Isabel García Sanz, presidenta de la Comisión Gestora de la Real Federación Española de Salvamento y Socorrismo, durante su intervención en la clausura del IV Congreso Internacional de Prevención de Ahogamientos. Autor: Javier Sánchez/RFESS
CIPREA 2024 closes as a ‘brilliant and spectacular showcase’ of what drowning prevention means
The Congress brought together more than 300 people from around twenty countries from the five continents
The fourth edition of the International Congress on Drowning Prevention #CIPREA2024 has become ‘a brilliant and spectacular showcase for drowning prevention and a forum for meeting, debate and exchange of knowledge that is unparalleled in Europe and in the Spanish language’.
This was stated at the closing of the event by the President of the Management Committee of the Royal Spanish Lifesaving Federation, Isabel García Sanz, who emphasised that this international meeting, which has been held at the Palacio de Congresos de Córdoba since last Friday, ‘has consolidated an initiative which, now even more so, is the most important international conference in this field in Europe and Latin America’.
The #CIPREA2024 has brought together more than 300 people from around twenty countries from the five continents in ‘an enriching work around the prevention of drowning’, in the opinion of García Sanz.
Isabel García Sanz concluye el CIPREA celebrado en Córdoba como un “brillante y espectacular escaparate” de lo que supone la prevención de ahogamientos. Autor: Pablo Rodríguez/RFESS
In this regard, he highlighted two aspects of the Congress. On the one hand, ‘the extension we have carried out on this occasion to the subject of work’, which ‘has allowed us to get to know an aspect which escapes public information and which has a great impact on the prevention of drowning’.
On the other hand, ‘the approach to the reality of the actions involved in the rescue and care of migrants is another of the contributions that have meant progress in this edition,’ he stressed.
In the same way, the sporting aspect, in her opinion, ‘has played a fundamental role, as the exhibition by some of our technical elite and sportsmen and women represents the start of an interesting project to improve sporting performance’.
Un momento durante la intervención de clausura del CIPREA de Isabel García Sanz, presidenta de la Comisión Gestora de la Real Federación Española de Salvamento y Socorrismo. Autor: Javier Sánchez/RFESS
The head of the federation also expressed ‘our gratitude to the Cordoba City Council and the Cordoba Provincial Council who have once again made it possible for this city and this province to become the world centre for the prevention of drowning and, more importantly, a practical example of what commitment to this cause means’.
During the Congress it was revealed that more than 4,000 people will have lost their lives due to unintentional drowning in the last ten years, since 2015, by the end of 2024.
Isabel García concluded that with the work carried out at #CIPREA2024 ‘we have contributed to making aquatic spaces at least somewhat safer’.
The next edition of the International Congress on Drowning Prevention is scheduled for 2026.
