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The seaweed farmers adapting to warming seas

People Fixing the World

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Swimming Lessons Can Save Lives

About 70 % of female suid farmers surveyed sai that they cannot farm seaweed in the dep waters because they cannot swim. The threat of death at sea is particularly real, especially to those who remember the sinking of the n v Spice islander ferry in 20 11. At least 187 people died when the overloaded ferry sank off the coast of zanzibar with at least 800 people on board. Many young people died because they didn't know how to swimo.

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