Tourist sleeping on an air mattress, took to the Krasnoyarsk reservoir, which is also called the sea. This was announced by the Director of the local organization “Rescuer” Alexander Kobets, reports on Monday, July 24, RIA Novosti.
“Weekend tourists from the Republic of Khakassia brought to the Krasnoyarsk sea. He fell asleep and did not notice how distant from the shore,” said Kobets.
According to him, specialists of the rescue squad found the man half an hour after the received signal is then brought his boat ashore. How much time the tourist has spent in swimming, not reported. As noted, on this day the reservoir was the wind and the waves.
As reported by “Notepad-Krasnoyarsk”, in June 2015 two girls on an inflatable mattress did not notice that they were blown away by the wind far from the banks of the Krasnoyarsk reservoir. Rescuers in the evening I called their companion, vacationers were looking for until four in the morning. They were found in the Bay on the border of the Republic of Khakassia and the Krasnoyarsk territory.
Krasnoyarsk water reservoir is one of the largest in the world and Russia by the volume of artificial reservoirs. Its total length is 388 kilometers long and in some parts reaches up to 15 kilometers.