Dangers of swimming

Swimming is a great way to get exercise or to just have fun. It's also very important to succeed when you are swimming as if you fail in the wrong place and no one is around you drown. Even though drowning is the most prominent danger of swimming it's not the only one.

Pic: Juuso Tiittinen, media workshop

Other dangers include swallowing too much water which, even though it sounds pretty harmless, can actually poison you. Also animal attacks, those jellyfish can be pretty dangerous in some places. Getting struck by lightning can of course even be counted as a danger of running or bicycling or anything that makes you go outside, really.

Even though swimming has some dangers, the easiest way to drown is not having swam enough to learn it.

Mattias Lassheikki, media workshop