Drowning deaths on pace to break record in Colorado

COLORADO SPRINGS — In 2020, 34 folks drowned in Colorado waters, in accordance with Colorado Parks and Wildlife, setting an unlucky document.

That yr, CPW notes, there have been eight drownings by June 7. This yr, the group says, we’ve already seen double digits in drownings.

“A document tempo shouldn’t be one thing we wish to be on,” CPW warned on social media this week.

A number of folks have died on Lake Pueblo this summer season. The park supervisor there mentioned the temperature of the water this time of yr is about 60 levels.

In accordance with the Nationwide Heart for Chilly Water Security, folks ought to deal with any water beneath 70 levels with warning. That’s additionally the purpose at which the Heart recommends utilizing thermal safety similar to wetsuits or drysuits.

That’s as a result of, the Heart stories, “water between 50 and 60 levels can kill you in lower than a minute. Not due to hypothermia or incapacitation, however quite due to chilly shock.”

“Please keep protected out on the water,” CPW requested.

Test right here for his or her listing of protected swimming spots in Colorado.