Calpe Baywatch

CALPE lifeguard service began summer season last week.

Lifeguards are now on duty at the town’s beaches every day from 11am to 7pm this month and September, while in July and August the service is extended two hours, from 10am until 8pm.

It covers Calalga, Fossa, Raco, Cantal Roig, Morello, Arenal­Bol and Puerto Blanco beaches, with the fixed ambulance station located in Cantal

Roig ­halfway between the town’s two largest beaches.

All aid stations are equipped with a defibrillator and oxygenation equipment.

The lifeguards have at their disposal a fully­equipped rescue boat, a jet ski with a floating stretcher, a VIR (rapid intervention vehicle) equipped with a defibrillator and oxygen equipment, two kayaks located in Raco and Cantal and two rescue boards.