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Key Safety Rules for Swimming in the Sea:
1. Never enter the sea if even mildly intoxicated.
2. Don't swim during stormy weather, when the waves are high and strong.
3. Don't swim past the restrictive anchor buoys.
4. If you have found that you have swum out too far, do not panic. Calmly float back to shore, resting from time to time on your back. Breathe quietly and
evenly.
5. If you get a cramp in your calf muscle, grab the foot with your hand and pull it strongly towards yourself. With hip muscle cramps, clasp the shin below the knee and with power, bend the leg to backwards towards your
back.
6. Do not dive in areas where you do not know the water depth, including from boats, docks
etc.
7. Do not swim up close to moving sea ships.
8. Constantly keep watch on swimming children, do not lose sight of them for a
moment.
9. Assist swimmers who are having problems staying afloat: swim up to them from behind, try to calm them down and do not let them to grab you with their hands. If possible, throw a life buoy, rope, oar or
stick.
10. After pulling the victim from the water, treat them in accordance with their condition:
- if victim is conscious, warm him and give him a hot drink;
- if victim is un-consciousness but breathing and a pulse is present, make him smell liquid ammonia and call for a physician;
- if no breathing or pulse, act immediately (possibly call an ambulance). Remove water from the respiratory passages - for this, put the top part of the stomach on his bent knee and press strongly on his back to force the water out. Immediately give artificial respiration and external heart massage. |
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The powerful influence of the sea on a person's health is not limited to its soothing effect. Bathing in the open sea is one of the most powerful ways to fortify and condition the nervous system. It has benefits for hysteria, neurasthenia, rickets, tuberculosis, inflammations of the lymphatic system and for people with predispositions to diseases such as influenza, angina, inflammations of the mucous nasal-pharynx, anemia and other diseases. Swimming in the sea has been shown to treat a very broad range of diseases, even in some cases where mud therapy or treatment using salt estuaries isn't recommended. Swimming in the sea improves sleep, increases blood circulation, eases the work of the heart, increases metabolism and can put a person in a bright, joyful
mood.
All the climatic factors used for treatment in Evpatoria can be lumped together under the term "Talasotherapy" (translated from Greek this becomes 'sea therapy'), which also includes air and solar baths in combination with swimming in the sea. With bathing in the sea, the physical influences of the sea air, the sun's rays and the sea's psychological-emotional influence on a person greatly increase the possibilities for healing. However, the special characteristics of sea water still play a primary
role.
Bathing in the sea is the most active type of Talasotherapy. When swimming, the temperature and mechanical and chemical factors of sea water operate on a person's body. These factors improve basal metabolism, the cardio-respiratory system, nervous system, the condition of adaptational mechanisms, the body's immuno-biological characteristics and has the effect of making a person much
hardier.
Bathing in the sea is a powerful medical treatment. So before you begin with this therapy you should get advice from a physician. The doctor can tell you in what water temperature you should swim and the best time of the day, as well as length and frequency of the
procedures.
Sea bathings begin on the 3rd to 5th day of a stay at the resort.
This period can change depending on a person's vulnerability to catching a chill or a cold.
In such event, it is recommended to take certain precautions, i.e. to prepare the body.
For this, it's always necessary to start with air baths, rubdowns with sea water or by taking
swimming in water at about 27 to 30 Celsius. In general, air baths - as a method of toughening
up and conditioning the body during climate-therapy for a number of diseases - nicely complement sea baths.
The first bathing must not last longer than 1-2 minutes. After that, it can be increased up to a total 10 minutes, or for very healthy people, up to 15 minutes. It's never necessary to bathe so long that the unpleasant shivering begins. At water temperatures of 24-25 Сelsius, the maximum length of the swim can not exceed 45-50 minutes; around 19 Сelsius remain no longer than 10 minutes. For medical purposes, for the average person it is sufficient to bathe no more than two times at
day.
Swimming on an empty stomach or after a large meal is not recommended. Swimming is advisable in the morning, after hygienic preparations, before dinner or after a day's rest. The best times are in the first half of the day from 10 to 12 in the morning, soon after having a sun bath or even after dinner (at 4-6 PM), but no earlier than an hour after breakfast or 2-3 hours after
dinner.
When arriving at the beach, do not dash immediately into the water but first take an air bath of 15-20 minutes in a shaded place. Enter the water dry, wipe off sweat and then immediately immerse yourself. When leaving the water you must wipe yourself dry. Before and after bathing a short rest and only light athletic exercises are advised. A light, easy walk of 20 to 30 minutes is also recommended after
swimming.
From time to time during swimming it is necessary to moisten the head with water. It is also advisable to have strong and varied hand and leg movements. When bathing, make energetic movements, moving around against the sea's strong wave action with the back to the
waves.
The action of bathing in combination with the pure and ozone saturated air, which also contains evaporations of bromine, iodine and the smallest particles of other salts and radioactive elements, facilitates the strengthening of a person's health and psyche. This last is also promoted by the sense of sea's depth and
boundlessness.
The average length of a course of medical bathing is from 20 to 30
sessions.
Evpatoria's excellent medical beaches with their velvety sand and gradually descending sea beds, rapid warming of the coastal areas, near total absence of tides and minimal surf create good conditions for swimming by children from the youngest ages. Thus it is especially important that this shallow coastal zone contains rare radioactive elements and organic materials considered useful for a child's
body.
Bathing in the sea is not indicated for everyone. It is not recommended for people with organic diseases of the heart and blood vessels, bronchial asthma, epilepsy, light tuberculosis with inclinations to bleeding, various inflammatory processes, or with acute joint, kidney, or diabetic diseases, etc.
Reasonable use of sea bathing provides an invaluable service to a person's health. Bathing, as a rule, has 
beneficial influences upon the body. Sea water contains practically the entire Mendeleev table. Sea water has a beneficial effect on skin and on the whole body, having inherent salt chemical and physiological influences. Sea water provides the body with warm-up and massaging actions. The cardiovascular and respiratory systems are conditioned. Swimming conditions the body, corrects bearing and posture and helps with general physical and mental fatigue. |
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