Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 18, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Wenri Peg free Possi 1997 As crowning add to sad distinction pair of fatalities highlight Manitoba rank As Inland province with most water deaths by Manfred Jager staff reporter a Winnipeg Man who drowned wednesday in an Oak Bank gravel pit became the 12th ban to die in water related accidents this year in a province with one of the highest rates of such ramp said yesterday that 27year old Christoph Jonathan schweigert was swimming with friends in a gravel pit near Oak Bank around 6 when he failed to surface from a an ramp underwater recovery team found his body shortly after 9 this was the second drowning this week in Southern Whitemouth ramp reported that a 54yearold name Hast been released pending family notification drowned sunday at seven Sis ters 1 during a news conference 1 Evelyn executive director of the Manitoba Branch of the Canadian lifesaving said Manitoba had the sad distinction of having the highest incidence of preventable water related deaths of All no coastal Canadian for the years 1991 to Manitoba also registered above average for drownings in All age groups under in 1995 33 Manitoban a 14 per cent increase Over the previous preliminary statistics for 1996 Indi Cate that 19 people drowned in Mani Toba that lakes and Rivers were the most com locations for Bicknel reminded reporters that seven people drowned in Lake Winnipeg alone during the summer that year was particularly hot and Margertha average crowds spent weekends and holidays various lakes and streams through out the an analysis of the 1995 statistics showed that on a per capita peo with aboriginal backgrounds con to be 10 times More Likely to die by drowning than members of All other ethnic groups listed by Small children and teenagers continue to be the most vulnerable risk group for drownings in the o five children aged two to four drowned in Manitoba during the of any other province in this age in All five the children were aboriginal none were supervised by an adult when they six children aged five to All of a aboriginal temp Ardef to 98 Al dams of All other ethnic relative to this represents an average annual water related Fate of deaths per population for Manitoba Ltd of aboriginal 10 times higher than the deaths per for All other ethnic aboriginal drowning victims accounted for particularly High portions of the following groups children aged five or younger daily living fatalities As opposed to Holiday Outing accidents deaths on lakes and on ice drownings in Northern areas deaths contributed to by the consumption of most drownings in 1995 happened during recreational Active but More children died than there were no recreational drowning deaths involving Power snowmobiling or Hunting there were Only two drownings where victims died while fishing or drownings at Rivers and streams increased during the past two fatalities at lakes and Ponds returned to the Levels of ear Lier lakes and Rivers continue to be the aquatic setting for most preventable water related two Ocean drownings registered in Manitoba during 1995 on the Hudson Bay Shoreline were the first of that Type in the past five in both the deaths were meaning that the victims fell into the water from Cross lifesaving society them died by drowning in Only one of them was under super i three of four teenage drowning Vic Tims died in the Interlake Bicknell said the 1995 statistics Indi Cate that the traditional social group the highest drowning statistics the so called risk taking males aged 18 to 24 seems to have been Over taken by Young Bicknell explained that the society earlier postponed announcing the 1995 drowning statistics because of the Southern Manitoba flood she said the provincial medical examiners office makes both Statis tics and an analysis available to the lifesaving Mariner Neptune fish Sale Friendship festival july 12 noon to 6 Assn Ibone Winnipeg North of the Pavilion sponsored by tote s1099 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