World · East Asia & Pacific · 2 hrs ago
Busan’s Arpina to provide indoor pool space for lifeguard training
Busan’s Arpina facility has agreed to provide indoor pool space for private lifeguard training.
The agreement is with the Korea Association for Life Sports and aims to strengthen rescue skills and improve training conditions.
About 100 qualified lifeguards serve Haeundae and Songjeong beaches, where they have mainly trained in the sea.
Cold water, high waves and jellyfish have often disrupted or cancelled those sessions.
Public pools are hard to book regularly, while private pools can be costly, and some teams have had to use shallow children’s pools.
Arpina will provide space for four sessions each May and June, as long as this does not interfere with regular pool operations.
The two parties will arrange the dates, lanes and participant numbers in advance, while the association will also support swimming and water-safety education at Arpina’s youth centre.
Busan’s Arpina will provide indoor pool space for private water-rescue teams to train.
The agreement with the Korea Association of Lifestyle Sports aims to improve training conditions and water-safety skills.
Arpina will offer training space four times each year in May and June, when pool operations and public use allow.
The teams’ roughly 100 qualified members have often faced cancelled or interrupted sea training because of weather and other marine conditions.
The association will support swimming and water-safety education programs at Arpina’s youth center.
- Who
- Busan’s Arpina and the Korea Association of Lifestyle Sports signed the agreement.
- What
- Arpina will provide indoor pool space for private water-rescue teams to train.
- When
- Four training sessions are planned each year in May and June.
- Where
- Arpina’s swimming pool in Busan.
- Why
- To provide reliable training conditions and strengthen rescuers’ water-safety skills and response capabilities.
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Water-rescue team members need to practise rescue swimming and other practical rescue skills.
Arpina will provide pool space for four training sessions, subject to pool operations and public use.
Yonhap reported that Arpina’s business division had signed the agreement with the Korea Association of Lifestyle Sports.
- Training sessions
- Four each year
- Training period
- May and June
- Rescuers
- About 100 qualified members
- Beaches served
- Haeundae and Songjeong
- Agreement partner
- Korea Association of Lifestyle Sports