{"id":28150,"date":"2017-06-06T23:40:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T23:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=28150"},"modified":"2017-06-08T13:21:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T13:21:26","slug":"floating-is-better-than-swimming-for-increasing-sea-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2017\/06\/floating-is-better-than-swimming-for-increasing-sea-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"Floating is Better Than Swimming for Increasing Sea Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Floating after falling into the sea rather than trying to swim, is more likely to ensure your survival, a new RNLI (<span class=\"st\">Royal National Lifeboat Institution<\/span>) campaign says. The instinct to swim, panic and thrash about increases the chances of water getting in the lungs and puts a strain on the heart.<\/p>\n<p>The RNLI&#8217;s Ross Macleod said practicing floating was a &#8220;survival skill&#8221;. Latest figures from the charity show 162 people lost their lives on the U.K. coast in 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-dorset-40034505\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floating after falling into the sea rather than trying to swim, is more likely to ensure your survival, a new RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) campaign says. The instinct to swim, panic and thrash about increases the chances of water getting in the lungs and puts a strain on the heart. The RNLI&#8217;s Ross Macleod said practicing floating was a &#8220;survival skill&#8221;. Latest figures from the charity show 162 people lost their lives on the U.K. coast in 2016. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1793,1794,1376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28181,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28150\/revisions\/28181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}