Emerging Challenges and Opportunities
The theme encourages future orientated thought leadership styled presentations identifying and addressing medium to long term challenges, and presenting solutions including papers that address:
- Changes in societal factors impacting on drowning prevention i.e., migration
- Technological advancements across all areas of drowning prevention
- Ideas contributing to a long-term global strategy for drowning prevention
The WCDP committee have released the Coastal Safety accepted papers, take a look below. More papers to follow.
Disclaimer: papers were correct at the time of publishing. Please note, circumstances may change beyond the control of the organisers, which may necessitate substitutions or alterations to the conference program.
| Samuel Cornell | Investigating Land Manager’s Perceptions, Knowledge, and Understanding of Aquatic Selfie-Related Deaths and Injuries | Oral |
| Prithiviraj Ramhara8 | “Lifeguard and the HR” | Poster |
| Paul Hardy | The benefits of embracing new technologies: Surf Life Saving NSW’s Journey with Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles | Oral |
| Paul S. Dunning | The role of Faith-Based Communities and Political Will in Ecuador that quickly created change to address the drowning problem resulting in desired outcomes. Observations in Ecuador that contributed to the creation of a national water safety plan called Project Safe Beaches. | Poster |
| Jo Murray | The My Coast App – curated data for improved beach safety, a global first | Poster |
| Sylvie Bernier | The day I couldn’t dive! Olympic diving champion, Sylvie Bernier, witnessed the drowning of her nephew Raphaël and transformed the tragedy into positive change. |
Oral |
| María Rodríguez Martínez | Importance of social networks as a tool for the dissemination of drowning prevention | Poster |
| María Rodríguez Martínez | SIFA. Integrated Data Management System for Incidents in the Aquatic Environment. Digital drowning data tool | Poster |
| Benjamin Hanara | Ruku Kai Piki Mai – Enhancing Māori Wellbeing through Ruku Kai (diving for cultural food gathering purposes) (this is a PhD thesis due for submission in October 2023) |
Oral |
| Murray Drummond | Forgotten responders: A preliminary study on Australian surf lifesavers and lifeguards | Poster |
| Tina van Duijn | Evidence-base and feasibility of using Do-it-yourself (DIY) manikins to teach resuscitation skills | Poster |
| Shane Daw | Rip Currents – Evaluating a behavioural change safety campaign | Oral |
| Shannon Fox | Understanding the importance of building social connections with(in) Surf Life Saving to enhance community resilience and encourage behaviour change | Oral |
| Samantha Fien | Systematic Literature Review of Surf Lifesaving Research – Australia & New Zealand | Poster |
| Rebecca Sindall | We’re going to need a bigger boat: evidence to integrate drowning prevention into other sectors | Poster |
| Alexandre Tadeia | Creation of a new rescue tube, that combine torpedo buoy characteristics | Poster |
| Mr. Sigilbert Mrema | Missing: Verbal autopsy narratives lack detail for drowning intervention design in Tanzania | Oral |
| John Mogensen | The monetary value of a Danish lifeguard service in 2023 | Oral |
| Ross MacLeod | Lessons from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s (RNLI) approach to the challenge of responding to incidents involving water-based suicide and people in mental health crisis across the UK & Ireland. | Oral |
| Mike Melenchuk | Team leadership on the beach, impacts of gender on lifeguard activities | Oral |
| Robert Edgerton | Training on the Integration of Lifeguards into the Rescue Patient Care Contiunum Through Simulated Scenarios | Oral |
| Andrew Chan | Remaining relevant for the future – the role of training and education in building aquatic rescue capability | Poster |
| Nahid Akther | Menstrual health: a neglected health issue among female community swimming instructors in Bangladesh, need policy intervention | Oral |
| Emmanuel Nakua | A qualitative study of the circumstances and context of drowning in Ghana | Oral |
| Md Al Amin Bhuiyan | The effectiveness of the Bangladeshi adolescents in strengthening the child drowning prevention program | Poster |
| Md. Al Amin Bhuiyan | The impact of COVID-19 on child drowning prevention activities in rural Bangladesh | Oral |
| Justin Sempsrott | Developing a global research framework for drowning – STAGE 1 of a proposed model from the International Drowning Researchers Alliance (IDRA): Building a Drowning Evidence Gap Map | Oral |
| Nelms Milton | Interanimation is a dynamic, interactive aquatic phenomenon affecting humans in the water, changing their relationship to the water. It is a sensory and perceptual phenomenon that calms emotions, reduces energy demand, and when taught as part of swimming, adds duration to any swimming activity, helping to prevent drowning. | Poster |