Every year in the Netherlands about a hundred people drown in open water. Claudia Broeke of Zwemanalyse: “Swimming in open water is really nice, but we do see that people sometimes don’t quite know what they’re getting into. They panic, for example, or notice that there is suddenly too much current. is too cold and they stay in it too long.”
Swimming in open water: ‘It is possible, but you have to prepare well’
