water, but remember that even a good swimmer must be careful, disciplined and strictly adhere to the rules of conduct on the water.
It is best to swim in specially equipped places: beaches, swimming pools, baths; be sure to pre-pass a medical examination and familiarized with the rules of the internal order of bathing places.
In campaigns, the place for swimming should be chosen where clean water, smooth sandy or gravel bottom, a small depth (up to 2 m), there is no strong current (up to 0.5 m/s).
It is recommended to start swimming in a Sunny windless weather at a water temperature of 17-190C, air of 20-250C. In the water should be 10-15 minutes, before swimming, you must first wipe the body with water.
When the body of the swimmer is supercooled in the water, seizures may appear that reduce the arm, and often the leg or both legs. In case of convulsions, you must immediately get out of the water. If this is not possible, you should proceed as follows:
1. Change the style of swimming-swim on the back.
2. If you feel the tightening of the fingers of your hand, you need to quickly, with the force to squeeze the hand into a fist, make a sharp discarding movement of the hand in the outer side, to unclench the fist.
3. In case of spasm of the calf muscle, it is necessary to bend, with two hands to clasp the foot of the affected leg and pull the foot to yourself with force.
4. With seizures of the thigh muscles, it is necessary to clasp the leg with the outside below the Shin at the ankle (for lifting) and, bending it in the knee, pull the hand with the force back to the back.
5. Make stinging any sharp improvised object (a pin, a needle, etc.).)
6. A tired swimmer should remember that the best way to relax on the water is by lying on his back.
Do not swim for buoys – there may be a sharp break of the bottom, a cold key, a thicket of algae, etc.
Do not arrange in the water games related to the seizure-in the heat of excitement, You can serve as a reason that the partner instead of air breathe