The ability to swim is the best way to prevent a drowning situation. Making sure most people knows how to swim ensures a death from drowning could never happen, but it is not a definite guarantee. If a person was to drown underwater, knocked unconscious from choking on water, learning how to swim would increase his chance to survive significantly.
Lifejackets and floaters are very similar to each other having known that they can save a person about to die, lifejackets have many varieties such as types 1,2,3 and level 100+, level 50 or level the 50s. Everyone must wear a type 1 (level 100+) when operating alone, operating at night (one hour after sunset until one hour before sunrise), storms, strong currents of the wind, hurricanes or thunderstorms. Wearing a lifejacket helps you keep your head above the water which prevents you from drowning, using a lifejacket is simple, most lifejackets will have an inflator or a hole to blow into inflating it, creating a balloon-type jacket which helps you float above of water. |