Anyone can find themselves in difficulty or worse when around the water but there are some simple things you can do to make your fishing trip as safe and enjoyable as possible: Learn to swim to survive – if you fall in, you have a higher chance o...
Pools provide wonderful opportunities for teaching young children water safety and swimming skills and are often the central hub for family and friends to gather and have fun. Unfortunately, pools are also potentially dangerous places, particularly w...
More people drown in rivers than in any other New Zealand water environment. Rivers can be dangerous depending on the weather, terraine, forces, hazards and behaviour of those recreating in and near rivers. Rivers generally are not patrolled and th...
With care and appropriate training diving is a safe and enjoyable activity – but for those who take risks it can quickly become life threatening. Always investigate and confirm that conditions are safe before diving. Consider currents, wind, tides,...
The water safety sector is made up of organisations and individuals with a primary focus that Kiwis, new New Zealanders and visitors to Aotearoa, New Zealand, safely have good experiences in, on or around water. Together we are delivering programmes...
On 22 September 2015 Sport and Recreation Minister Hon Dr Jonathan Coleman launched the Water Safety Sector Strategy 2020. The strategy has been developed collectively by Water Safety New Zealand, ACC, Coastguard Boating Education, Coastguard New Ze...
On 22 September 2015 Sport and Recreation Minister, the Hon Dr Jonathan Coleman launched the Water Safety Sector Strategy 2020. The strategy has been developed collectively by Water Safety New Zealand, ACC, Coastguard Boating Education, Coastguard...
A new campaign, launched today, is calling on all New Zealanders to stop and think about water safety in a bid to reduce New Zealand’s high drowning toll – and the millions of dollars spent on preventable deaths by drowning. This year to date,...
Already this year 90 people have lost their lives to drowning. That's the same number as last year's total death by drowning toll and the high-risk holiday season is still to come. Today, alongside ACC, Water Safety New Zealand (WSNZ) is launching a...
Ten people died by drowning in New Zealand waters this official Christmas holiday period (4pm Christmas Eve until 6am this morning) – the same as last year’s grim holiday toll and three more deaths than the five-year average of seven. Water Safet...