ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews / 5 April 2023)—If there is one immediate lesson learned from the tragedy of Mary Joy 3, it is the importance of knowing how to swim as a life skill. Firstly, globalizatio…
ZAMBOANGA CITY —If there is one immediate lesson learned from the tragedy of Mary Joy 3, it is the importance of knowing how to swim as a life skill.
Additionally, coastal cities and towns have not really given due attention to swimming. For most of us, we swim for leisure, some as exercise for its health benefits, and fewer for sports competition. At the competition level, we are so proud of our pioneer Moro swimming Olympians, such as Abdurahman Ali , Jikirum Adjaluddin, and Arsad Alpad , Bana Sailani , Parsons Nabiula , Amman Jalmaani , Amir Hussin Hamsain , Roosevelt M. Abdulgafur and Tony J. Asamali , Dae Imlani , and Jairulla Jaitulla .
Jonathan Guevarra and colleagues analyzed the epidemiology of drowning deaths in the Philippines, 1980–2011 . They found out that drowning figures are underreported. Deaths including due maritime accidents, are not counted as drowning death. According to the World Health Organization , more than 90% of drowning deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries.
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