Aquatics and Recreational Activity

• RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES (LEISURE) - is a time spent for activities not related to work and done for enjoyment and relaxation to feel refreshed. (anything you do as long as you enjoy & relax.)
• Leisure is an essential part of human life
• Article 24 of the universal declaration of human rights - everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. (But some Recreational activities are “competitive sports”.) 
• Aquatics is a broad term used for activities done in or on the water. Among these are many lifelong and competitive activities such as fitness swimming, water aerobics, synchronized swimming, kayaking etc.
• Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water.
• TEOFILO YLDEFONSO - First breaststroke swimmer to win (Filipino), gold & multiple medals in Southeast Asian countries. 
• Kayaking is the use of a kayak for moving across water. 
• A kayak is like a canoe-like-boat, it is the same in size (maliit na bangka) in pH. It has a balance of both sides. 
• A kayak is a low-to-the-water, canoe-like boat in which the paddler sits facing forward, legs in front, using a double-bladed paddle to pull front-to-back on one side and then the other in rotation.
• The purpose of this are: FOR PANGINGISDA & TRANSPORTATION (to move you across from other side of islands) 
• Surfing - is the sport of riding waves in an upright or prone position. 
• Surfers catch ocean, river, or man-made waves, and glide across the surface of the water until the wave breaks and loses its energy.
• PHILMAR ALIPAYO - Multiple titles for the surfing championship tour.
• Surfing - very hardest sports of all water-based activities.
• SURFING CAPITAL OF PH - siargao/surigao del norte
• NORTHERN PH - San Juan, La Union
• SNORKELING is the practice of swimming on or through a body of water while equipped with a diving mask, a shaped breathing tube called a snorkel, and usually swim fins. In cooler waters, a wetsuit may also be worn. (simplest activity of water sports)
• Water aerobics is the performance of aerobic exercise in water such as in a swimming pool. Done mostly vertically and without swimming typically in waist deep or deeper water, it is a type of resistance training. (your weight doubles in a swimming pool.) (you can't do as much as you can in the ocean.)
• Water aerobics is a form of aerobic exercise that requires water-immersed participants
• The World Health Organization categorized these hazards into:

  • Physical
  • Microbial
  • Chemical
• Public swimming pools can present several physical hazards for users and workers. These include : drowning near-drowning, fall impact injuries, and injuries resulting from improperly designed and poorly maintained water circulation systems. The WHO estimates 236, 000 people worldwide die annually due to drowning as of July 2023
• MICROBIAL HAZARDS - the risk of illness or infection associated with swimming pools, spas and similar recreational-water environments has been linked to contamination of the water. Bacteria can also be shared from users and transmitted via contaminated water in pools or spas. The water used in the pool is just stuck water so it's possible that there are microbes there. People can contaminate water because of the bacterias they have on their body. So do not swim when you have a wound and always do pre-showering.
• CHEMICAL HAZARDS - there are three main routes of exposure to chemicals in swimming pools and similar environments:

  • direct ingestion of water
  • inhalation of volatile or aerosolized solutes
  • dermal contact and absorption through the skin
  • urine; sweat; dirt; lotions (sunscreen, cosmetics, soap residues, etc.)
  • EFFECT: rashes and sunburn (can awaken cancer cells)