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3,000 people drowned every
year in England and Wales.
In 2012, twenty-six people
died while swimming in the
UK, according to the National
Water Safety Forum,
including four in a river. The
number of people who
drowned while angling,
however, is similar (twenty-
four), while ten people died
in a bath, Jacuzzi or hot tub.
When Victorian teenager
Emily Parker raced the