Sagunto Launches 2026 Beach Season Plan: 89 Staff, Pioneer Rescue Drone and Four Blue Flags
The Sagunto coastline opens the season with its largest safety setup in recent years, combining aerial rescue technology and renewed environmental certification across four beaches.
Four beaches, 89 people — that is the arithmetic behind Sagunto's safe summer this year. The council has structured its 2026 coastal operation around three parallel services: aquatic lifeguards, a dedicated beach police unit, and a beach maintenance team. The breakdown is 55 lifeguard and rescue staff, 11 beach police officers and 23 workers from SAG, deployed across Puerto de Sagunto (coastal district), Almardà, Corinto and Malvarrosa with 19 vehicles and vessels, nine watchtowers and four fixed posts.
Active guarding runs from 10:00 to 21:00 through 16 August; from 17 August the last hour is dropped until season end on 27 September. The beach police unit finishes on 6 September.
On the technology front, Sagunto holds its lead position in the Valencian Community with an aquatic rescue drone that can drop a flotation device beside a struggling swimmer before any lifeguard reaches the scene on foot or by swimming. All four beaches have also renewed their Blue Flag for this year, the internationally recognised environmental quality certification. According to elperiodicodeaqui.com.