Swimming Safety, help and safety signs, distress signals, is waving enough?

How do you signal that you need help when swimming? Out at sea, ships have recognized distress signals. Flying flags upside down.

Pool Problems & Signals
How would you signal you were in trouble, when swimming? In a pool.

When you are pushing down on the bottom of the pool, coming up for air but can't get back to the side.

Sea Saftey and Signals
At sea? When you drift out on an inflatable.

Waving
Is there a sign? A sign you can make with your hands?

Waving is not enough. I remember the poem, not waving but drowning. Sylvia plath. Steve Smith. It was a metaphor. But very visual.

It should be shown on the safety boards.

Some  pools have a sign for instruction for giving resuscitationl .
Plus the numbers to call for help.
Hotel reception.
Emergency services - ambulance.

Useful Websites On Swimming and Safety
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_stroke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distress_signal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiopulmonary_resuscitation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_swimming

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Angela Lansbury

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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a travel writer and photographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.

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