The number of interventions on the sixteen supervised beaches of Lorient Agglomération (Morbihan) recorded a sharp drop between the summer of 2023 and the previous one, respectively 2,221 compared to 3,144. Fewer interventions by rescue swimmers and yet more assisted bathers (77 versus 63) and almost as many for a serious accident (20 and 21 respectively) as for discomfort (14 and 19).
And if a third of calls still fell under the bobologie
(cuts, weever stings, etc.), one figure was down: that of children lost on the beach, 10 last summer compared to 20 the previous year.
Every day for eight weeks
This is the assessment of the past summer season while, from Saturday July 6th to Sunday July 1st,is September 2024 inclusive, the sixteen beaches in the area will once again be supervised by the 80 lifeguards recruited by the urban area from the National Sea Rescue Society (SNSM) and the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS).
A human and material system, recalls Lorient Agglomération in a press release, which costs it some €585,000 for the season.
During these eight weeks of summer, they will be present daily from 1 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., on the sixteen beaches of these six municipalities: on the Grande Plage Gâvres: that of Pâtis in Port-Louis; of Locmaria, Port-Mélite and of Grands sables on the island of Groix; Toulhars, Port-Maria, Kerguelen (in two sectors), in Larmor-Plage; le Stole, le grand Pérello and les Kaolins, in Plœmeur and finally the beaches of Fort-Bloqué, Guidel, Pen er malo, le Loch and la Falaise, in Guidel.
