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Water Safety Leaders Call for Caution This Christmas
Monday, 22 December 2014, 10:45 am | Water Safety New Zealand
Eighty-four New Zealanders have drowned so far this year – including seven pre-school children, up on the 2013 total of five. More >>
Award Winner Delivers Water Safety to Kids through Song
Tuesday, 25 November 2014, 3:00 pm | Water Safety New Zealand
Entertainer and water safety evangelist Mark de Lacy, aka the Minstrel, has been named New Zealand’s supreme champion of water safety for his work delivering water safety messages – through his interactive show Hiwi the Kiwi Goes Fishing – to ... More >>
Half Year Drowning Toll Lowest on Record
Wednesday, 2 July 2014, 9:57 am | Water Safety New Zealand
Preliminary drowning figures show thirty-five people drowned during the first six months of 2014 (to 30 June) – New Zealand’s lowest mid-year drowning toll since records began in 1980. More >>
Summer Drownings up on Last Year
Monday, 31 March 2014, 9:24 am | Water Safety New Zealand
Thirty-five people drowned in New Zealand this summer- up four on last summer and the equivalent of three drownings every week. More >>
Record Low Drowning Toll But Children’s Deaths Concern
Wednesday, 8 January 2014, 12:26 pm | Water Safety New Zealand
Eighty-one people drowned in New Zealand waters in 2013 – down from 98 in 2012 and the lowest number since records began in 1980. More >>
Fishermen Dominate Holiday Drowning Toll
Friday, 3 January 2014, 3:03 pm | Water Safety New Zealand
Five men drowned – four of them while fishing or gathering seafood – this official Christmas holiday period (that began on 24 December at 4pm and finished at 6am this morning). More >>
Water Safety Experts Urge Caution This Christmas
Monday, 23 December 2013, 10:37 am | Water Safety New Zealand
Seventy-seven New Zealanders have already lost their lives to drowning this year, with Water Safety New Zealand urging holidaymakers to ensure the number doesn’t rise further over the Christmas season. More >>
Delving deeper - Information from Water Safety NZ
Tuesday, 26 November 2013, 3:53 pm | Water Safety New Zealand
Welcome to Delving deeper, Water Safety New Zealand’s new information and statistics newsletter. Research and information is a core part of creating and continuing efficient sector strategy into what is the third highest cause of accidental death New Zealand. ... More >>
Drowning of Wellington Child a Tragic Reminder
Thursday, 31 October 2013, 7:49 pm | Water Safety New Zealand
Water Safety New Zealand CEO Matt Claridge says the drowning of a Wellington toddler in the bath is a tragic reminder of what can happen when a child is left alone even briefly. “The message for parents – especially the parents of pre-schoolers - ... More >>
Bluff Woman Named Nz’s Supreme Water Safety Champion
Monday, 7 October 2013, 3:36 pm | Water Safety New Zealand
Bluff local Meri Leask has been named New Zealand’s biggest champion of water safety for her lifelong commitment to keeping Southland’s fishermen and boaties safe on the water. More >>
International Water Safety Conference Kicks Off with Splash
Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 4:07 pm | Water Safety New Zealand
Eighty local Queenstown kids learned vital water safety skills – and had some fun - at the ActivePost Have A Go Day, held at Alpine Aqualand today, ahead of this week’s inaugural International Water Safety and Aquatic Education Conference. More >>
Water Safety NZ Endorses Lifejacket Bill
Tuesday, 3 September 2013, 10:35 am | Water Safety New Zealand
Water Safety New Zealand wholeheartedly supports National MP Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga’s private member’s bill announced today that would see the wearing of lifejackets compulsory for children aged under 15. WSNZ CEO Matt Claridge says anything that ... More >>
Portable Pool Makes Swimming Lessons Possible In Hicks Bay
Friday, 26 July 2013, 2:10 pm | Water Safety New Zealand
Hundreds of kids and their families in Hicks Bay on the East Coast will no longer go without swimming lessons – or need to travel to swim – thanks to the arrival of the ActivePost portable pool this week. The portable pool has been provided ... More >>
Mid-Year Drowning Toll Down But Still High
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 9:49 am | Water Safety New Zealand
Forty people have drowned during the first six months of 2013 (to 30 June), down from 55 at the same time last year but still shockingly high. More >>
International Water Safety Experts to Headline Conference
Monday, 24 June 2013, 12:10 pm | Water Safety New Zealand
International Water Safety Experts to Headline Water Safety Conference The US coastguard; the owner of the world’s largest swim school for babies and toddlers; and comedian Oscar Kightley are just three of the world-class speakers to feature at the 2013 ... More >>
One Drowning Every Three Days This Summer
Friday, 22 March 2013, 10:09 am | Water Safety New Zealand
Thirty-one people drowned in New Zealand this summer – that’s around one drowning every three days. More >>
2012 Powered Boat Drownings Cause for Concern
Friday, 11 January 2013, 11:17 am | Water Safety New Zealand
Powered boats figured prominently in 2012’s drowning toll with 22% of the year’s 93 deaths occurring as a result of powered boat incidents. More >>
Holiday Drowning Toll Down, but Warning Still Out
Thursday, 3 January 2013, 12:04 pm | Water Safety New Zealand
Three people drowned in New Zealand waters this official Christmas holiday period - between 4pm Christmas Eve and 6am this morning. And while this is the lowest number of drownings for the Christmas holiday period since 2006-2007, Water Safety New Zealand ... More >>
Water safety head calls for zero drowning toll
Sunday, 23 December 2012, 9:31 am | Water Safety New Zealand
Water Safety New Zealand is calling for a zero drowning toll this Christmas Holiday period. On average (last five years) ten people drown in New Zealand waters each official Christmas holiday period. More >>
Oscar Kightley to Learn to Swim
Thursday, 15 November 2012, 9:59 am | Water Safety New Zealand
Celebrated comedian, actor and writer Oscar Kightley has teamed up with Water Safety New Zealand to learn how to swim this summer, in the hope he will inspire other New Zealanders to do the same. More >>
