Lifeguards protest in Palma and Ibiza against the new regulation: "It's designed more for tourists than residents."

PalmDozens of lifeguards demonstrated simultaneously in Palma and Ibiza to protest against the amendment to Decree 2/2005 regulating their work on beaches. According to the professionals, the proposed amendment establishes a non-preventive lifeguarding model, which contemplates the placement of towers 800 meters from the sidewalk. They also criticize the fact that it leads to increasingly shorter seasons, designed for tourists rather than residents.

"A system that allows for the role of reactive lifeguards who are not required to enter the water to perform a rescue is a precarious system, because the presence of lifeguards on the beach not only means rescues and medical assistance, but also services for citizens such as showers, assisted bathing, first aid kits, etc.," they assert. For all these reasons, the President of the Government, Marga Prohens, and the Director General of the General Directorate of Emergencies, Pablo Garriz, who is in charge of amending the law, accused them of "sloppiness and negligence in the sector."