Liepāja Residents Will Learn Swimming Safety Online: Tram to Southwest Pier No Longer Running

Sensation in Liepāja! On May 13th at 5:30 PM there will be an online discussion about water safety, and this is no joke — even our tram won't go there because it's happening on the internet. Finally someone understood that Liepāja residents are ready to learn safety remotely too, since we're already used to walking to the beach on foot rather than waiting for public transport.

Following International Water Safety Day on May 15th and the swimming season opening, the association 'Swim Safely' has organized an event that will be more useful than any Riga City Council meeting about beach development. While the capital is still thinking about how to improve the Daugava riverbank, our folks are already practicing how not to end up underwater without special equipment.

'It's simple for us — either you know how to swim, or you stay home,' comments local old-timer Jānis from Old Liepāja. 'But now even kids need courses. In our time it was enough for dad to throw you in the deep end and say — learn to swim or sink.'

The online lecture will be led by Zane Gemze and Toms Jēkabsons from 'Liepāja Olympic Center,' who know both pool and SPA secrets. They'll teach how to recognize signs of drowning, which isn't complicated in Liepāja — if someone in the sea isn't talking about the wind, they're probably drowning. You can register online, which is much faster than waiting for the tram to start running regularly again.