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Boy Dies at Lake as UK Open Water Deaths Reach 10 Since Weekend
Police are searching for a missing young man after reports he entered the water, as emergency crews respond with rescue dinghies.
- Kent Police recovered the body of a teenage boy from a pond in Swanscombe on Wednesday after emergency services responded to concerns for a swimmer at Galley Hill Road shortly before 3pm.
- Record-Breaking temperatures reaching 35.1°C at Kew Gardens in England have prompted people to seek relief in open water, despite water remaining at winter temperatures of about 13°C.
- The discovery marks the tenth open water fatality this week across the UK, including 12-year-old Junior Slater in Lancashire, 15-year-old Declan Sawyer in Lincoln, and 68-year-old Phil Crow in Cornwall.
- Kent Police confirmed the death is not being treated as suspicious and a report will be prepared for the coroner, with support from Kent Fire and Rescue Service and South East Coast Ambulance Service.
- Professor Mike Tipton, chair of the National Water Safety Forum, warns that charging into water at about 13°C triggers cold shock responses—gasping and uncontrollable hyperventilation—often preceding drowning.
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Boy dies at lake as UK open water deaths reach 10 since weekend
A teenage boy has died after getting into difficulty in a pond in Swanscombe, Kent, on Wednesday afternoon
·Coventry, United Kingdom
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