{"id":329781,"date":"2025-12-22T12:57:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/329781\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T12:57:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:57:27","slug":"charity-issues-safety-advice-to-cold-water-festive-swimmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/329781\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity issues safety advice to cold water festive swimmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The RNLI has issued safety advice to people planning to go cold water swimming over Christmas and New Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity said festive dips had become an increasingly popular tradition but stressed safety precautions were essential to reduce the risk of injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It advised swimmers to avoid going alone, stay within their depth and take time to let their bodies adjust to the cold, adding that volunteers would be on call throughout the festive period and ready to respond to emergencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Even the well prepared can find themselves in difficultly but having the correct knowledge and equipment can save lives&#8221;, RNLI water safety manager, Emmie Seward-Adams, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The RNLI has issued safety advice to people planning to go cold water swimming over Christmas and New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-329781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}