This is the seventh death recorded by drowning on the Guardamar coastline this year
A 72-year-old British man of has died on Thursday while bathing on a Guardamar beach. Emergency services attended the scene at 3.30pm in the afternoon, according to municipal sources.
Health personnel mobilized by the Emergency Coordination Centre of the Generalitat and Local Guardamar Police moved to the drowning site. The bather died in the area of the residential Benamor, south of the center of the city center of Guardamar.
Initially suggestions are that drowning would have occurred due to the indisposition of the bather and not by the state of the sea, which on Thursday was absolutely calm. Well-placed sources said they believed the unnamed Brit at the centre of the latest tragedy could have suffered a health problem prior to his drowning.
Unfortunately at this time of the year the beaches are no longer supported by a lifeguard service.
Bryn Thomas, from Southampton, was one of two men who lost their lives in June at one of Guardamar’s beaches after racing into the sea to help two children aged six and seven who were in difficulties.
An inquest was opened into the 52-year-old’s death in Winchester at the start of July.
Mr Thomas died alongside a 46-year-old man from Poland who also went to help the youngsters.
