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In a tragic swimming accident on Friday afternoon at Lech: A 27-year-old died on the TSG-weir height Firnhaberau. Apparently he had fallen at the feet of about five meters high dam in a water drum and could not get free. A rescue diver team of lifeguards, which just happened to be about training in the... See More near able to get the young man quickly from the danger area, but he died. The young man is the third swimming deaths within a week in the region.
It was against 16 clock, as calls for help over the Lech rang. The companions of the 27-year-olds, including his brother, had noticed that the young man had not appeared. "I am now over in the defense area," says Jürgen Wasserwachtler Grabler. He and his team made in the newly built power plant of the local Turbinenauslassbecken just a diving exercise.
Still in the wetsuit and diving equipment on his back Grabler went into the military sector to bring the young man from the maelstrom and to resuscitate him on the shore. A rescue helicopter from Kempten, who was traveling in the region, landed on a gravel bar on the defensive - all in vain. On site was a large contingent of emergency services, police and fire department. Several bathers on adjacent gravel banks were witnesses to the accident.
The TSG-defense has long been recognized as a danger point. The local threshold in the river does not fall off vertically, but is built like a ramp. Despite the signs everywhere, young people make a joke of it for years to use the military as a water slide. The police last night identified, was also of the 27-year-old from Augsburg slipped down along with his brother at the waterfall weir. The brother was able to free themselves from the eddy.
Above the weir the Lech is shallow in some places, so you can go from the gravel in the upper reaches to the edge. Since the commissioning of the plant in late May is the water that runs over the weir, although reduced, it is safer not thereby become reckless adventure. Underestimated the danger: On the base of the threshold there is a pool in which forms a strong roll. On the surface, provides the water from quiet, but it roars into the depths. Moreover, it warns the power plant operators, it could happen again and again that the turbine is even more unexpected and water is as usual over the weir.
When the young man is the third fatality within a week while bathing in the region. On Friday a week ago, a 81-year-old was drowned in the Weitmannsee Kissing, died on Sunday a 26-year-old in Cow Lake (we reported).