We are over halfway through New Zealand Water Safety Month and tragically since the campaign started six people have fatally drowned in preventable incidents. 

In 2020, despite the COVID-19 lockdown at the end of last summer 54 people have died in the water in preventable incidents*. In 2019 there were 82 preventable drowning fatalities. 

Water Safety Month is an initiative of the Safer Boating Forum and ran for the first time in 2019. The month was created to get people thinking about water safety as we head into summer.