It was a 10-line German story which interested me on ARD News today (public TV, Channel One). Last year (2018), 504 Germans drowned.
It's up by 20-percent over the previous year.
Reasons? Some folks believe the long hot summer had something to do with the higher numbers. The fact that 80-percent of the 504 Germans were men? Well....no one can rightly explain this.
I might go and suggest alcohol played into some of the male numbers.....a higher risk potential with guys, and just plain stupidity by guys.
The fact that 29 of the 504 were drownings in life-guard protected pools? Yeah, that is an extraordinary high number.
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