VIAREGGIO. A quiet Saturday, yesterday, with lots of people on the beach despite the cloudy weather. Despite the new signage in multiple languages prepared by the regional port authority, even the “ghost” beach of Moletto has filled up with bathers. One of which involved the lifeguards of the equipped beach “L’Altro Mare” in a rescue.
«We saw a young man swimming towards the buoys, where the free beach is», he tells al Tyrrhenian Domenico Casella, three years of red shirt, who spoke together with Ruben Del Carlo, son of the owner of the equipped beach – Marco Del Carlo, an experienced lifeguard – who had “his baptism” yesterday.
Casella continues: «We kept an eye on him and with binoculars we saw him standing in the water. I called my colleague, a young boy in his first time as a lifeguard. And thank goodness we moved. Because the boy in the water already had a very low body temperature and was white as a rag. He was very tired. Out of fear he didn’t even want to get on the skate.”
While Casella and Del Carlo were busy with the rescue, a tall lifeguard replaced them at the station on the equipped beach.
Situations that often occur and that force the lifeguards of the equipped beach to intervene in the waters in front of the stretch of beach along the Diga Foranea. Beach that is not included in those of the Beach Plan of the Municipality of Viareggio and is therefore abandoned to itself, despite the large amount of people who frequent it anyway. l
Donatella Francesconi
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