According to the balance presented at the Academia de
Marinha, in Lisbon, the AMN recorded 12 fatal accidents on supervised beaches,
eight on unsupervised beaches, four on unsupervised beaches outside the
established bathing period and two in other unsupervised areas.
Most deaths on guarded beaches were mainly due to sudden
illness (10) and two were due to drowning.
On unsupervised beaches, the probable cause of death in
seven cases was drowning and, in another situation, sudden illness, according
to the data.
Bordeira beach, in Lagos (Faro district), a maritime beach
that was not supervised at the time of the incidents there, recorded two
drowning deaths in May.
The other two deaths that occurred on beaches outside the
surveillance period took place on Praia Grande, in Cascais (in the Guincho
area, district of Lisbon), and on Paredes da Vitória beach, in Nazaré (district
of Leiria), in June.
According to the data, the months of June and September were
those in which more deaths were recorded.