the taste of rescue shared with 500 English students in the field

Thursday, supervised by eight sports educators, Christophe, Vincent, Jérôme, Jean-Yves, Delphine, Julia, Angèle, 192 elementary school students from the Évariste Galois, Jean-Jaurès, Sainte Bernadette and Edouard-Herriot school groups were on foot from work. Sylvie Vaquero, coastal lifeguard and assistant director of the Sports department, set the music for these two days of meetings at Les Sables d’Or.

Encourage vocations

In the morning, from the Mirador, with a view of the surveillance post in use, the schoolchildren were introduced to the knowledge of the seaside, with the new descriptive flags, the understanding of the currents of baïnes, the tides, the shore-break (this wave of edge sometimes cruel) the gestures which save and first aid. “It is important that children, in a city with 4.5 km of beaches, are made aware of the dangers of the ocean. Some, like their parents, will join the Bathing Guides and become lifeguards in the summer. commented Claude Olive.

“Children ask questions that demonstrate their interest and we actually hope that they will go further,” added Sylvie Vaquero. But above all, the goal is to give them the weapons of knowledge and know-how in relation to safety, but also obviously to the environment. Simply bring them the culture of a coastal town like Anglet. »

In the afternoon, the students were confronted with the sporting game of coastal rescue, the beach flag, an event which features in coastal rescue competitions. The rescuers are lying flat on their stomachs, with their backs to the sticks which are planted on a line parallel to the starting line but 20 m apart. There is one stick less than participants. Like musical chairs. At the signal, the competitors straighten up, turn around and sprint towards the line. Until the last one. Among the schoolgirls, it was Calypso, from Sainte-Bernadette school, who won the final.

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